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

"People are afraid and disappointed and in some cases heartbroken, and it's not enough anymore to sit at home and donate a small amount of money or buy a t-shirt.  Coming out and being around your community and participating with them is necessary."  - Janina Larenas

In this episode, we look at two projects mobilizing people for resistance during Trump's presidency.  First, Louise Barry and Vero Ordaz talk to information workers gathered for a strategy session at Interference Archive.  Next, Lani Hanna talks to artist Janina Larenas about her project, Print Organize Protest.  Learn more at www.printorganizeprotest.org. 

Produced by Interference Archive.

Music:  "Forget About Tomorrow" by Eyelids, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Audio Interference 25: Anticipating 2017

"There is a kind of magic to sitting down and knowing that if someone wanted to, they could hear my voice right now." - Mike Clemow

Radio Free Gowanus is a pop-up radio station broadcasting during the Gowanus Open Studios, every October.  In this episode, Louise Barry speaks to the station's founder, sound artist Mike Clemow.  This episode features excerpts from the RFG podcast, including a beatboxing performance by Adam Matta and a handbell performance by Brooklyn Bells.  You can find out more about Radio Free Gowanus, or listen to the full podcasts, at www.radiofreegowanus.org.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 26: Radio Free Gowanus

"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

"Bail is often described as incarceration's front door, because if you can't afford it, you're going to jail." - Peter Goldberg

In this week's episode of Audio Interference, we will speak with some of the people spearheading criminal justice reform work here in New York City. First, we will look at how bail is used as a tool to criminalize poverty. Then, we will speak with two of the organizers behind the campaign to close Rikers Island Jail. Interviewees include (in order): 

Rachel Foran, Managing Director of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Peter Goldberg, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Melody Lee, Director of Strategy and Campaigns at the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice
Myaisha Hayes, Lead Organizer for the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice

Learn more at:
https://brooklynbailfund.org/
http://www.closerikers.org/

Music used in this episode:
"Piazza y nieve" by L.D.I.
Untitled Track by Kil Kare

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 28: Brooklyn Bail Fund and Close Rikers

"We wanted it to have a kind of handmade look...it seemed like it would be better than a curtain and a potted plant, which had been the usual for a public access program." -- Deedee Halleck

In this episode, Sabine Bernards talks to Deedee Halleck about the origins and history of Paper Tiger TV, the community media collective that became a pioneer in video art and public access television.  You will also hear clips from some of Paper Tiger's early episodes. 

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 29: Paper Tiger TV

"People have knowledge, and they can put together stations that'll blow the doors off a government station...you get set up in the Amazon in Brazil, and you set up twenty dollars worth of equipment, you can blow a thousand miles out because there's nothing to interfere with that signal." - Rob Robinson

Charlie Morgan talks to Rob Robinson, housing activist and former co-host of "Global Movements, Urban Struggles" on WBAI.  

Music: "Quasi Motion," by Kevin MacLeod, courtesy of the Free Music Archive. 

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 30: Rob Robinson

"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

"We did not go in there with the notion that we have all the answers to lead the working class, that we are the revolutionary leadership...the people who already understood the workplace, who understood the industry, who understood the union and its history were very often the rank and file workers who had been there for a long time." - Dan La Botz

In this episode, we compare labor conditions and labor organizing in 1970s America and contemporary UK.  Charlie Morgan interviewed Dan La Botz and Jamie Woodcock.

Dan LaBotz was a founding member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and is the author of many books on labor politics including Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto (South End Press, 2001), Cesar Chavez and La Causa (Pearson Longman, 2006), and What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis (Brill, 2016). For twenty years he was the editor of Mexican Labor News and Analysis and is a co-editor of New Politics.
 
Jamie Woodcock completed his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is currently a fellow at LSE. His research interests include: digital labor, technology, management, critical theory, and the sociology of work. Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres is published by Pluto Press,
 
Music: “Octagon Pt.2” by Polyrhythmics, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 32: Dan La Botz & Jamie Woodcock

"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

Interference Archive has been hosting a series of Propaganda Parties: events where we distribute free materials like posters and stickers, created by contemporary artists in response to current struggles.  
 On March 5, we hosted an event called “Building Resistance.”  Radio Free Gowanus, our neighborhood pirate radio station, broadcast live throughout the afternoon.  In this episode, we’re sharing some of the highlights from the event, as Mike Clemow talks to our community about what it means to build resistance.  

