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Back Where It All Started: An Afternoon At FOMMA

Pedro and Rosa’s baby is sick. “I’m going to go sell the cow to buy medicine for the baby,” Pedro tells Rosa, “I’ll be back soon.” Off he goes, cow in tow, which he entrusts to a friend to sell for him. But Pedro’s friend doesn’t return. Penniless and far from home, Pedro comes upon [...]

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Activando Los Espacios: Chiapas Activists Use Art for Abortion Advocacy

COFEMO and DDESER's political performance for safe and legal abortions in Mexico on September 28, 2011

“What type of action can we take to grab the city and the press’ attention?” Two days after el Día por la Despenalización del Aborto en America Latina y el Caribe (Day for the [...]

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Why Artful Resistance Is So Hard to Resist

When I last arrived in Chiapas, Mexico, I was an ex lawyer-to-be with no professional association, and piles of plays in my suitcase. My people, as I had come to know Mexicans—willful, passionate, creative—were seeking spaces to “rehearse revolution” as Boal would say, and I knew where they could find them.
RKA on Eye See Media

So, why did I ditch law school, anyway?  Take a look at my article on Eye See Media, “Why Artful Resistance Is So Hard to Resist” about leaving law school and returning to the theater with a little help from the incredible actresses and writers at FOMMA.  With all due respect to my legal pals, [...]

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Women, Art, and Resistance in the Americas

It was moving to wear her name on my body. Putting a name to each crime. Remembering the importance of who each woman was—that they weren't just statistics.
Norma Cacho

I think it’s fitting that the conclusion to the Centro Hemisférico’s “Diálogos Hemisféricos” series celebrated women using art in the movement. The “Acción política y creativa de las mujeres en Chiapas” (Creative political [...]

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¡Earthalujah! Reverend Billy on San Juan Chamula

At this church we are mindful that the life of this Earth is endangered. Earthalujah!
Reverend Billy

I looked twice when I saw that Reverend Billy was scheduled to perform his “Earthalujah” show as part of the Centro Hemisférico and FOMMA’s series “Diálogos Hemisféricos” in San Cristóbal de las Casas this week. Then I looked [...]

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Curtain Call in Chalchihuitán

Chalchihuitán

As our tiny taxi climbed through the Chiapanecan highlands, I began to look nervously into the misty sky, growing dark and swollen with rainclouds. “I’m sure it won’t rain,” my friend Paola had said while we were planning the day’s events. “Well, almost sure.” Paola teaches English in Chalchihuitán, the indigenous community where our taxi [...]

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