Aug 6 1967 Anti Vietnam War Peace Protest at Expo 67 Hiroshima Day ORANGE PIN

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This listing began on April 18, 2021 and
will end within 30 days, on or before May 17, 2021,
if the item is not sold.
OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS APPROX
1 3/4 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON
I
N WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY GREAT SHAPE.
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Note
: the color of the pin is
an even day glow orange
.
There is no fading
as may appear from this scan.  That appearance is due to the reaction of high intensity light passing over day glow colors.
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.
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This pin was issued in
1967
to raise funds and support for a
Hiroshima Day
pilgrimage
from the United States to the site of the
International and Universal Exposition
in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
EXPO 67
to hold an unofficial
Rally for Youth Joy and Peace
at the
Youth Pavilion
on
August 6, 1967
.  That day had been designated by the Expo 67 organizers as
Youth Day
.  August 6 was also the
22nd anniversary
of the U.S. dropping of an
atomic bomb of the city of Hiroshima
in 1945.
The pin is
DAY GLOW ORANGE
on a black background.  It has great graphics of a bomb explosion  transformed into people with arms raised in joyous celebration.  Around the explosion the text reads in an unending circle:
HIROSHIMA DAY
+
PEACE
+
JOY
+
YOUTH
+
EXPO 67
+
PAIX
+
JOIE
+
Though no official mention of the
Rally for Youth Joy and Peace
was made by the Expo officials,
they did not stop what became
three-hour program of speeches, music
and a
40-minute antiwar pantomime
.  The
speakers
included
Norman Thomas
(Socialist Party leader and pacifist)
Dick Gregory
,
Julian Bond
, Paul Goodman, and William Pepper (member of the National Conference for New Politics). Several thousand of protestors attended.
It was against Expo regulations to attack any of the 62 countries that had pavilions at the fair, including the U.S.  Nevertheless, the
Rally for Youth Joy and Peace, which directly targeted the U.S. for attack, was not disrupted by Expo 67 officials. (
Information from the N.Y. Times Aug. 7, 1967 article by Jay Walz
.)
This underground pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960's) and Seventies (1970's).  That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc.  progressive political movement and is guaranteed to be genuine as described.
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