Coming up at Interference Archive:
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Radical Psychology at Alternate U and Beyond
Wednesday, December 12, 6pm
Radical psychology and the politics of mental illness were an important part of social movements in the 1970s and 1980s, and central issues in free education experiments, including Alternate U. In 1970, Keith Brooks ran a course on psychology in the context of the global liberation struggle and the questions of “what is its role and whose side is it on?” Phil Brown ran a course challenging what he called the “Myth of Mental Illness.”
We are thrilled to host a talk with Keith Brooks and Phil Brown, who will share their experiences in the critical psychology movement that was a part of the revolutionary environment at Alternate U. Phil and Keith helped set up the organization Psychologists for a Democratic Society, which published a newspaper under the same name. They will introduce the work of this offshoot from the Students for a Democratic Society.
Read more information on our website.
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Holiday Openhouse 2018
Saturday, December 15, 2018, 12-5pm
Celebrate our second annual holiday open house on 7th Street! Stop by, sip on hot cocoa, and browse our last-minute-market of radical gifts from our friends at Justseeds Artists Cooperative Common Notions, and more who will be joining us to sell prints and books. Comics, zines, and posters, will be for sale from the Our Comics, Ourselves crew. And don’t forget to get your copy of Free Education!, Interference Archive’s most recent publication. Check our website for a full list of vendors.
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Social Justice Book Club: The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn
Tuesday, December 18, 7 PM – 9 PM
Join us for a meeting before the holidays! For our December book club, we’re reading The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn. Highlighting not just the usual terms of presidential administrations and congressional activities, this book provides a “bottom-to-top” perspective, giving voice to our nation’s minorities and letting the stories of such groups as African Americans, women, Native Americans, and the laborers of all nationalities be told in their own words. RSVP by email or on facebook.
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Stop by to check out our current exhibition:
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Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U., and Learning Liberation
October 11, 2018 – January 27, 2019
Opening reception: October 11, 2018, 6-9pm
Curated by Jakob Jakobsen and Interference Archive
Rooted in an examination of the history of the Free University of New York (FUNY), a 1960s experiment in radical education, this exhibition combines original archival documents from FUNY as well as from related projects, including Alternate U. and the Freedom Schools movement, to explore what it means to have a space for community at the intersection of learning, art and politics.
In our current moment, when the price of education amounts to crippling student debt and underemployment is a reality for even the most qualified post-secondary graduates, Free Education! aims to generate conversation about what it looks like to reimagine possibilities for education.
This exhibition includes an audio component featuring dialogue based on the transcripts of interviews with former participants of the Free University of New York and Alternate U recorded in 2017 and 2018. Interviewees include Susan Sherman, David McReynolds, Stanley Aronowitz, AB Spellman, Keith Brooks, Norman Fruchter, Robert Machover, Miriam Frank, Sue Simensky and Joe Berke. We are grateful to them for their generosity in sharing of their life stories. Additional material in the exhibition is made available through Susan Sherman, Keith Brooks, Perry Brass, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, and PETT archive. The exhibit curators hope that this exhibition will recognize and honor the legacy of David McReynolds, war resister and Free University lecturer, 1930 – 2018.
Read more information on our website.
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