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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 at the vigil outside the gates of Fort Lewis, Wash., where his court-martial—which… return to article

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    Puppets.......And you people wonder why your called pussies.

    United States Posted by texasindependent on May 10, 2007 at 1:40 PM
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