Boycott Gulf. There are but two sides in a war - she fights on the side of African freedom - Gulf finances the other by [PAN-AFRICAN LIBERATION COMMITTEE] [ANGOLA] ADJALI, B. (photographer) - [c.1971-74]

Brookline, MA: Pan-African Liberation Committee, [c.1971-74]. Poster. Offset lithograph, 22" x 16"; printed in two colors on coated white poster stock. Vertical and horizontal lines from folding, probably as issued, else minimal wear, Near Fine (A-). Faint pencil annotation by a previous owner to verso (see note below).

The main image is a portrait of a female Angolan freedom fighter with a rifle slung over her right shoulder, clutching a baby to her chest; the photo credit is to "B. Adjali." The Pan-African Liberation Committee was a Harvard-based activist group founded by students; it was active from early 1971 through 1974. The PALC spearheaded a campaign to force Harvard University to divest itself of all its investments in Gulf Oil stock, citing the company's exploitation of workers and natural resources and its support of the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola. The PALC staged major anti-Gulf actions on the Harvard campus in both 1972 and 1973; this poster could plausibly have accompanied either or both of these events. A pencil note on verso reads "Recv'd Feb 1974" in an unknown hand.