It provides for the organisation of jointactivitiesto strengthenperformers' networks and improvetheireconomicandlegalstatus, as well as forraisingawarenessoftheneed tosupportperformers.
In particular, growing controversies over proposed mosques at Ground Zero and other sites are becoming powerful "teaching moments" - raisingawareness about the repressive theo-political-military-legal doctrine that animates the builders and that their fellow adherents seek to impose on the entire world.