Audio Interference

In this episode, volunteer Jen Hoyer explains how the archive is using donated materials to create an online presence for noteworthy, but digitally absent groups like Sister Serpents. But generating new materials and new discussions is not without a few risks. Stay tuned to find out more. To learn more about Sister Serpents, check out episode 52! Audio Interference is produced by Interference Archive. Music: "The Crisper" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) "Soundboy" by 4bstr4ck3r "Scenery" by Kai Engel "Elk" by Meydän

In this episode, we speak with Interference Archive volunteer Dane Michael about his favorite zines in the archive’s collection as well as his interest in collecting radical print materials and mutual aid ephemera, which he regularly donates to the archive. In particular, Dane shares experiences traveling to social centers and radical spaces in Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia in Spain. He also talks about the mutual aid work he is a part of in the Bay Area in California. References from this episode of Audio Interference: Doris Zine: www.dorisdorisdoris.com Todo Por Hacer: www.todoporhacer.org Dane is part of a few mutual aid groups in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco, including: East Bay Food Not Bombs: www.eastbayfoodnotbombs.org Omni Commons: www.omnicommons.org Bound Together Bookstore: www.boundtogetherbooks.wordpress.com Prisoners Literature Project: www.prisonlit.org North Oakland Mutual Aid: www.instagram.com/northoakland_mutualaid/?hl=en Thank you to J.Cruz/COVR for creating the music for this episode, which is titled “shake shake shake”. Audio Interference is produced by Interference Archive.

Free City Radio contribution for Audio Interference: Asylum seekers fighting back against workplace exploitation in Montréal  In this segment we hear about the struggles for workplace justice for non-status people and asylum seekers in Montréal. The segment revolves around an ongoing campaign on the part of the Immigrant Workers Centre to support the workers at the warehouse distribution centre for Dollarama, one of the largest dollar shop corporations in North America. Many of the workers at the 24-hour distribution centre for North America, which was declared an essential service by the government in Québec City last spring, are asylum seekers and non-status people.  Mostafa Henaway, an organizer with the Immigrant Workers Centre speaks about the campaign to support Dollarama warehouse workers, giving some context and background. Mohamed Barry, a former asylum seeker from Guinea who recently won status, speaks on experiences working within the Dollarama warehouse distribution centre and details the ways that asylum seekers from West Africa and the Caribbean are being exploited in such workplaces in Québec. Mohamed is one of the founders of the Statut pour les guinéens campaign to demand regularization for all refugees from Guinea and is a former worker at the Dollarama warehouse. View a silk-screen poster worked on by artist Christeen Francis, a member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, that is up here to support the campaign.  Thank you for listening ! –– Stefan Christoff.

In this episode, we speak to Zeelie Brown, a Black, queer artist and cellist based in New York City. She creates “soulscapes”: sites and soundscapes that invoke the temporality, sacredness of connection, and layers of history embedded within feelings of refuge. Zeelie’s sanctuary spaces draw on her personal and ancestral traditions of music, cuisine, scent, ritual, and community. Throughout this episode, you’ll hear music that Zeelie has produced as a part of her practice. This episode stems out of a partnership with Brooklyn Public Library, where we explore how different organizations, groups, and people aim to create space for folks who are often disenfranchised and disempowered by normative systems at work in our world. Stick around at the end of the episode to hear from Tim Barrigan, a literacy advisor in the adult learning center at the Brooklyn Public Library. You can listen to the Brooklyn Public Library's episode here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/education-for-all

Volunteer Coordinator Sophie Glidden-Lyon explains why handbooks are among her favorite items at Interference Archive. Audio Interference is produced by Interference Archive. To learn more visit www.interferencearchive.org Music in this episode: "Arizona Moon," "Palms Down" "Calisson" "The Cornice" & “Dusting,”by Blue Dot Sessions - www.sessions.blue Theme in G” by Poddington Bear

“The city had so many buildings, it had no ability to manage them themselves, no ability to even outsource the management…if you were alive and breathing and raised your hand, you could have a building in the city of New York.” — Charles Laven In New York in the early 1970s, government disinvestment coupled with widespread landlord neglect and abandonment, gave rise to squatting, urban homesteading, and other forms of self-help housing. Residents took control of city-owned land and buildings, and developed or rehabilitated their own housing. The ultimate goal for many of these tenants was to take their buildings out of the speculative housing market and own them collectively and democratically. Today, around 1,300 resident-controlled, low-income housing cooperatives exist in New York City, providing some of the most deeply affordable and stable housing in the city. The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, or UHAB, grew out of the self-help housing movement. UHAB was founded in 1973, and started by working with self-organized groups of tenants to convert homesteading projects into limited-equity cooperatives, affordable in perpetuity and owned by their tenants. In this episode, we are sharing excerpts of an oral history of UHAB, conducted by researcher Conor Snow in 2020 and featuring interviews with Charles Laven, Fernando Alarcon, Ayo Harrington, and Ann Henderson. Thank you to UHAB, and to Charles, Ayo, Ann, Fernando and Conor for granting us permission to share this audio with you. For more information about UHAB: https://uhab.org/ For more information about Interference Archive’s exhibition in collaboration with UHAB, “Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing”: https://interferencearchive.org/building-for-us-stories-of-homesteading-and-cooperative-housing/ For previous Audio Interference episodes on similar topics, check out: Episode 74, “We the People Won’t Go” (https://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-74-we-the-people-wont-go/) Episode 47 “Lower East Side Community Gardens” (https://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-47-lower-east-side-community-gardens/) Episode 31 “Squatting on the Lower East Side” (https://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-31-squatting-on-the-lower-east-side/) Episode 23 “Brooklyn Housing Struggle” (https://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-23-brooklyn-housing-struggle/). Music: “Bathed in Fine Dust” by Andy G. Cohen and “Tribal” by David Szesztay, both from the Free Music Archive. Produced by Interference Archive.

Letters from Comrades on the Inside: In this episode, we hear "A Quarter of a Century," a song by Ivie, a comrade on the inside whose story is uplifted by Survived and Punished. It references her campaign to free herself from a 25 to life sentence and was recorded over the phone from Bedford Hills prison, a maximum security correctional facility in Bedford Hills, NY. In the middle of the song, you'll hear an accompanying rap by another comrade, Sassi, who is also incarcerated at Bedford Hills. This episode of Audio Interference is part of a series in collaboration with Survived & Punished NY, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. Visit audiointerference.org to listen to more letters from Survived & Punished's comrades on the inside, as well as a longer interview with two Survived & Punished members. Visit www.survivedandpunishedny.org to read Survived & Punished NY’s newsletters and explore their work. A huge thank you to Ivie and Sassi for sharing their song. We'd also like to thank Lae Sway, Yves Tong Nguyen, Heena, Zoe Vongtau, Red Schulte, Mariah Hill, and Martina Ilunga, along with everyone else at Survived & Punished, for working with us on this episode. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished’s newsletter, Free : Survivors: https://www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/ Music from this episode (in order of appearance): “Divide” by Six Time Users, from the album, Live at WFMU for Janky Ray’s Radio Riot 6/16/18

