As a result of the deadly sanctions, violence, and war on Iraq, so many of us feel helpless, hopeless, and alienated. The corporate news insists on nothing but the war, and the government classifies tens of millions of anti-war protesters as irrelevant. It's up to activists to awaken our imaginations and free our power, our creativity, and our humor, and shine the light on the darkest places in these times.
We go to war for oil, invade sovereign countries for oil, rip apart fragile ecosystems for oil, all for the drug that keeps us hooked and keeps the world suffering. Global warming is caused by burning oil; the science is unambiguous. We need to cut back by at least 70% of our oil use to divert ecological disaster, but the oilogarchy in charge of our national and foreign priorities will not let us off that hook.
After torpedoing every alternative energy program and refusing to sign on to the Kyoto Agreement, the best Bush can do is to propose switching to hydrogen fuel, in 16 years!
Driving is an American right considered to be more fundamental than the right to breathe. Oil consumption seems innocent, wholesome, patriotic. Smoking, littering, and marching for peace all get more criticism from the public. Yet, the truth is that all the dictatorships in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America are propped up by oil revenues. Political rights and civil liberties just don't exist where oil is being pumped out of the earth. That's why we say that the biggest weapon of mass destruction is parked in your driveway.
Our foreign policy revolves around our oil addiction. The Pentagon is the world's largest consumer of oil, burning enough in 12 months to fuel the whole US mass transit system for 14 years. We have a million troops deployed in 40 countries to secure our access to oil. The military's primary objective is not peace or liberty, but to ensure adequate oil supplies for national defense. One major goal of our global economic policy is to stretch oil lines through Afghanistan, Africa, and the Amazon, under the guise of "the war on terror" or "the war on drug,s" all to benefit the oil industry. And, in cultures around the world, respect for the sacredness of earth is clashing with a militaristic and toxic oil culture.
All this is the bad news; the good news is a new Vox Feminista show!
Oil, war, and globalization are the themes of the newest Vox show, Global Warning: Burning the Midnight Oil.We think that what's needed in these dark times is spirit, sustainable energy alternatives, and media independence. Vox is theater activism, and we're all about spreading the word of what is possible. Connections between people, relationship with the earth, creative protest and culture jamming, and an analysis large enough to see the big picture are what's important to us. Activists are optimists, the people who take responsibility to speak up, to say what other people feel, but are afraid to say, and Vox Feminista is here to encourage defection from the national trance of blind patriotism.
Vox Feminista is a multi media, multi passionate performance tribe of radical women. We've been performing for 13 years in the Boulder-Denver area, providing an alternative to anti-depressants, mainstream media and cultural entropy.
Using comedy, drama, video art, movement, drumming, and magic, Vox examines our societal assumptions and offers new myths to oppose corporate culture's consumer monotony.