Week 44: Resistance Mixtape

In which the podcaster reanimates dialog, disobeys much, and proffers ingredients for an albatross stew. 

LINKS & INFO

Network, dir. Sidney Lumet (1976).  
Speech 1
Peter Finch as Howard Beale  
Speech 2
Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen

Joy Harjo, “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” from She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983 

Victor Hernandez Cruz, “tu no eres” recorded by Christopher Funkhouser at Naropa Institute, 1991.  Rough translation in the episode transcript. 

Barbie, dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)
America Ferrera as Gloria (main speech) 
Voices in response:
Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie  
Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie 
Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie  
Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria's daughter  

Hidden Figures, dir. Theodore Melfi (2016)
Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson (speech) 
Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group 

Stonewall Forever, dir. Ro Haber, is a documentary from NYC’s LGBT Community Center. You can watch it in its entirety at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync, and PLEASE DO. The voices that you hear in the excerpts are, in this order, Chella Man, Jay Toole, Martin Boyce, Agosto Machado, Wallace Sanders, Judy Bowen, Sylvia Rivera, Karla Jay, Bianey Garcia, and Zackary Drucker.

Janice Mirikitani, excerpt from the film Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act?, dir. Russell Leong (1990)   

Jane Fonda, excerpt from her acceptance speech for a SAG Life Achievement Award, Feb 23, 2025. 

Tongo Eisen-Martin, “The Course of Meal”, recorded for the Create Justice project in 2017.  

Monolog from Episode 1 of The Newsroom, dir. Greg Mottola and written by Aaron Sorkin
Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy (main speech) 
Other voices (in order):
David Cromer as Debate Moderator 
Riley Voelkel as Jennifer Johnson 
Elizabeth Marvel as Sharon  
Jason Butler Harner as Lewis 

Senator Cory Booker on the Senate floor, 2:45 pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 1, 2025, 19 hours 45 minutes into a filibuster that went on until 8:05 pm, breaking the record at 25 hours 5 minutes. .  

The Great Dictator, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin (1940).

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