Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.184.3
Object Name
Postcard
Title
Keep the Pacific Independent and Nuclear Free
Place
Pacific
People
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific; de Wagt, Janet
Date
1980s
Description
Postcard featuring a painting of a calm blue sea with wooden canoe in the foreground and green islands in the background. Text in red reads "Keep the Pacific Independent and Nuclear Free." Design by Janet de Wagt.
The Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement is led by indigenous people across the islands working together to decolonise the region, to gain independence and remove foreign (often British, American and French) control and military bases from their lands. A solidarity movement supported the campaign from the UK with support groups forming in multiple towns and cities, growing in awareness from the 1970s and 80s.
There is a Leeds postcards logo - Leeds Postcards was founded in 1979, with the intention of using postcards âas a political tool and agent for changeâ. They quickly became well-known, producing some iconic work with activist groups such as the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW) and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) branches across the country, and artists including Peter Kennard and Steve Bell. They are still publishing postcards today. Throughout the 1980s, Leeds Postcards published a number of cards satirising the threat of nuclear war, and celebrating the movement against the bomb.
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