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Comedy, Video & Activism

Comedy, Video & Activism

Thursday, August 13th 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Screening Series, 406
Thursday, August 13th, 3:00pm - 4:15pm
406

Some of the most memorable videos from the recent election and from ongoing advocacy campaigns are also the funniest. Activists and comedians discuss their favorite comedic campaigns, debate the role of humor, and offer their advice to you on how comedy could be a vehicle for your cause.

Justin Krebs

Justin is a political entrepreneur based in NYC. He runs Living Liberally, the national network of progressive social clubs, including the Drinking Liberally happy hours & Laughing Liberally comedy tour. He's a founder of The Tank, a non-profit venue for arts & ideas in Manhattan. He's worked as a parks advocate, Working Assets Fellow & staffer for Senator Clinton, and has written a history of NYC playgrounds. His next book, about "living liberally" in America comes out this spring. He's a Jersey native, Harvard grad, & resident of Hell's Kitchen where he is President of the West 45th Street Block Association.

Katie Halper

Raised on the mean streets of New York City's Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist, filmmaker and history teacher once called "cute and some what brainy" by the National Review. A national director of Living Liberally, Katie is also a founder/ comedian of Laughing Liberally. Her writing appears on Huffington Post, Alternet, Daily Kos, Open Left, Working Life, and Culture Kitchen. Katie is editing her next documentary about Camp Kinderland (where Katie, her mother and grandmother went) and their "Peace Olympics," the camp's non-violent and socially conscious alternative to Color Wars.

Lee Camp

Lee Camp is a comedian/humor writer/and sometimes activist. He has headlined over 400 colleges and performed at last year’s DNC. He also ran for president on Comedy Central’s “Fresh Debate ’08.” Never afraid to burn bridges, he went on Fox News’s national morning show and called them “a parade of propaganda and a festival of ignorance.” He writes humor regularly for The Huffington Post and is a contributor to The Onion. Stephanie Miller once called him “my future husband” on her radio show. Lee has also been a regular performer with Laughing Liberally since their beginning. Learn more about Lee at www.LeeCamp.net.

Adam Green

Adam Green is co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (BoldProgressives.org), a 750,000-member grassroots online organization that helps elect bold progressive members of Congress and advocate on progressive policy issues.

For four years, he worked as Director of Strategic Campaigns and Civic Communications Director for MoveOn.org. During this time, he spearheaded the “Open Debate Coalition” with Prof. Lawrence Lessig and online voices on the left and right, which successfully opposed some of the top-down practices that surround presidential debates.

Previously, Adam served as the Democratic National Committee’s press secretary in Oregon for the 2004 presidential campaign, communications director for the New Jersey Democratic Party in 2003 and 2004, and press secretary for Sen. Tim Johnson's re-election campaign in South Dakota in 2002.

Adam is a graduate of GWU’s political communication program -- where he’s recently taught a course on Internet & Politics -- and received his law degree from the University of Virginia.

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