What is your favorite Anti-War banner-phrase?? - Which will [Archive]

革命者

14th February 2003, 21:11

... you definetly should have a banner!!

Mine will probably read: "Bush... you may want the world, but the world doesn't want YOU!!", unoriginal maybe, but i like to think in terms of solidarity:biggrin:

A downtrodden class … will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity” (H.G. Wells)

Lefty

15th February 2003, 00:26

Bush kills kids

Xvall

15th February 2003, 01:56

Hail to the thief. (Picture of George Bush)

Che Vive

15th February 2003, 19:30

mine said "Arretez la BUSHerie" which convienently means stop the slaughter.

Red Liberation

15th February 2003, 20:56

Mine said 'Inspect my Arse'

Ian

17th February 2003, 05:15

"Somewhere in Texas, a village has lost its idiot..."

Dhul Fiqar

17th February 2003, 12:48

It would have been funny to march in that huge rally in London with a placard that said: "Has anyone seen my contact lense??" :biggrin:

--- G.

Dhul Fiqar

17th February 2003, 12:50

Oh, I got a good one, although it's a tad too late:

"Smart bombs - Stupid leaders" or something to that effect......

--- G.

mentalbunny

17th February 2003, 12:55

there were some really good ones in london like "guided misilles, misguided leaders" and loads others which i can't remember.

my fave chants were

"bush, blair, they don't care" and "bush bush we know you, daddy was a killer too" but i wasn't in a very good place for chanting, too many moderate lib dems!!

Spartacus2002

18th February 2003, 00:01

drop bush not bombs

Cobber

18th February 2003, 06:18

"Frodo failed...Bush has the Ring"

"John Howard (Aust Prime Min.) dont' make the same mistake your father did...pull out now" - at first I thought his father was in politics, then I got the message...

"How did our oil, get under their sand"

Ian

18th February 2003, 08:01

"biggest terrorists in the world today: George Bush and the CIA" and "Hey, Hey USA how many kids did you kill today" are highly effective chants

Hampton

19th February 2003, 21:20

Draft the Bush twins.

Anonymous

20th February 2003, 22:08

"make tea not war"
"fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity"
"thats "oil" folks"
"World peace, class war"

RedCeltic

21st February 2003, 00:11

Well... I'm going to a rally against the New York State Governer raising tuition in state universities. and will have a sign saying:

Drop Tuition Not Bombs :)

canikickit

21st February 2003, 00:32

"Axis of evil my arse" - that was a good one.

"more muff - less Bush"

CruelVerdad

21st February 2003, 23:12

"Cuál es la diferencia entre un burro y G.Bush?"
R. Bush es un sádico.

ratm545

25th February 2003, 04:00

"Only the clothes have changed" (enter picture of cavemen fighting)

"I have a dream" enter picture of MLK
-on opposite side "I have a nightmare" enter picture of Bush

I saw a lot of creative ones, but I don't remember them.

synthesis

27th February 2003, 02:54

No War But A Class War

(This one was big up here in Portland.)

Pete

27th February 2003, 14:24

"If I drop the bomb will you love me?" (picture of bush talking to a bald eagle)

Eastside Revolt

27th February 2003, 20:33

I swear there is either a ghost haunting Bush of there is some site that people are getting their signs phrases from. I don't think anyone here is from my city, but almost everyone of the favorite phases posted here, I saw at the protest in my city.

DEFMARX

14th March 2003, 22:54

"You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace." - Michael Franti

peaccenicked

14th March 2003, 23:05

[size=5][font=impact][b]ARMS
ARE
FOR
CUDDLING

canikickit

15th March 2003, 00:00

That's a good one Peacce. I saw one which said "Where have all the flowers gone? Now all we have is a Bush." I liked that; plus she had a rose taped to the top.

mentalbunny

16th March 2003, 16:19

I like "Britain is not the 52nd American State" so I might use that, or "Drop Bush, not Bombs". can someone come up with some good anti-Bush ones that are just slogans, and does anyone have any ideas of how I could make a big banner but cheaply and easily?

sugarcandy113

17th March 2003, 20:15

we had

"1,2,3,4 we dont want your bloody war....5,6,7,8, we dont want your racist hate "

"Tony Blair :: TERRORIST.......George Bush::TERRORIST" that was a good one...but hard to keep going if theres only like two of you shouting

"no justice no peace"

"give peace a chance" and loadsa others that i cant remember

suffianr

19th March 2003, 00:47

I found this site that lets you download copyright-free posters in A4 & A3 sizes:

http://www.waketheworld.org/

Go ahead and download them, they're great; I've plastered my college walls with a few already. :)

mentalbunny

20th March 2003, 21:33

HELL NO
WE WON'T GO
WE WON'T FIGHT
FOR TEXACO

That's my fave. Canterbury was intense and all these protests have given me so much hope.

