This Week at Interference Archive:

Peter Linebaugh discusses Red Round Globe Hot Burning

Join Common Notions in celebrating Peter Linebaugh, preeminent scholar-activist of our proletarian pro-commons revolutionary history, and his latest publication, Red Round Globe Hot Burning: Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class (University of California, 2019).

Red Round Globe Hot Burning is a deep and powerful look into the struggles, events, relationships, and histories that shape our burning world today. In daring detail, Peter Linebaugh reminds us that the age of the Anthropocene and the consequent calamities of weather and war, climate and class struggle—are from its origins a story of enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory machine production. 

Let’s learn from these histories and ready ourselves to strike while the red round globe is hot! Read more on our website.

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

You can’t see them, but the skies above New York City hold a tangle of transgressive, culture-bearing radio signals. They’re sent from secret rooftop transmitters and pulse imperceptibly across the five boroughs, bringing familiar sounds to simple FM radios in homes and shops throughout tight-knit immigrant neighborhoods. These underground stations are often called pirates for broadcasting on the FM band without a government-issued license. They proliferate in communities that struggle to access the legal airwaves due to high costs and corporate control of the media. 

David Goren, creator of the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map has been researching the New York City’s pirate radio scene for the past five years, interviewing station staff and listeners on both sides of the legal divide. In this talk, David explores 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. Read more on our website. 

One Struggle presents Seeds of Unity: It’s Fascism, Y’all

Join One Struggle for Seeds of Unity: It’s Fascism Y’all. This presentation and discussion marks the launch of One Struggle's “Sprouting Theory” series. 

We’ll start to unpack what fascism is – a political and ideological form capitalism takes to deal with economic crisis. How we can resist fascism… It’s deeper than punching Nazis. The importance of getting organized for a genuinely progressive alternative… This means breaking out from the confines of electoral politics and non-profits. 

Capitalism is in crisis. Violent manifestations of this fact are becoming more frequent around the world. Fascist ideas are growing globally. We’re losing democratic rights. More and more people are experiencing first hand the desperation of living in a system whose only concern is the accumulation of profit for the capitalist class. The planet is reaching the limitations of its ability to sustain the exploitation of industry. 

Many of us are disillusioned with the current societal arrangement. But, we’ve been disorganized, and we don’t have a shared understanding of what’s in front of us… so how can we act to alter it? Let’s get off our phones and into the real world to discuss our agreements, disagreements and to struggle for a path forward. 

This event will be streamed through IG Live @seedsofunity. Read more here. 

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Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves

Exhibition dates: July 11 - September, 2019
 

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