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Chico Mendes Tour Tee 1988
$35.00
Description
Microphone in hand, one finger raised, mouth open mid-sentence — the halftone portrait of Chico Mendes fills a framed panel on forest green, rendered in pale sage against the dark ground, the Amazon canopy visible through the grain behind him. "MENDES" runs above in wide, heavily weathered block letters, the ink broken and eroded like bark. Below: "ACRE, BRAZIL – DECEMBER 1988 / STAND FOR THE FOREST TOUR" in stacked serif caps.
December 1988 is the month he was killed — assassinated in Xapuri by ranchers whose land-clearing operations he had spent years legally blocking through empates, nonviolent standoffs where rubber tappers and their families would simply stand in front of the chainsaws. He was 44.
The shirt doesn't eulogize. It puts him where he always was: speaking, in Acre, in the forest. Poetas Y Punks mark at the neckline. 4.2 oz Airlume combed ring-spun cotton, retail fit.