Letters from Comrades on the Inside: In this episode, we hear from Alisha Walker, a comrade on the inside whose story is uplifted by Survived and Punished. She shares her experiences as an incarcerated person and her thoughts on justice and access to information. This episode of Audio Interference is part of a series in collaboration with Survived & Punished NY, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. Visit audiointerference.org to listen to more letters from Survived & Punished's comrades on the inside, as well as a longer interview with two Survived & Punished members. Visit www.survivedandpunishedny.org to read Survived & Punished NY’s newsletters and explore their work. A huge thank you to Alisha Walker for sharing her story. We'd also like to thank Lae Sway, Yves Tong Nguyen, Heena, Zoe Vongtau, Red Schulte, Mariah Hill, and Martina Ilunga, along with everyone else at Survived & Punished, for working with us on this episode. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished’s newsletter, Free : Survivors: https://www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/ Music from this episode (in order of appearance): “Divide” by Six Time Users, from the album, Live at WFMU for Janky Ray’s Radio Riot 6/16/18

Hello, comrades, In this episode of Audio Interference, we’re sharing reflections from Jessica Paradiso, a survivor on the inside. The episode stems from a collaboration with Survived and Punished New York, a grassroots, abolitionist group that works to eradicate the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. Prison walls create barriers to communication. Through our collaboration, we’re bridging this information gap by sharing the experiences of folks on the inside with those on the outside, as well as archiving Survived & Punished’s organizing strategies to free all who are incarcerated. Together, we came up with questions that Survived & Punished sent to their comrades. This episode is a response from Jessica Paradiso, written in May 2020, read by Survived and Punished volunteer, Yves Tong Nguyen. A huge thank you to Jessica Paradiso for sharing her story with us. We’d also like to thank Lae Sway, Yves Tong Nguyen, Heena, Zoe Vongtau, Red Schulte, Martina Abrahams Ilunga, and Mariah Hill, along with everyone else at Survived & Punished, for working with us on this episode. To learn more about Survived and Punished, visit their website, survivedandpunishedny.org. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to listen to the other responses from folks inside that are part of this series. We also published an in-depth interview with folks from Survived & Punished about their work. To listen, find us on itunes, stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts: www.audiointerference.org In solidarity, Audio Interference Produced by Interference Archive.

This episode of Audio Interference is about Survived and Punished, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. We’re speaking with two members of the New York chapter of the group, Will Willis and Maureen Silverman. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit https://survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished’s newsletter, Free : Survivors: www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/newsletter-store To learn more about Mia Mingus’ work and writings on transformative justice: www.leavingevidence.wordpress.com Tits and Sass blog, which Will quotes from in this episode: www.titsandsass.com Memorial for Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay, who Will remembers in this episode: www.mourningourlosses.org/memorials/darlene-lulu-benson-seay?fbclid=IwAR2wA8dCuIi_p_AmyYkg5Sv_4iLTTg-uAL7L4EPYGuRoWkJMv4r-6saIQrA This episode is part of a series of episodes about Survived and Punished’s work. Visit audiointerference.org to listen to letters from their comrades on the inside. Visit www.survivedandpunishedny.org to read Survived & Punished NY’s newsletters and explore their work. A huge thank you to Ivie, Sassii, Maureen Silverman, and Will Willis for contributing to this episode. And a huge thank you to all other Survived and Punished volunteers. Music from this episode (in order of appearance): “Divide” by Six Time Users, from the album, Live at WFMU for Janky Ray’s Radio Riot 6/16/18 "A quarter of a century” by Survived and Punished comrade Ivié, a song that she wrote about her campaign to free herself from a 25 to life sentence, recorded over the phone from Bedford Hills prison, a maximum security correctional facility in Bedford Hills, NY. Accompanying rap by Survived and Punished comrade, Sassii, who is also incarcerated at Bedford Hills. In this episode, we give a shoutout to Brooklyn Public Library's podcast, Borrowed. Check out their episodes here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts Produced by Interference Archive. From all of us at Audio Interference, thanks for listening.

The Sanctuary City Project is a research-led participatory art project from San Francisco based artists Chris Treggiari and Sergio De La Torre. They work to create inclusive spaces for dialogue and debate about sanctuary cities and immigration. As you’ll hear, the Sanctuary City Project collects stories of immigration, detention, and resistance and then shares those narratives with the public through video projections, installations, mobile food projects, billboards, banners, and pop-up print shops. Some of those posters are now housed in the Interference Archive collection in Brooklyn, New York. More information at: https://www.sanctuarycityproject.com/ Produced by Interference Archive. Music in this episode: “Dusting,” “Stilt,” “Borough” & “Hickory Interlude” by Blue Dot Sessions - www.sessions.blue "I. Allegro non molto" by Gavin Gamboa "Theme in G” by Poddington Bear

On April 30th, 1970, US President Richard Nixon announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into the neighboring country of Cambodia. This resulted in a wave of student strikes across the country throughout the month of May, 1970. On May 4th, the US National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University in Ohio. Eleven days later, Mississippi state police opened fire on student protesters at Jackson State University, a historically black college. Together, six students were killed in the shootings. In this episode, an Interference Archive volunteer, Jen Hoyer, interviews activist Dennis O'Neil. Dennis grew up in New York City and was a student at New York University in May, 1970. He tells us about the events leading up to the student strike, as well as the aftermath of the shootings at Kent and Jackson State. This episode is part of a forthcoming exhibit at Interference Archive about the 50 year anniversary of the student strikes of May, 1970. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this exhibit has been moved online. For updates about the exhibit, subscribe to our mailing list at www.interferencearchive.org. To read more about the student strikes of May 1970, You can read series of retrospective articles written by Dennis at: firemtn.blogspot.com/2010/04/may-70-finally-on-our-own.html Music: Rompamos Los Carteles Electorales by Joaquin. Produced By Interference Archive. Further Reading Greensboro sit-in: www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/greensboro-sit-ins-1960/ The Panther 21: hiphopandpolitics.com/2015/12/14/the-panther-21-case-a-glimpse-intothe-future-past-of-racist-police-repression/ Bobby Seale: connecticuthistory.org/free-bobby-free-ericka-the-new-haven-black-panther-trials/ Black Panther Party Community News Service at Freedom Archives: search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?s=%22panther+21%22&collection_id=90 Black Panther Party bulletin with information on Bobby Seale: freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/BPP_1970s_Articles/513_BPP_1970s_Free_Bobby_Free_Huey.pdf

This Episode is a recording of the event “We the People won’t go: LES Artists on the Squatter Movement.” Amy Starecheski moderates a discussion with Seth Tobocman, Fly, and Maggie Wrigley. They share their experiences as both squatters and artists in the LES of NY in the 80’s. They talk about the role of art in the fight to stay in the neighborhood, in the fight for affordable and safe housing for themselves and their neighbors. To see more of Seth Tobocman's work: https://www.sethtobocman.com/ To read about Maggie's book: An Architecture of Change, Building a Better world: https://unmpress.com/books/architecture-change/9780826346865 To see more of Fly's work: http://flyoart.blogspot.com/ This panel was a part of an exhibition and series of events at the archive in Oct 2019-Feb 2020 called Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing. Audio Interference is produced by the Interference Archive, an all volunteer run archive of social movement material. Music: "Stuck in New York" Three Chord Monte with Joe Block, live at WFMU September, 2005

"We don't want to have to put up ghost bikes anymore." 27 cyclists were killed in New York City in 2019, more than twice as many as in 2018. In this episode of Audio Interference, we speak with volunteers Ellen Belcher and Steve Scofield from the New York City chapter of Ghost Bikes, who install street memorials for cyclists who have been killed in traffic violence. We travel with them up to 125th to install a bike and learn about the history and current movement of Ghost Bikes. For more information on the memorials in NYC and around the world, check out their website: http://ghostbikes.org/ Thank you to Steve Scofield and Ellen Belcher for speaking with us. To learn more about the 27 cyclists who lost their lives in 2019, we recommend this profile by Gothamist: https://gothamist.com/news/2019-was-extremely-deadly-year-nyc-cyclists-here-are-their-stories Music and Audio in this Episode: - Detailing by Blue Dot Sessions Produced by Interference Archive.

