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Please note that we'll be closed on Saturday, June 15th for our quarterly volunteer retreat; we hope you'll stop by another time during our regular open hours.
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This Week at Interference Archive:
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Arts & Activism Listening Party: Strength in Numbers
Thursday, June 6, 6-8pm
Join participants from the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls 2019 Arts & Activism program for a listening party to celebrate the work they’ve produced this year — individual podcasts based upon this years theme “Strength in Numbers” with original interviews, media and music!
This year, the teen fellows, Anayi Charles and Coral Dawley, have podcasts discussing sexual harassment, and the work and activism of James Baldwin. Read more on our website.
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Report back from Venezuela
Friday, June 7, 7pm
Come hear first hand accounts from Brooklyn residents Ann Fawcett Ambia & Keith Brooks, who were in Venezuela as members of a delegation from April 26 – May 5, 2019. We’ll talk about:
- What really happened on April 30, the day of the failed coup?
- Who got a huge turn out the next day, at the May Day rally?
- Is there evidence of massive starvation, homelessness, and lack of health care?
- How have US sanctions impacted Venezuelans?
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Unschooling: Understanding the past, living the present, looking towards the future
Friday, June 21, 7:30pm
In collaboration with the rooted us unconference.
To truly understand the unschooling movement, one must understand it’s past. The first part of this talk, hosted by Gina Riley, Ph.D., will focus on the entire history of the unschooling movement, including exploration of Rousseau, Neill, Illich, and Holt’s work, followed by a discussion of the evolution of homeschooling into different forms or philosophies, including the realm of unschooling.
Also explored will be the basic definition and core philosophy of unschooling, the question of “what happens when unschoolers grow up?”, and a discussion on the future of unschooling. Read more on our website.
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Historical Memory, Citation, and the Archive: Activating the Components of Our Culture of Revolt
Sunday, June 23, 2019, 6-8pm
Slideshow Lecture and Discussion with AK Thompson
How do recollections and invocations of past struggles inform contemporary campaigns against injustice? Drawing on material from his new book Premonitions, movement-based scholar AK Thompson reveals how historical memory, citation, and the archive operate unconsciously to constitute the political field and shape our culture of revolt. What political opportunities arise when historical memory, citation, and the archive are brought into consciousness, and when their invocations are made deliberate? Following the insights of Walter Benjamin, Thompson alerts us to the possibility of a politics that is simultaneously more radical and more mass-based than current movement configurations. Read more on our website.
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Stop by to visit our current exhibition:
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Everybody’s Got A Right To Live: The Poor People’s Campaign 1968 & Now
Exhibition dates: April 18 - June 23, 2019
Described as Martin Luther King Jr.’s “last great dream,” the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was an ambitious movement to make poverty in the world’s richest nation visible and to demand justice for poor Americans. The PPC struggled to define itself as a multi-axis movement while it faced political suppression from the state, ultimately derailing its reform goals and leading some to consider it a failure; however, its spirit and intention has carried on into the present day within a growing resurgence campaign seeking to call attention to the unmet demands of ‘68.
This exhibition provides a look at some of the visual culture of the original PPC, including photographs of marches and rallies, press coverage, and a contemporary public response to a mural in Resurrection City called the ‘hunger wall,’ in addition to showcasing the efforts of the new PPC and a portfolio of Justseeds posters created in solidarity with their actions. Read more on our website.
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Thank you to everyone that came out; pulled squeegees, made buttons, traced and painted banners and participated in the Everybody’s Got A Right To Live Propaganda party with the NYS Poor People's Campaign. Look for the materials we made at the Poor People's Moral Action Congress, June 15-17 in Washington D.C.
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