By Brendan McCall. I felt compelled to act, to do something, to speak up"but how? What could I, an expatriate American living in Scandinavia, do to break the zone of silence surrounding Belarus? While I was enjoying certain freedoms as a theater artist in this affluent Nordic country, my friends and colleagues elsewhere in Europe"writers, directors, journalists, and more"were being imprisoned and threatened.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:21PM on August 15, 2014