How To Resist

Terence Hannum is a visual artist, musician, novelist, and arts educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. Terence is best known for his work with the avant-metal band Locrian, but his latest release, from his project Axebreaker, is a power electronic assault on the Trump administration.

Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi-American activist and serves as the Government relations manager for the American Friends Service Committee. Trained as an architect, Raed was displaced during the 2003 American-led Iraq war and rose to prominance as his experience was documented on the blog Where is Raed? A subject matter expert in US relations with the Arab world, Raed has testified before congress many times and often appears as a guest on US and international news outlets.

Ivonne Wallace Fuentes founded an Indivisible group in Roanoke, Virginia, and she and thousands of activist across the country have become empowered using the Indivisible Guide. We spoke about how she got involved after the election of Donald Trump and how she's using this great toolkit to resist Trump.

We spoke with Emmelia Talarico about how we can put marginalized voices up front in our activism. Emmelia is an organizer with DisruptJ20 and other organizations in the Maryland and DC area. Emmelia started her organizing as a workplace advocate and quickly moved up to being a labor organizer for Change to Win, organizing federally contracted fast food worker to go on strike for $15 and a union. She is currently the field organizer for Global Trade Watch, winning on campaigns such as the Stop The TPP fight.

Linsay Deming helped organize the What A Joke! comedy festival to raise money for the ACLU. She spoke with us about how she's bringing resisting the Trump administration from her community of comics and other funny people.