This episode includes excerpts from interviews with: Womens March Action Club, Roxanne & Andrea, Raven Cras, Ola Ronke, Justin & Nicole, Amy Khoshbin, and Nora Almeida.  To learn more about some of the projects mentioned in this episode, check out the Free Black Womens Library (thefreeblackwomanslibrary.tumblr.com/), the Center for Anti-Violence Education (caeny.org/), or Self-Care After A Fuhk Boi (www.selfcareafb.com).  The full interviews can be heard on www.radiofreegowanus.org. 

All the songs in this episode were included on a playlist created by Eric Kjensrud for our previous exhibition, Finally Got the News.  Songs include: Allen Toussaint, "Victims of the Darkness;" Earth, Wind & Fire, "C'mon Children;" The Staple Singers, "I'll Take You There;" Bob Marley & The Wailers, "Get Up, Stand Up;" Curtis Mayfield, "Right On For the Darkness;" The Honeydrippers, "Impeach the President."

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 34: Propaganda Party Highlights

Interference Archive’s summer 2017 exhibition Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up--a collaboration with Lesbian Herstory Archives--focuses on organized responses to gender and sexual violence, highlighting the ways individuals and communities have developed creative and powerful grassroots and non-institutional justice and healing practices.  In this episode of Audio Interference, we talk to the organizers of the exhibition: Lani Hanna, Melissa Forbis, Rachel Corbman, Monica Johnson, and Louise Barry. 

Take Back the Fight is on view now at Interference Archive, and will be up through October 29.  The music and spoken word pieces featured in this episode are from the album Free to Fight, which is part of the archive’s collection and is also included in the exhibition.  Free to Fight was produced by Candy Ass Records in 1995.   Songs include: 151, "Real Defense;" Mizzery, "Sleepin' Wit' The Enemy;" Excuse Seventeen, "Forever Fired;" Fifth Column, "Don't." 

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 35: Take Back the Fight

$pread magazine was an award winning publication produced by and for sex workers from 2005-2011. In 2015, The Feminist Press at CUNY published an anthology of some of its best material. In this week’s episode, we’ll hear from two of its editors, Eliyanna Kaiser and Rachel Aimee, as they discuss the history of the magazine, the evolving depiction of sex workers in mass media, and what the future may hold for the sex workers’ rights movement. 

Advocacy and organizing groups for sex workers and their allies:

Sex Workers Project, part of the Urban Justice Center - http://sexworkersproject.org

Red Umbrella Project  - http://redumbrellaproject.org

SWOP - Sex Workers Outreach Project, A national network with links to regional chapters -  http://www.new.swopusa.org 

Music: “All Will See,” “Traces,” and “Whispers” by Hyson.  “Great is the Contessa” by Blue Dot Sessions. 

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 36: $pread Magazine

"Even if it seems like it doesn't directly relate to food, it does.  Food relates to housing, to life, to water, to land." - Qiana Mickie

This episode includes an interview with Qiana Mickie, Executive Director of Just Food (www.justfood.org), about the challenges of working toward fairer food access in New York and the relationships between food justice and other social movements.  We also talk to Jen Hoyer and Maggie Schreiner, curators of Fair Food Nation, Interference Archive's recent exhibition at the Ace Hotel.  

Music: "One," by Red Coat Charmers, and "Feet You're Standing On," by Rough Housers.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 37: Just Food & Fair Food Nation

Mad Pride and Radical Mental Health: Sascha Altman DuBrul and The Icarus Project

This week we're talking to Sascha Altman DuBrul, the co-founder of the Icarus Project, a radical peer-to-peer mental health support group, about mad pride and radical mental health. The organization started in 2003 when DuBrul and a few friends started traveling the country and talking to people who had been diagnosed as bipolar or schizophrenic but rejected the dominant models of treatment. The Icarus Project is active nationally and at the local level: 
National Chapter: theicarusproject.net 
NYC Chapter:  www.nycicarus.org

You can read work published by DuBrul and other members of the Icarus Project at Interference Archive.  Some titles include:

Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness 
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Drugs
Madness & Oppression: A Mad Maps Guide

(Images on our blog at: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-38-sascha-altman-dubrul/) 

DuBrul has written recently about spirituality and mental health on his website Maps to the Other Side: http://www.mapstotheotherside.net/

Music:
"Outside the Terminal" by Blue Dot Sessions
"500 Channels" by Choking Victim from No Gods/No Managers (1999)
"What Does Anybody Know About Anything" by Chris Zabriskie
"I Don't See the Branches I See the Leaves" by Chris Zabriskie

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 38: Sascha Altman DuBrul

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