“Areas that are now very affluent in London like Notting Hill or Camden Town, these would have been full of squatted places. Literally streets, like whole blocks of terraced housing that were squatted. From the 1960-70s onward there’s lots of people that ended up in possession of properties having initially squatted there.” Dissident Island is an anarchist radio show broadcasting on the first and third Friday of every month from the London Action Resource Centre. Since 2007, Dissident Island has covered anarchist life in London, including the rise and fall of squatted social centers, and the Dissident Island archives offer a picture of the way squatters have changed the city, and the ways in which they’ve been affected by new laws and policing. Dissident Island also presents benefit shows in squatted venues, produces a zine, and offers radio workshops. This episode includes excerpts from an interview with Patrick Evans, one of the creators of Dissident Island, as well as clips from the show. The voices you heard in this episode included Phoenix from Raven’s Ait, Paul from ANAL, Ben Rampart and Ben 52 from rampART, Lou and Matt from Made Possible by Squatting, and Dissident Island hosts John, Chick Pea, Bryn, Patrick IW. Thank you to Patrick Evans and everyone at Dissident Island for making this audio available to us. Music: “Cataclysm” by the Flying Luttenbachers, “Hundred Years in Helheim” by Tri-Tachyon, and “The Pharaos Theme” by The Pharaos, all from the Free Music Archive. Produced by Interference Archive. LINKS Dissident Island: http://www.dissidentisland.org/ Squatted Social Centres in London, 2007-2017, with Dissident Island Radio: https://socialcentreslondon.wixsite.com/interferencearchive This episode was created by Patrick for the recent Interference Archive exhibition, Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves. (http://interferencearchive.org/resistance-radio-the-peoples-airwaves/) For more on the history of squatting in London, you can listen to Episode 20 of Audio Interference: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-20-squatting-in-london/ Raven’s Ait: “Squatters in the Stream,” on BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7999287.stm “Green-living Squatters: Revolution in Surbiton,” on the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/green-living-squatters-revolution-in-surbiton-1671326.html Social Centre Plus: “Anti-cuts jobcentre squatters resist bailiffs,” East London Lines: https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2011/04/unti-cuts-squatters-resisted-eviction-from-deptford-jobcentre/ ANAL: “Squatters turn oligarch's empty London property into homeless shelter,” The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/27/squatters-open-oligarchs-empty-london-property-as-homeless-shelter?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook rampART on squat!net: https://en.squat.net/tag/rampart/ Made Possible by Squatting: Blog post and lots of pictures on urban75.org: http://www.urban75.org/blog/made-possible-by-squatting-exhibition-15-dock-street-london-e1/ London Action Resource Center: http://larc.space/ Advisory Service for Squatters: https://www.squatter.org.uk/

In this episode of Audio Interference, we speak with Vanessa Nosie, activist, and Carrie Curley, activist and artist, about the Apache Stronghold and their spiritual movement to protect Oak Flat from the foreign mining company Resolution Copper. A huge thank you to Carrie Curley, Vanessa Nosie, Naelyn Pike, Wendsler Nosie, and the Apache Stronghold for their important and determined fight to protect their land, and for the important message this has for indigneous communities around the world, and for all communities, regarding the way we should respect and relate to our land, environment, and to each other. Thank you Amy Harwood for your support and audio from the walk that is part of this episode. Thank you Cruz for your production help. We encourage you to call your Senators and Representatives to be sure they support the protection of sacred sites. Ask them to sign on as sponsors of the Save Oak Flat Act, which would repeal the land exchange bill. Save Oak Flat Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/665 To learn more about the Apache Stronghold, visit their website and social media platforms: Website: www.apache-stronghold.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/Apache-Stronghold-802193869856079/ Instagram: @protectoakflat For additional articles and resources about Oak Flat, we recommend: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oak-flat-arizona-apache-mining_n_5dfa9a7be4b006dceaa7e48c?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cDovL2FwYWNoZS1zdHJvbmdob2xkLmNvbS9hcnRpY2xlcy5odG1s&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFgF1vqhkwFfVe_3oyVFi0zdK_cTjnyOBmO73vuidVgZzWT690YSD1yPZJgEQDMrQ1B9ijdALkhZeYuPydSelgsBaY1udpOhLbZAUbigMZLmOYPf6rq_SoPh9jgLE99oGrB0nB8mMQq4WFxJE_qyJzQ6N5jGu1SPL_F9CXUyOXW2 https://kairoscenter.org/wendsler-nosie-save-oak-flat/ https://truthout.org/articles/the-apache-way-the-march-to-oak-flat/ https://vimeo.com/120753081 https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-speak-up-for-oak-flat-before-a-copper/article_3b43fa5f-40c6-5761-afe1-05f6aad17aa6.html https://truthout.org/articles/the-apache-way-the-march-to-oak-flat/ http://www.indianz.com/News/2015/07/20/interview-san-carlos-apache-tr.asp https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/opinion/selling-off-apache-holy-land.html https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2019/02/12/oak-flat-solidarity-walk/?fbclid=IwAR1kwVmHR_EupbVWOyT45hmcpZEj7wG7R6IXez9JLpVpZofGb5Wa0RhXlKk https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aejjxg/fighting-to-protect-oak-flat https://sacredland.org/oak-flat-united-states/ https://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/17/apache_stronghold_caravan_calls_to_protect To learn more about the mural by Carrie Curley on the water tower in Oak Flat: https://www.globemiamitimes.com/san-carlos-mural/ Music and Audio in this Episode (in order): Into the Sea by Macroform (intro music) In a Pinch by Macroform (transition music) Tina Anderson walking during the 5th Walk to Oak Flat, recorded by Amy Harwood Drumming and walking during the 5th Walk to Oak Flat, recorded by Amy Harwood Speech by Naelyn Pike during the 5th Walk to Oak Flat, recorded by Amy Harwood Into the Sea by Macroform (outro music) Produced by Interference Archive.

AK Thompson is an author, activist, and social theorist. Over the summer, he came to Interference Archive to speak about his newest book, Premonitions. Drawing on that material, he explored the relationship between citation and social movements and brought out a new understanding of the political role of archivists. For accompanying slides, visit: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Vrn2-lsRpR-zKhHye8apmWj-6D8NLR4Do7Aeaf25VNI/edit?usp=sharing Music: Better Things by Cool Runnings Produced by Interference Archive

Audio Interference 69: What a DJ really is —- Microbroadcasting with Radio CPR and Prometheus Radio Project The following is a recording of an event that happened in july of 2019. Archive volunteer Colin moderated a conversation with founding members Marnie Brady, Amanda Huron, and Athena Viscusi of radio CPR a pirate radio station in Mt. pleasant D.C. and Petri Dish, of Radio Mutiny and Prometheus Radio Project. Speaker Bios: Marnie Brady / DJ Poinsettia launched the Neighborhood Power Hour as part of Radio CPR, Washington, DC where she converged her work in community organizing for immigrant rights, land, & housing with action research interviews & mix tapes over the airwaves. As part of Radio CPR, Marnie started a tech club to learn more about how sound travels. Now in Brooklyn, Marnie is part of the organizing committee for the national Homes for All campaign. She’s starting a job as assistant professor in politics & human rights at Marymount Manhattan in the fall. DJ Maude Ontario (AKA Amanda Huron) is a co-founder of Radio CPR, a community radio station that broadcast from D.C.’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, 1998-2018. She currently works as an associate professor of interdisciplinary social sciences at the University of the District of Columbia, the public university serving Washington, D.C. Her research interests are in urban geography, housing justice, and D.C. history. She plays drums in the bands Puff Pieces and Weed Tree, and is a native of Washington, D.C. PeteTridish has built studios, raised towers, drafted regulations, passed a law through congress, been the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against media consolidation, started non-profits, and been arrested as a protester on various occasions. He has been a radio pirate, a policy advocate for community media, a carpenter, an environmental educator, a solar energy system installer, a squatter, a homeless shelter volunteer and an activist in many social movements since the age of 16. Athena Viscusi, Radio Free Mount Pleasant DJ and member of Stand for Our Neighbors.

