Beautiful - Non-Violent
Anarchist - Revolution
OPEN LITERATURE
by The Living Theatre
during the Know Your Rites Tour, August 20166
“only the people can do what is needed. only the people
can free the people.” I & Though
it still saddens my heart we do not even know
what liberation looks like, or feels like. Don’t we deserve
to experience this?
Who do we know who has come closest to
liberation?
Liberation is like a cloud, shifting shapes, appearing +
reappearing in various forms only to float away so it
can find another form to return in.
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by The Living Theatre and
the People of Super Happy Fun Land, Texas
during the Know Your Rites Tour, August 20166
All In Together
Blood on stone
Blood on asphalt
Blood on dirt, grass
Shards of broken glass
Children in the meat grinder of
Poverty and greed
Death from above
Death from the cross fire
Two shores, Three, Four, more!
The Blood pours out the same
shame
WAR WITHOUT END
WAR NO MORE
I HATE WAR
I WAS BORN IN WW2
I REMEMBER BOMBS FALLING
I HATE WAR
THERE IS NO NEED FOR WAR
IT’S THE WARS OF THE RICH
¡Patria Libre o Morir!
by The Living Theatre and
the People of Birmingham Festival Theatre, Alabama
during the Know Your Rites Tour, August 20166
LIBERATION IS ENEVITABLE, OFTEN WE HAVE TO WAIR
FOR DEATH BEFORE IT IS REALISED, BUT LIBERATION
? ... soil! - DEFINITLEY
LIBER MEANS LOVE. LIBERTY
IS LOVE. I LOVE LIBERTY
LIBERATE LOVE. LOVE AND
LIBERTY ARE STRONGER THAN
DEATH. DEATH IS A TYPE OF
LIBERATION, BUT LIBERY
IS STRONGER THAN DEATH
by The Living Theatre
during the Know Your Rites Tour, August 20166
Name? Nombre?
What’s the purpose of your trip?
Endonde viven tu familia?
move across, love across, touch across
what is transcended is imaginary, yet so real
the pit of never knowing if my grandmother had
aunts and the pit of the aunts I know and
cannot touch.
by The Living Theatre and
the People of Malcolm X Park, Washington DC
during the Know Your Rites Tour, August 20166
Liberation to me is dancing
with strangers.
Liberation to Me is complete
release within Music.
Liberation to Me is people.
What is Liberation?
f-r- to the e-y-e can see
as far from me
to there and back
The realization that all you are,
all you were & all you’ll ever be
is intricately connected to the
universality of all things.
Liberation free to harbour, aid and
abet all external and internal
Health?
by The Living Theatre and
the People of Antebellum Gallery
during the Know Your Rites Tour, August 20166
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE TAKE MORE
THAN WE NEED? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
WE CANT GO HOME?
Change, come out of our comfort
zone, new beginnings.
MY BODY OWNS ITSELF, IT IS NOT YOURS OR MINE
THOUGH I, THE SELF, CONDUCT IT, THROUGH SPACE & TIME
by Michael McClure
JUDITH, YOU WROTE,
"I COULD WALK OUT INTO THE WORLD
LIKE GAUTAMA
AND ENCOUNTER DEATH, DISEASE & OLD AGE,
AND DECIDE TO SAVE THE WORLD,"
and you saved it. Standing naked on the stage with arms
stretched like a star you shouted out your conquered fear and
bravery: "Poetry is politics." You created an antipolitics
verifying the Shelleys,
so much like you and Julian
with your white-shouldered trembling soul.