“It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails”

 

Powerful video from final day of Do the Right Thing Tour captures the spirit of hope and determination that fueled thousands along East Coast to fight for Fair Food!

The quotation at the top of this post comes from the dramatist and Nobel Prize winner for Literature Romain Rolland. In his essay, “The People’s Theater” (1902), he wrote of the birth of a new, more democratic form of theater: “There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.”

That spirit of a people’s theater was alive and well in Tampa last weekend, and captured beautifully in the video above. The artists’ whose work is featured in the video — farmworkers from Immokalee and allies from across the country — truly succeeded in creating a new sun “where the sun fails,” a sun of hope and of concrete change, a sun of theater in Tampa’s streets and a sun of new rights in Florida’s fields that not even Publix, despite its tremendous power and wealth, can block forever.

After watching the video, take a few minutes to check out the full Photo Report from the day for a complete wrap-up of an incredible moment in the Campaign for Fair Food.

And check back soon for much more from the Do the Right Thing Tour.