Air Date 9/1/2025

The way people consume almost every variety of media, entertainment, and art is different now than it was only 10-15 years ago. That means that the way protest music, revolutionary art, and even mass market productions and performances are going to be different, feel different, and likely find you in different ways than in the past. But the drive to create never dies and art will always be part of the resistance to oppression.

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KEY POINTS

(00:49:08) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the strength of diversity that comes through in art

DEEPER DIVES

(00:56:08) SECTION A: CULTURE

A1: The Hero's Journey Isn't What You Think | Joseph Campbell Part 1 of 2 - Maggie Mae Fish - Air Date 7-27-22

A2: The Aesthetics of Fascism - Ben Hoerman - Air Date 5-31-25

A3: Trump Says He’ll Give Himself a Kennedy Center Award, Bans “Wokesters” From Ceremony: A Closer Look - Late Night with Seth Meyers - Air Date 8-24-25

A4: On Kennedy Center Stage, Folk Musicians Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman Protest Trump_s Takeover - Democracy Now! - Air Date 3-18-25

A5: NYC Artist Mocks Trump-era ICE with Migrant Tribute Made From Gold-painted Street Coolers - Al Jazeera English - Air 7-6-25

(01:29:28) SECTION B: ART

B1: How A Painting Started A Revolution - Shawn Grenier | The Canvas - Air Date 10-23-22

B2: ‘Capture the Arts, Capture Culture’: Journalist Compares Trump’s Assault on History to Nazis - The Weekend MSNBC - Air Date 8-17-26

B3: How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult Part 2 - The Elephant Graveyard - Air Date 8-18-25

B4: Revolutionary Art with Tai Lee - Anti Imperialist Action Ireland - Air Date 10-21-21

B5: Marxism and Art - The Revolutionary Communist Podcast - Air Date 7-31-25

B6: Art for the People and the Maoist Communist Union Part 2- Rev Left Radio - Air Date 9-19-24

B7: Carter Ratcliff on Art in the Trump Age - New York Studio School - Air Date 11-14-18

(02:20:20) SECTION C: MUSIC

C1: Newly Released Tapes Reveal Intimate Reflections by Woody Guthrie - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 8-15-25

C2: How Folk Music Defeated the Soviet Union - Polyphonic - Air Date 6-16-22

C3: Kendrick Lamar Sneak Disses America... - Signified B Sides - Air Date 2-11-25

C4: Join Ice - Jesse Welles - Air Date 8-7-25

(02:46:54) SECTION D: ANDOR

D1: Making a Genocide | Andor Season 2 - Shawn Grenier | The Canvas - Air Date 5-18-25

D2: Andor: Luthen Rael’s Monologue - Star Wars - Air Date 12-30-22

D3: Andor's Legacy: The Rebellion Disney Never Wanted - The Writer's Armoury - Air Date 5-20-25

D4: Andor: The Great Dictator Speech - SWFT - Air Date 7-24-25

SHOW IMAGE CREDITS

Description: Photo of street art depicting a stenciled version of Putin and Trump kissing a la the art on the Berlin Wall satirically depicting the “fraternal kiss” between the leaders of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic.

Credit: “Hamburg 2020” by Ittmust | CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Slightly cropped

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