Poster - The Occupation of Alcatraz (CPH)
The Occupation of Alcatraz by Josh MacPhee, Celebrate People's History project, February, 2006. This is a 2-color offset printed poster.
“Since 1492 to the present, November 9, 1969, the Indian people have been held in bondage. Alcatraz is a release from thatbondage . . . ” —John Trudell, “Radio Free Alcatraz”
From November 1969 to June 1971 a coalition of American Indian students and urban Indians, calling themselves Indians of All Tribes, occupied Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco as a call to resistance against the US domination of Native peoples and land. The coalition publicized the occupation through a widely distributed newsletter and a radio show broadcast in multiple cities. This action sparked years of Native resistance, including the 1972 takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Headquarters in Washington, DC, and the re-occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973.
11" x 17" Third printing produced at the worker-owned and union-run Community Printers, Santa Cruz, CA.
This is #34 in the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series.
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