History Main / VoiceOfTheResistance

* The resistance got one up and running in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode One'', but only after they commandeered the defeated Combine's propaganda system.

* The IRIS Network newsletter/news program in ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil''.
* The Voice of Free Mars and the Dystopian Sno-Men serve this purpose in ''{{VideoGame/Starsiege}}''.
* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'', the hero's designated bodyguard took over the [[CorruptChurch Mesian]] TV broadcasts to reveal the truth about some of the horrific things they had done. Naturally the Mesians tried to shut him up.

* Professor K at Jet Set Radio in ''[[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Jet Grind Radio]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Jet Set Radio Future]]''.
* ''VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation'''s Emmerian Independence Radio. At one point, Ghost Eye admonishes you for listening to it during a battle.
** Similar broadcasts are referred to in ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'', but the enemy eventually jams them or something.

* [[MeaningfulName Michael Liberty]] in the ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' ExpandedUniverse. A news reporter who was embedded with the Confederate Alpha Squadron at first contact with the zerg and protoss, he then jumped ship with Jim Raynor to join Arcturus Mengsk in his war against the Confederacy. After Mengsk unleashed the zerg against Tarsonis, Liberty started broadcasting anti-Mengsk stories from the underground.
* Susan Bradley is the spiritual (and military) leader of the Bora in ''VideoGame/TachyonTheFringe''. Some of the Bora mission briefings include her calling out to any willing pilot to aid the Bora in their fight against the MegaCorp [=GalSpan=]. She also commands an elite squadron of {{Space Fighter}}s known as "Susan's Lance" and has scored numerous victories against [=GalSpan=] holdings.

* The Voice of Freedom network fulfills this function in ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}''.

Not to be confused with the VoiceOfTheLegion (although he may well be the one these guys are rebelling against.)

Attention tropers! Calling all willing and able-bodied [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority rebels and sympathizers]] everywhere! TheEmpire has swept upon us in a flash, supplanting our administrators, monitoring our discussions, and flooding our on-site ads with propaganda! [=YKTTW=] is no longer safe! All formerly reliable channels have been domineered! TheQuisling controls [[PropagandaMachine all stations, papers, and broadcasts]]!

* Al-Manar, multimedia organization run by Hezbollah of Lebanon. YMMV, [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement of course]].
* Wikileaks/Julian Assange and Anonymous could be considered this, but YMMV. ''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Consi]][[BrokenBase derably]]''.

-> ''"Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on the radio from London."''

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* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' features this prominently, since it chronicles a rebellion against a dystopian near-future United States. During the Civil War, the regime and its corrupt backers control the mainstream media, but the heroes are able to get their side of the story out through the Internet and (sometimes) [[ReverseMole undercover sympathizers]] inside the PropagandaMachine who slip news past the censors.

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** Former Imperial Senator Gall Trayvis serves as this in Season 1, hacking into the Empire's [[PropagandaMachine HoloNet News]] to deliver "news the Empire doesn't want you to hear". [[spoiler: Subverted in that he's actually working for the StateSec by identifying and monitoring rebel cells, leading the more troublesome ones into "accidents".]]

-->'''Ezra:''' We have been called criminals, but we are not. We are rebels, fighting for the people. Fighting for you . . . Stand up together, because that's when we're strongest: as one!

** It wasn't just Britain - several north European countries had were targeted by pirate radio ships, as were Israel and even New Zealand. A couple of attempts were made off the USA, both rapidly silenced. Offshore piracy wasn't just in the 60s either - it began with Denmark's Radio Mercur in 1958, and didn't end until Radio Caroline made its last pirate broadcast in 1990 before going legit. Offshore broadcasting is now illegal just about everywhere, and countries have brought in even stiffer penalties for anyone who tries it. There are still one or two stations, however, that broadcast from ships ''legally'' in an attempt to recapture the spirit of the pirates.

* Creator/TheBBC served this purpose for occupied Europe during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, even to the extent that it was used to give secret messages to the French Resistance--which is the TropeNamer.

* In ''FanFic/TheManWithNoName'', the BigBad tries to enlist Mal to be this for his resistance since he's a war hero and can rally the masses. [[spoiler:Judging by the coffee he threw in the faces of his reciters (not to mention all of the absolute CRAP the villain had put the crew through thus far), Mal said no]].

* [[MeaningfulName Michael Liberty]] in the ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' ExpandedUniverse.

* Susan Bradley is the spiritual (and military) leader of the Bora in ''TachyonTheFringe''. Some of the Bora mission briefings include her calling out to any willing pilot to aid the Bora in their fight against the MegaCorp [=GalSpan=]. She also commands an elite squadron of {{Space Fighter}}s known as "Susan's Lance" and has scored numerous victories against [=GalSpan=] holdings.

* The Voice of Freedom network fulfills this function in ''{{Homefront}}''.

* The resistance got one up and running in ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}: Episode One'', but only after they commandeered the defeated Combine's propaganda system.

