Turn on your ears with Interference Archive
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We often think of the archive as a place to look at things: over the past nine years, we've cultivated a strong collection of graphic and text-based material produced by social movements around the world. But archives are also places for listening.
One of our favorite projects is the Audio Interference podcast series; you can listen on iTunes and soundcloud. To get you started, we've pulled together some of our previous Audio Interference episodes related to prisons, policing, and racial justice.
Feast your ears. Feed your mind.
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"Bail is often described as incarceration's front door, because if you can't afford it, you're going to jail." - Peter Goldberg, Executive Director, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
In this episode from 2017, we spoke with folks from the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund and the Close Rikers campaign--just two organizations who are part of a long struggle for the decriminalization of poverty and prison abolition. You can also check our follow-up episode from this same year, Update from Close Rikers, about changes to the campaign since Mayor Di Blasio announced his plan to close Rikers Island and to build new jails in the outer boroughs, as organizers continue to struggle against the expansion of the carceral state.
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"To be healthy, or even to be seen as someone who deserves care, you have to look a very specific way, and those are ways that are often privileged in our society, so white, able-bodied, thin, rich...we believe that every person gets to have bodily autonomy and define for themselves: what does healing look like for me right now? what does health mean for me?" -Adaku Utah, Harriet’s Apothecary
In this 2017 episode, we spoke with members of Harriet’s Apothecary, an intergenerational, gender nonconforming collective of healers, artists, health professionals, magicians and activists who are expanding the way we understand health. Speakers Adaku Utah, Naimah Efia Johnson, and Beatrice Anderson talk about the legacy of healing, the connection between health and abolitionism, and the community healing spaces they cultivate for people who identify as black, indigenous and people of color.
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“What is possible when poor and dispossessed people rise up as one, understanding who the enemy is, and understanding that we no longer can afford to be divided?”--Ciara Taylor
In this episode from 2019, we spoke with Ciara Taylor, Pauline Pisano, and Charon Hribrar--activists, organizers, musicians, and artists who are a part of The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The movement is building on the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, a national movement led by Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Junior to unite the poor. We focus our conversation on the role music and art plays in this movement.
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“Communities have given up our power to police and institutions, and we have to take it back.” —Laura Whitehorn
Laura Whitehorn is a lifelong organizer and activist whose work spans anti-war, AIDS, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and prison abolition movements. In one of our earliest episodes, Laura was interviewed by Lani Hanna about her work, including the Interference Archive exhibition, Self-Determination Inside Out, an exhibition and public program series featuring the cultural materials produced by people who are incarcerated and their allies.
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"There's only a certain amount of time that a person can languish in prison while they prepare for a trial." --Marvin Mayfield, Just Leadership USA
In this episode from 2018, we learned about Just Leadership USA’s fight to cut the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030. We spoke with three activists -- Marvin Mayfield, Nishan “Prince” Jackson, and Shanequa Charles -- who were spearheading a city and state wide campaign to end mass incarceration in New York.
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