Audio Interference

“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 episode, Lani Hanna speaks to Diana Block about her life as an activist, organizer, […]

"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 episode, Lani Hanna speaks to Diana Block about her life as an activist, organizer, and writer.  Block was a founding member of San Francisco Women Against Rape and the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee.  When her activism in support of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement attracted the attention of the FBI, she spent thirteen years living "underground" under a different identity.

 

You will also hear Diana Block read from her novel, Clandestine Occupations, during the exhibition Armed By Design/El Diseño a las Armas: Posters and Publications of Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL).

 

Produced by Interference Archive.

 

Music: "Fibonaci Effect in Two Movements" by Lanark, "El Danzon de Noventa Millas" by Cuban Cowboys, and "Pivoting on Salsa Key 11," by Tracky Birthday, all courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

“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, and activist Greg Sholette relates the history of the political art collective PAD/D, and how the collective used art to resist gentrification in 1980s New York. Sholette was interviewed […]

"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, and activist Greg Sholette relates the history of the political art collective PAD/D, and how the collective used art to resist gentrification in 1980s New York.  Sholette was interviewed by Louise Barry and Eric Triantafillou in March.  

 

Produced by Interference Archive.

 

Music: "Bruises," "No One's Trophy," and "Asleep," by Christian Flanders, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

“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 4, 2015, Interference Archive hosted a panel entitled Solidarity, Distribution, Design: The Poster Today, which explored the […]

"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

"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

"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." - Jan Descartes

"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

"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."