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[Leopolds Ghost]

6. Wobbly Cat is a cat with an arched back in a circle, like on the poster above.

It symbolizes Wildcat Strikes and by extension, the 1940's era IWW (Wobblies), the anti-authoritarian leftist union (the main leftist group in the US that was not centralized state socialist, although I suspect that some of the remaining trotskies have drifted over to the IWW position). The cat represents the freedom of workers to strike; the right to strike was made illegal when the Taft-Hartley Act (I think) banned wildcat (i.e. not sanctioned by the bosses) strikes in the 1940s or thereabouts.


[font face="Times"]Apparently, Wobbly Cat's name is Sabo.[/font]

The squatters' rights symbol is a lightning-bolt arrow in a circle and represents Exactly What It Says On The Tin, and is commonly used by political activist punks, since they are the main squatters groups in the US since the days of the 1980s-era Lower East Side, I'm sure you know about that but perhaps others don't. They're basically the successors to the 1960s hippie communes.