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So, while we're on the topic of
politics--which we have been for some time now (I assume it has only let up as
the political junkies are either glued to their television sets or sitting in
jail pending/following some kind of guerrilla theatre protest action)--does
anyone out there have any plans for election day street theatre?
My own performance group is still
recovering from the MN Fringe Festival, but when we start meeting again in a
couple of weeks, I intend to approach them about doing something theatrical on
election day. Perhaps a short piece that we can take to various polling
places around town, with a sign that simply says "Vote your hopes not your
fears." Of course, Minnesota in November is meteorologically dicey,
so we will probably need short pieces that lend themselves to people completely
covered up and immobilized by layers of clothing. Then again, global
warming COULD work in our favor. Ya just never know.
Anyway, would like to hear what anyone
else might be planning (insofar as sharing them won't get you in
trouble).
I'd also like to hear from some people out
there about your approach to public space and "permits". How do
you balance ideology against practicality? I bristle at the notion of
having to be given permission to do a public performance. Then again, I
can also be a coward about creating/starting a confrontation.
And by the way, for the record--despite my
gadfly-esque quips, I am pro-Nader. I was at the original organizing
conference for the Left Green Network in Ames Iowa in 1989, coordinated the Left
Green Clearinghouse for two years in Iowa City, and have been peripherally
involved/in contact with a few Greens around the midwest ever since. I was
also living in and working at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Rock
Island, Illinois at the time I joined the Greens--two convergences that I was
happy to come across on the RAT website. I have links to both the Catholic
Workers and to the Greens on my own website below. For anyone wanting to
go directly to the Greens' Key Values page the URL is http://www.gp.org/keyvalues.htm
"Those poor kids. So
young. So nauseous."
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