In Beyond the Fields, Randy Shaw describes how the United Farm Workers pioneered a grassroots organizing model that fueled political struggles of all kinds. Shaw suggests that an Obama spin-off organization be created that draws from the UFW model. Also, Steven Gale discusses the plays and politics of the late Harold Pinter.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson at Berkeley Rep
Harry Elam, Jr., The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson U. of Michigan Press, 2004
In his acclaimed ten-play cycle, August Wilson sought to illuminate the 20th-century Black experience. Professor Harry Elam, Jr. and actor Brent Jennings describe Wilson's project, both generally and in the context of the play Joe Turner's Come and Gone. And Ian Williams spells out foreign policy priorities for Barack Obama.
Steve Vanderheiden, ed., Political Theory and Global Climate Change The MIT Press, 2008
George Gonzalez, Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital SUNY Press, 2009
Urban sprawl results in more fossil fuel consumption, which accelerates climate change. George Gonzalez has investigated US elites' role in spurring suburbanization and harming the planet. And Larry Bogad uses political pranks and street theater to highlight official inaction on, among other things, global warming.
H.K. Yuen Social Movement Archive
Yellowjackets by Itamar Moses at Berkeley Rep
If much of the Left is correct, then corporate elites in this country all think the same way. But do they? Mark Engler points out divisions within corporate elites and differences between the Clinton and Bush versions of globalization. He also reflects on what he senses will be a new era of globalization and free-trade battles. Also, Peter Camejo spoke at Sproul Plaza in 1967, and Itamar Moses discusses his new play about Berkeley High School.
Liz Duffy Adams's The Listener at Crowded Fire
A small broken-down hamlet in Kansas stands up to the powers-that-be in Red State, the San Francisco Mime Troupe's current offering. Playwright Michael Gene Sullivan and actor Lizzie Calogero describe this election-year satire. And Liz Duffy Adams has written a play set on an earth largely deserted by humans; upon declaring the place uninhabitable, they relocated en masse to the moon.
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