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LEFT FORUM 2015: “REVOLUTIONARY ARTS PERFORMANCE” SEGMENT, Opening Remarks

Text by John Pietaro (http://theculturalworker.blogspot.com/2015/05/revolutionary-cultural-work-on-crises.html)

About the LEFT FORUM

john reed clubThe art of rebellion is a tradition as old as dissent itself. Radical writers, musicians, painters, actors, dancers and other creative activists have long used their artwork as a weapon in the fight for social justice. If the very nature of expressive freedom lends itself toward a revolutionary voice, then it is arguable that the arts gave birth to radicalism, or in the least offered a vision toward its path. And the cultural workers fight for his or her own freedom of expression—and against the confines of censorship—further exemplifies the voice of creativity in this good fight.

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