For sale is an insanely scarce, and possibly unique 23 by 29 inch political poster for noted radical, Brian Flanagan, from the anti-war, anti-racism Weathermen, Weather Underground Organization and Students For a Democratic Society. The group was one of the most radical of the 1960s-70s, no mean feat considering the era. Flanagan himself is famous for getting in a widely-covered altercation with lawyer Richard Elrod at the Weatherman's first act of public aggression, "Days of Rage," a protest in Chicago meant to bring Vietnam soldiers home that involved smashing window, vandalizing businesses and literally blowing up a statue of a policeman known as the Haymarket Statue. Elrod, apparently trying a citizen's arrest, chased after Flanagan and ended up with a broken neck. Flanagan was charged with attempted murder but was acquitted, as it appeared Elrod's injuries were accidental. The case garnered national headlines. A couple years later, three members of the organization, now known as the Weather Underground Organization, were killed making nail bombs intended to be blown up at at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Nix. Flanagan has suggested he helped one of the surviving members at the site of the explosion, Kathy Boudin, flee the scene. After the explosion many members of the group, including Flanagan, went into hiding, and Flanagan admitted later that he helped the group carry out bombings. The group bombed the Pentagon and Capitol, among other buildings. He later resurfaced and joined the above-ground wing of the group, the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. 

I'm not entirely sure what this poster is. My guess is that it is something he did before all of this happened, possibly as a joke, to intimidate people or try to radicalize fellow students. This comes from the personal collection of Jim Fouratt, who was a founder of the Yippies and the Gay Liberation Front. Flanagan was closely tied to the Yippies, and I wonder whetherthis related to them and the Chicago protests of that time. The "People's Army" referred to in the poster is not a known US radical group, so I wonder if he is making a reference to the People's Army of Vietnam, then fighting the US. There is also what appears to be a Black Power symbol in the poster. It is known that in 1970, Flanagan met with fugitive Black Panther leader, Eldridge Cleaver, and Yippies, Jerry Rubin and Stewart Albert, in Algeria, so there is some association there.

My guess is that Fouratt tore this off a wall somewhere, which might explain its condition. I have not been able to find another extant example of this poster anywhere. It may very well be the last of its kind.