Thompson, watch your grammar - don't you mean "Cumann na mBan"?

Joan Baez is doing something rather different now, a singing-dancing role in a production at a circus in Oakland California. It appears different from the traditional circus I'm familiar with.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/joan-baez-soiled-dove-21033457.php

re protests, in the interview she says "all the risks are getting so dire that I wouldn't ask a kid to take part in a demonstration right now."

also:
Q: In the kinds of projects that you've been saying yes to these days — like being on John Mulaney's show, your poetry collection and now “The Soiled Dove” — do you see a pattern?

A: Everything is shifted now with the change in politics. They're so, so dire that it affects everything that everybody says and does — if they're aware.

This circus is irreverent, and it’s gaudy. It's about laughter and joy, which are really not part of the program of our dear leaders. Mark Twain said that “The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”