This badge was produced by Drinking Liberally, an organisation formed in the United States to promote political engagement by giving progressives a place to gather and talk politics and, according to its motto, ‘build democracy one drink at a time’.

The donor of this badge, John Ellis, writes:

This badge was given to me by my niece who lives in New York. I wore it for fun to stir up my left-leaning friends who thought I had flipped. The group ‘Drinking Liberally’ originated in the United States in 2003 and has chapters around the world including Melbourne. … The word ‘liberal’ has a different meaning to that used by the Liberal Party of Australia.