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In the 1950s, the "peace sign", as it is known today (also known as "peace and love"), was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), [1] a group at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK, and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and
Twentieth Century British History 27.1 (2016): 26–50. online; Hudson, Kate, CND – Now More Than Ever: The Story of a Peace Movement (London: Vision Paperbacks, 2005), ISBN 1-904132-69-3; Mattausch, John. A Commitment to Campaign: A Sociological Study of CND (Manchester University Press, 1989), ISBN 0-7190-2908-2; McKay, George.
He showed his preliminary sketches to a DAC meeting in February 1958 at the Peace News offices in North London. [8] According to Christopher Driver, who wrote about CND in a 1964 book, The Disarmers , Holtom brought the design, unsolicited, to the chairperson of his local anti-nuclear group in Twickenham and alternative versions were shown at ...
[17] [18] CND organised Aldermaston marches into the late 1960s when tens of thousands of people took part in the four-day events. [16] On November 1, 1961, at the height of the Cold War, about 50,000 women brought together by Women Strike for Peace marched in 60 cities in the United States to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.
Logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958, which became a widespread peace symbol. Español: Versión SVG del símbolo de la paz . Puede usarse como reemplazo en los artículos, plantillas, cajas de babel, etc. que usan las imágenes PNG existentes.
A protester holds up a large black power raised fist in the middle of the crowd that gathered at Columbus Circle in New York City for a Black Lives Matter Protest spurred by the death of George Floyd.
Christian CND (CCND) is a 'Specialist Section' of CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and has existed since 1960. CCND is made up of individual Christians of various denominations who oppose nuclear weapons and who campaign for peace. The organisation has an elected executive of ten members, has an office in London and publishes a journal ...
The V sign, primarily palm-outward, is very commonly made by Japanese people, especially younger people, when posing for informal photographs, and is known as pīsu sain (ピースサイン, peace sign), or more commonly simply pīsu (ピース, peace). As the name reflects, this dates to the Vietnam War era and anti-war activists, though the ...