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The tunnel of oppression
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The third annual Tunnel of Oppression will be held Friday, Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Student Union Hatch Ballroom.
This interactive Boise State University student theater project is designed to make the statement that an injury to one is an injury to all.
Student actors who have trained for weeks will represent several aspects of contemporary social oppression.
Students are being asked to participate by organizing into groups of 25, who will then pass through the tunnel at appointed times.
Project leaders of the “Tunnel” include BSU Cultural Center Coordinator Ro Parker and Tunnel of Oppression Director Steve Wells.
Wells explained that the project, once largely a faculty effort, has become more of a student initiative.
These students have organized five interactive separate theaters.
The “Tunnel” represents many groups, such as the Zapatistas (a group of modern day revolutionaries in southern Mexico), the trauma of immigration raids, the fear of Islam, sexual assault and victim blaming and life in the Palestinian refugee camps.
“The Tunnel of Oppression” is supported by the BSU Martin Luther King Committee, the Women’s Center and the Associated Students of BSU. It is organized by the BSU Cultural Center.
“This student production is another signal to an awakening sense of their place in a global community with a sense of connection with Palestine, Sudan and other examples of oppression, then looking west to the immigration raids, sexual assault and awakening to the realization that oppression anywhere is oppression everywhere,” Wells said.
“When one individual is oppressed, we all are oppressed,” he said.
More than 500 people participated in last year’s “Tunnel” event and expectations are high for this year.
Those interested in the “Tunnel of Opression” may contact Ro Parker at 426-1391 or go to www.culturalcenter.boisestate.edu.
CLAUDIO BEAGARIE
News Writer
