The free exhibition is the most recent in a series from Los Angeles' Center for the Study of Political Graphics and is drawn from their collection of more than 40,000 political posters and broadsides. The exhibition concludes with international May Day posters, powerful expressions that strive for solidarity among the world's working peoples. Most labor posters were produced in the midst of a strike or boycott and convey the urgency of the times. Although many of the posters are historical, a number of the issues in them remain current. Children are shouldering adult jobs.
Pesticides threaten farm workers and consumers.
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