Mouths Wide Open is an ad hoc group that came together in early 2002 to raise our voices and act on our convictions. While many of us are theatre artists, visual artists, musicians, singers, actors and writers, we're also bookkeepers, students, carpenters, researchers, teachers, fact-checkers, scientists, bike messengers and flea market mavens. We're committed to fostering dialogue, creating and disseminating materials that spread the message of alternative thought, and encouraging others to join together in a similar spirit. We recognize the need for community and organization, for resistance and action, and for the pooling of time, energy and resources. There is strength in numbers. 

Our commitment to working for change is ongoing.  No matter how you view the new administration, millions shared the audacious hope of promised change from a Bush-free Washington.  We need to shake ourselves out of that hopeful stupor and get back to work. While President Obama has not kept his more progressive campaign promises, he has definitely done what he said he would do in Afghanistan (send more troops) and Pakistan (increase border actions and drone attacks). It’s even more crucial now – as we enter the 7th year of our country’s illegal war on Iraq and 8th year of escalating war on Afghanistan – that people seeking global justice and peace renew their participation in civic dialogue and commitment to social action in whatever way possible.