In Praise of Pageantry

Art and activism together facilitate a larger discussion of politics and theory while reinspiring activists who are tired of the same old marches

By Jen Angel

This past January I spent a week in a chilly warehouse in Tacoma, Wash., making puppets with 20 other activists to support Army First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq. We were creating a play to perform on Feb. 5 [RETURN TO ARTICLE]