Night Raiders--Pax Americana--Civilizing the Shark--Preserve Your Moral Balance
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St. Lawrence University: Street Art Graphics; Anti-imperialist and anti-war message from Night Raiders as well as a call for civil disobedience. "Pax Americana--Reward For Natives Who Submit Graveyard Peace For Those Who Don’t--Civilizing the Shark--The minnows have the shark on a hook. The shark will kill many minnows by the lashing of his tail, and he will lose much blood. But the minnows will not let shark off the hook until he is cured of his predatory habits.--Preserve your moral balance when your government engages in criminal war: Exercise Daily In Civil Disobedience--Be a “Night Raider”--Use FANSHEN Stickers: 1331 P.O New Brunswick, N.J." Night Raiders is a group of U.S. political stickers from the '60s and ‘70s protesting the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism, and calling for racial equality among blacks and whites. "Night Raiders" here may refer to military "night riders" and civilian vigilante "Knight Riders" of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as "freedom riders" during the U.S. civil rights era.
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1960 1980
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- Civil Disobedience
- Imperialism
- Pacifism
- Passive Resistance
- Peace Movements
- Political Activists
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975