Kodzoquo

31st March 2003, 17:07

http://www.showtvnet.com/e-card/img/savas/05.jpg

honest intellectual

1st April 2003, 18:44

Quote: from Drake Dracoli on 1:56 am on Feb. 15, 2003
Hail to the thief. (Picture of George Bush)
Hail to the chimp!

"Britain is not the 52nd American State" Iraq being the 51st? Or Israel?

mentalbunny

1st April 2003, 19:06

Some people see DC as a state. It really depends on who you ask.

Exploited Class

1st April 2003, 21:22

Buck Fush!

I always liked that one.

"Our votes didn't get counted and all we got was this lousy Dictator!"

"B.U.S.H. = Bring US Soldiers Home"

"Bush, making more Bin Ladens one bomb at a time."

"Who needs Germany and France when you can have Ubekastan as a friend?"

"Bush's competition, try to drop more bombs than points the Dow drops"

"If you got the oil, then we've got the bombs"

"America, the worse kind of bully a diplomatic world can have."

Iepilei

2nd April 2003, 06:09

LIES.

nz revolution

20th April 2003, 14:57

This was our banner, we tried to get away from just targeting Bush, Blair and Howard. And we didn't say anything positive about France and Germany's watery stance on the war.

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/upload/classwarbanner.jpg

I made the banner by myself but we had a heap of people help paint it.

I'm holing the red flag with my back to the camera

Dirty Commie

20th April 2003, 15:04

G E O R G E B U S H=
B I G B R O T H E R

mentalbunny

20th April 2003, 23:27

nz revolution, what's the best way of making a banner? It's really good by the way.

Emmanual Goldstein

21st April 2003, 00:25

My 4 gay friends once made a big banner with a picture of Dick Cheney on it. On it they wrote "Fags That Hate Dick"

A personal favorite of mine is a psychedelic sign my friend Sylvia made that said "Drop Acid, Not Bombs"

nz revolution

21st April 2003, 01:54

I got a big piece of canvas about 4m long and .9m wide. Because I dont have a sewing machine and only have needles and thread, I folded over the sides of the fabric and made a kind of seam with safety pins to stop the fraying. I got eyelets from a camping shop so I could attatch the poles to the banner which were just screws with hooks on them. Hope you get the idea, it cost $26 (about 12 pounds maybe) in materials (not including paint) to make the banner took about an hour and paitning it took about 4hours.

Peace.

"Who needs Germany and France when you can have Ubekastan as a friend?"

do I see some social chauvinism here EXPOLITEDCLASS?

Some green people or hippies had one that said: "more trees, less bush"

Some young guys had "Bush = ****"

Someone had "nuke Saddam, he deserves it" nearly resulted in him being smashed by an afghani guy.

Although capitalist imperialism is the real enemy not some guy with half a brain squating in the white house :P

I was on a megaphone a while back saying

"George Bush kick him in the head, we want the bakery not the bread"

Some guy confronted me about promoting violence on a peace march, we said it was anti-war not a peace march.

and

"No faith in Helen Clark, the Labour Party fuckin sucks"

Helen is the Labourite Prime minister on New Zealand.

"Who do we back? Go Iraq!"

"Long Live the Iraqi Armed Resistance!" a comrade of mine had that in Wellington also had a pic of an AK47 on it.

Peace Out.

(Edited by nz revolution at 2:14 pm on April 21, 2003)

mentalbunny

21st April 2003, 22:44

Cool, nz revolution. I'll make one some time, I really ought to, but right now there aren't any demos! I gues I could tie it to the gates outside the Houses of Parliament.

nz revolution

22nd April 2003, 00:00

DO IT DO IT!!!

I'll put some of our work in the graffitti thread thats what we do :)

Non-Sectarian Bastard!

