Audio Interference

“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 whole blocks of terraced housing that were squatted. From the 1960-70s onward there’s lots of people that ended up in possession of properties having initially squatted there.”

“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 whole blocks of terraced housing that were squatted. From the 1960-70s onward there’s lots of people that ended up in possession of properties having initially squatted there.”

Dissident Island is an anarchist radio show broadcasting on the first and third Friday of every month from the London Action Resource Centre. Since 2007, Dissident Island has covered anarchist life in London, including the rise and fall of squatted social centers, and the Dissident Island archives offer a picture of the way squatters have changed the city, and the ways in which they’ve been affected by new laws and policing. Dissident Island also presents benefit shows in squatted venues, produces a zine, and offers radio workshops. This episode includes excerpts from an interview with Patrick Evans, one of the creators of Dissident Island, as well as clips from the show.

The voices you heard in this episode included Phoenix from Raven’s Ait, Paul from ANAL, Ben Rampart and Ben 52 from rampART, Lou and Matt from Made Possible by Squatting, and Dissident Island hosts John, Chick Pea, Bryn, Patrick IW. Thank you to Patrick Evans and everyone at Dissident Island for making this audio available to us.

Music: “Cataclysm” by the Flying Luttenbachers, “Hundred Years in Helheim” by Tri-Tachyon, and “The Pharaos Theme” by The Pharaos, all from the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive.

LINKS

Dissident Island: http://www.dissidentisland.org/

Squatted Social Centres in London, 2007-2017, with Dissident Island Radio:

https://socialcentreslondon.wixsite.com/interferencearchive

This episode was created by Patrick for the recent Interference Archive exhibition, Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves. (http://interferencearchive.org/resistance-radio-the-peoples-airwaves/)

For more on the history of squatting in London, you can listen to Episode 20 of Audio Interference: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-20-squatting-in-london/

Raven’s Ait: “Squatters in the Stream,” on BBC News:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7999287.stm

“Green-living Squatters: Revolution in Surbiton,” on the Independent:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/green-living-squatters-revolution-in-surbiton-1671326.html

Social Centre Plus: “Anti-cuts jobcentre squatters resist bailiffs,” East London Lines: https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2011/04/unti-cuts-squatters-resisted-eviction-from-deptford-jobcentre/

ANAL:

“Squatters turn oligarch's empty London property into homeless shelter,” The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/27/squatters-open-oligarchs-empty-london-property-as-homeless-shelter?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook

rampART on squat!net: https://en.squat.net/tag/rampart/

Made Possible by Squatting: Blog post and lots of pictures on urban75.org: http://www.urban75.org/blog/made-possible-by-squatting-exhibition-15-dock-street-london-e1/

London Action Resource Center: http://larc.space/

Advisory Service for Squatters: https://www.squatter.org.uk/

In this episode, we speak with Vanessa Nosie, activist, and Carrie Curley, activist and artist, about the Apache Stronghold and their spiritual movement to protect Oak Flat from the foreign mining company Resolution Copper.

AK Thompson speaks about citation and the role of archivists in social movements.

"we never used the term pirate radio ...what we are doing is legit we are legit we are community radio station and more important we are an undocumented radio station.. that’s how we talked about it...—we are not illegal we are undocumented"

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

The following is a recording of an event that happened in july of 2019. Archive volunteer Colin moderated a conversation with founding members Marnie Brady, Amanda Huron, and Athena Viscusi of radio CPR a pirate radio station in Mt. pleasant D.C. and Petri Dish, of Radio Mutiny and Prometheus Radio Project.

Speaker Bios: Marnie Brady / DJ Poinsettia launched the Neighborhood Power Hour as part of Radio CPR, Washington, DC where she converged her work in community organizing for immigrant rights, land, & housing with action research interviews & mix tapes over the airwaves. As part of Radio CPR, Marnie started a tech club to learn more about how sound travels. Now in Brooklyn, Marnie is part of the organizing committee for the national Homes for All campaign. She’s starting a job as assistant professor in politics & human rights at Marymount Manhattan in the fall.

DJ Maude Ontario (AKA Amanda Huron) is a co-founder of Radio CPR, a community radio station that broadcast from D.C.’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, 1998-2018. She currently works as an associate professor of interdisciplinary social sciences at the University of the District of Columbia, the public university serving Washington, D.C. Her research interests are in urban geography, housing justice, and D.C. history. She plays drums in the bands Puff Pieces and Weed Tree, and is a native of Washington, D.C.

PeteTridish has built studios, raised towers, drafted regulations, passed a law through congress, been the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against media consolidation, started non-profits, and been arrested as a protester on various occasions. He has been a radio pirate, a policy advocate for community media, a carpenter, an environmental educator, a solar energy system installer, a squatter, a homeless shelter volunteer and an activist in many social movements since the age of 16.

Athena Viscusi, Radio Free Mount Pleasant DJ and member of Stand for Our Neighbors.

In this episode, we’re sharing excerpts from an event at Interference Archive in July, which featured a conversation between David Goren and Joan Martinez about Haitian pirate radio stations of Brooklyn.

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 podcast where they interview people involved in wide-ranging and international community radio efforts.

Back in July 2019, Interference Archive volunteers Celia Easton Koehler and Elena Levi spoke with Jennifer Waits and Eric Klein of Radio Survivor about our latest exhibition at Interference Archive. It’s called Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves and it’s about the history of radio as a medium for grassroots movements. They spoke with Radio Survivor about the stations, communities and contexts featured in the exhibition, and the process, labor, and networks involved. Some of the seeds of our research actually came from Radio Survivor interviews!

Resistance Radio is on view at the archive through September 29. If you are in New York, come check it out during our open hours: Thursday 1-9pm or Friday through Sunday 12-5pm. You can also check out our website for events or look out for recordings from some events in the fall season of Audio Interference.

A huge thank you to Erik Klein, Jennifer Waits, and everyone from Radio Survivor for speaking with us about Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves.

More information about Radio Survivor and the original interview:

radiosurvivor.com

http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2019/07/30/podcast-204-resistance-radio-the-peoples-airwaves/

More information about Resistance Radio: The Peoples Airwaves:

http://interferencearchive.org/resistance-radio-the-peoples-airwaves/

resistanceradio.online

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference is excited to be bringing you an episode from a guest podcast, Radio Survivor. Interference volunteers Elena Levi and Celia Easton Koehler appeared on the podcast to talk about our current exhibition, Resistance Radio: The People's Airwaves.

In this episode of Audio Interference, 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.