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

Audio Interference 80: Soulscapes

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.

Radio Pink

Audio Interference 81: Asylum Seekers Fighting Back Against Workplace Exploitation In Montréal

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.

Audio Interference 82: Dane Michael on Zines & Mutual Aid

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

Audio Interference 83: Sister Serpents & Generative Archiving

What does May Day mean to you? In this episode of Audio Interference we dive into the history of May Day and explore what it means to a few of our community members. [First published May 1, 2023]. 

Our thanks to Nora Almeida and Mikey Goldenberg for their contributions.  

Additional Credits:

"Exquisite Motion" by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/177708)

"Her Caliber" by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/177734)

"Crowds, Children & Footsteps - Industrial Dispute, chanting among marchers" - BBC (https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07043084)

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Episode bibliography:

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/may-01/ 

https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/may-day-americas-traditional-radical-complicated-holiday-part-2

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/01/may-day-history-international-workers-day

https://www.richmondprogressivealliance.net/the_activist_celebrates_may_day

To hear the episode Mikey Goldenberg references, visit: 
https://interferencearchive.org/podcast/audio-interference-75-kent-state-and-jackson-state/

Episode 84: What Does May Day Mean to You?

“So much of the dominant mainstream society at that point was so odious that it felt like a desperate need to find a place that was different and alternative.” —Josh MacPhee 

Greg Mihalko interviews Josh MacPhee, co-founder of Interference Archive, about his collection of hardcore punk flyers and ephemera.  

Music includes: "Guilty" by Spewing Cum and "While You're Waiting for the Revolution" by Action Will Be Taken, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 01: Josh MacPhee

“It’s not about the things, it’s about the people: who made it, who saw it, who was influenced by it.” -Lincoln Cushing

Lincoln Cushing is an artist, author, and archivist from the Bay Area, who worked with Interference Archive on our recent exhibition on the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL), Armed by Design.  Lani Hanna interviewed Lincoln about movement archives,  large institutions vs. community-based organizations, and the importance of accurately documenting the past.

A selection of OSPAAAL posters can be seen in Lincoln’s book, "Revolución!: Cuban Poster Art."  You can also visit his website, docspopuli.org, for more information.

Music: "Mid-Day Blues" by Tate Peterson, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive.


Audio Interference 05: Lincoln Cushing

if a song could be freedom mixtape 016- Sounds of Protest is curated by Amit Gilutz. 

Amit Gilutz is a composer and activist originally from Israel/Palestine, now based in the USA. His work is interdisciplinary and conceptual, particularly focused on the question of music’s ability to participate in the practice of social justice.

This mixtape was originally prepared for “Sounds of Protest”, a course I designed and taught at Cornell University in Spring of 2015. It emphasizes music that was created or widely circulated in the wake of the Ferguson uprising and the formation of the Black Lives Matter Movement, while also drawing connections to the history of these struggles via classic predecessors such as Nina Simone, The Last Poets, Bob Marley and others. Other songs foreground feminist and queer perspectives (sometimes intersecting also with race, as in Google Google Apps Apps), as well as a critique of American imperialism, global Capitalism and Neoliberalism. The penultimate track is an excerpt from a conversation the class had the pleasure of holding with anarchist organizer and media producer, Franklin Lopez of submedia.tv

    Bob Marley: Redemption Song
    Tom Morello: Marching on Ferguson
    N.A.S.A. feat. Sean Paul and Lizzo: Hands Up, Don't Shoot!
    Rob Hustle ft. Bump: Call the Cops
    Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come
    Lauryn Hill: Black Rage
    Le Tigre: Deceptacon
    Janis Joplin: Mercedes Benz
    Adam Freeland: We Want Your Soul
    Cloud Cult: State of the Union
    Juice Rap News: RAP NEWS 31: EruoDiVision Contest
    Persia feat. Daddies Plastik: Google Google Apps Apps
    The Last Poets: Panther
    Nina Simone: Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
    The Peace Band: We Shall Overcome
    Bob Marley: Wake up and Live!
    Franklin Lopez: excerpt from conversation with class
    Fela Kuti: Beasts of No Nation (excerpt)

An ongoing series and part of the if a song could be freedom...Organized Sounds of Resistance exhibition that was on view at Interference Archive in the Summer 2015.

