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title: '"Reagan stop Star-Wars": placard and children''s banners at an anti-missile demonstration, The Hague'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/reagan-stop-star-wars-children-banners-the-hague-1987/
description: A hand-painted board reads 'REAGAN STOP STAR-WARS'. Beside it two children in costume hold white banners painted with a black sun, and a pennant reads…
section: Collection
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# "Reagan stop Star-Wars": placard and children's banners at an anti-missile demonstration, The Hague

A hand-painted board reads 'REAGAN STOP STAR-WARS'. Beside it two children in costume hold white banners painted with a black sun, and a pennant reads 'what happens to the earth happens to the children of the earth'. The pennant sets the stake as harm to children and the planet, and the sun-and-children imagery carries the warning in place of an argument about missile policy.

## Text on the object

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

```
REAGAN STOP
STAR-WARS

[pennant, lettered down the cloth:]
WAT MET
DE [A]ARDE
GE[B]EURT,
GEBEURT
GE[...] DE
[KIN]DEREN
[...] DE
[illegible] [A]ARDE
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
REAGAN STOP
STAR WARS

[pennant:]
WHAT HAPPENS TO
THE EARTH
HAPPENS,
HAPPENS
[...] THE
[CHIL]DREN
[...] THE
[illegible] EARTH
```

The pennant's lines are partly covered by a hand and the fold of the cloth; bracketed letters and gaps are not supplied. The two long white banners carry painted suns and marks rather than words. A small button at the left edge reads 'EN NOG ... REST NOG ?' with a peace sign and is not transcribed.

[← Workers' Militia unit assembly, Cegléd: "A szocialista haza védelme pártunk, államunk, népünk közös ügye"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungary-workers-militia-30th-anniversary-cegled-1987/) [Defaced ballot, Tulcea County, Great National Assembly elections, 17 November 1987 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/defaced-ballot-tulcea-1987/)

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