A Place for Protest: The Billionaires for Bush Interrupt the Hegemonologue

Writing
Written By L.M. Bogad

Performance and Place“A Place for Protest: The Billionaires for Bush Interrupt the Hegemonologue,”in Performance and Place,eds. Hill, Leslie and Helen Paris.Palgrave Macmillan, 2006:  170-179.An account of the creative protests against the Republican National Convention in New York City in 2004.  This piece focuses on the increasingly threatened right to peaceable assembly, and by groups like Billionaires for Bush to get around those restrictions and denials with tactical performance.

L.M. Bogad

Bogad writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Agit-Pop, and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Laboratory, and a co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.

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