This week at Interference Archive:
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Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing
Exhibition Opening: October 17, 2019, 7-9pm
Exhibition Dates: October 17, 2019 to February 2, 2020
On October 17, 2019, Interference Archive and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) open the exhibition Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing. Building for Us begins in the 1970s, exploring the history of government disinvestment, widespread landlord neglect, abandonment in New York City and how this gave rise to squatting, urban homesteading, and other forms of self-help housing. The ultimate goal is for tenant associations in this housing movement is to take their buildings out of the speculative housing market and own them collectively and democratically.
This exhibition, and the accompanying 34-page two-color catalog, chronicles the history of the movement and tells the stories of people who fought to turn vacant or neglected buildings into vibrant co-ops, as told through photographs, newsletters, training manuals and other materials found in UHAB’s archive. More than just an exhibition catalog, this publication acts as a resource to illustrate the history and how-to of cooperative housing. With fully bilingual (English-Spanish) text and a glossary, this publication features sections on sweat equity and homesteading, UHAB, training and education, TIL (the tenant interim lease program), and community building in the homestead movement.
The Building for Us Exhibition Catalog is available for pre-sale discount until October 16. Ordering in advance helps us pay for printing costs up front and you also get a 25% discount.
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Alternative Archives: a conversation about Alternative Toronto with Lilian Radovac
Friday, October 18, 7pm
Join Lilian Radovac at Interference Archive during NYC Archives Week for a conversation about creating and sustaining alternative community archives. Lilian will speak about her work coordinating Alternative Toronto, an online digital repository that crowdsources documentation of Toronto’s radical, countercultural and trans/feminist/queer communities from 1980 to 1999. She’ll speak about everything from imagining this project to making it real, including the nuts and bolts of building an Omeka-based system, creating interfaces that help contributors share the materials they’ve collected, and spreading the word.
Lilian’s presentation will be followed by a discussion and brainstorming session. Read more here.
Photo: Rocky Dobey, “After years of tight-fisted colonialism, nothing to smile about,” Queen and Gladstone, 1988.
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What We Built: A panel discussion / Lo Que Construimos: Una mesa de discusión
Saturday, October 19, 2-4pm / Sábado 19 de octubre, de 2 PM a 4 PM
Come hear original HDFC homesteaders share their experiences and personal histories in the cooperative housing movement. There will be space to ask questions. Spanish translation will be provided.
Ven a escuchar los creadores originales de casa habitación de HDFC compartir sus experiencias e historias personales del movimiento de viviendas cooperativas. Habrá espacio para hacer preguntas. Se proveerá traducción a Español.
Read more here. Lee más aquí.
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Film Screening: AMA – THE MEMORY OF TIME
Saturday October 19th, 6:30 pm
AMA – The MEMORY OF TIME is a documentary film based on the life and death of Jose Feliciano Ama, a spiritual grandmaster, leader and chief of the Izalcos, a Nahuat-Pipil Nation in western El Salvador. This is the story of his family and survivors of the 1932 genocide. Don Juan Ama, nephew of Jose Feliciano, tells the story in an attempt to clear his uncle’s name from historical inaccuracies and restore the family and tribe’s dignity.
EL SALVADOR 1932, “La Matanza” is how Salvadoreños refer to a series of massacres that killed an estimated 30.000 of Indigenous people in January 1932. Conducted under the leadership of General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez, the event marked the beginning of a 13 years brutal regime and paved the way for military dominance for the next several decades. For Indigenous people, “La Matanza”, was the last chapter in a series of policies and reforms beginning in the 1920’s that sought to privatize ancestral/communal lands as El Salvador transition to an extractive coffee producing economy.
We are showing this film during the month of October, where Indigenous People’s Day sits, squarely to remind ourselves of how collective memory informs and strengthens present action and resistance.
Read more here. / Lee más aquí.
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Science for the People Climate solutions reading group: From militarism and tech to solidarity science
Thursday, October 24, 7-9pm
In 1969, a group of scientists and activists committed to the practice of science to end oppression and violence began publishing Science for the People, a flagship publication of the radical science movement for 20 years. This reading group coincides with the release of the first issue from the relaunch of Science for the People, which aims to introduce the principles of radical science to a new generation of activists looking to understand and transform the world around us.
With technological fixes and calls to follow the science being pushed as solutions to stop the climate crisis, it is important to learn from the past to understand the history of weather modification, militarism, and colonization; how to push back against technical solutions that only worsen conditions for the most vulnerable peoples; and move towards alternative possibilities of radical solidarity in our science and climate activism.
Read more and see the list of readings here.
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Loisaida Co-op Walking Tour / Paseo a Pie de Cooperativas de Loisaida
Saturday, October 26, 2019 Space is limited / Espacio es limitado. Registration is required/ Se requiere registro en avance at tiny.cc/LEStour
Meet at 11 AM at Tompkins Square Park. / Reunir a las 11AM en Tompkins Square Park.
Join UHAB and Interference Archive as we walk through the Lower East Side and view some of New York City’s historic tenant-owned cooperatives. Homesteaders will be present to answer questions and share knowledge. Co-hosted by Cooper Square Committee, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MORUS) and Rain Community Land Trust.
Read more here. / Lee mas aqui.
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Tactics of Solidarity in the Era of Mass Deportation: A Video Screening and Conversation
Saturday, October 26, 6:30pm
[A continuación en español]
Join us for the screening of Tactics of Solidarity in the Era of Mass Deportation (2019), a ten-minute video-essay by colectivo somoslacélula that reflects on the day-to-day forms of oppression that immigrants have to face at the hands of the state and its bureaucratic and “law-enforcement” agencies. This film is also an essay about practices of solidarity that resist this system of oppression, that try to supersede the usual division of labor/knowledge that reproduce the system and that aim at creating stronger communities. After the screening there will be a discussion with the members of the colectivo, and Savitri D (Stop Shopping Choir), Myrna Lazcano (Migrant Activist), Juan Carlos Ruiz (Co-founder of the New Sanctuary Movement), and immigration legal practitioners Nathan Yaffe and David Mullins.
Read more here. Lee mas aqui.
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A fundraiser for Interference Archive
Saturday, November 16, 7-9:30pm, Starr Bar, 214 Starr St, Brooklyn
All proceeds will help us pay the rent and continue caring for our people-powered social movement archive!
Based on the wild success of last year’s karaoke party at our annual fundraiser, this year it’s all karaoke all the time. Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere will host protest karaoke with their project Another Protest Song: Karaoke with a Message, and we’re bringing back our amazing karaoke dunk tank — name your song and the amount you’ll donate, and see who’s willing to sing your pick!
Check back soon for online ticket sales.
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