THEA 3235 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
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Norther(cid:374) irela(cid:374)d (cid:272)i(cid:448)il (cid:449)ar (cid:894)politi(cid:272)al priso(cid:374)ers" a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s(cid:895) blanket protest, dirty protest, hunger strike (1981) They opted for the dirty protest, this was important because they were creating a theatrical scene which would infect the prison guards so they take it outside the jail and into society. They hunger strike in 1981 gave a larger agency in what they can actually accomplish they used their bodies as a last resort to creative meaning to their struggle. Weapon: something (skill, idea, or tool) that is used to win a contest or achieve something (merriam- Theatricalized violence, through their protests were denouncing the violence done to them. The violence done their bodies was being shown through the structure of violence from multinational corporations. A pesticide in the us in the 1970s: people in factories were making these pesticides, the federal government decided it was too poisonous so they banned it.