Sounds Of Protest

"The importance of art in the movement was that not everyone could see themselves at the front lines...art allowed for a more inclusive community." - Tina Orlandini

Tina Orlandini is a writer, human rights advocate, and creative organizer whose work identifies crossroads in community, arts and social change. In 2012, Tina, along with fellow collaborators Stephan Andreas, Pedro Lugo, Lourdes Santiago, Isabel Ferro and Marimer Berberena, co-curated smArtAction: ¡A estudiar y a luchar!, a collaborative art exhibition in recognition of two of the most resourceful and inspiring student strikes of the last decade. Through an arts-led approach, University of Puerto Rico students were able to outwit the administration while rallying popular support around the struggle for an accessible, democratic and quality university. Both strikes provide an instructive repertoire of action for present and future student resistance movements worldwide. 

To see a gallery of images from the exhibition, and to learn more about the UPR student movement, visit www.smartactionexhibition.com.

Image: Isamar Abreu, "La UPR No Se Vende."

Music:
What True Self? Feels Bogus, Let's Watch Jason X by Chris Zabriskie
You Must Believe in Summer by Learning Music
(freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music)

Audio Interference 07: Tina Orlandini

"Jean would take her income tax refund check and go to the track and bet on horses, and whatever money she made funded Tabloid."

Tabloid was a collectively edited critical journal of mass culture and everyday life which emerged out of (and in opposition to)  Stanford University in the late 1970s and 1980s.  Interference Archive's Lani Hanna and Vero Ordaz spoke with Jean Franco, Mary Louise Pratt, Maria Damon, Dana Polan, and Ed Cohen about the history of the journal.

Music: "Nights Tale," "Summer’s Coming" and, "After The Week I’ve Had" by Dexter Britain; "Strange Wedding 60908" by Marcel.  All music courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive. 

Audio Interference 08: Tabloid

"What I value about a political event, or what I value about a dance party--I don't know if those are very separate values at the end of the day."

In this episode, Lani Hanna talks to Los Angeles-based artist and activist Steven Rodriguez about Southern California culture and identity, the whiteness of anarchism, and creating aesthetics around police brutality.  

Music: "Ocean" by Zebra and "Stars" by She-Wolf., both courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive. 

Audio Interference 09: Steven Rodriguez

"We saw the hierarchical constraints of the society our parents created, and we wanted to do it differently.  So we created this flattened, non-hierarchical approach to almost everything we did."

In the 1960s and 1970s, California-based print collective Peoples Press produced numerous books and pamphlets on international political struggles.  In this episode of Audio Interference, Lani Hanna talks with collective members Jane Norling and Marty Williams about the influence of Cuba, organizing volunteer labor, and becoming a self-taught printer.

Music: "Conscience" by Ketsa and "De Cuba" by Songo 21, both courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive.  

Audio Interference 10: Peoples Press

"Before we ask questions, we find out more about the problems that are happening.  And sometimes we even go out and ask the people around us: what is something that you don't feel comfortable with?  Where do you feel disconnected?...I think that's the way that we actually find political issues to do art with."  - Stephanie Roman

Mobile Print Power is a multigenerational collective based out of Immigrant Movement International in Corona, Queens, who use silkscreen printmaking to engage communities and explore social and cultural situations.  Mobile Print Power's history of collaborative work is the subject of Interference Archive's upcoming exhibition, Soñamos Sentirnos Libres / Under Construction, opening May 1.  In this episode of Audio Interference, Charlie Morgan and Lani Hanna talk to collective members Marissa Campiz, Brandon Castillo, Jennifer Muñoz, Stephanie Roman, and Patrick Rowe.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 13: Mobile Print Power

"We're blessed with being the keepers of some very valuable stuff.  It's not ours.  It's intentional that this is part of the community and belongs to the community." - Claude Marks

Freedom Archives is based in San Francisco and contains over 10,000 hours of audio and video tape, which chronicles both revolutionary struggles and state repressions.  They also create audio and video documentaries of their own.  Interference Archive reached out to Freedom Archives because of their shared commitment to archiving the histories of social movements.  Lani Hanna spoke to Freedom Archives co-founder Claude Marks, and his co-worker Nathaniel Moore.

Music: "Kentucky Mule" by Tate Peterson, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 14: Freedom Archives

"It's people who are more familiar with archives who have more trouble figuring out how to negotiate this space...There's one researcher I remember, she came in with this question about Adrienne Rich, so I mistakenly assumed that she wanted to see Adrienne Rich's papers.  And so I took down the box and she was just so intimidated to be in front of this collection of personal papers that had been personally donated by Adrienne Rich." - Rachel Corbman

In this episode, Lani Hanna and Brooke Shuman talk to Maxine Wolfe and Rachel Corbman, of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.  Based in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities.

Music and spoken word from the 1977 album, Lesbian Concentrate: A Lesbianthology of Songs and Poems.

