Insurgent Imagination explores film and art through a revolutionary lens. Each episode, we dive into works of radical storytelling to explore how these stories inspire movements for collective liberation.

Looking at work from the past, present, and future, we’ll reflect on their meaning with artists, activists, and organizers from around the world. 

Each week we’ll explore something from the archives—a historical work of cinema, music, theater, or visual art—and discuss that project with fellow activists.

We’ll also introduce a new or upcoming project, talking with the creators about their process of creating art with revolutionary themes.

black struggle and liberation

starts from a place of rage (Fuck the Police), travels through protest anthems (Say It Loud [I’m Black and I’m Proud], Stand!), and ends hopeful (OutKast: Liberation, Kendrick: Alright). But of course there are lots of ups-and-downs throughout.

RIYL:

Party for your right to fight vibes

Spirituals—
For the Healing of America 

focuses on classic spiritual jazz, gospel, and heavily gospel-influenced soul/funk. Struggle and healing as continually feeding each other.

RIYL:

Inspirational, soulful, higher vibrations

Africa World Now Project is a classroom on the radio. It provides actionable information that explores continuities and discontinuities in the history, culture, and politics of the entire African world. AWNP does this by engaging in organic discussions with scholars, artists, journalist, activist, social justice engineers and others who examine, from a decidedly progressive perspective, various issues that exist in the entire African world.

The Arts of Travel the founder of Asia Art Tours, Matthew Dagher-Margosian interviews the world's most unique people for conversations on art, travel, politics and creativity.

Bioneers Revolution from the Heart of Nature is an award-winning annual 13-part radio and audio series featuring breakthrough solutions for people and planet. The greatest social and scientific innovators of our time celebrate the genius of nature and human ingenuity. The kaleidoscopic scope covers biomimicry, ecological design, social and racial justice, women’s leadership, ecological medicine, indigenous knowledge, spirituality and psychology. It’s leading-edge, hopeful, charismatic, provocative, timely and timeless—like nothing you’ve heard before.

Black Agenda Radio hosts Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey, veterans of the Freedom Movement’s many permutations and skilled communicators, host a weekly magazine designed to both inform and critique the global movement.

Brave New Words, aka Words to Win By takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narrative shifts that led to real-world victories. From electing the dynamic Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister of New Zealand, to repealing a national ban on abortion in Ireland, to beating back right-wing race baiting in Minnesota, Anat and her guests explore what made it possible to engage the base, persuade the middle, send the naysayers packing, and win!

By Any Means Necessary on Radio Sputnik is hosted by Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman and aims to connect the political, social and economic movements shaping the world around us. With a sensibility informed by movements from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter with a dash of Occupy, the show elevates the people and narratives that (while often ignored) are driving some of the most important changes in the world.

Clearing The Fog speaking truth to expose the forces of greed on WE ACT Radio, 1480 AM, out of Anacostia, Washington, D.C. The ruling FOG (Forces of Greed) spin news stories in their favor and keep the masses distracted with celebrity gossip and reality shows. Each week we feature guests who are working to expose the truth and offer real solutions to the current crises faced by our nation and the world. Knowledge is power, and with this knowledge you will be empowered to act to shift power to the people and weaken the corporate stranglehold on our lives. Together, we will clear the FOG and bring a new day of peace, justice and sustainability. WE ACT Radio: Do something!

Ferguson Response Network this weekly podcast is devoted to supporting citizens working to create lasting social change through sustained civil disobedience and civic action.

For the Wild is an Anthology of the Anthropocene; Focused on land based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift from human supremacy towards deep ecology.

Ghost of a Podcast with your host Jessica Lanyadoo. Lanyadoo is an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator with more than 20 years experience. She offers guidance week after week that is practical, mystical, and that helps you help yourself. Lanyadoo answers a listener’s question (maybe yours!) in the first half of each episode. In the second half, it’s the horoscope corner, including best practices for your week ahead. Lanyadoo delivers tools for living your very best life, one step at a time.

Groundings the #GroundingsPodcast is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. The title Groundings is in honor of the revolutionary educator Walter Rodney, whose concept of “groundings” as a form of radical, political, dialogic, and communal education continues to inspire today. Groundings: we sit, we listen, we talk, we share, and we learn. The podcast is hosted by Devyn Springer with production help from Christopher Hollis.

Grassroots is a podcast about hope for a weary land. It’s a place where leading voices on faith and the environment join voices from marginalized communities. Because whether you’re in the Amazon or the Arctic Circle, Africa or Arkansas, or our very own backyard, you’re living on the frontlines of this issue. How do we love ALL of creation?

Fortification Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership is a podcast featuring Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President, Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary interviewing movement leaders, organizers and activists. Fortification is a joint project of Auburn Seminary and Side with Love, a campaign of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Hope Dies Last brings together radical artists, organizers, journalists and political thinkers for unique conversations about the present, the past and the future.

How to Survive The End of The World join Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown, two sisters who share many identities, as writers, activists, facilitators, and inheritors of multiracial diasporic lineages, as well as a particular interest in the question of survival, as we embark on a podcast that delves into the practices we need as a community, to move through endings and to come out whole on the other side, whatever that might be.

The Lit Review a podcast series where we will interview organizers and community members about books. On each episode, we’ll lead an informal conversation with our guests about a key book that has helped them develop their analysis and theory of change. We recognize that political study is not accessible to many for a variety of reasons: financial, academic jargon, low literacy rates, time barriers, etc. We'll summarize, talk through key concepts and vocab, and nerd out on the main ideas and questions raised in the book. Our goal is to be a resource that brings key information out of these books to the masses during this moment of urgency. Each episode will be about an hour long or less.

