"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.
- Date
- October 31, 1987
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Participants in an anti-nuclear-weapons (cruise missile) demonstration, The Hague (photographed by Rob Bogaerts for Anefo); organiser not named in the record
- Country
- Netherlands
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Lubbers Government
- Leader
- Ruud Lubbers
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Euromissile Crisis
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Nationaal Archief (Fotocollectie Anefo), via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC0 1.0 (Nationaal Archief / Anefo release; Commons file page tagged CC0)
Anefo / Nationaal Archief, item 934-1196, photographer Rob Bogaerts (CC0; no attribution required)
Text on the object
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
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.
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