-->-- '''General Charles de Gaulle''', ''Appeal the 18 June''

* Some [=DJs=] on British [[BuccaneerBroadcaster pirate radio stations]] liked to think of themselves as this, on account of Creator/TheBBC having a monopoly on broadcast media until the 1960s. Given that the BBC's gravest abuse of said monopoly was having very little quality music programming aimed at the 18-34 demographic, this was not terribly convincing... until the government of the day started [[DisproportionateRetribution sending boatloads of heavies to smash up their equipment]] [[note]]actually that only happened once, as late as 1989[[/note]] while serving cease-and-desist notices on radio-ships and WWII anti-aircraft forts broadcasting from outside British territorial waters, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem which they may or may not have been legally entitled to do.]] Eventually the BBC relented and started Radio 1 specifically for rock and pop music, hiring a bunch of ex-pirate [=DJs=] in the process, and legalised commercial radio followed soon after.

* The Voice of America radio broadcasts served this purpose during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. RIAS also served this purpose for the East German territory in the immediate vicinity of [[UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} West Berlin]].

* [[MeaningfulName Michael Liberty]] in the ''{{Starcraft}}'' ExpandedUniverse.

* In ''FanFic/FalloutEquestria'', DJ Pon-3 acts as this as a reference to Three-Dog in Fallout 3.
* ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfFriendship'': In Book I, after [[BigBad NightMare Moon]] succeeds in taking over Equestria, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia set up a radio network operating out of a series of safehouses, delivering news to the masses and acting to keep public morale up.

* John Connor in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation''. His broadcasts contain his message of hope, along with useful advice about fighting the machines. He is doing that against his superiors' wishes, though.
* "Radio Free America" in ''Film/RedDawn1984''.
* ''Film/IAmLegend'' had the protagonist making regular daily broadcasts to anyone else who might have escaped the zombie plague.
* Katniss ends up as this in ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1''. As the Mockingjay, she's called on to unite the districts and star in propaganda pieces for the cause.

* In the ''{{Literature/Newsflesh}}'' trilogy this is what the main characters do as bloggers fighting an oppressive government conspiracy. The books' slogan is "Rise up while you can" for a reason.

* In Heinlein's ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'', the lunar newspaper regularly printed columns by Adam Selene and "Simon Jester." This was easy to manage because the newspaper was printed by a computer--[[InstantAIJustAddWater who]] was secretly a member of LaResistance.

* Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'' has the city being run by an oppressive government, but there's an underground newspaper named "Runagate Rampant." Of course, this being a CrapsackWorld, things don't work out so well for them.
** The sequel IronCouncil establishes that ''Runagate Rampant'' was as revived in the twenty years between the stories. [[WeAREStrugglingTogether Along with a small crowd of rivals.]] In an odd twist the newspapers also act sort of like political parties, who do all work together in [[LaResistance The Caucus]], a group united by their communist sedition against the government.
* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', the resistance radio 'Radio Free Earth' was actually an international effort to broadcast information to survivors around the world. It's "resistance" because zombies cover most of the planet. The transmissions were broadcast from a ship at sea, with a full crew of operators in relative safety. The translators and broadcast operators have hectic, but important jobs, sending the information to as many regions in as many languages as possible. The operators in reception get to spend every possible moment gathering information by listening in to government and civilian transmissions from around the world as the zombies take over. By the time the book takes place, [[spoiler:''every one of the operators has already killed themselves''.]]
* In Creator/LloydAlexander's ''Literature/{{Westmark}}'' trilogy, Keller publishes one of the few newspapers that dares to criticize [[EvilChancellor Cabbarus]].

* In the Dread Empire's Fall books, the Resistance publishes a newspaper through the enemy-controlled computer systems.
* Dr. Tsion Ben-Judah in the main ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book series was this for the Tribulation Force, so much that those who became true believers in Christ during the Tribulation were pejoratively called "Judah-ites". Buck Williams follows close behind with his online publication ''The Truth'', which disseminates the information that [[PropagandaMachine the Global Community-controlled press]] doesn't want the general public to know about Nicolae Carpathia.
** The Other Light during Christ's Millennial Reign in ''Kingdom Come'' relies mostly on their manifesto which claims that GodIsEvil because He ruined [[SatanIsGood the name and reputation of Lucifer]], plus He won't allow "naturals" to [[DeathsHourglass live past 100 years of age]] as unbelievers. The interesting part is that God purposely allowed the Other Light to have their say regardless of how wrong they are to contest God's Word, if only because He knew that in the end [[YouCantFightFate their plans were going to fail]].
* Sanjay's Theocracy Watch became this for the coming theocratic American government in ''Literature/ChristianNation''.
* In Richard Powell's ''Don Quixote, U.S.A.'' the rebel forces in San Marcos, Los Descalzos, transmit weekly "fireside chats" by leader El Gavilan and his second-in-command Eduardo over a pirate radio station.

