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Interchange – We Decline: Inaugurate the Revolution

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As we head into the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, a local group says “NO, in Thunder”: No to the erosion of civil liberties and the end of any semblance of a democratic society. We welcome organizers of Inaugurate the Revolution, a group seeking to transfer power into the hands of the disenfranchised, and to dismantle the systems of oppression that silence and make invisible so many of the country’s citizens. “To reimagine activism is to define revolution as a radical act of love.”

GUESTS
Joe Varga, is an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University. He is a former Teamster shop steward and long time labor activist, having worked for the IBEW and the New York State Working Families Party. He is currently working on a project detailing the spatial history of de-industrialization in Southern Indiana. Joe is also active in Jobs with Justice, and numerous other activist causes.

Alice Corey, is a cellist performing with the group Felfel (the Arabic word for “pepper”), a small ensemble specializing in music of the Middle East

RELATED
Inaugurate the Revolution website
The Black Revolution” Malcolm X (April 1964)
Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” Martin Luther King, Jr. (March 1968)
Trump: A Resister’s Guide” (Harper’s Magazine, February 2017)

AUDIO CLIPS
The Bloodless Revolution” Malcolm X
Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” Martin Luther King, Jr.

MUSIC
“Revolution” by Arrested Development
“Git Up Git Out” (instrumental) Outkast
“Move Somethin'” (Instrumental) Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek
“The Creator Has a Master Plan” Pharoah Sanders

Photo courtesy of the Mathers Museum

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CREDITS
Host: Jennifer Brooks
Producer: Doug Storm
Assistant Producer: Rob Schoon
Board Engineer: Rob Schoon
Executive Producer: Joe Crawford

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