Trash Orchestra Parades to Mime Troupe's Making a Killing

Article and photographs by ~Bradley
Indybay Santa Cruz

On September 23rd, the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra led a noisy parade to the San Francisco Mime Troupe performance of Making a Killing, Building a New Iraq. In the style of a cacerolazo, parade-goers beat on makeshift drums and tambourines while marching as a metallic cacophony from Laurel Street up Pacific Avenue and across the river to San Lorenzo Park. The parade lacked a clear message and was appreciated by many people walking and photographing on Pacific Avenue. A focus of the Trash Orchestra parade was to attract people the SFMT's performance, while other folks joined the parade to outreach about Sleep Crimes in Santa Cruz.

For a review of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's Making a Killing, Building a New Iraq and a look at how questionable government contracting reaches all the way from Afghanistan to Santa Cruz, in the form of city contractor Camp Dresser Mckee, read:

"Making a Killing in Iraq" comes to Santa Cruz - in more ways than one
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/25/18449683.php

Resisting

Shake a Leg

Cacerolazo

Conducting

Fresh

Recycle

Garage

A Killing

Trash on Water

San Francisco Mime Troupe

San Lorenzo Park

Translator and Photographer

San Francisco Mime Troupe
http://www.sfmt.org