Loud and Clear the latest news, commentary and political analysis on all the most recent events from around the globe with Brian Becker, podcasts 5 days a week

Making Contact media that helps build a movement: Making Contact is an award-winning, 29-minute weekly magazine / documentary-style public affairs program heard on 140 radio stations.

Movement Memos an ongoing call to action for movement work and mutual aid efforts around the country. Kelly Hayes connects with activists, journalists and others on the front lines to break down what’s happening in various struggles and what listeners can do to help

Next Economy Now highlights the leaders that are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, democratic, transparent, and whole-systems approach to using business as a force for good.

The Praxis Hosted by Edwin Lindo, JD. University of Washington School of Medicine Lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine and UW Center for Leadership and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME) Associate Director, Critical Teaching and Equity. This podcast aims to directly address and explore the effects of racism, and other forms of marginalization so that we can collectively achieve health justice. We will journey through history theory, science & medicine, by embracing storytelling, interviews and community expertise.

Radio Ambulante is a pioneering podcast in Spanish that tells Latin American chronicles on audio, celebrating the diversity and complexity of the region. Radio Ambulante is an award-winning Spanish language podcast that uses long-form audio journalism to tell neglected and under-reported Latin American and Latino stories.

The Ralph Nadar Radio Hour a weekly talk show broadcast on the Pacifica Radio Network. Ralph Nader is joined by co-hosts Steve Skrovan and David Feldman for a lively informative hour of interviews with some of the nation’s most influential movers and shakers, and thought provoking discussions of the weeks news. 

Revolutions a weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions.

Socialist Revolution the latest in Marxist theory and analysis, brought to you by Socialist Revolution, the U.S. section of the International Marxist Tendency. In the midst of capitalism’s global meltdown, we provide class-struggle perspectives and revolutionary strategy for achieving socialism in our lifetime. 

Stories from Home Living the Just Transition the podcast series will air monthly and spans across landscapes and languages to provide the listener with experiences from the often overlooked but extremely valuable climate justice work of everyday people, as they decolonize through cooking, paint future visions on the page, build family, take back food systems and more. Over the next few months, we’ll be airing Stories from Home to provide a behind the scenes look at Story Snapshots from the Indigenous Environmental Network (global), Micronesia Climate Change Alliance (Guam), Southwest Organizing Project (Albuquerque, NM), and GreenRoots (Boston, MA). The full episode schedule is below.

Sun Storm an audio salon hosted by two of America’s leading activists, Alicia Garza and Ai-jen Poo, where they talk to their friends and sheroes about how women stay powerful and joyful amidst the chaos of life in America today.

Unnatural Causes a series about health, but it’s not about doctors or drugs. Instead, the film crisscrosses the country to find stories and evidence of the underlying social conditions that shape who gets sick in the first place. Produced by California Newsreel with Vital Pictures, this 4-hour documentary series, broadcast nationally on PBS, explores what we can—and should—do about racial and socioeconomic inequities in health.

The Vast Majority  the socialist movement is rising in America. Jacobin Magazine managing editor Micah Uetricht chats with leftist writers and organizers about the issues and campaigns at the heart of today’s left-wing upsurge.

Voices for Vision brings you news and analysis about cutting edge social justice issues by mixing various voices and ideas with information, cultural expressions, and commentary. Voices With Vision airs every Tuesday from 9 to 10 AM on your D.C. Jazz and Justice station, WPFW.

Worst Year Ever 2020 isn’t going to be fun for anybody, Left, Right, or Center. What many call the Most Important Election of Our Lifetime is going to be exhausting, ugly, angry, and probably at least a little racist. Listen as Robert Evans, Katy Stoll, and Cody Johnston try to keep level heads covering the election while traveling the country, from the Iowa Caucus to gun shows and anti-vaccine conventions, finding out what Real America really wants and thinks during the, “Worst Year Ever.”

Mothers of Invention climate change is a man-made problem with a feminist solution! Join former Irish President Mary Robinson and comedian Maeve Higgins in this uplifting and fascinating new podcast, and meet a host of game-changing women fighting to save all our lives.

Interference Archive Interference Archive Interference Archive is a social space, exhibition venue, and open stacks archive of movement culture, based in Brooklyn. Audio Interference is a podcast dedicated to the activists, artists, and organizers whose histories make up the archive.

The Prison Show is a unique radio chat fest discussing the Texas criminal justice system, that has aired on Houston’s Pacifica radio station KPFT 90.1 FM weekly since March 1980. Join us as we talk about Cops, Courts, Jails, Prisons, Probation, Parole, and just Life in general! The program airs Friday night at 9:00 PM Central Time

WE ACT Radio is a media corporation that combines broadcast and new media to deliver our shows in the formats people use most. You can follow shows by streaming them at WeActRadio.com, listening on AM and FM radio stations around the country, downloading them via podcast or on iTunes, or subscribing to the WE ACT YouTube channel. WE ACT broadcasts from the heart of historic Anacostia in Washington, DC.

Transceiver Radio grounds its ethos in community radio’s legacy as a public platform full of radical potential. A collaboratively produced experiment in radio as cultural commons, Transceiver Radio began in 2019 as a curatorial platform and a month-long exhibition at Transformer in Washington, DC, created by Current Movements Design Director Joshua Gamma. New content soon! Stay Tuned!