Produced by Interference Archive. 

Audio Interference 19: Lesbian Herstory Archives

"There are fewer squatters because of state repression--because of the way the law has changed and the way the police enforce that law." - Greg Ryan

This episode is about the effects of UK housing law on the London squatters movement.  Louise Barry talks to Myk Zeitlin of the Advisory Service for Squatters, former squatter Greg Ryan, and a member of the Squatters Action for Secure Homes (SQUASH) campaign.  

Music: "Instrumental #2" by Gillicuddy, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

For images of the Squatters Handbooks and links to more information, visit our blog: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-20-squatting-in-london/

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 20: Squatting in London

"I think that people are going to see reflected in this so much from their own life and from the contemporary world, more than we want there to be." - Brad Duncan. 

On today's show, Rob Smith speaks to Brad Duncan, one of the curators of Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979, which runs from January 26 - May 14, 2017 at Interference Archive. While the exhibition is focused on the '70s, it's concerns are still relevant today. 

You can learn more about left history of the 1970s and beyond on Brad's blog: http://radicalarchive.tumblr.com

Music includes: "Liam Rides a Pony" and "The Itis," both by Polyrhythmics from the album Octagon, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. 
Based on a work at http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/polyrhythmics/

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 27: Bradley Duncan

"There were people in the buildings who modeled themselves after homesteaders and very much wanted to become homeowners, wanted the approval of the city, wanted to act respectable--and there were other people who were doing this as a critique of private property.  There were people who were fixing up their space as if it was going to be their family home for generations, and there were people who just needed a temporary place to stay and were making the best of it." - Amy Starecheski

Louise Barry interviews Amy Starecheski, author of Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City, about the process of transforming Lower East Side squats into limited-equity low-income co-ops, and the conflicts and challenges generated by this process.  Amy's book is an oral history of squatting on the Lower East Side, and this episode includes excerpts from her interviews.  The squatters whose voices are included in this podcast are: Famous Chrome, Maria DeDominicis, Rolando Politi, Fly, Chris Flambeaux, Nigel Clayton, David Boyle, Arrow, Geoff Dann, and Maggie Wrigley. 

Music: "Dance 2000!", by Kil Kare.  Produced by Interference Archive.

More information about Amy's book, Ours to Lose, can be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo24550813.html

To learn more about squatting on the Lower East Side, check out the list of resources on our blog: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-31-squatting-on-the-lower-east-side/

Audio Interference 31: Squatting on the Lower East Side

"What we're doing with Kichwa Hatari is we're activating people first, because the language won't rescue itself.  We have to rely on people to rescue a language."  -Charlie Uruchima

In this episode, we’re looking at language diversity in New York City. We will talk to folks whose work supports the speakers of minority languages, and discuss the importance of language as a source of cultural empowerment and as tool for community organizing. 

In the first segment, we speak with Charlie Uruchima, one of the founders of Kichwa Hatari, the very first Kichwa radio program in the US. To learn more about Kichwa Hatari, visit their website: www.kichwahatari.org. The radio program airs every Friday evening from 6-8 pm EST on the station Radio El Tambo: www.radioeltambostereo.com.

In the second segment of this episode, we speak with Ross Perlin, writer, linguist and Assistant Director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a nonprofit organization that works with immigrant and refugee populations in NYC to help maintain their languages. To learn more about The Endangered Language Alliance, visit their website: www.elalliance.org

Check out our blog for more information about languages in NYC, including a language map of Queens: www.interferencearchive.org/category/blog

Songs included in this episode (in order):
"Tarpuricusum Sarata" by Luzmila Carpio
"Identidad" by Los Nin

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 33: Language Activism in New York City

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.

Audio Interference: Silvia Federici & Wages For Housework

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.

Audio Interference 48: Koyt Far Dayn Fardakht

"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.

Audio Interference 49: Ryan Wong and Basement Workshop

"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.

Audio Interference 52: SisterSerpents

“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.

Audio Interference 55: Steal This Radio and WBAD

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.

Audio Interference 59: Politics of Sound

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.

Audio Interference 60: Radical Psychology at Alternate U

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.

Audio Interference 64: Community Networks

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.

Audio Interference 69: What a DJ really is

"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.

Audio Interference

Audio Interference 73: Ghost Bikes

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

WFMU for Janky Ray’s Radio Riot

“Divide”

Audio Interference: 77.3 Archiving Abolition—Andrea Benson

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

Audio Interference Episode 77.6: Archiving Abolition—A Quarter of a Century

“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.

Audio Interference 78: Oral History of UHAB

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

Audio Interference 79: Handbooks

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