Building Resistance Propaganda Party
Sunday, March 5, 12-5pm

What is a propaganda party? It’s where we get together to make and share graphic and informational material that we can use in our organizing work.

Join us! This is a time to meet people, learn about the work different organizations are doing, and pick up flyers, stickers, posters, buttons, and more. If you, or an organization you are a part of, are creating material like this, please feel free to bring some to share. More info here.

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Sunday, March 12, 2-6pm

Join Interference volunteers and local Wikipedians in a rhizomatic campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia. Participants will have the opportunity to work directly with archival materials—including ephemera related to our current exhibit, Finally Got the News—and explore intersections between art, feminism, and activism.

Free childcare is available! But, we need an RSVP by March 6th if you'd like childcare -- please let us know at info[at]interferencearchive[dot]org.

No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop! Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon with a brief tutorial to cover the basics.
More info here.

Audio Interference 29: Paper Tiger Television

“We wanted it to have a kind of handmade look…it seemed like it would be better than a curtain and a potted plant, which had been the usual for a public access program.” — Deedee Halleck

In this episode, Sabine Bernards talks to Deedee Halleck about the origins and history of Paper Tiger TV, the community media collective that became a pioneer in video art and public access television. You will also hear clips from some of Paper Tiger’s early episodes.

Listen to this and other podcast episodes on our website.

Reading Finally Got the News: a reading and discussion group

This reading group, designed to accompany Interference Archives’ Finally Got The News exhibition, will explore some of the key liberation movements of the 1970s U.S. through the lens of written documents included in the exhibition.

Our second four-week session starts on March 11th and will focus on the American Indian Movement as well as broader issues surrounding the interaction of social movements and the state. For more information or to sign up, please visit our website.

Film screening: People’s Firehouse #1 and Voces de Fillmore

As part of our reflection on the power of community media making alongside the Finally Got the News exhibition, we are excited to partner with Third World Newsreel for a screening of People’s Firehouse #1 (1979) and Voces de Fillmore (2016).

In the context of austerity measures in New York City, the Polish Americans of Northside, Brooklyn realized their community was under attack by the city bureaucracy. The closing of their local firehouse was the last straw. They occupied the firehouse and began a campaign to revitalize their neighborhood. Paul Schneider documents this struggle in People’s Firehouse #1, showing what can happen when a community comes together to fight city hall.

Almost four decades later, families in the South Williamsburg (Los Sures) neighborhood share their memories in Voces de Fillmore (Ariana Allensworth, Teresa Basilio & Regina Eaton). This film looks at the decrease of Southside’s Latinx and working class population, in part due to gentrification in New York City, and portrays Puerto Rican families who have lived and raised children in Los Sures for several decades talk about their quest to preserve a sense of community in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.

For more information , please visit our website.

Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979
Exhibition Dates: January 26th through May 14, 2017

Finally Got the News (a collaboration between Brad Duncan and Interference) uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy and capitalism itself. It uses original printed materials—from pamphlets to posters, flyers to record albums—to tell this politically rich and little-known story. This exhibition also includes a publication, now available for pre-order.