22nd April 2003, 21:56

Do you know the afgani guy who almost smashed the guy with the banner "nuke Saddam, he deserves it!"?

Anonymous

22nd April 2003, 22:05

"lets stop war before it stars" JCP poster...

^^a litle late for that no?

nz revolution

22nd April 2003, 23:02

I don't know him personally, but I have had a talk a few times. I don't know his name.

A bit of surveillance and we got the guys (2) names who were pro-nuking Iraq and photos.

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/upload/pro-warlosers.jpg

The Afghani guy is not the one telling them off, I don't know him either.

We did organise the rally though, it was at uni...

damn the capitalism

22nd April 2003, 23:10

Fuck george bush!
Fuck this homosexual!
Fuck this invader!

What about Condalisa :Go colin and fuck her!

Note:
Sorry for using this bad language:-D

Sensitive

22nd April 2003, 23:12

FUCK THE TROOPS!
NO US IMPERIALISM!

Nic8

24th April 2003, 03:36

Don't blame me; my vote didn't count.

Nic8

24th April 2003, 03:38

The best I ever saw was spraypainted on a wall aroung a construction site. We got our pictures taken beside it. It read:

BUSH IS A WANKER!

nz revolution

24th April 2003, 14:01

post them up comrade

Nic8

24th April 2003, 14:13

Unfortionatly, I never actually got a copy of the picture and I don't remember who took it so I don't know who to ask. I'll try asking around...

hoffer

24th April 2003, 17:43

president bush is a big assh*le he makes only war for oil and his own cause

Miguelito

25th April 2003, 01:28

"Fascism does not equate Freedom."
"Save a corporation, tax a poor person."
"Osama Bin Laden. Saddam Hussein. Weapons of Mass Destruction." on the back "All things the Bush Administration has failed to find."
"When they kill thousands in the name of their god it's terrorism. When we kill millions in the name of ours, it's patriotism."

nz revolution

25th April 2003, 01:52

Those are good.
Maybe Bush regime?

Welcome to Che-Lives Miguelito

Miguelito

25th April 2003, 18:52

Thanks. I always loved the standard: "Regime change begins at home."

dopediana

25th April 2003, 21:21

i had some awesome posters that i distributed to some of my dad's colleagues at the ralley in DC and then the one we had in williamsburg.

BUSH + DICK = SCREWED
LOYALTY TO A PETRIFIED OPINION NEVER YET BROKE A CHAIN OR FREED A HUMAN SOUL IN THE WORLD-AND NEVER WILL--mark twain
a big picture of a bomb and then a list of all the countries the us has bombed or tried to instigate a regime change in contrasting colors. it was kickass.

Deniz Gezmis

25th April 2003, 22:42

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/upload/Blair_is_a_****.jpg

WhoWillFight

4th May 2003, 22:32

Haha thats a good poster- Mine read 'Axis of Evil- U$, Britain Isreal'

BluesyZapatista

6th May 2003, 04:34

Like father like son, One term only.

MarxIsGod

13th May 2003, 19:50

Quote: from honest intellectual on 1:44 pm on April 1, 2003

"Britain is not the 52nd American State" Iraq being the 51st? Or Israel?

I doubt people view Washington, D.C. as 51. I doubt Israel or Iraq either. My guess (and my opinion) would be Puerto Rico.

CubanFox

13th May 2003, 22:15

The 51st is Canada, you fools.

dopediana

15th May 2003, 01:19

no, dear, it's puerto rico

Comrade Gorley

15th May 2003, 02:57

Ours:

(pic of brain) This is your brain.

(pic of Bush) This is your brain on drugs.

Any questions? :cool:;)

WUOrevolt

18th May 2003, 02:24

Axis of evil: Bush, Blair and Sharon.

The Radical Elf

23rd May 2003, 01:17

I have several signs that I like. My favorite one says "Bush, Blair, Sharon - The Asses of Evil" and has an upside down American flag. At a protest a few weeks ago, a Zionist accosted me and told me about how great Sharon was and that I shouldn't have included him in the axis.

I also have one that says "Capitalism Kills" with the peace, anarchy, and eglatarianism signs on one side and on the other side, "Those that do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it" with a picture of Hitler and Mussolini, the Reichstag Fires, German planes bombing Poland, a German tank in Poland, and a Nazi flag to the left of the text and to the right, a picture of Bush and Blair, the WTC collapsing, an American plane flying over Iraq, an American tank in Iraq, and an American flag.