You can’t see them, but the skies above New York City hold a tangle of transgressive, culture-bearing radio signals. They’re sent from secret rooftop transmitters and pulse imperceptibly across the five boroughs, bringing familiar sounds to simple FM radios in homes and shops throughout tight-knit immigrant neighborhoods. These underground stations are often called pirates for broadcasting on the FM band without a government-issued license.In this episode, we’re sharing excerpts from an event at Interference Archive in July, which featured a conversation between David Goren and Joan Martinez. The event was presented in relation to our summer exhibition, Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves, which looked at the history of radio as a medium for grassroots movements and their organizing work. David Goren is an award winning radio producer and audio archivist based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s created programming for the BBC World Service, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Wall Street Journal magazine, NPR’s Lost and Found Sound series, On the Media, and Afropop Worldwide as well as audio-based installations for the Proteus Gowanus gallery, and the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective. In 2016 he was an artist-in-residence at Wave Farm, a center for the Transmission Arts. Over the past two years David has released “Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD” for KCRW’s Lost Notes Podcast and The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map which was featured in The New Yorker Magazine. Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map: https://www.pirateradiomap.com/ David Goren's audio documentary, "New York City Pirates of the Air": https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076bp3y "Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD": https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes/outlaws-of-the-airwaves-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad Joan “Radio Free Joanie” Martinez is a Brooklyn-born-and-raised Haitian-American. She attended Brooklyn College twice as an undergrad and is currently working on her Master’s Thesis about “pirate radio” in Brooklyn. She’s laid the groundwork to becoming a successful on-air talent as a podcast host. Pegged as opinionated since a teenager and a smart alec, she brings a perspective that is usually elusive to the diaspora– a female voice that represents the children of Haiti’s “Lost Generation.” She straddles two worlds–the traditional Haitian household and an American growing up in America. She is an enigma at first. Her last name confuses the people she tries to talk to–she’s often pegged as a Latino that just happens to know Haitian-Kreyol. But after a minute of talking to her, people are at ease and fascinated that she is Haitian-American. She speaks the language though her name is Latino and her citizenship is American. Some are still standoffish to her and brush her off. She remains resilient however, a trait found in the Haitian people. They thrive from adversity and feed off obstacles. She is the product of her environment and brings this to her radio broadcasting. Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference is excited to be bringing you an episode from a guest podcast, Radio Survivor. Radio Survivor is a group of individuals organized to shed light on the ongoing importance of radio. They have a weekly podcast where they interview people involved in wide-ranging and international community radio efforts. Back in July 2019, Interference Archive volunteers Celia Easton Koehler and Elena Levi spoke with Jennifer Waits and Eric Klein of Radio Survivor about our latest exhibition at Interference Archive. It’s called Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves and it’s about the history of radio as a medium for grassroots movements. They spoke with Radio Survivor about the stations, communities and contexts featured in the exhibition, and the process, labor, and networks involved. Some of the seeds of our research actually came from Radio Survivor interviews! Resistance Radio is on view at the archive through September 29. If you are in New York, come check it out during our open hours: Thursday 1-9pm or Friday through Sunday 12-5pm. You can also check out our website for events or look out for recordings from some events in the fall season of Audio Interference. A huge thank you to Erik Klein, Jennifer Waits, and everyone from Radio Survivor for speaking with us about Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves. More information about Radio Survivor and the original interview: radiosurvivor.com http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2019/07/30/podcast-204-resistance-radio-the-peoples-airwaves/ More information about Resistance Radio: The Peoples Airwaves: http://interferencearchive.org/resistance-radio-the-peoples-airwaves/ resistanceradio.online Produced by Interference Archive.

In this episode, we’re speaking with activists, organizers, musicians and artists who are a part of The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The movement is building on the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, a national movement led by Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Junior to unite the poor. We focus our conversation on the role music and art plays, and has played, in this movement. A huge thank you to Ciara Taylor, Pauline PIsano, and Charon Hribrar for speaking with for this episode. To learn more about the Poor People’s Campaign, visit their website at https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/. To download a copy of the songbook, produced by the Poor People’s Campaign with artwork by Justseeds collective: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/SON001_Songbook.pdf This episode coincides with the exhibition at Interference Archive Everybody’s Got A Right To Live: The Poor People’s Campaign 1968 & Now: http://interferencearchive.org/everybodys-got-a-right-to-live-the-poor-peoples-campaign-1968-now/ This is the last episode of spring 2019 Audio Interference season. We’re taking a break for the summer, but we’ll be back again in the fall with a brand new season that explores the culture of social movements globally. While we’re off enjoying the summer sun, we’d love to hear from you with feedback about our episodes so far, and about what you’re interested in listening to in the future! Please fill out this survey to tell us why you love audio interference, and what topics you would like us to cover in the year ahead: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QUf3nPwdo7ewDaymPsgW73biPu-42iWwlF4Z-FI3QoE/viewform?edit_requested=true Thanks, and have a nice summer! Music you heard today is by: 50 Years After MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign, 2,500+ Arrested Over 6 Weeks Calling for Moral Revival, Democracy Now, June 25, 2018 Audio recordings from an action at Wall Street in March 2018, with help by Lu Aya from the Peace Poets and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. Ciara and Paulina sing “I want to Lift My People Up” by Vi Rose.

In the past few weeks, regular listeners to the podcast have heard an episode on community internet, and another celebrating libraries. This week, we’ll combine the best of both worlds. Today, we'll chat with Alison Macrina, Founder and Executive Director of the Library Freedom Project, an organization that’s making an impact in local communities, helping reduce the harm that people face online from hackers, law enforcement and major corporations. We’ll learn of the organization's showdown with the Department of Homeland Security and hear of its efforts to scale up to a library near you. To learn more about Library Freedom Project and Library Freedom Institute, visit www.libraryfreedom.org. Music in this episode (“Dusting,” “Stilt,” “Borough” & “Hickory Interlude”) by Blue Dot Sessions - www.sessions.blue Produced by Interference Archive.

In today’s episode, we’ll learn about community networks around the world, including NYC Mesh, FunkFeuer, and Rhizomatica. Community Networks offer local communities the opportunity to own and control their communication infrastructure. To learn more about NYC Mesh visit www.nycmesh.net. To learn more about Rhizomatica, including projects outside of Oaxaca, Mexico, visit www.rhizomatica.org. To learn more about FunkFeuer, visit www.funkfeuer.at. Thanks to Jonathan Dahan, Myf Ma, Aaron Kaplan, and Peter Bloom for speaking with us for this episode. Music: Onward & Upward by junior85. Produced by Interference Archive.

