Handbill
1970 · [Chicago]
by Stewart, Joffre
[Chicago]: Joffre Stewart, 1970. Handbill. Single sheet, printed both sides, 8.5x11 inches, creased from being folded in fourths, front side lightly foxed else very good condition. Joffre, an African-American poet and early Beatnik (referenced in Ginsberg's Howl), anarchist and pacifist, was known for his activism and for at times expressing views seen as anti-Semitic. Here he criticizes the anti-Vietnam War movement, in particular the March 26th Arrangement Committee, for its reliance on The State, writing, "We do not ask (the government) for 'American withdrawal' from Viet Nam because we can only petition the government to drop dead. We say, 'Troops, withdraw YOURSELVES from Viet Nam.' (Inventory #: 258939)