Interference Archive

Come join us tonight at 6 o'clock at the Archive for this awesome event with Stefan Christoff!
https://interferencearchive.org/event/workshop-art-and-activism/?fbclid=IwAR1L3vy1SUHqNzd3Pn0OkLztgo5puS-sSD5NqSuL5cpInp--dxfTm6vemgU

Workshop: Art and Activism – Interference Archive An interactive presentation and workshop by Montreal’s Stefan Christoff, with an introduction by members of the Interference Archive

Feminist Propaganda Party on Sunday, April 23, 3-6pm!

Back to the Commons: A Feminist Propaganda Party – Interference Archive Join us, Undocumented Women’s Fund, and Women’s Strike NYC to imagine feminist futures through media making! We’ll be screen printing and making button and zines using historical and contemporary graphics. We will explore the commons as a means to transcend austerity politics and move toward ...

Hi friends! We won't be open today, Monday 4/17. We'll be back on Friday!

Interference Archive updated their business hours.

We have new shirts and sweatshirts available! Support the Archive by sporting a Josh MacPhee design, and come out to our Celebrating Interference event, this November 10th at 6pm. We're belatedly celebrating our 10 year anniversary! More info on our website: https://interferencearchive.org/event/celebrating-interference-an-evening-of-art-and-reflection/

Solidarity with Interference Archive | Bonfire Help us keep social movement history alive and accessible. Design by Josh McPhee. Interference Archive is a volunteer-run, collectively organized archive of social movement...

RSVP now! Sunday, October 9th at 6pm: Copaganda and the Press. Join us for a talk with civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatisanis about how the mainstream press normalizes and obscures police violence and how the media perpetuates a false narrative linking cops to public safety.

Copaganda and the Press – Interference Archive Join us for a talk with civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatisanis about how the mainstream press normalizes and obscures police violence and how the media perpetuates a false narrative linking cops to public safety. Why are there so many stories about crimes by the poor and so few about harm caused by....

Join us for our next exhibition opening from 3-8pm on Saturday, October 8th: Defend / Defund looks at resistance to policing and police brutality in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States.

Defend / Defund – Interference Archive Defend / Defund looks at resistance to policing and police brutality in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States. This exhibition focuses on the work of Black organizers and the families of victims of police violence who have fought the often brutal occupation of their communities. It also l...

Join us on Zoom THIS THURSDAY MAY 5 for a virtual conversation with artists Caleb Khaleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow about Zapantera Negra, a series of artistic exchanges between Emory Douglas of the Black Panther Party and autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities. See the link below to register for the Zoom link!

https://interferencearchive.org/event/zapantera-negra/

Images (left to right): Emory Douglas, Afro-American Solidarity with the oppressed People of the world; La Rebeldía Se Globaliza Cada Dia, created in Zapatista communities, 36” x 24”.

Zapantera Negra: Artists Caleb Duarte Piñon and Mia Eve Rollow on artistic exchanges between Black Panther Party and Zapatista Communities – Interference Archive Join us for a virtual conversation with artists Caleb Duarte Piñon and Mia Eve Rollow about Zapantera Negra, a series of artistic exchanges between Emory Douglas of the Black Panther Party and autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities. Sharing artworks made collaboratively by members of both ...

"Archives are not just a place where information goes to be stagnant, and to be stored, but where it goes to be transformed into new things, and spark new discussion about old ideas and new ideas simultaneously." -Jen Hoyer, volunteer, Interference Archive

Materials in the archive's collection are used in a generative way. In the latest episode of Audio Interference, archive volunteer Jen Hoyer talks about the importance of increasing the online representation of the movement histories that are told through the archive's collection. Jen reflects on the challenges to bring these organizing histories onto a digital sphere when they don't already have a strong online presence. Visit audiointerference.org to tune in!

https://interferencearchive.org/podcast/audio-interference-83-sister-serpents-and-generative-archiving/

Audio Interference 83: Sister Serpents and Generative Archiving – Interference Archive 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.

Audio Interference 58: Radical Access

The latest episode of Audio Interference is all about what it means to provide radical access to information--with Feminist Library On Wheels - FLOW ABC No Rio Street Books and NYC Books through Bars.

soundcloud.com “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 need to, to figure out how they fit into the larger p

Audio Interference 57: Free Education!

our new episode features Norman Fruchter and Robert Machover, filmmakers and instructors at the Free University of New York (FUNY), subject of our exhibition !

soundcloud.com “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 that would make people feel heroic. We wanted to make

Interview with Josh MacPhee

Check out this interview with our founder, Josh MacPhee, in Black Ink:
https://black-ink.info/2018/11/08/interview-with-josh-macphee/?fbclid=IwAR1nrmB4Uq6P2hF3ksV1qIIUKhYDe8Xc2Ni0dl7iSpQ3uiTSi2r8-Ka21BI

black-ink.info Polymath editor, designer, artist, archivist, organizer, and father Josh MacPhee is in town for the symposium Talking About a Revolution: Art, Design and the Institution. He’s also got two curated …

Audio Interference 56: WTO Protests, Seattle 1999

Here's our latest episode of Audio Interference, about the Seattle WTO protests of 1999 and their influence:

soundcloud.com “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 things actually could change.” --Becca Shaw Glazer I

