1960s Anti Vietnam War Hippie Counterculture Make Love Not War 69 Free Love PIN

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This listing began on June 20, 2021 and
will end within 30 days, on or before July 20, 2021,
if the item is not sold.
OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS APPROX
1 1/2 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON
I
N WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY NICE SHAPE.
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This pin was issued and sold in
the mid to late 1960s to express opposition to the war in Vietnam (and war in general) and support for free love.
In the center of the pin is a
peace symbol
(representing opposition to war)
and the
"magical number" of the sixties: 69 (
representing the
sharing of oral sex with your partner; in other words, it’s giving and receiving oral sex at the same time).
The pin reads:
MAKE LOVE   NOT WAR
When that slogan
was used during a protest in
California in 1967, then
Governor Ronald Reagan
(aka Ray-gun, the fascist gun in the west) observed:
"
Those guys [the protesters] look like they can't make either of both.
"  Ray-gun was clueless.
"
Make love, not war
" is an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the
American counterculture of the 1960s
. It was used primarily by those who were
opposed to the Vietnam War
, but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since, around the world.
The "
Make love
" part of the slogan often referred to
the practice of free love
that was growing among the American youth who denounced marriage as a tool for those who supported war and favored the traditional capitalist culture.
The phrase's
origins are unknown
. Several people claimed to be the inventor of the phrase, including Gershon Legman and
Rod McKuen
.
Radical activists
Penelope and Franklin Rosemont and Tor Faegre
assisted in popularizing the phrase by printing thousands of "Make Love, Not War" buttons
at the Solidarity Bookshop in Chicago, Illinois and distributing them at the Mother's Day Peace March in 1965. They were
reportedly the first to print the slogan
. However, historian Ben Truwe, who studied the matter, has claimed that
the phrase actually first published
in an article written by New York Times Magazine journalist Mitchel Levitas.
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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