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60: Susie Tanner: When Steelworkers Became Activist Artists— And What It Taught Us About Dignity, Loss, and Change – Part 2
JUSTICE ARTS Episode 60 • 23rd November 2022 • ART IS CHANGE: Strategies & Skills for Activist Artists & Cultural Organizers • Bill Cleveland
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This week follows from Episode 59 in which Susie Tanner, Bruce Springsteen, and a band of unemployed steelworkers take a play about the death of a steel mill called lady Beth across America. In this episode, Susie joins up with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists share their stories.

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