We’re back to continue our series on radical, community libraries! In this episode, we chat with Ola Ronke Akinmowo of the Free Black Women’s Library, Dev Aujla of Sorted Library, and Jen Hoyer and Daniel Pecoraro from our own Interference Archive library. To learn more about the Free Black Women’s Library, stay up to date about future pop ups, and find out where to donate books, visit her site, follow the library on social media @thefreeblackwomenslibrary, and consider supporting the project via Patreon. Here’s a short list of reading recommendations from Ola Ronke: Audre Lorde, Gloria Naylor, Buchi Emecheta, Pat Parker, June Jordan, Nnedi Okorafor, especially Who Fears Death, Octavia Butler, especially Parable of the Sower, Zora Neale Hurston, especially Dust Tracks on the Road, This Thing Around My Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sula by Toni Morrison, Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi, Things We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons, All About Love by bell hooks, Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé, The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clementine Wamariya, Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper. To learn more about the Sorted Library, including the date of their next open house, you can follow them on Instagram @SortedLibrary or visit them at sortedlibrary.com. To learn more about the Interference Archive library, visit our website, or visit us in person. The archive (and library) is open to the public Thursdays-Sundays. A huge thank you to Ola Ronke Akinmowo, Dev Aujla, Jen Hoyer, and Daniel Pecoraro for talking with us and the important and exciting work you do! Music: “Good Times” and “Laid Back Fuzz” Podington Bear Produced by Interference Archive.

This episode features an interview with artist and collector Alison Alder, recorded last summer when Alison visited New York. Alison Alder is a visual artist whose work blurs the line between studio, community and social/political art practice. Her formative years as an artist were spent working in the screen-printing workshops of Megalo (Canberra) and Redback Graphix (Wollongong/Sydney) where she was co-director from 1985–1993. The next major period of her art practice was spent working within Indigenous organisations in the Northern Territory, primarily for Julalikari Council in Tennant Creek. Alder received an International Year of Tolerance Fellowship from the Australia Council in recognition of her work toward social justice and equity through art practice. Alder is currently Head of the Printmedia and Drawing Workshop at the Australian National University School of Art. Alison is also the organizer of Interference Archive's current exhibition, Hi-Viz: Australian Political Posters 1979-2019. Hi-Viz, an exhibition of screen-printed posters that provide a visual commentary of politics and life in Australia over the last four decades, is on display through April 14. Here's an image of the Redback Graphix poster Alison refers to: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/85.1983/ Music: "Amends" by Mere Women. Produced by Interference Archive.

The Professional Staff Congress, the union of the faculty and staff at the City University of New York, is currently bargaining a contract which includes a flagship demand of seven thousand dollars per course for adjunct faculty — which would finally earn many adjuncts a living wage and push forward a national conversation about funding for public education. Various adjunct organizers are trying to push the union towards a strike in order to win the demand, but they have faced resistance from union leadership, as striking is illegal for public sector workers in New York State and comes with tremendous risks. Organizers in favor of a strike have united under a campaign they have called, "7K or Strike!" In this episode, we hear from various union members about how they believe they will win this demand. To learn more about the 7K demand itself and the daily reality for adjuncts at CUNY, you can listen to episode 51, titled: "Adjunctification at CUNY". Music: La Fatigue et l'Insupportable Bonheur du Prochain by Bernard Grancher New York Town by Woody Guthrie Produced by the Interference Archive.

This episode of Audio Interference features highlights from an event at the archive with Keith Brooks and Phil Brown, in which they shared their experiences in the critical psychology movement that was a part of the revolutionary environment at Alternate U. Phil and Keith helped set up the organization Psychologists for a Democratic Society (an offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society), which published a newspaper under the same name. Radical psychology and the politics of mental illness were an important part of social movements in the 1970s and 1980s, and central issues in free education experiments, including Alternate U. In 1970, Keith Brooks ran a course called Towards a Radical Psychology, centered around psychology in the context of the global liberation struggle and the questions of “what is its role and whose side is it on?” Phil Brown ran a course called Demystification of Contemporary Psychology, challenging what he called the “Myth of Mental Illness.” Music: "The Birds & The Bees" by The 2 Bears. Produced by Interference Archive.

In this episode of Audio Interference, you'll hear a recording of an event held at the archive in October of 2018. The event was called “Politics of Sound: Listening to the Archive,” and it was a discussion about the various ways archiving sound can be a political act, including how sound archives can support organizing work, and how sound collections can contribute to the creation of historical memory, broadening the range of stories that are part of our collective history. Speakers included Natiba Guy-Clement, Special Collections Manager at the Brooklyn Public Library, home of the Civil Rights in Brooklyn Oral History Collection; Daniel Horowitz, oral historian and poet, currently working on a historical memory project based in Bay St Louis, Mississippi; Samara Smith, Associate Professor at SUNY, who documented the sounds of Occupy Wall Street; and Mario Alvarez, one of the creators of Columbia Life Histories, a series of oral history interviews with graduate students at Columbia University. For more information, visit: https://borrow.bklynlibrary.org/r1s/iii/encore/?lang=eng (search "civil rights in Brooklyn") http://brooklynink.org/2011/12/26/39230-the-anarchivists-who-owns-the-occupy-wall-street-narrative/ https://columbialifehistories.com/ Music: "Telling Me Yes" by Ryan Anderson. Produced by Interference Archive.

“Our lending policy is: as many books as you want, for as long as you want. We want people to take the time to live with the books as long as they need to, to figure out how they fit into the larger picture of how they live.” -- Dawn Finley, FLOW In this episode, we ask the questions: What does it mean to be a radical, community library? What are the goals, responsibilities, and impacts of such an organization? We do so through conversations with Laura Moulton of Streetbooks, Melissa Marturano of Books Through Bars, Dawn Finley of FLOW, and Julia of the ABC No Rio Zine Library. To learn more about Streetbooks visit their website at—http://streetbooks.org/ and read this NYT article about them: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/us/homeless-outreach-in-volumes-books-by-bike-for-outside-people-in-oregon.html To learn more about Books through Bars visit their website at—https://booksthroughbarsnyc.org/ Read an interview with founder vikki law—http://artfcity.com/2012/09/05/the-abc-no-rio-interviews-vikki-law/ and this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/opinion/books-prison-packages-new-york.html To stay up to date about what’s going on in Pennsylvania Prisons see the links below: —https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/incarcerated-pennsylvanians-now-have-to-pay-150-to-read-we-should-all-be-outraged/2018/10/11/51f548b8-cbd9-11e8-a85c-0bbe30c19e8f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.49acb26c7a96 —https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/08/29/pennsylvania-prisons-are-locked-down-after-unknown-substances-leave-hospitalized/?utm_term=.ffa16cd982d —http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania-prison-department-corrections-john-wetzel-security-plan-books-through-bars-k2-20181019.html?fbclid=IwAR1mWpHFFCjSgWWiE0AXCKUUfGW6DQBoxmhyKHgcbfMc2KNCgtZdLbU8auA For those interested in what FLOW is up to: http://feministlibraryonwheels.com/ and https://lithub.com/the-feminist-library-on-wheels-a-roaming-tool-for-social-justice/. ABC No Rio Zine Library Contact Information: http://www.abcnorio.org/pcgi-bin/suite/calendar/calendar.cgi?request=detail&website=default&event_id=12029 A huge Thank You to Laura Moulton, Melissa Marturano, Dawn Finley, and Julia for engaging us in conversation and for the important work you do! Stay tuned for Radical Access, Part II. Music: “Bronco Romp,” by Waylon Thornton; “Feel Good (Instrumental),” by Broke For Free; “Luminous,” by Broke For Free; “Live on BSR,” by Juan Wauters. Produced by Interference Archive.

