Audio Interference

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 antizionist Yiddish punk," broadcast live on Radio Free Gowanus (www.radiofreegowanus.com).

All music by Koyt Far Dayn Fardakht. Produced by Interference Archive.

"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 they're nervous about." - Bill DiPaola

In this episode, we focus on the history of New York's community gardens, specifically on the Lower East Side. Matt Patterson and Mike Dola talk to author, journalist, and activist Bill Weinberg, as well as Bill DiPaola, one of the founders of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (www.morusnyc.org). The mission of MoRUS is to preserve the history of grassroots activism and promote environmentally-sound, community-based urban ecologies.

Music: "Lower East Side" by David Peel and "Smoke" by Rafael Archangel.

To see Mike Dola's images of La Plaza Cultural (http://laplazacultural.com), one of the stops on Bill's walking tour, check out our blog at: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-47-lower-east-side-community-gardens/

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"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 speaking with folks from Bread and Puppet Theater, one of the oldest, self-supporting theatrical companies in the country. Bread and Puppet have been creating performances that tackle social justice issues, and feeding people homemade sourdough bread, since 1963.

We speak with puppeteers Amy Trompetter, Linda Elbow, Josh Krugman, Sam Wilson, and Joe Therrien about the group’s history and legacy of performance and activism work.

To learn more about bread and puppet, visit their website at www.breadandpuppet.org

We also have print materials from the Bread and Puppet Press in our archive, which you can stop by and see during our open hours, Thursday, 1-9pm and Friday-Sunday, 12-5pm.

The music in this episode is from "The Honey Lets Go Home Opera" by Bread and Puppet Theater, performed at a Theater for a New City in New York in December 2017.

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"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 episode, we talk to two groups that teach self-defense skills: Pop Gym (popgym.org)and the Center for Anti-Violence Education (caeny.org). We hear from CAE founder Annie Ellman, along with Izzy Finkelstein and Rachel Marks, and Pop Gym founder Grey Cohen.

This episode includes audio from a self-defense demo by the CAE Peer Educators at our block party in September 2017, originally broadcast live on Radio Free Gowanus (www.radiofreegowanus.org).

Music: "Dawn II" by Swelling, "Hit or Miss" by Odetta.

Produced by Interference Archive.

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. Throughout the 1970s, the Wages for Housework movement developed an analysis of women’s reproductive labor— “housework” broadly conceived— as a primary site for mobilization. The movement, publication, and Federici's talk ask us: How do we understand and value our own reproductive labor? How can we organize around this work in a way that is transformative both of our own lives and builds a collective opposition to a global capitalist system?

For more information about Silvia's new book: https://www.akpress.org/wages-for-housework.html

For more information about Silvia Federici, check out Audio Interference Episode 22 (http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-22-silvia-federici/), in which Silvia talks not only about Wages for Housework, but also about her collection of anarchist and communist 45s from the 1960s.

You might also be interested in a few more events coming up at Interference Archive:

Chicago-based feminist art collective Sister Serpents: http://interferencearchive.org/sister-serpents/

Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: http://interferencearchive.org/2018-artfeminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/

The song you hear at the end of this episode is “Avete mai guardato” by Amalia Goffredo.

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"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." - Imani Brown

In this episode, we catch up with the organizers of the Close Rikers campaign, featured in episode 28. Louise Barry speaks to Imani Brown, Organizing Coordinator at the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, about changes to the campaign since Mayor Di Blasio announced his plan to close Rikers Island.

Learn more at www.closerikers.org or at www.katalcenter.org.

Music featured in this episode: "Resiste!" by El Zombi Flash.

Produced by Interference Archive.

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, both are building communities that challenge and subvert the stereotypes of what veterans can and should be.

For more information about Frontline Paper or Frontline Arts, visit frontlinearts.org or @Frontline_Arts

To learn more about About Face: Veterans Against the War, check out ivaw.org or @vetsaboutface

Our thanks to David Keefe, Eli Wright, Claude Copeland and Matt Howard.

Music:

Postmodern Cloud Modifications/ Gravity's Rainbow by The Fucked Up Beat is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

The Myth of Information/ Pattern Recognition by The Fucked Up Beat is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

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"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 go in."

In this episode, we talk to Dan Kaminsky and Michael Higgins Jr of Social Justice Tours (www.socialjusticetours.com). Social Justice Tours uses tours as a medium to dig beneath the surface of what New Yorkers regularly see. We aim to engage New Yorkers in a critical dialogue about the past, present and future of our city, from the perspective of marginalized populations. The ultimate aim is to assist in movement building; that is to disperse information, expose injustice, and highlight inequality in a digestible, understandable way to encourage thought and inspire action. The group offers tours focusing on Trump's influence in midtown, gentrification in Williamsburg, and the radical history of Lower Manhattan. In this episode, Rob Smith and Tyler McBrien take a tour on environmental justice in Gowanus.

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"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 You Don’t They Will’s no. NOT EVER. installation and accompanying workshops provide an anti-racist, anti-fascist framework for understanding the rise of white nationalism in the current moment. This installation draws inspiration from research and organizing work against white nationalism by members and from interviews with rural activists who worked to fight white nationalism in their communities in the 1980’s and 1990’s at the height of the “Northwest Territorial Imperative.” If You Don’t They Will has now interviewed 20+ organizers in Oregon, Washington and Idaho that represent complex intersections of race, gender, class and culture involved in this resistance movement.

Produced by Interference Archive.

"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 episode of Audio Interference focuses on the Monument Quilt, a collective art project and an on-going collection of stories from survivors of rape and abuse, written, stitched, and painted onto red fabric. We speak with Lorena Kourousias, a social worker and activist who works with immigrant women, about the Monument Quilt's project at the US-Mexico border on the 100th day of Trump's presidency.

For more information about The Monument Quilt, visit www.themonumentquilt.org

Information about the border protest can be found here: https://themonumentquilt.org/massive-protest/

The Monument Quilt is one of Interference Archive's collaborators featured in the exhibition, Take Back the Fight: http://interferencearchive.org/take-back-the-fight/

Music featured in this episode: "The Beach Era (Djef Mix)" by El Remold.

Produced by Interference Archive.