“Yo Yo Mon Brooklyn!” New York City’s Pirates of the Air

Friday, July 26, 7pm

Radio producer and audio archivist David Goren will explore the cultural and political forces driving underground radio in NYC since the late sixties via live tuning, archival recordings and excerpts from his recent BBC radio documentary. David will be joined by a very special guest: Joan Martinez, a filmmaker, an avid listener to the Kreyol language pirates of Flatbush’s “Little Haiti” and an occasional broadcaster on them.

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.”

Audio Interference 34: Propaganda Party Highlights

This episode features excerpts from Mike Clemow’s interviews with members of our community, which were broadcast live on Radio Free Gowanus throughout our “Building Resistance” propaganda party on March 5.

Audio Interference 30: Rob Robinson

“People have knowledge, and they can put together stations that’ll blow the doors off a government station…you get set up in the Amazon in Brazil, and you set up twenty dollars worth of equipment, you can blow a thousand miles out because there’s nothing to interfere with that signal.” – Rob Robinson

Audio Interference 26: Radio Free Gowanus

“There is a kind of magic to sitting down and knowing that if someone wanted to, they could hear my voice right now.” – Mike Clemow