“I think we were interested in finding a true story. We were interested in telling the truth, not to make a propaganda film and not to make a film that would make people feel heroic. We wanted to make a film that was both sympathetic to the project and its goals and purposes, and at the same time was realistic about the world that it was operating in.” - Robert Machover In this episode we speak with Norman Fruchter and Robert Machover about their collaboration as filmmakers and instructors at the Free University of New York (FUNY), a 1960s experiment in radical education. Fruchter presented a course called ‘Film Form: Propaganda into Art’, and Machover offered a workshop with the aim of producing a film collectively under the title ‘Filmmaking’. This led to creation of the film Dog Burning at Noon, a short clip of which plays during the episode. This episode also includes a discussion of and short clip from Machover and Fruchter’s 1966 film Troublemakers, which chronicled a group of young activists who worked with a predominately black community in their struggle against poverty and low quality housing in Newark. A huge thank you to Jakob Jakobsen, who moderated the discussion and organized the event as part of Interference Archive’s current exhibition Free Education! Rooted in an examination of the history of the Free University of New York, the exhibition aims to generate conversation within our community–across generations and socio-economic realities –about what it looks like to reimagine possibilities for education. The exhibition is currently running at Interference Archive through January 27, 2019. Thanks also to Norman Fruchter and Robert Machover. Music: "Hello Vietnam," by Johnny Wright. Produced by Interference Archive.

“I remember walking home from that huge protest and feeling this sense of huge hope in the air...And it was just really exciting and it felt like things actually could change.” --Becca Shaw Glazer In this episode, we speak with activists who participated in protests against the World Trade Organization in the 1990s and 2000s. The 1999 Seattle protest against the WTO is often seen as the beginning of a worldwide anti-globalization movement and the Indymedia movement. About 40,000 people took to the streets to express their dissent, and protestors successfully blocked delegates from entering the convention center, delaying the meeting. The protests became known as “The Battle of Seattle” because of the police violence that ensued in response. We focus on the protests that took place in Seattle, and then share an interview with someone who participated in WTO protests in Cancun, one of the protests that took place globally as a result. A huge thank you to our interviewees for speaking with us for this episode: Becca Shaw Glaser, Danielle Chynoweth, Mark Enslin, and Celeste. Many of these people were involved in founding the Independent Media Center in Urbana, IL and the radio station WRFU, and became connected to Interference Archive when they began airing episodes of this podcast. Archival materials used in this episode include: Democracy Now, 12.2.1999 Broadcast, Drum Circle from WTO Protest in Seattle and interviews with activists Democracy Now, 12.3.1999 Broadcast, Activists chanting and interviews with activists Democracy Now, 12.6.1999 Broadcast, WTO Talks Collapse Courtesy of Celeste, who was working with pirate radio and independent media at the time, we have been able to include recordings of the 2003 WTO protest in Cancun, including an interview with the Beehive Collective and with Celeste herself. You can also listen to these recordings at Interference Archive. To learn more about the Battle of Seattle, and international WTO protests: 60 Minute reporting of Seattle protests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i_4xEBCdys Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/event/Seattle-WTO-protests-of-1999 “Curfew in effect as Seattle struggles to control WTO protests,” http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/30/wto.04/ “State of Emergency in Seattle,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/dec/01/wto “Seattle WTO Uprising Still a Force in World Events, 15 Years Later,” http://berkeleyjournal.org/2014/12/seattle-wto-uprising-still-a-force-in-world-events-15-years-later/ “WTO Meeting and Protests in Seattle (1999),” http://www.historylink.org/File/9183 & http://www.historylink.org/File/9213 “20 Years of the WTO: A Story of Poverty and Protest,” https://www.telesurenglish.net//english/analysis/20-Years-of-the-WTO-A-Story-of-Poverty-and-Protest-20150415-0017.html You can also visit the archive for print materials related to these protests. To learn more about Lee Kyung Hae and his leadership among the activist and farming communities: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/16/northkorea.wto https://viacampesina.org/en/take-agriculture-out-of-the-wto-farmer-lee-kyung-hae-reproducing-his-letter-from-2003/ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/world/farming-is-korean-s-life-and-he-ends-it-in-despair.html Produced by Interference Archive.

“We knew it was illegal, and we knew the FCC would probably come after us at some point, and they did.” This episode focuses on two New York pirate radio stations--Steal This Radio and WBAD--both of which were active in the 1990s. We interview Arrow Chrome, one of the founders of Steal This Radio, a pirate station that grew out of a Lower East Side community of squatters and activists. The episode also includes some audio from an event at Interference Archive featuring David Goren, creator of the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map, and DJ Cintronics, the founder of the unlicensed hip hop station WBAD, which became known for playing music you couldn’t hear on mainstream hip hop radio. Two New York Times articles on Steal This Radio from the 1990s: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/19/nyregion/neighborhood-report-villages-east-and-west-fm-mouse-roars-at-fcc.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/27/arts/pirate-radio-in-touch-with-the-village-not-the-fcc.html DJ Arrow Chrome: https://www.facebook.com/DJ-Arrow-Chrome-276743467947/ About Charas El Bohio: https://www.placematters.net/node/1432 http://thevillager.com/2018/04/29/the-story-of-chino-and-charas-activist-hopeful-for-old-p-s-64s-return/ Dj Cintronics: https://www.facebook.com/DJ-CINTRONICS-211556268893/ https://www.mixcloud.com/djcintronicspodcast/ David Goren’s audio documentary on WBAD, “Outlaws of the Airwaves:” https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/lost-notes/outlaws-of-the-airwaves-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map: https://www.pirateradiomap.com/ Music: “Version City Lady” by Rocker T and the Version City Rockers, a recording made at a benefit show for Steal This Radio in 1998. Produced by Interference Archive.

"There's only a certain amount of time that a person can languish in prison while they prepare for a trial." To kick off our fall season of Audio Interference, we're speaking with folks from the criminal justice reform organization Just Leadership USA about their work to cut the US correctional population in half by 2030. Just Leadership USA empowers people most affected by incarceration to drive policy reform. In this first episode, we interview Marvin Mayfield, Nishan “Prince” Jackson, and Shanequa Charles, three of the folks who are spearheading a city and state wide campaign to end mass incarceration in New York. To learn more about Just Leadership USA, visit www.justleadershipusa.org. There you will find more information about #FreeNewYork as well as their other campaigns. www.justleadershipusa.org/freenewyork The bills that Shanequa, Prince, and Marvin worked for and lobbied on behalf of during the 2018 legislative session did not pass. The following is a statement from Just Leadership USA aboutthe state of the bills: https://www.justleadershipusa.org/freenewyork-campaign-responds-to-new-york-states-failure-to-overhaul-bail-discovery-speedy-trial-law-in-2018-legislative-session-statement-from-erin-l-george-new-york-state-campaign-coo/ And here are links to the bail reform and discovery reform bills: Senate Bill S3579A: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/s3579/amendment/a And Senate bills S7722: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/s7722 Information about how to support the bills can be found at the links above. If you are interested in learning more about criminal justice reform, you can also checkout our episode from last season of Audio Interference about the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, which pays bail for people who can’t afford it in NYC, and the Close Rikers campaign fighting to close the jails on Rikers Island: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-28-brooklyn-bail-fund-and-close-rikers/ A huge thank you to folks at Just Leadership USA for collaborating with us on this episode. Produced by Interference Archive. Music: "The Garden State" by Audiobinger.

