Theaters Against War

Theaters Against War

‎ Theaters Against War (THAW), is a coalition of theaters and volunteer theater artists organized to protest the Iraq war and the perceived concomitant restrictions on civil liberties in the US.cite web |url=http://www.thawaction.org/about/index.html |title=Mission Statement & Advisory Board
accessdate=2007-11-15 |publisher=Theaters Against War] Currently, THAW has more than 250 member theaters, largely in New York City, but with some representation through the United States and abroad.cite web |url=http://www.thawaction.org/members/index.html |title=THAW Member Theaters
accessdate=2007-11-15|publisher=Theaters Against War]

THAW was formed at a meeting at Performance Space 122 in New York City on December 9 2002cite web |url=http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/theater/winter03/theateragainstwar.html
title=New York Theaters Against War |accessdate=2007-11-15 |author=Emily DeVoti |date=Winter 2003
publisher= [http://www.thebrooklynrail.org The Brooklyn Rail] ] to organize a citywide theater-based anti-war protest for March 2 2003.cite news
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E5DD163BF935A35751C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
title=Mobilizing a Theater of Protest. Again.; Artists Try to Recapture Their Role as Catalysts for Debate and Dissent
first=Julie |last=Salomon |publisher=New York Times |date=2003-02-06 |accessdate=2007-11-15 ] [cite news |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/theater/0309,kamenetz,42131,11.html |first=Anya |last=Kamenetz
title=Aristophanes vs. Rumsfeld - THAW and the Lysistrata Project's Anti-War Fare
publisher=Village Voice |date=2003-02-26 |accessdate=2007-11-15 ] After the initial protest, THAW continued to participate in protests and theater events, such as 2006's Culture Project Impact Festivalcite web
url=http://www.impactfestival.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=106&year=&month=&day=&Itemid=42
title=WHAT'S ON - Theaters Against War (THAW) |accessdate=2007-11-15] and United for Peace and Justice's March 18, 2007 "NYC March to End the War".cite web |url=http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=61
title=NYC March to End the War : Sunday, March 18, 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-15] cite web |url=http://www.thawaction.org/news-events/archives2007.html
title=THAWAction Archives 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-15]

References

External links

* [http://www.thawaction.org Official Theaters Against War website]


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