c. 1969 FREE GREECE "Z" Opposition Military Dictatorship Junta Protest Cause Pin

Description: OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS 1 3/4 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REAL NICE SHAPE. HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION. SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE. I AM GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR BUYING. RETURNS ARE NOT ACCEPTED UNLESS THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED OR SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS OR HAS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OR DEFECTS NOT VISIBLE IN THE PHOTOS OR OTHERWISE DESCRIBED. GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL AS DESCRIBED. I COMBINE SHIPPING CHARGES ON MULTIPLE ITEMS. PLEASE WAIT FOR OR REQUEST AN INVOICE WITH REDUCED SHIPPING BEFORE PAYING. This pin was issued sold circa 1969 - 1970 to raise funds and support for overthrowing the Greek Military Dictatorship (aka Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels) that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. The pin displays a large letter "Z," and reads FREE GREECE.Why Z? In 1969, Costa-Gavras released the film Z, based on a book by celebrated left-wing writer Vassilis Vassilikos. The film, banned in Greece, presented a lightly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of United Democratic Left MP Gregoris Lambrakis in 1963. The film captured the sense of outrage about the junta. Greek Military DictatorshipOn 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections which Georgios Papandreou's Center Union was favored to win. The dictatorship was characterized by right-wing cultural policies, restrictions on civil liberties, and the imprisonment, torture, and exile of political opponents. The democratic elements of Greek society were opposed to the junta, from the start. This included the entire left wing of the Greek political spectrum, including the Communist Party of Greece, which was outlawed long before the junta. Many new militant groups formed in 1968, both in exile and in Greece, to promote democratic rule. These included Panhellenic Liberation Movement, Democratic Defense, and the Socialist Democratic Union. The junta exiled thousands, on the grounds that they were communists and/or "enemies of the country". The junta's rule ended on 24 July 1974 under the pressure of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, leading to the Metapolitefsi ("regime change") to democracy and the establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic. This underground protest pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (Hippy) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960s and Seventies (1970s). That movement included such themes and topics as peace, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc. progressive political movement .THIS IS MY HOBBY AND IS NOT A BUSINESS. THIS AND MY OTHER ITEMS ON EBAY ARE FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTIONS AND WERE NOT INITIALLY ACQUIRED BY ME FOR RESALE. PROCEEDS GO TO BUY OTHER STUFF I AM INTERESTED IN COLLECTING. I AM A LONG TIME MEMBER OF A. P. I .C. (AMERICAN POLITICAL ITEMS COLLECTORS). IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER, YOU SHOULD CONSIDER JOINING. IT IS A GREAT ORGANIZATION! SHIPPING COST TO DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES IS $5.50 OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, SHIPPING IS THROUGH EBAY'S GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM. EBAY SETS THE TERMS AND CHARGES, OVER WHICH I HAVE NO CONTROL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST

Price: 17.5 USD

Location: Ojai, California

End Time: 2024-07-30T21:29:43.000Z

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