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March 28, 2025 at 12 PM - 1 PM ET
Title: Resistance and Persistence: Our Stories, Our Voices, Our History
Season 5 | Episode 13 (Show 205). Song: Sleeves Up by Crys Matthews
We are excited for the Friday Power Lunch this week! Telling our story is important, and documenting our history is critical to owning the narrative and ensuring that our stories do not go untold. The phrase "the one who controls the past controls the future" is often attributed to George Orwell's 1984, in which the ruling party alters past records to suit their needs and maintains their power to shape the present and future to their advantage.
This week in the news, we are witnessing in real-time how a fascist regime works overtime in a concerted, collaborative effort to undermine what happened in the latest breaking news story by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg that he was added to a Signal group chat among top Trump officials discussing a U.S. military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, new book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, outlines how authoritarian regimes attack democracy by controlling what people can learn and read. The Trump Regime using Fox News and other media outlets to reshape the story to fit their narrative. We must work overtime to make sure the truth is told and documented otherwise, we are not free, and democracy is lost.
This Friday, our guests will explore storytelling as a way to claim our power using music, a new oral history project, and writing.
This Friday, we are super excited to present a fabulous show designed by Robbin Warner! Robbin has been working on a new project documenting women in the grassroots movement since 2017. We open the show with Crys Matthews's new song Sleeves Up with a video created by award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Jacobs (CJ) Crim. CJ has been creating award-winning documentaries and television specials for 30 years. You may know CJ's because of her 2020 feature film, RESISTERHOOD, a documentary about the power of women, hope, and resistance -- and she has been on the show and at the Women's Summit.
Get ready to roll your sleeves up and dance!
We will open with our favorite troubadour Crys Matthews who will talk about the importance of music in these troubled times. How protest songs have always been a part of resistance.
Author and Journalist Clara Bingham will tell us about her new book, The Movement. Clara’s book represents the first oral history of this critical decade in women’s history.
History is not only what happened long ago. History-making happens every day. The Persisterhood Oral History Project will collect, preserve, and share the stories of powerful women who have stepped into the political arena. Their mission is to document the diverse experiences of women who have become politically active in response to pivotal events like the 2016 & 2025 Presidential Elections, the Women’s March, the stripping of women’s rights, and the attack on Democracy and freedom. Through these narratives, they highlight the significant impact of women in shaping the political landscape.
We are excited to have the Persisterhood Oral History Project team with us to brief us on what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and how we can be a part of it.
GUESTS
Crys Mathews - American Singer-Songwriter
Clara Bingham - Journalist & Best Selling Author
Persisterhood Project Team (order of appearance)
Susan Wagner – Persisterhood Project
Bonnie Stabile – Founder and Director, Gender and Policy (GAP) Center, George Mason University
Amanda Menjivar – Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, George Mason University
Robbin Warner – Persisterhood Project
Martha Merson – Persisterhood Project
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BIG MIC - Katherine White
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