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
- Made by
- Pan-African Liberation Committee (Brookline, Massachusetts)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, Economy and finance, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Gulf Oil Boycott
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, 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
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.
