Daniel Strausman
10/17/17
Art and Activism
Tactics
Legislative Theater
- A form of policy change.
- A short play is enacted about the topic/issue which will be debated.
- Play usually ends with a crisis for the audience to fix.
- Then a debate and or mock legislation is staged.
- This form has changed over 30 laws and policies
- Key Theory:
- Making direct connection between theatre generated ideas and the legislative process.
- Potential Pitfalls
- Without the support of an elected official, who can participate in such legislative process, this form may have little to no difference making within the system.
Principles
Put movies in the hands of movements
- Storytelling, films and documentaries are great ways to bring awareness to an issue/topic.
- Filmmakers and activists make great collaborators.
- Create mutual relation between filmmakers and organizations
- “What can my film do for you?” Not, “What can you do for my film?”
- How can this film support current activities and programs
- Change “film timeline” to “organization timeline”
- broadcast your project and organized events instead of festivals
- Potential Pitfalls
- Storyline/narrative is priority
- Can be seen as propaganda
Don’t dress like a protester
- People constantly overlook regular looking protestors
- break the form
- Dress in entire that wouldn't usually be seen in a protest.
- People can connect with people of authority on their side.
- Be that authority
- Dress in a way that can offer sympathy.
- Schoolteacher would care if you were getting beaten.
- Dress in a way you want to be perceived
- Suit and tie=wealthy/upperclass
Theory
Capitalism
- Origins
- Its birth took place between 16th and 19th century
- Formed in Northwest of Europe
- Profit driven system
- based on the buying and selling capital
- Including labor
- Capitalism is a social relation
- buying and selling to each other
- divides people into social classes
- Upper/middle/lower class
- Working class, and the proletariat
- capitalist class and bourgeoisie
- Purpose to propel economic growth.
- production exceeds and theres the rub
- Reoccurring crisis of over-accumulation
- Produces waste, poverty, inequality, imperialism, violence and war.
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