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 …

In this episode, we speak with Interference Archive volunteer Dane Michael about his favorite zines in the archive’s collection as well as his …

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 …

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 …

Volunteer Coordinator Sophie Glidden-Lyon explains why handbooks are among her favorite items at Interference Archive.

Audio Interference is produced …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

Hello, comrades,

In this episode of Audio Interference, we’re sharing reflections from Jessica Paradiso, a survivor on the inside. The episode stems …

This episode of Audio Interference is about Survived and Punished, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating …

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 …

On April 30th, 1970, US President Richard Nixon announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into the neighboring country of Cambodia. This resulted in …

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 …

"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 …

“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 …

In this episode of Audio Interference, we speak with Vanessa Nosie, activist, and Carrie Curley, activist and artist, about the Apache Stronghold and …

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 …

Audio Interference 69: What a DJ really is —- Microbroadcasting with Radio CPR and Prometheus Radio Project

The following is a recording of an event …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In the past few weeks, regular listeners to the podcast have heard an episode on community internet, and another celebrating libraries. This week, …

In today’s episode, we’ll learn about community networks around the world, including NYC Mesh, FunkFeuer, and Rhizomatica. Community Networks offer …

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 …

This episode features an interview with artist and collector Alison Alder, recorded last summer when Alison visited New York. Alison Alder is a …

The Professional Staff Congress, the union of the faculty and staff at the City University of New York, is currently bargaining a contract which …

This episode of Audio Interference features highlights from an event at the archive with Keith Brooks and Phil Brown, in which they shared their …

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 …

“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 …

“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 …

“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 …

“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 …

"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 …

"They saw this region as affected by a kind of colonial influence from the larger urban areas, sort of extracting resources from Central Appalachia …

"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 …

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 …

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 …

"Adjunctification is really this process of replacing full time academic positions with part time academic positions at lower wages and usually …

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 …

"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 …

"All the messages from pop culture present Asian American as an apolitical thing. It was really shocking and liberating to find out that actually, …

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 …

"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 …

"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 …

"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 …

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. …

"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." - …

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, …

"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 …

"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 …

"I think we are, as immigrants, left out. Our voices are erased from the narrative. It's not that we don't want to tell our stories. It's that there are no spaces for us to tell our stories." - Lorena Kourousias

This …

"To be healthy, or even to be seen as someone who deserves care, you have to look a very specific way, and those are ways that are often privileged in our society, so white, able-bodied, thin, rich...we believe that …

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 …

"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 …

$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 …

Interference Archive’s summer 2017 exhibition Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up--a collaboration with Lesbian …

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, …

"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 …

"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 …

"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 …

"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, …

"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 …

"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 …

"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 …

"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 …

To mark the occasion of the launch of Season 2 of Audio Interference, we hosted a panel discussion on the use of podcasts as propaganda and …

"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 …

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

"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 …

“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 …

"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 …

"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

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"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 …

"The image allows for the viewer to interpret it quickly. And I guess that's what an advertiser tries to do--that's what a propagandist tries to do." - Kevin Caplicki

In this episode, Brooke Shuman talks to Kevin …

"We were subject to an FBI sting. We were placed under surveillance, and we were able to discover the surveillance and get rid of it, but then for the next nine years we were living underground." - Diana Block

In this …

"We were still coming off the afterglow, in many ways, of May '68. There's no question about that." - Greg Sholette.

In this episode, artist, writer, …

"I think about posters as a way of starting a conversation, but I don't feel like we talk enough about how that conversation is started and where that conversation goes beyond talking." -- Kameelah Janan Rasheed

On Nov …

"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 …

"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 …

"I just remember when I was first making comics, it just felt really powerful. It's kind of like that feeling when you first start riding a bike." - …

"I really wanted people to understand what the past was. At its base level, this is what happens when women have to use a coat hanger when they need an abortion." -Leela Corman

Leela Corman is an illustrator and comic …

"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, …

"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 …

"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 …

"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." - …

“It’s difficult for people to imagine an organized workplace in the arts, but we really want to make it a reality.” —Chloe Siebert

Interference …

“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, …

“I knew there was this punk rock stuff, I didn’t know anything about it, I just went to a show, and it was like, this is really weird and I kinda like it.” —Dread Scott

Dread Scott, artist and friend of Interference …

“In retrospect, we tend to create these seamless histories to tell a particular kind of story, but Greenham--it was messy. It was a messy …

“Communities have given up our power to police and institutions, and we have to take it back.” —Laura Whitehorn

Laura Whitehorn is a lifelong …

“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, …