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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...
...This time around, we were assured once again that all possible precautions were being taken by American forces and the Israeli Air Force. But given the last Gulf War??s skin-of-our-teeth results here, many Israelis clearly had good reason to feel insecure about Saddam’s missiles. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, the advent of war raised the possibility that there would be an increased number of terror attacks. Without having experienced the effects of biological and chemical weaponry, most Israelis fear increased terror attacks more than any missile from Iraq...
...Beach without me. I am not ashamed to admit that I was on the couch keeping an eye on the war. In the wee hours of the morning, when the networks stop bouncing from one correspondent to the next, the coverage nestles in with one little slice of the war??a single camera, even—and lets you watch a live stream, uncut and unproduced...
...Union address and the Joe Millionaire finale, the extent to which war had permeated regularly scheduled programming shocked me. I watched, supine, as a series of wildly divergent film clips unrolled on the television screen: in downtown Manhattan, hundreds of protesters were flopping onto the pavement to dramatize the war??s civilian casualties. In Iraq, dusty embedded reporters were squinting at the camera and gesturing towards the sand behind them. In the major networks’ morning television studios, anchors were grasping coffee mugs and transitioning smoothly between updates on Survivor and updates on America...
...course, it is unsavory to profit from war??and that is what Harvard and hundreds of thousands of other shareholders are doing this very instant. Similarly, each purchase of a Coke product funds a company that denies its African workers ample AIDS medication; each pair of Nike shoes funds third-world sweatshops. And while some have approached these problems through a lens of divestment, most activists have correctly taken far more innovative and engaging approaches to solving these problems. Simply put, although divestment from defense contractors is a feel-good move, it does nothing to realistically address...