May 26, 2005
TOPIC: Minute Men Run Over Local Activists!
GUESTS: Dwayne Roberts, Orange County Activist
Yesterday, hundreds of people were gathered at a demonstration in Garden Grove to protest a speech by the founder of the Minute Man Project, James Gilchrist. The protesters charge that the anti-immigrant Gilchrist and his followers are racist. The gathering took an ugly turn when a motorist drove into the crowd of demonstrators injuring three people. 8 were arrested. Among those injured were two people associated with KPFK – Teresa, a member of the Soul Rebel Radio Collective, and the National Lawyer’s Guild show host, Jim Lafferty. Joining me on the line is Dwayne Roberts who was at the protest and witnessed the whole incident.
TOPIC: US Military Doctor Speaks Out Against War
GUESTS: Dr. Gene Bolles, surgeon at the Denver Health Medical Center, former Chief of Neurosurgery at Landsthul Regional Medical Center in Germany
More than 1,000 U.S. troops swept into the city of Haditha, Iraq yesterday on the road to Syria to “root out insurgents.” They were searching homes and seizing suspects in an anti-resistance raid that comes after a surge in resistance attacks. The U.S. military said Marines, sailors and Iraqi soldiers were involved in the operation, dubbed New Market. As part of this operation, troops descended on the Euphrates river town northwest of Baghdad before dawn, backed by U.S. helicopters. The operation is the second major offensive in the area this month as U.S. forces try to staunch the resistance in western Iraq. Several US soldiers were also killed.
This weekend, an alternative Memorial Day celebration against the war in Iraq will feature veterans of the Iraq War, military family members of service persons killed in Iraq, and military resisters: Aidan Delgado, Dr. Gene Bolles, Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia, Cindy Sheehan and Bill Mitchell, Tim Goodrich, and Stephen Funk. It’s happening on Saturday, May 28th at 7 pm at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church. 3300 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles.
TOPIC: Welfare Poets
GUESTS: Joe Galarza, Aztlan Underground, Hector aka Hec 1 of Welfare Poets
Joining me in studio today is Hec 1 of the Welfare Poets -- a collective of activists, educators, and artists who incorporate art with activism. The Welfare Poets are based in New York and are visiting LA for a local performance to launch their second CD at Self-Help Graphics. The CD is called Rhymes for Treason. Also joining me is Joe Galarza of Atzlan Underground, popular LA based band.
The Welfare Poets will be performing on Thursday May 26th at 8 pm at Self-Help Graphics at 3802 Cesar E. Chavez Ave in Los Angeles. They will be joined by Atzlan Underground and other artists. For more information about Self-Help Graphics, visit www.selfhelpgraphics.com.
For information about the Welfare Poets, visit www.welfarepoets.com. For information about Atzlan Underground, visit www.atzlanunderground.com, or www.xrf.com.
TOPIC: Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed
GUESTS: Augusto Boal, founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, Mady Schutzman, writer, scholar and theater artist, Brent Blair, Senior Lecturer at the USC School of Theater
Augusto Boal is best known for founding the concept of the Theater of the Oppressed. He pioneered political protest theater with Revolution in South America at the Arena in Sao Paulo in 1961. Breaking with European models of drama, Boal began to use local traditions. Inspired by the educational ideas of Paulo Freire (author of The Pedagogy of the Oppressed) and outraged at social injustice, he started doing agit-prop theater in Brazil's poorest areas. By inviting spectators to act out their ideas on stage he created Forum Theater, which generates solutions to problems and also functions as a rehearsal for action in "real life." Arrested, tortured, and "persuaded" into exile by the Brazilian military in 1971, Boal came to Europe. Since then he has continued his ground breaking work. I’m very honored to have Augusto Boal in studio with me today.
Also joining us in studio is Mady Schutzman, a writer, scholar and theater artist. She is an internationally acclaimed scholar and freelance practitioner of the techniques of Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed. She is co-editor of Playing Boal: Theater, Therapy, Activism and is currently working on a second anthology entitled A Boal Companion.
Augusto Boal, Mady Schutzman, Gerry Quickly, Amy Goodman, and others will be at the 11th Annual International Conference on Pedagogy and the Theater of the Oppressed on May 29-31 at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel, 1755 N. Highland Avenue in Hollywood. For more information visit www.ptoweb.org.
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