Anti-war demonstration in front of the 2121 Building on 8th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

The demonstrators are specifically protesting war taxes, carrying signs that read, "End War Taxes / Cost of Vietnam War - $30,000,000,000 per year"; "2/3 of U.S. budget goes to the military. End the war NOW"; "End War Tax! Stop Imperialism / End the Illegal War!"; "...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruchac, Edouard; Nesbitt, Charles
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/108129
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Summary:The demonstrators are specifically protesting war taxes, carrying signs that read, "End War Taxes / Cost of Vietnam War - $30,000,000,000 per year"; "2/3 of U.S. budget goes to the military. End the war NOW"; "End War Tax! Stop Imperialism / End the Illegal War!"; "Why? U.S. spends taxes $30,000,000,000 a year in 'Nam / Birmingham's share of this money could BUILD 50 - 20 classroom schools / 5,000 - new housing units / 2 1,000 bed hospitals / Stop War Tax"; "End High Taxes / War & Repression / Workers Power! / Young Workers Liberation League"; "Tax Money to Humanistic Humans not to the Pentagon / End the War! / End Poverty & Hunger"; and "Use Taxes for Progress Not Destruction." One young woman is wearing a Birmingham-Southern College shirt.