"They saw this region as affected by a kind of colonial influence from the larger urban areas, sort of extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not giving anything back." In this episode of Audio Interference, we’re looking into Appalachian Movement Press, an offset print shop and publishing house that was based in Huntington, West Virginia, from 1969 - 1979. We speak with Shaun Slifer, artist, writer, self-taught historian, and Creative Director & Curator at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, about his research into Appalachian Movement Press and about the identity movement in Appalachia in the 70s. To learn more about the article Shaun wrote for Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture: https://justseeds.org/product/signal06/ You can read an excerpt of Shaun's article in the Signal:06 issue here: https://justseeds.org/appalachian-movement-press-an-excerpt-from-signal06/ And to learn more about Shaun's research process, see: https://justseeds.org/underground-publishing-in-west-virginia-during-the-1970s-researching-appalachian-movement-press/ Music in this episode is from the album They'll Never Keep Us Down: Women's Coal Mining Songs. A copy of the album is available at the archive. Song credits (listed in order): "Dream of a Miner's Child" (adapted by Phyllis Boyens, Hazel Dickens and Ken Irwin) sung by Phyllis Boyens "Hello Coal Miner" (Sarah Ogan Gunning) sung by Sarah Gunning "Coal Mining Woman" (Hazel Dickens) sung by Hazel Dickens Produced by Interference Archive.

"We were exploding and we were asking women all over to explode with us." SisterSerpents was a radical feminist art collective founded in Chicago in 1989. In this episode, we speak with Jeramy Turner, one of the group's founders. She explains the history of SisterSerpents and how they used art as their weapon in the fight against women's oppression. Interference Archive houses some of SisterSerpents material. Additional material may be found in Loyola University of Chicago's Women and Leadership Archives. Music: "Buzz Chant" by U.S. Girls and "That Breed" by Weyes Blood, courtesy of Free Music Archive. Produced by Interference Archive.

Letters from Comrades on the Inside: In this episode, we hear from Annette Farrell, a contributor to Survived and Punished's Inside-Outside Newsletter about her experiences as an incarcerated person and her thoughts on justice and abolition. This episode of Audio Interference is part of a series in collaboration with Survived and Punished, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. Visit audiointerference.org to listen to more letters from their comrades on the inside as well as a longer interview with two Survived and Punished Members. Visit www.survivedandpunishedny.org to read Survived & Punished NY’s newsletters and explore their work. A huge thank you to Annette Farrel for sharing your stories. We'd also like to thank Lae Sway, Yves Tong Nguyen, Heena, Zoe Vongtau, Red Schulte, Mariah Hill, and Martina Ilunga, along with everyone else at Survived & Punished, for working with us on this episode. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished’s newsletter, Free : Survivors: https://www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/ Music from this episode (in order of appearance): “Divide” by Six Time Users, from the album, Live at WFMU for Janky Ray’s Radio Riot 6/16/18

Letters from Comrades on the Inside: In this episode, we hear from Andrea Benson, a contributor to Survived and Punished's Inside-Outside Newsletter about her experiences as an incarcerated person and her thoughts on justice and abolition. This episode of Audio Interference is part of a series in collaboration with Survived and Punished, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. Visit audiointerference.org to listen to more letters from their comrades on the inside as well as a longer interview with two Survived and Punished Members. Visit www.survivedandpunishedny.org to read Survived & Punished NY’s newsletters and explore their work. We'd also like to thank Lae Sway, Yves Tong Nguyen, Heena, Zoe Vongtau, Red Schulte, Mariah Hill, and Martina Ilunga, along with everyone else at Survived & Punished, for working with us on this episode. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished’s newsletter, Free : Survivors: https://www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/ Music from this episode (in order of appearance): “Divide” by Six Time Users, from the album, Live at WFMU for Janky Ray’s Radio Riot 6/16/18

"Adjunctification is really this process of replacing full time academic positions with part time academic positions at lower wages and usually inferior, if any, benefits as a cost saving measure." In this episode, we speak with Carly Smith and Susan DiRaimo, two adjunct professors at the City University of New York, the public university system of New York City and the largest urban university system in the country. They tell us about the daily reality for adjuncts and how their union, the Professional Staff Congress, helps them fight for better wages and working conditions. Their current battle is for a minimum salary of $7K per course that they teach, a radical demand that could finally bring many adjuncts out of poverty and change the national conversation about funding for public education. Music: "Better World," by Woody Guthrie. Produced by Interference Archive.

Military Dissent - Mixtape 017 was put together and produced by Kevin Basl, a writer and musician living near Ithaca, NY. He is a member of About Face (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War) and Veterans for Peace. The music on this mixtape was inspired by those antiwar dissenters who know the inner-workings of the U.S. military best. Most of the songs were written and/or performed by veterans or service members. Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Iraq Veterans Against the War (now "About Face") and the G.I. resistance movements of the past half-century produced the countercultures from which this music emerged. Not surprisingly, most can be categorized as punk, folk, blues or rap--the music of the People--with lyrical content ranging from remorseful warnings to potential enlistees, to revolutionary convictions, to gallows humor. This mixtape also includes clips from interviews, public testimonies, street actions and other media, providing context for the songs. This is just a sampling of a well-stocked, but under-appreciated, subgenre of antiwar music.

"It’s like we’re always reinventing the wheel, but some of these posters tell you what worked and what didn’t work a generation ago or more." - Carol Wells The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, based in Los Angeles, is home to a collection of over 90,000 protest graphics and the largest collection of post World War II posters in the United States. In this episode, Carol Wells, Founder and Executive Director of CSPG, gives a tour of the archive to Kevin Caplicki, one of the co-founders of Interference Archive and a member of Justseeds Artist Collective. For more information about CSPG, visit: http://www.politicalgraphics.org/ Music: "Favorite Secrets" by Waylon Thornton, courtesy of Free Music Archive. Produced by Interference Archive. Note: Carol states that CSPG holds 20-50 posters in each flatfile drawer. This is a mistake--there are actually 10-20 folders in each drawer, and 20-50 posters in each folder.

"All the messages from pop culture present Asian American as an apolitical thing. It was really shocking and liberating to find out that actually, Asian American politics was rooted in radical organizing and rooted in grassroots arts movements." -- Ryan Wong This episode of Audio Interference focuses on Basement Workshop (active 1970-1986), an arts and political organization based in New York City's Chinatown that served as a hub for the developing Asian American movement. Elena Levi speaks to curator and writer Ryan Wong, whose exhibition, Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York was presented at Interference Archive in 2013-2014. The episode also includes portions of Ryan's talk at an event celebrating the release of the latest issue of Signal (http://s1gnal.org/), a journal of international political graphics and culture. Ryan's article on Hyperallergic includes more information on Basement Workshop and other Chinatown arts organizations: https://hyperallergic.com/330442/a-brief-history-of-the-art-collectives-of-nycs-chinatown/ More on Serve the People: http://interferencearchive.org/serve-the-people-the-asian-american-movement-in-new-york/ Issue #6 of Signal: https://justseeds.org/product/signal06/ This episode features the song "Yellow Pearl" by Chris Kando Iijima, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, "Charlie" Chin from the recording entitled A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America, PAR01020, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1973. Used by permission. Link: https://folkways.si.edu/chris-kando-iijima-joanne-nobuko-miyamoto-charlie-chin/a-grain-of-sand-music-for-the-struggle-by-asians-in-america/american-folk-protest/music/album/smithsonian Other music used includes "Artifical Intelligence" and "One and Only" by Ryan Andersen, courtesy of the Free Music Archive. Produced by Interference Archive.

