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. While President Obama has not kept his more progressive campaign promises around the environment and social programs, 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 continue the 8th year of our country’s illegal war on Iraq and the 10th year of escalating war on Afghanistan – that those of us seeking global justice and peace renew our participation in civic dialogue and commitment to social action in whatever way possible. And we are! Around the country and around the globe, people are shaking themselves out of fear, paralysis and inactivity – taking their desire for change to public squares and city streets, often risking their lives in their refusal to stay silent and still. From the populist eruption of the Arab Spring to the celebratory insurrection of Occupy Wall Street, people everywhere are in-motion, challenging the idea that nothing can be done.