To our cousins in the Guard / Don't let this happen... to you! [handbill distributed by activists to National Guardsmen]

Berkeley, 1969. 8.5x11 inch handbill, horizontal crease, toning and foxing. The reverse has a cartoon showing a normal boy transformed into a vicious boar by the "Pigification machine." The text addresses National Guardsmen patrolling Berkeley in the days after the violent confrontations at People's Park. "You are under orders to occupy this community against your will. You know that the people you face are not your enemies... You probably joined the National Guard because you were decent enough not to want to kill innocent people in Vietnam... Now you're being called upon to perform the dirtiest work a soldier can do: fight his own countrymen!" Asks guardsmen to organize themselves against the brass, and barring that, "drag your ass...