-->'''Eyes Only catchphrase''': ''DoNotAdjustYourSet. This is a streaming freedom video bulletin. The cable hack will last exactly sixty seconds. It cannot be traced, it cannot be stopped, and it is the only free voice left in the city.''

* ''Series/RadioFreeRoscoe'' takes the idea and drops it into a HighSchool setting, with a group of students running a pirate radio station to speak out against the oppressive administration.
* In ''Series/AlloAllo'', Michelle of the Resistance gets the plan to broadcast from a secret radio transmitter hidden in a hearse. Unfortunately, the batteries they stole didn't allow them to transmit very far which was probably a good thing for Rene who had to drive the hearse under the nose of the Germans.
* One episode of ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' featured a masked man who acted as the Voice of the Libyan Resistance via webcasts. [[spoiler: He ends up murdered by the Libyan government, who then has another person don the mask and use the broadcasts to try to lure all the resistance groups to a summit where they can be ambushed.]]
* [[IntrepidReporter Jim]] [[RebelLeader Kyle]] of BBC's dystopian "1990" wrote as blatant truths as he could about the evil government and the [[BigBrotherIsWatching Public]] [[FascistButInefficient Control]] [[PropagandaMachine Department]] through the paper he officially worked for during the first season, then during the second season (after various bureaucratic roadblocks stopped him from writing anything of any truth officially) writes for underground resistance papers and news articles he got smuggled to other countries to arouse international sympathy.
* Skye functions as this in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' when she's first introduced, but is quickly drafted as part of the team.

* On ''Series/{{Colony}}'', the man known only as "Geronimo" makes pirate radio broadcasts to the people of [[PuppetState occupied Los Angeles]], telling them to rise up against [[LesCollaborateurs the CTA]] and the [[AlienInvasion "Hosts"]].

* Cecil finds himself in the role in Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale during episode 46. He also more passive-aggressively disagrees with [[spoiler: Strex Corp]] in the preceding episodes, but it's during "Parade Day" that he serves in this role most obviously; there are morse code messages hidden underneath regular broadcasts, and near the end he urges everyone to go and fight.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''
** Former Imperial Senator Gall Trayvis serves as this in ''Rebels'', hacking into the Empire's [[PropagandaMachine Holonet News]] to deliver "news the Empire doesn't want you to hear". [[spoiler: Subverted in that he's actually working for the StateSec by identifying and monitoring rebel cells, leading the more troublesome ones into "accidents".]]

-->'''Ezra''': We have been called criminals, but we are not. We are rebels, fighting for the people. Fighting for you... ...Stand up together, because that's when we're strongest: as one!

* ''MechWarrior 4: Vengance'' has broadcasts by a person literally going by the handle "The Voice of the Resistance," which play in between missions and inform the populace about what has transpired, attempting to keep up morale in the face of Steiner oppression.

** Former Imperial Senator Gall Trayvis serves as this in StarWarsRebels, hacking into the Empire's [[PropagandaMachine Holonet News]] to deliver "news the Empire doesn't want you to hear". [[spoiler: Subverted in that he's actually working for the StateSec by identifying and monitoring rebel cells, leading the more troublesome ones into "accidents".]]

* In the early chapters of the Creator/StephenKing novel ''The Stand'', information about the spread of the virus is being controlled by the military. Several non-official information sources spring up, including a lawyer who prints and hand delivers a newspaper, a television news crew that takes back control of the broadcast in a coup, and a talk radio host who encourages callers to talk about the virus. All are violently silenced. In the later chapters, the 'good' survivors use ham radios to broadcast their location and direction of travel, to allow the survivors to converge.

* Dr. Tsion Ben-Judah in the main LeftBehind book series was this for the Tribulation Force, so much that those who became true believers in Christ during the Tribulation were pejoratively called "Judah-ites". Buck Williams follows close behind with his online publication ''The Truth'', which disseminates the information that [[PropagandaMachine the Global Community-controlled press]] doesn't want the general public to know about Nicolae Carpathia.

*** A tradition that was carried into the EurovisionSongContest of all things. The various capital cities don't tend to say it so much these days, but the UK still does.

** A Creator/JMichaelStraczynski-written episode of ''CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' had the Voice of the East Coast Resistance, a woman called Freedom One. [[spoiler:She turned out to be [[LesCollaborateurs working for the machines]], and another member of the human resistance took up the banner as Freedom Two.]]

** A purportedly secret radio station which nonetheless has a call-in number. More than enough for the FCC to come down on them like a hammer, except [=RFR=] takes place in Canada. So maybe as long as they keep their [=CanCon=] quotas, the CRTC won't care.

* As of 21st century, social networking sites seems to have taken this role. Website/{{Facebook}} and Website/{{Twitter}} are instrumental for Arab Spring. And the Indignados. And the Occupy movement. It's [[AttackItsWeakPoint Super]] [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Effective]], largely because of the relative ease of communication provided by the Internet. Though that said, it's very easy to exaggerate its impact as governments all over the world ''have'' caught on.

* Radio Free Europe, which was founded in 1949 by the National Committee for a Free Europe.