Guerrilla Theater: Helping Promote the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

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Project Submitted by: Eastside Arts Alliance

Project Summary: Members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas use teatro in their fight for basic workers rights.

BHC Site: East Oakland

Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) partner with the Eastside Arts Alliance to explore how guerrilla theater can help them share their stories and promote the domestic workers bill of rights. Theater instructor Eden Silva Jequinto ties the history of Guerrilla Theater in American political movements to the work being done by the women of the MUA and other social justice movements.