Event

Do Capitals A Title Make?

Miriam Wolodarski / SENSE OBJECT

"Do Capitals A Title Make?"
a rumbling of the body politic

May 29 & 30 @ 8pm
The Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St.
Berkeley CA 94702

http://senseobject.com/capitals

Choreography & Direction: Miriam Wolodarski
Performing: Leslie Castellano, Kevin Dockery, Rosemary Hannon, Emily Leap, Andrew Lundberg, Phoenicia Pettyjohn

Do Capitals A Title Make? is a dancer's attempt to rage mindfully agains the way capitalism is mangling democracy.

"I was participating in a system of legalized bribery. All of it is bribery, every bit of it"
- Jack Abramoff

"The legislative system is one of quasi- bribery"
- Judge Richard Posner

"Legalized bribery"
- David Rubenstein, Carlyle Group

"Legalized bribery has become part of the culture of how this place operates"
- Leon Panetta, former congressman and CIA director

"Almost a hairline's difference separates bribes and contributions"
- Russell B. Long, former senator

"Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit."
- Teddy Roosevelt (1910)