Audio Interference 72: Dissident Island
“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.”
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Audio Interference 71: Protect Oak Flat
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.
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Audio Interference 70: Citation and the Archive
AK Thompson speaks about citation and the role of archivists in social movements.
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Audio Interference 69: What a DJ Really Is
"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"
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Audio Interference 68: Brooklyn Pirate Radio
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.
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Audio Interference 67: Interference Archive on Radio Survivor
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.
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Audio Interference 66: Poor People’s Campaign
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.
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Audio Interference 65: Library Freedom Project
The Library Freedom Project is an organization that’s making an impact in local communities, helping reduce the harm that people face online from hackers, law enforcement and major corporations.
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Audio Interference 64: Community Networks
In today’s episode, we’ll learn about community networks around the world, including NYC Mesh, FunkFeuer, and Rhizomatica. Community Networks offer local communities the opportunity to own and control their communication infrastructure.
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Audio Interference 63: Radical Access 2
We’re back to continue our series on radical, community libraries! In this episode, we chat with Ola Ronke Akinmowo of the Free Black Women’s Library, Dev Aujla of Sorted Library, and Jen Hoyer and Daniel Pecoraro from our own Interference Archive library.
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Audio Interference 62: Alison Alder
This episode features an interview with artist and collector Alison Alder, a visual artist whose work blurs the line between studio, community and social/political art practice.
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Audio Interference 61: 7K or Strike!
"We don't believe that big gains and big transformations to unjust systems happen by just asking nicely. It happens by, as we've seen in all of the inspiring teacher's strikes across the country - change happens by people really coming out and being disruptive. This is how folks throughout American history have gotten the things that they asked for, by going on strike. It's really not some kind of radical theory."
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Audio Interference 60: Radical Psychology at Alternate U
In this episode, Keith Brooks and Phil Brown share their experiences in the critical psychology movement that was a part of the revolutionary environment at Alternate U.
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Audio Interference 59: Politics of Sound
Listen to a discussion at Interference Archive about the various ways archiving sound can be a political act. With Mario Alvarez, Natiba Guy-Clement, Daniel Horowitz, and Samara Smith.
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Audio Interference 58: Radical Access
“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 picture of how they live.” -- Dawn Finley, FLOW
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Audio Interference 57: Free Education!
“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 a film that was both sympathetic to the project and its goals and purposes, and at the same time was realistic about the world that it was operating in.” - Robert Machover
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Audio Interference 56: WTO Protests, Seattle 1999
“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.”
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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.”
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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."
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Audio Interference 53: Appalachian Movement Press
"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."
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