Visit the new exhibition:
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Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing
Exhibition Dates: October 17, 2019 to February 2, 2020
Interference Archive and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) present 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.
Read more here. / Lee mas aqui.
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This week at Interference Archive:
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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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Get your tickets: If I Can't Sing, It's Not My Karaoke Revolution
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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!
Get your tickets now!
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Coming up at Interference Archive:
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Building the Movement for Mutual Aid: Training Series
Part 1: Friday, November 1, 7-9pm
D.I.Y. Crisis Response Presentation & Discussion using archival material from Interference Archive
Part 2: Saturday, November 2, 4-8pm
Participatory workshop and skill share
***Please RSVP for Part 2: participatory workshop and skill share here.
When catastrophe strikes, those most impacted and their neighbors are the real first responders. Join Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADRelief) in collaboration with Interference Archive for a two-part Building the Movement for Mutual Aid training series. MADRelief will introduce community organizing as disaster preparedness and guide conversations that give all participants opportunities to share knowledge and build camaraderie with others in the community.
Mutual Aid for Disaster Relief is a growing movement that amplifies the efforts of frontline communities and engages diverse volunteers in scrappy yet strategic grassroots projects that insist on decolonial, anti-capitalist, empathetic and uplifting solidarity not charity transformative direct action.
All are welcome! Attend one or both events.
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Intro to Cooperative Homeownership Course / Curso de Introduccion a ser Propietario de Viviendas Cooperativas
Thursday, November 7, 2019, 6 PM to 8 PM / Jueves, 7 de noviembre, 2019 de 6 PM a 8 PM
Attend this workshop for information about cooperative housing and what it means to live in and purchase an affordable (or limited-equity) co-op apartment.
Asistir a este taller para información acerca de viviendas cooperativas y lo que significa vivir en y comprar un apartamento cooperativa asequible (o de capital limitado).
Space is limited. Registration is required at tinyurl.com/IntroCoop / Espacio es limitado. Se requiere registro en avance en tinyurl.com/IntroCoop
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