Sadly, that sign was accidentally mutilated by my friend a few weeks ago.

(Edited by The Radical Elf at 1:54 pm on May 24, 2003)

Renegade f1

9th June 2003, 06:50

did bush relly say "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -- GW Bush

CubanFox

9th June 2003, 07:51

Yes, he did, sadly, Renegade.

BOZG

9th June 2003, 22:12

I haven't read through the entire thread so I don't know if this one has been used or not.

Stolen from the CNT

No War Between Nations, No Peace Between Classes

Renegade f1

10th June 2003, 03:15

At my school the chant was
HELL NO
WE WONT GO
WE WONT FIGHT FOR TEXACO
there was one more but i can't remeber it

Dirty Commie

10th June 2003, 03:25

Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity

The Radical Elf

17th June 2003, 04:31

Renegade: yes, he really did say that. GWBush.com has a list of Bushisms, and its on there somewhere (ore at least it was a few months ago).

rAW DEaL bILL

5th July 2003, 00:28

bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity. thats my favourite. probobly just cuz it has sex references in it though lol

antieverything

20th July 2003, 19:54

WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER BUT NEITHER IS A.N.S.W.E.R.!

-a common chant illustrating that people are well aware that the authoritarian Stalinist sects such as the Workers World Party have no interest in justice...only in recruitment and control.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION NEEDS A RIDE HOME

-actually, this was just on the onion's list of common signs at marches but I laughed my ass off!

il Commy

20th July 2003, 22:09

Few anti-occupation slogans, in Hebrew and translated:

"ARIEL SHARON - KAMA YELADIM RTZACHTA HAYOM?"-
"Ariel Sharon - How many kids you've killed today"

"SHTEY MEDINOT LESHNEY AMIM - SHTEY BIROT BIYRUSHALAYIM"
"Two states for two nations - two capitols in Jerusalem"

"LO MUHAN LAMUT BISHVIL HAHITNACHLUT"
"Not willing to die for the settlements"

"HAKIBUSH HU HATEROR, HASARBAN HU HAGIBOR!"
"The occupation is the terror, the refuser is the hero!"

"LO LANEFT SHEL BUSH! LO LAKIBUSH!"
"No to Bush's oil! No to the occupation!

Marxist in Nebraska

22nd July 2003, 19:35

My favorite sign had a picture of Bush wearing a cowboy hat. The caption was: YEE-HAW IS NOT A FOREIGN POLICY!

I also liked the sign my friend 313C7 iVi4RX made. He spelled out NO WAR on cardboard using duct tape. Take that, Tom Ridge and Department of Homeland Security!!

Drop Bush, not bombs was a great chant. Most of the chants in Lincoln sucked, though. The protesters were mostly a bunch of old, graying hippies. The protest in Omaha had a bunch of anarchists, though. In Omaha, I got to chant WHAT DO WE WANT? CLASS WAR! and not be the only one saying it.

Spartacus2002

22nd July 2003, 20:37

Quote: from CubanFox on 10:15 pm on May 13, 2003
The 51st is Canada, you fools.

i resent that even if it is true.... i am going to change it

antieverything

22nd July 2003, 23:13

Ugh, I had to march with a bunch of old pacifist hippies too. I can't stand those people!. At least there were some old wobblies there to talk class-analysis with.

Organic Revolution

30th July 2003, 23:05

when there was the march on lake shore drive the chant for a bit was "the people united will never be defeated"

Comrade Raz

31st July 2003, 15:57

I saw a banner that said 'Maybe Sadam's nice' which I thought was pretty funny.

That one that says 'You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can't bomb the world into peace' from that rapper/singer is a good one.

Marxist in Nebraska

1st August 2003, 18:43

Originally posted by rise [email protected] 30 2003, 11:05 PM
when there was the march on lake shore drive the chant for a bit was "the people united will never be defeated"
Yeah, at the protests I went to, we chanted that in two languages (English and Spanish). Sometimes we would alternate between them...

El pueblo, unido, hamas sera vencido!
The people, united, will never be defeated!
El pueblo, unido, hamas sera vencido!
The people, united, will never be defeated!

Good stuff...