Not with my son, you don't

This poster was issued by the 'Save Our Sons' group in response to the Vietnam War. Save Our Sons was a woman's organisation set up by Joyce Golgerth in Sydney in May 1965. Golgerth had started contacting women who had sons of conscription age as the National Service Act was being prepared in October 1964. The organisation was set up to oppose conscription for overseas service and more specifically the use of conscripts as part of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Save Our Sons was part of a much larger tradition of women's mobilisations against war dating back to groups such as the Women's Peace Army, which opposed the conscription referenda of 1916-17. Save Our Sons members took an active part in many demonstrations where they would distribute leaflets to protestors. During the May 1970 Moratorium Save Our Sons published and distributed 50,000 copies of their leaflet 'Mothers in Mourning'. Other activities of the group included attending the court hearings of conscientious objectors and establishing vigils at army depots, goals, Commonwealth government offices and courthouses. In Victoria during April 1971, five members of Save Our Sons were charged with trespass for handing out leaflets outside the National Service Centre and subsequently sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment in Fairlea Women's Prison. A 24 hour stoppage by waterside workers closed the Port of Melbourne and the Seaman's Union of Australia went on strike in protest against the women's imprisonment.

This text-only protest poster, addressed at law-makers and enforcers, highlighting the mothers' attachment to their sons and objection to them being forcibly conscription against their will.