Interference Archive

Join us for another year of monthly fiber arts meetups in support of Palestine: Fiber Friends of Falastin! All dates are listed in the graphic. Check IG to confirm dates, and any schedule changes. Suggested donation (which helps keep IA’s doors open and lights on, quite literally): $5-$10 This is an exploratory social activity for folks who have basic crochet, knitting, sewing, quilting, weaving, embroidery, (and more!) skills, and who are interested in building community at the intersection of textile-making and social movements. We have yarn, some crochet hooks, and some scissors to work on a group project in support of Palestine. You are also welcome to bring your own tools and materials, and related projects to work on. Please note that this is not a workshop designed to teach skills, although you may learn new skills when you come! To participate in the crochet activity you will need to know how to do a chain stitch and a single crochet stitch, which can be learned here. Masking is always encouraged at Interference Archive. We will provide masks at the door.

Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-67: Teenrevolt, Surrealism, Anarchism Curated by @abigailsusik7 and Sean Lovitt with Interference Archive: Brooke Darrah, Amelia Langas, and Kelly Mill January 15- May 15, 2026 The Resurgence Youth Movement (RYM), an anti-racist and anti-imperialist anarchist affinity group active in the Lower East Side between 1964 and 1967, demanded nothing short of a “World Revolution of Youth.” Co-founded by Jonathan Leake and Walter E. Caughey at the ages of 17 and 21, respectively, the RYM comprised a small group of teen and youth activists who sought to build on their existing involvement in and exposure to the Libertarian League, the Industrial Workers of the World, and News and Letters Committees. Active primarily in New York, with some activities in Chicago and San Francisco, RYM published a mimeographed zine, coordinated efforts among old and new left networks, and carried out a series of direct actions. Their zine Resurgence was founded after a meeting in Detroit with Marxist theorist and activist Raya Dunayevskaya, who encouraged the group and gave them the hand-cranked mimeograph machine that later produced the journal. The RYM called for the disintegration of the State, the complete destruction of bourgeois society, and a total surrealist-psychedelic revolution of the mind and body. “The Resurgence Youth Movement…advances the new anarchism of body, mind and soul, the psychedelic alchemies of revolution,” RYM wrote in their “Guerilla Manifesto.” EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT WITH THE CURATORS: Thursday, January 15th, 7 PM @ Interference Archive, 314 7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 CONVERSATION WITH MAGGIE WRIGLEY, PAUL LEAKE, ABIGAIL SUSIK, AND SEAN LOVITT: Friday, January 16th, 6 PM @ Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, 155 Avenue C, Manhattan BOOK LAUNCH AND LECTURE WITH CURATORS ABIGAIL SUSIK AND SEAN LOVITT: Saturday, January 17th, 6 PM @ Woodbine. New address TBA, Manhattan @eberhardtpress @woodbine.nyc @morusnyc @pmpress #anarchism #surrealism #counterculture

YOUTH RESURGENCE ‘68: FROM TAKASAKI TO NEW YORK 5pm: COLUMBIA REVOLT (Newsreel #14) Pr. Newsreel, 1968. United States. 59 min. In English. preceded by GARBAGE DEMONSTRATION 7:30: THE OPPRESSED STUDENTS Dir. Shinsuke Ogawa, 1967. Japan. 105 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. Spectacle is proud to present this special one-night-only program in celebration of Interference Archive’s exhibition, Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-67: Teenrevolt, Surrealism, Anarchism. Founded in New York’s Lower East Side in 1964, the Resurgence Youth Movement became a sprawling and boundless web of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anarchist activity in cities around the country. The exhibition, closing on May 17th, follows the 2023 publication of Resurgence!, the first book devoted to the RYM and its founder Jonathan Leake, which includes selections of all twelve issues of Resurgence, the original mimeographed zine published by Leake and RYM between 1964 and 1967. From Interference Archive: The RYM called for the disintegration of the State, the complete destruction of bourgeois society, and a total surrealist-psychedelic revolution of the mind and body. “The Resurgence Youth Movement…advances the new anarchism of body, mind and soul, the psychedelic alchemies of revolution,” RYM wrote in their “Guerilla Manifesto” (Resurgence 6, 1967). Their activities continued until August of 1967, when Walter Caughey was stabbed to death in New York in an unsolved murder that many believe was politically motivated. Copies of Resurgence! will be available for sale at the theater. We will be joined throughout the evening by special guests including Resurgence! Editor Abigail Susik (@abigailsusik7 ), underground press scholar Sean Lovitt, and theorist and activist Sabu Kohso. Poster by @susansontagfan_420

Join the NYC branch of the IWW for another intro to Linux workshop. Learn from tech and tech-savvy workers how (and why!) to switch from big tech to an open source operating system. We will provide usb sticks loaded with Linux Mint. Attendees should back up their data before coming or bring an old computer and a charger. Desktops are ok, just plan on coming a few minutes early to set up.

Who gets to record history? Who gets to define what is history? Who gets to keep and preserve it? Join the Penn State Libraries’ Community Archives Pilot Project to consider these questions with a free screening of @mattpwolf 's “Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project.” For more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion Stokes secretly recorded American television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion, taping was a form of activism to seek the truth and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would one day be invaluable.

