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title: 'There are but two sides in a war: she fights on the side of African freedom, Gulf finances the other: Boycott Gulf'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pan-african-liberation-committee-boycott-gulf-1972/
description: A photograph of a woman holding a child, a rifle slung on her shoulder, carries the text "There are but two sides in a war - she fights on the side of…
section: Collection
---

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[![There are but two sides in a war: she fights on the side of African freedom, Gulf finances the other: Boycott Gulf](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pan-african-liberation-committee-boycott-gulf-1972.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pan-african-liberation-committee-boycott-gulf-1972.jpg)

# There are but two sides in a war: she fights on the side of African freedom, Gulf finances the other: Boycott Gulf

A photograph of a woman holding a child, a rifle slung on her shoulder, carries the text "There are but two sides in a war - she fights on the side of African freedom - Gulf finances the other" above the word "Boycott" and Gulf's own round logo. Setting the company's trademark under the mother-and-child image transfers the moral weight of the photograph onto the corporation. The committee prints its Brookline, Massachusetts box number.

- **Date:** 1972
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Pan-African Liberation Committee (Brookline, Massachusetts)
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [Nixon Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=nixon-administration)
- **Leader:** [Richard Nixon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=richard-nixon)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity)
- **Event:** [Gulf Oil Boycott](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=gulf-oil-boycott)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2016651728/), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THERE ARE BUT TWO SIDES IN A WAR - SHE FIGHTS ON THE SIDE OF AFRICAN FREEDOM - GULF FINANCES THE OTHER.

BOYCOTT [Gulf logo]
Pan-African Liberation Committee, P.O. Box 514, Brookline, Mass. 02147
```

The poster was photographed on a dark board with Kodak colour and grey-scale calibration strips at the right edge; those strips are not part of the poster. The 'Gulf' wordmark is the company's round logo, transcribed as a bracketed mark.

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