The Anniversary of June 12! No More War!!

from John Bell:

I forgot to mention on Monday that 35 years ago (!) on June 12, 1982, the Bread & Puppet Theater collaborated with 1,000 volunteers (mostly from Vermont) to stage a "Fight Against the End of the World" parade as part of a huge anti-nuclear march in New York City, which included close to a million people--the largest street protest in the city's history. Peter Schumann's giant puppets (and Schumann on stilts) graced the front page of the New York Times the next day. This was in a way a culmination of many years of Bread & Puppet shows, circuses, and parades responding to the threats of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. A somewhat smaller version of the parade was presented in London a few months later as part of an anti-nuclear protest there. It's good to know that current work in activist puppet theater has such strong roots to build on; roots that of course go back even further, to the 1930s and beyond...