Mike Daisey monologue at Occupy Broadway

Mike Daisey, came straight from his show at the Public Theater,
To take part in OCCUPY BROADWAY.
He told some stories and shared his heart and soul. He made us say yeah, and yay, and boo too. Well worth the watch...

http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/

On December 2, 2011 New York artists will introduce tourists and New Yorkers going to Broadway shows or shopping themselves into debt to the idea of occupation as creative resistance with non-stop free performances. Occupy Broadway will set up in a privately owned public space (POPS) near Times Square, turning once blandified space into a space for cultural production.

"The city created privately owned public spaces for the people, in exchange for bonus height and bulk in these spaces," notes Benjamin Shepard, co-author of The Beach Beneath the Streets. "As State Judge Stallman made clear last week, the people have a right to be in these spaces 24 hours a day."

In recent weeks, there has been a push to tramp on our rights to public assembly, public space and by extension democracy itself. In response, Occupy Broadway joins a global struggle using occupation as a form of creative resistance. Occupations are spreading around the world and around New York City, even uotown. Bloomberg Beware, you take our park, Now Liberty Park is everywhere! In a time when downtown theaters are rapidly losing their spaces, being turned into high-end fashion stores, Occupy Broadway is a symbolic attempt to regain the space of theatre as an accessible, popular art form, bringing it back to where it all started - in a public space, for the common citizen.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• #OccupyBroadway
• #OWS
• occupy wall street
• occupy broadway

[ridewave444]

What a GREAT communicator of important and interesting ideas. You're awesome Mike Daisey. Maybe I'll see you perform in person one day. Thank you for everything you do to fight the cruelty and madness in this world.

Fuck you Mike Bloomberg. You small little rich man.

[sleepangel1000]

This, monologue should be archived off line.

ALL things, important to you, should be archived....off line.

Because THEY will come, and take down the stage.....take down youtube and such.

Remove ALL the online filing cabinets.

All the information we have put up on the web, thinking it will last for eternity.

gone.

It will All be removed one day.......and that day, we will be like baby's,

Void of knowledge.

Void of right and wrong.

And if we forget, once again, who we are,... then we're fucked.

[paniq303]

@winded10 i agree. he should get a better job (better than making people laugh with truth! like uh... making a lot of money and feeling miserably bored), lose weight (because being thin and muscular makes people love you, as opposed to, off the top of my head, entertaining them?) and write hater comments on YouTube, because that's true happiness.

[winded10]

WOW! What a bloviating idiot. How about direct your energy to getting a better job and losing weight rather than complaining about the success of others?????

[SPKaa]

So hilarious! This guy is great. So good "'You talk a lot about Denialism. What did you mean about our denialism in China?' And then it was like... The Golden Path opened right in front me." The G-train comment is the best, too. :) MORE MIKE DAISEY!

[agentxti]

I was there and Mike Daisey was AMAZING!!!!! What an incredible performance--passionate, articulate and brilliant! A must-see!!! BRAVO!!!