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DEAD
SOLDIERS AT US CONSULATE
On
Monday September 19,
Montreal
joined
with anti-war and theatre groups all over the world in staging
readings of Irwin Shaw's play Bury the Dead as a collaborative protest
against the occupation in
Iraq
.
Bury
The Dead
is a play about the brutality of war and six dead soldiers' refusal to be buried
so that the truth of that horror will not be buried with them. With
the death toll in
Iraq
rising every day, the play's subject is relevant to today.
Full details of the international mobilization are available at www.burythedead.ca
In
each city funds raised will go towards a local anti-war organization. In
the
Montreal
case, the money will be sent to the War
Resisters Support Campaign,
an organization that is working to get status in
Canada
for
conscientious objectors who have fled the US Army.
There
were two parts to the
Montreal
event: a theatrical action facilitated by the Optative Theatrical Laboratories,
and a reading by Working Class Productions.
ACTION:
Monday September 19th,
noon
,
US
Consulate
Dead
US
soldiers appeared at the US Consulate demanding to know what they died for.
CLICK
HERE TO READ A LETTER FROM THE DEAD SOLDIERS TO THE US CONSULAR GENERAL
CLICK HERE FOR
OTL'S VIDEO OF THE JAM
CLICK
HERE FOR PRESS COVERAGE OF BURY THE DEAD IN MONTREAL
READING
:
Working Class Productions present…BURY THE DEAD
A
staged reading of a play by Irwin Shaw directed by Harry Fox took place at
Zeke's Gallery at 7:30pm
BURY
THE DEAD
in Montreal was a joint production of:
Working
Class Productions, Optative Theatrical
Laboratories, Artists Against War,
Theaters Against War & The
War Resisters Support Campaign
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