Piece where does the smiley face come from or the power but today we sent out the 9 p.r. Team to dig into the back story behind some of those images you see every day you might know what they mean but you don t know why they mean with Amy. In this episode ubiquitous. So image is here to bring the story of the peace symbol here I am. Talking about the peace symbol like 2 fingers up when someone takes a picture right now the drawing of like a circle with a little stick Yes You know one that looks kind of like the Mercedes Benz logo. That you see everywhere I mean it s kind of hard to think of a more ubiquitous icon than the piece and yeah right it s like truly truly everywhere and I think what interested me about it was that despite its sort of total ubiquity it has a very very specific origin story oh that s cool Ok so hit me with it so the symbol goes back to the 1950 s. And a British organization called the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear war that s a good name that does what
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