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...attend; he simply sent a representative. More ominous absences, though, were the two militant groups most influential among Iraq's Shiite majority, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Dawa Party. Thousands of their supporters turned out in the streets on nearby Nasiriyah to protest against the dominant role being played by the U.S. in shaping post-Saddam Iraq, chanting "Yes to freedom; Yes to Islam; No to America; No to Saddam...
...Looking on the bright side, both the meeting and the peaceful protest outside were symptoms of an emerging democracy, in which Iraqis are finally free to express their feelings. Retired General Jay Garner, the U.S. official in charge of administering postwar Iraq has warned that the ride will be bumpy, but that political turbulence is an integral part of birthing a democracy. But in Iraq, the turbulence threatens to turn bloody...
While PART’s work is not modelled on any other movement past or present, it does recall the “guerilla theater” that developed in protest of the Vietnam War—which also tried to harness the power of art in changing public sentiment...
...indeed most undergraduate visual artists, hurrying to finish theses, have not focused on creating full-fledged exhibitions of protest art critical of U.S. policy...
...though student visual artists have not organized a structured political effort, protest art may find its place in upcoming shows...