Get your tickets: If I Can't Sing, It's Not My Karaoke Revolution

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!

Visit the new exhibition:

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.

This week at Interference Archive:

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. 

Coming Up at Interference Archive:

Intro to Cooperative Homeownership Course / Curso de Introduccion a ser Propietario de Viviendas Cooperativas

Thursday, November 7, 2019, 6-8PM

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 

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 

November 13, 2019, 6-9PM 

Help us edit Wikipedia pages related to co-operative housing in New York City. Our objective is to make information about tenant organizing more accessible for current and future movement makers, educators, and learners. No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop if you are able. Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon with a brief tutorial to cover the basics. Snacks will be provided. 

Ayúdenos  a revisar las páginas de Wikipedia relacionado con viviendas cooperativas en la ciudad de Nueva York. Nuestro objetivo es hacer información sobre organización de inquilinos más accesible para creadores de movimientos, educadores, y estudiantes actuales y futuros. No se requiere ningún experiencia revisando Wikipedia, pero favor de traer un ordenador portátil si sea posible. “Wikipedians” con experiencia estarán allí para ayudar, y comenzaremos el “edit-a-thon” con un tutorial breve para cubrir los básicos. Se proporcionará refrigerios. 

Interference Archive exists because people like you believe in what we do.

The backbone of this community are sustainers who make a regular contribution to the archive, generally of $10 to $50 each month.

Visit our website to learn how you can become a monthly sustainer of Interference Archive!