WIRN webinar - July 10, 8 pm EDT, with Mr. Fish! - micheletkearney@gmail.com - Gmail

WIRN webinar - July 10, 8 pm EDT, with Mr. Fish! - micheletkearney@gmail.com - Gmail Massachusetts Peace Action Warning! Graphic Content! (a WIRN Webinar) Online Event Thursday, July 10, 2025 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET What is the future of political cartooning, protest art, and visual satire? How can pictures rendered in celebration of the precious vulnerability of the human experience make crystal clear the toxic barbarity of the military and retail industrial complexes, both built on the hideous notion that the commodification of people everywhere and the willful disenfranchisement of their natural inclination towards peace, love, and understanding is better for business – better business being predatory capitalism and capitulation to hierarchy? What can be done to assert the importance and indispensability of the artist’s unique role in a free society as both a witness and predictor and, in some circumstances, instigator of all the comedy and tragedy that motivates our politics, shapes our cultural identities, and informs, for better or worse, the internal voice that shames, praises, and confounds our tenuous relationship with truth, beauty, and treachery every moment of everyday?