Tag Archives: protest
Greenham Common: The first Occupy?
In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought I’d give you some women’s history from a few decades back. It was 1983 and the world was closer to nuclear confrontation between the US and the Soviets than it had been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. More than a few of my writer friends have become […]
Kathleen’s Maypole Dance!
This is from the Occupy May Day protest. Kathleen Stansell organized a marvelous Maypole dance in Union Square. And thanks to Bill King, who shot this video.
Greenham Common and the first Occupy (preview)
I’m writing a long post on the history of Greenham Common. Long story short–the protesters at Greenham camped out for some ten years in front of a US b52 airbase that was keeping first-strike weapons on high alert. But that protest eventually got the airbase shut down. And in recent months, as a memorial was […]
Project overview: Occupy The Empire Tour
Overview: The Occupy The Empire Tour is an outgrowth of Move for Change and the Brooklyn Culture Jammers committee, a group of artists creating work in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Through this movement, artists are creating theatre, music and spoken word productions that can be toured to protest sites and community events. […]
Clusterphuck in Philadelphia
(note–I’ve made changes this afternoon 7/2 after seeing live feed. Not nearly as discouraged as I was when drafting this on Saturday) If you read my last post, you know that I had a whole raft of events going on over the weekend. I was on WBCR to talk about my plays and about the Occupy Movement […]
How to fight the revolution…
Just posted the video of my performance on March 18 as part of the Occupy the Empty Space event at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village. The play, How to stop the Empire while keeping your Day Job, has had some 9,000 views on Youtube as I write this. I’ve performed it ten times since […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 