Audio Interference

Hear from one of the organizers behind the Stop Cop City exhibition currently on view at Interference Archive (Sep 2024 – Jan 2025). We learn about the goals of the show, how it came together, and the important role that archiving has in the movement.  This episode was written, narrated and co-produced by Rob Smith. […]

In this episode, we hear from Ora Wise, co-founder of FIG, a New York City-based collective working to transform the food system from within.  Over the last decade, food has been a professional, political, and creative outlet for Ora. Here, Ora reflects on her experiences connecting with Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, and, with […]

Reb Ngu, one of our volunteers, interviews their teammate, Lua Ferreira, about their queer/trans pick-up soccer group, which Lua started in the summer of 2020. They talk about losing soccer as kids and recovering it as adults, the transforming effects of play, maintaining the group as a free and open space, and learning how to […]

What does solidarity mean to you? This episode of Audio Interference was made with Musicians for Palestine and Radio Alhara as a gesture of solidarity with Palestine. Community members explore what solidarity looks like, feels like, and even smells like. To learn more about Musicians for Palestine, check out https://musiciansforpalestine.com/our-letter.

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.  Our thanks to Nora Almeida and Mikey Goldenberg for their contributions. Learn more at https://interferencearchive.org/podcast/episode-84-what-does-may-day-mean-to-you Additional Credits: “Exquisite Motion” by Blue Dot […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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.