This episode features a performance by Koyt Far Dayn Fardakht (http://koytfilth.band) at Interference Archive's 2017 block party, as well as an interview with the band, , who describe their music as "queer/trans antizionist Yiddish punk," broadcast live on Radio Free Gowanus (www.radiofreegowanus.org). All music by Koyt Far Dayn Fardakht. Produced by Interference Archive.

"Other cities are trying to get rid of their green space. If they get rid of their green space they can stop people from public assembly, which they're nervous about." - Bill DiPaola In this episode, we focus on the history of New York's community gardens, specifically on the Lower East Side. Matt Patterson and Mike Dola talk to author, journalist, and activist Bill Weinberg, as well as Bill DiPaola, one of the founders of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (www.morusnyc.org). The mission of MoRUS is to preserve the history of grassroots activism and promote environmentally-sound, community-based urban ecologies. Music: "Lower East Side" by David Peel and "Smoke" by Rafael Archangel. To see Mike Dola's images of La Plaza Cultural (http://laplazacultural.com), one of the stops on Bill's walking tour, check out our blog at: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-47-lower-east-side-community-gardens/ Produced by Interference Archive.

"Puppetry, especially giant puppets, gives people glimpses of this bigger reality that is beyond what our minds normally inhabit." -Joe Therrien, Bread and Puppet Theater In this episode of audio interference, we are speaking with folks from Bread and Puppet Theater, one of the oldest, self-supporting theatrical companies in the country. Bread and Puppet have been creating performances that tackle social justice issues, and feeding people homemade sourdough bread, since 1963. We speak with puppeteers Amy Trompetter, Linda Elbow, Josh Krugman, Sam Wilson, and Joe Therrien about the group’s history and legacy of performance and activism work. To learn more about bread and puppet, visit their website at www.breadandpuppet.org We also have print materials from the Bread and Puppet Press in our archive, which you can stop by and see during our open hours, Thursday, 1-9pm and Friday-Sunday, 12-5pm. The music in this episode is from "The Honey Lets Go Home Opera" by Bread and Puppet Theater, performed at a Theater for a New City in New York in December 2017. Produced by Interference Archive.

"When I first took karate, I was already an activist. And I could see right away what this could do for women in the 70s." -- Annie Ellman In this episode, we talk to two groups that teach self-defense skills: Pop Gym (popgym.org)and the Center for Anti-Violence Education (caeny.org). We hear from CAE founder Annie Ellman, along with Izzy Finkelstein and Rachel Marks, and Pop Gym founder Grey Cohen. This episode includes audio from a self-defense demo by the CAE Peer Educators at our block party in September 2017, originally broadcast live on Radio Free Gowanus (www.radiofreegowanus.org). Music: "Dawn II" by Swelling, "Hit or Miss" by Odetta. Produced by Interference Archive.

On February 9, 2018, Interference Archive presented a talk by Silvia Federici, co-founder of the Wages for Housework movement, on the publication of her new book, The New York Wages for Housework Committee, 1972-1977. Throughout the 1970s, the Wages for Housework movement developed an analysis of women’s reproductive labor— “housework” broadly conceived— as a primary site for mobilization. The movement, publication, and Federici's talk ask us: How do we understand and value our own reproductive labor? How can we organize around this work in a way that is transformative both of our own lives and builds a collective opposition to a global capitalist system? For more information about Silvia's new book: https://www.akpress.org/wages-for-housework.html For more information about Silvia Federici, check out Audio Interference Episode 22 (http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-22-silvia-federici/), in which Silvia talks not only about Wages for Housework, but also about her collection of anarchist and communist 45s from the 1960s. You might also be interested in a few more events coming up at Interference Archive: Chicago-based feminist art collective Sister Serpents: http://interferencearchive.org/sister-serpents/ Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: http://interferencearchive.org/2018-artfeminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/ The song you hear at the end of this episode is “Avete mai guardato” by Amalia Goffredo. Produced by Interference Archive.

"People have made this false equivalency between punishment and safety, and so I think in the work that we’re doing, always, we’re trying to put the emphasis on health. We’re trying to put the emphasis on freedom." - Imani Brown In this episode, we catch up with the organizers of the Close Rikers campaign, featured in episode 28. Louise Barry speaks to Imani Brown, Organizing Coordinator at the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, about changes to the campaign since Mayor Di Blasio announced his plan to close Rikers Island. Learn more at www.closerikers.org or at www.katalcenter.org. Music featured in this episode: "Resiste!" by El Zombi Flash. Produced by Interference Archive.

In this episode of Audio Interference, we’re chatting with two veteran-led projects: Frontline Paper (a project of Frontline Arts) and About Face: Veterans Against the War. While their techniques are vastly different, both are building communities that challenge and subvert the stereotypes of what veterans can and should be. For more information about Frontline Paper or Frontline Arts, visit frontlinearts.org or @Frontline_Arts To learn more about About Face: Veterans Against the War, check out ivaw.org or @vetsaboutface Our thanks to David Keefe, Eli Wright, Claude Copeland and Matt Howard. Music: Postmodern Cloud Modifications/ Gravity's Rainbow by The Fucked Up Beat is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. The Myth of Information/ Pattern Recognition by The Fucked Up Beat is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Produced by Interference Archive.

"My favorite thing is just the dialogue that gets created, and having people understand a little bit more about their communities and the potential for them to slow down or halt directions that they may not want it to go in." In this episode, we talk to Dan Kaminsky and Michael Higgins Jr of Social Justice Tours (www.socialjusticetours.com). Social Justice Tours uses tours as a medium to dig beneath the surface of what New Yorkers regularly see. We aim to engage New Yorkers in a critical dialogue about the past, present and future of our city, from the perspective of marginalized populations. The ultimate aim is to assist in movement building; that is to disperse information, expose injustice, and highlight inequality in a digestible, understandable way to encourage thought and inspire action. The group offers tours focusing on Trump's influence in midtown, gentrification in Williamsburg, and the radical history of Lower Manhattan. In this episode, Rob Smith and Tyler McBrien take a tour on environmental justice in Gowanus. Produced by Interference Archive.

"Anybody can join. There's so many different access points for you to join the movement to say no to white nationalism, and there's so many ways to say no." no. NOT EVER will be at Interference Archive in early 2018. If You Don’t They Will’s no. NOT EVER. installation and accompanying workshops provide an anti-racist, anti-fascist framework for understanding the rise of white nationalism in the current moment. This installation draws inspiration from research and organizing work against white nationalism by members and from interviews with rural activists who worked to fight white nationalism in their communities in the 1980’s and 1990’s at the height of the “Northwest Territorial Imperative.” If You Don’t They Will has now interviewed 20+ organizers in Oregon, Washington and Idaho that represent complex intersections of race, gender, class and culture involved in this resistance movement. Produced by Interference Archive.