Audio Interference: Season 2

"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

"It was extremely traumatic...mothers didn't send their kids to school, people didn't go to work, because of these raids." - Tania Mattos

UnLocal is a New York-based legal services organization, which works with immigrant communities to provide legal representation, education, and advocacy.  UnLocal's collaboration with Mobile Print Power was included in the recent Interference Archive exhibition, Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction.  In this episode, Brooke Shuman talks to Michele Lampach, Executive Director of UnLocal, and Tania Mattos, the Outreach Coordinator. 

You can learn more about UnLocal by visiting their website: www.unlocal.org.  For more information about UnLocal's collaboration with Mobile Print Power and Interference, check out Audio Interference 13: Mobile Print Power. 

Music: "Diagonally Talking Echoes" by Dustin Wong, courtesy of the Free Music Archive. 

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 21: UnLocal

“The songs really are some of the most direct expression of the collective voice of the movement.”  - Silvia Federici

For this week's episode, Charlie Morgan and Louise Barry interviewed Silvia Federici about Italian music in the 1960s and the Wages for Housework campaign.

Music:

"Prendiamoci La Città" by Pino Masi.

"Per i morti di Reggio Emilia" by Fausto Amodei

"O cancellier che tieni la penna in mano"

"La ballata della Pinelli" by Pino Masi

"Avete mai guardato" by Amalia Goffredo

All these songs are from records held at Interference Archive.  Likewise, copies of The Power of Women are also held at the archive, along with Tap Dance - the newspaper put out by the New York Wages for Housework campaign - and Lotta Continua.

For images of the newspapers and records, and links to more information, visit our blog: www.interferencearchive.org/blog

Produced by Interference Archive.

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Audio Interference 22: Silvia Federici

"I was born and raised here, and the fact that I went to college, I'm a working professional, and I can't come back to my own community and buy a house, is a very big problem."

In this week's episode, we look at the struggle for housing here in Brooklyn. We speak with Jean Stevens, Esq., a housing attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, about affordable housing and tenant associations. Later on in the episode, we hear from neighborhood residents about what brought them to the Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement held at the Brooklyn Museum. 

Music: "Mercurial Vision" and "Cat's Eye" by Blue Dot Sessions, "Marimba Motivation" by Dave Depper.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 23: Brooklyn Housing Struggle

"The main idea is to empower people who are observers, and provide them with tools to become participants in the political realm." - Cleo Barnett, The Amplifier Foundation

In this week's episode, we take a close look at activist art produced by the Amplifier Foundation. We speak with Cleo Barnett from the Foundation about their history, current projects, as well as some of her favorite activist stickers they've recently made. Be sure to stick around for the end of this episode, where Cleo will share with us her recipe for wheat paste, used to adhere political posters to a wall or surface. 

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 24: Amplifier Foundation

"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

Interference Archive is a social space, exhibition venue, and open stacks archive of movement culture, based in Brooklyn. 