Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.475.6
Object Name
sticker
Title
ANOTHER MOTHER FOR PEACE - war is not healthy for children and other livings
Place
USA; Vietnam
People
Another Mother for Peace
Events
Vietnam War
Date
1967
Description
Long sticker, potentially for windows or car bumpers, with yellow text on black reading "ANOTHER MOTHER FOR PEACE". On the right hand side, a yellow square contains a black children's-style drawing of a flower with handwriting "war is not healthy for children and other living things".
Another Mother for Peace (AMP) is an anti-war campaign group founded in 1967 to oppose the US war in Vietnam, following the first birthday party of founder Barbara Avedon's son, when she voiced her fear that she would raise him only to send him to war. An initial group of 15 women formally started AMP as a result with its mission to "educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies.'Â The sunflower logo was designed and donated by Lorraine Schneider. After the end of the war in Vietnam, AMP campaigned against the nuclear arms race, before becoming inactive in 1979. At the beginning of the war in Iraq in 2003, the organisation was reestablished by Joshua Avedon and Carol Schneider, the son and daughter of the original founder and the logo's artist respectively.
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