It was Carpenter who introduced the British to the Indian-style sandals that are still the sign and symbol of left-leaning politics.
At the same time the CNTE has sought to set itself up as a symbol of left-wing resistance to the political and economic elite, and nowhere more so than in Oaxaca where the teachers have a long history of channelling wider anger about poverty and inequality.
The summit is being held only a few hundred meters from one of Germany's most potent symbols of left-wing resistance, a former theater called the "Rote Flora" which was taken over by anti-capitalist squatters nearly three decades ago.
It was once slated for privatization and then abandoned, and after being occupied by actors and artist groups had become a potent symbol of the left.
He had an obsession -- he had a number of obsessions -- but one was the guerrilla radio station Radio Venceremos, which to him was a symbol of the left making fun of the army.
In the nearly four decades since that episode catapulted Mr. Gabeira into Brazilian history, the former student militant, now 67, has become a respected writer, congressman and symbol of the left here — although a photo of him wearing a woman's bikini bottom also made him a sex symbol of sorts.
Indeed, Governor Pataki's decision to pardon a symbol of the left came during a year in which he took many actions to shore up his Republican and conservative credentials, including supporting the Bush administration's antiterrorism efforts, like the Patriot Act, which some civil libertarians see as a threat to the Bill of Rights.
A symbol of the Left since the German Peasants' War of the 1520s, it has been adopted by movements for gay rights, the environment, multiculturalism, and peace around the globe, and has inspired poets, artists, and writers including John Keats, Caspar David Friedrich, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Not one symbol of the Left was missing in the appeal at Le Bourget.
Seven suspects were reported to have fled on foot after leaving a typewritten letter in the front garden saying, "Our action is part of the anti-imperialist front in Western Europe". The letter bore a five-pointed star, the symbol of the left-wing Red Army Faction.
At the Sorbonne the turtleneck became the symbol of the left-leaning antifashion intellectual who liked to think he was communing with the proletariat by wearing a garment still favored by working fishermen.