Audio Interference 55: Steal This Radio and WBAD

“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 radio stations--Steal This Radio and WBAD--both of which were active in the 1990s. We interview Arrow Chrome, one of the founders of Steal This Radio, a pirate station that grew out of a Lower East Side community of squatters and activists. The episode also includes some audio from an event at Interference Archive featuring David Goren, creator of the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map, and DJ CINTRONICS, the founder of the unlicensed hip hop station WBAD, which became known for playing music you couldn’t hear on mainstream hip hop.

soundcloud.com “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 radio stations--Steal This Radio and WBAD--both of

Only hours left to get your tickets to tomorrow night's fundraiser! Get them here: https://keeping_ia_cool.eventbrite.com/

Every dollar raised directly supports Interference Archive's efforts to honor and mobilize the histories of people working for social transformation around the globe. We really hope to see you there!

Audio Interference 54: Just Leadership USA

"There's only a certain amount of time that a person can languish in prison while they prepare for a trial."

On Audio Interference, we're speaking with folks from the criminal justice reform organization JustLeadershipUSA about their work to cut the US correctional population in half by 2030. Just Leadership USA empowers people most affected by incarceration to drive policy reform. In this first episode, we interview Marvin Mayfield, Nishan “Prince” Jackson, and Shanequa Charles, three of the folks who are spearheading a city and state wide campaign to end mass incarceration in New York.

soundcloud.com "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 Interference, we're speaking with folks from the crim

Interference Archive | NO RNC Oral History Listening Party

Happening Tuesday, Aug 7, 7pm!

http://interferencearchive.org/no-rnc-oral-history-listening-party/?mc_cid=1470574e2d&mc_eid=4beb0726f1

interferencearchive.org Before there was “The Resistance” there was mass resistance to the Republican policy-agenda during the George W. Bush administration. During this previous wave of anti-Republican Party resistance, activists aligned with the Global Justice Movement regularly mobilized mass street demonstrations a...

We're so excited to print these amazing designs with Hate-Free Zone Queens this Saturday. Join us at Interference Archive from 1-5pm!

Join us! IA X HFZ: Saturday, July 28, 1-5pm, 314 7th St, Park Slope. We’re combining forces with Interference Archive for an afternoon of HFZ propaganda production. Silkscreen these stunning designs by Mahira Raihan onto posters, tees, and more! Feel free to bring your own tee or tote to silkscreen. @ Interference Archive

Interference is closed today, Saturday 6/23. Sorry everyone, today’s staffing volunteers are out sick and we haven’t been able to re-staff on short notice. WE WILL BE OPEN again as scheduled tomorrow, Sunday 6/24.

Audio Interference 53: Appalachian Movement Press

In this episode of Audio Interference, we speak with Shaun Slifer, artist, writer, self-taught historian, and Creative Director & Curator at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, about his research into Appalachian Movement Press and about the identity movement in Appalachia in the 70s.

"They saw this region as affected by a kind of colonial influence from the larger urban areas, sort of extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not giving anything back."

soundcloud.com "They saw this region as affected by a kind of colonial influence from the larger urban areas, sort of extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not givi

We had a great screening and discussion last night with Tami Gold and Heather Lewis, directors of My Country Occupied (1971), from Third World Newsreel!

Thanks to Interference Archive, Tami Gold and and their Newsreel film, My Country Occupied for a great event last night - part of Third World Newsreel's 50th anniversary!

Interference Archive’s current exhibition “no. NOT EVER.” closes April 15! Come out next Thursday 1-9, or Fri, Sat, Sun 12-5 to check it out oral and print histories of antifascism and join the fight against white nationalism

http://interferencearchive.org/no-not-ever/

Upcoming events related to our exhibition no. NOT EVER. The exhibition is up through April 15th - come check it out and get organized against white nationalism!

Audio Interference 45: Teaching Self Defense

"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 and the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE). We hear from CAE founder Annie Ellman, along with Izzy Finkelstein and Rachel Marks, and Pop Gym founder Grey Cohen.

soundcloud.com "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-def

If you were thinking of coming to the Wages for Housework event tonight, wait for the podcast! We are beyond capacity!!! We’re going to try to organize a second night with Silvia soon!!

We're opening late today (February 1) -- come by to visit between 6 and 9pm 😀

Six years ago today we lost one of our founders, the amazing Dara Greenwald. Interference Archive would not exist without her, and we wish she was here to see our amazing new space (and to have helped with the move!). We think she would be proud of us. Dara, you're in our thoughts and hearts.

We're open today for our regular hours, 1 to 9pm. Stop by for a warm place in the blizzard!

It Takes a Village to Raise a Silent Barn

We appreciate that community spaces can stay independent because they’re supported by the network that use them. The Silent Barn have surpassed their end of the year goal!
Please continue to support the work of projects like, interference Archive, Secret Project Robot, May Day Space, The Base, Bluestockings and all the amazing countercultural spaces in NYC. Thanks and Happy New Year!

villagevoice.com One of north Brooklyn’s last surviving DIY spaces turns to its community to stay afloat