Hoy que Cuba no solo enfrenta la hostilidad del imperio, sino el abandono silencioso de aquellos que, en teoría, debieran disputar el orden unipolar, se vuelve importante recordar la Primera Conferencia de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de África, Asia y América Latina, la Tricontinental (La Habana, 1966), que marcó un punto de ruptura en la historia del movimiento revolucionario mundial. La Conferencia materializó la integración latinoamericana a la solidaridad afroasiática y configuró el nacimiento de una corriente revolucionaria global de acento antihegemónico. Sus compromisos se consolidaron con la creación de la OSPAAAL, desde donde se articuló una política internacionalista y una práctica gráfica sin precedentes. “El diseño a las armas” es una publicación que reflexiona en la encrucijada del diseño gráfico y la solidaridad política en la Cuba revolucionaria a través de la OSPAAAL, que produjo cerca de 500 carteles, revistas y libros desde finales de los sesenta, generando un lenguaje visual de circulación internacional. El libro recorre este contexto a partir de ensayos que abordan la ideología tricontinental (antiimperialismo, anticolonialismo, antirracismo, anticapitalismo), el papel de Alfredo Rostgaard en la construcción de este lenguaje visual, y el impacto de la OSPAAAL en luchas del mundo árabe y Corea. También revisa su legado en prácticas artísticas y políticas contemporáneas. Incluye una amplia selección de gráficos de la OSPAAAL (muchos de Interference Archive, Brooklyn) junto con carteles contemporáneos producidos en 2015 en solidaridad con luchas actuales. Aunque la OSPAAAL cerró en 2019, su producción sigue siendo uno de los ejemplos más sólidos de diseño político y abre posibilidades para pensar cómo el diseño puede contribuir a los movimientos sociales emancipatorios. Editado por @lani_lou_ , Jen Hoyer, @jmacphee , Vero Ordaz y Sarah Seidman. Publicado por @commonnotions , @sobinfluencia , @rebozo_editorial y @tumbalacasaediciones . 📘 ¡Ya lo tenemos disponible! DM para pedidos #ospaaal #tricontinental #diseñopolítico #cuba #arteypolítica

Hear ye, hear ye! 🗞️ Join us at Interference Archive this coming Wednesday, April 29, from 6:30-8:30PM for our monthly Collections Work Party. From filing donations to cataloging our library to working on our digital finding aid, there are many ways to get involved with Collections! Physical space is limited; RSVP at the Eventbrite in our bio! 🏰

we will see you MONDAY! shake off those winter blues and come through for some spring-y zine making 🌱🫟 6:30-8:30 at interference archive, no RSVP needed but always welcome if you want to give us a heads up 🌀

Places We Gather: Fort Greene, the audio tour created by Interference Archive (@interferencearchive ) in collaboration with the Brooklyn Public Library (@bklynlibrary ), is featured in this year’s Janes Walk festival taking place from May 1-3, 2026 ( #janeswalknyc | @mas_nyc ). Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations. The festival encourages people to share stories about their neighborhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and connect with visitors and neighbors alike. Visit the link in our bio to learn more about Places We Gather and the 200+ other virtual and in-person walking tours that are made publicly available by the festival. Places We Gather is an audio walking tour that shares stories of community care and mutual aid in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. In the tour, you’ll hear Fort Greene residents and community members share stories about important gathering places, changes in the neighborhood, mutual aid initiatives, and memories of individuals coming together to support one another. You can listen to the tour outside while on a guided walk in the neighborhood, or enjoy the tour from home, the library, or wherever you choose to listen. The guided walk takes an estimated 1-1.5 hours to complete. The tour transcript is available in English and Spanish. Places We Gather is a collaboration between Interference Archive’s Audio Interference podcast and Brooklyn Public Library. Liza Yeager is our editor and sound designer (@lizayeager ). Sarah Lopez designed our map (@slimeslop ). The project transcripts are translated to Spanish by chivita espacial (@chivita.espacial ).

NEW JUNE COURSE! In the oft lamented history of the American Left, the decade of the 1930s shines through as a unique moment of political potential realized in widespread mobilization and influence. Responding to the global crisis set in motion by the Great Depression, labor activists, policy intellectuals, and creative voices came together in a diverse and spirited leftist coalition anchored in the mass unionization of industrial workers – what historian Michael Denning has termed “the Age of the CIO.” This historical bloc became a key pillar of FDR’s New Deal coalition, but also generated a renaissance of working-class cultural production and visibility as part of an anti-fascist Popular Front alliance with liberal institutions and federal agencies like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Office of War Information (OWI). As Denning has argued, the 1930s left “triggered a deep and lasting transformation of American modernism and mass culture” through a “laboring of American culture” that helped to define American democracy in left populist terms as both pluralist and liberatory. In our own political moment, with renewed possibilities of a broad-based left-liberal coalition rising to forcefully challenge the Right’s aggressive political agenda, what can the Cultural Front teach us about how intellectual and cultural influences can constitute a counter-hegemonic force? “The Cultural Front: Labor, Culture, Ideology (In-Person)” with @theotherjude starts Tuesday, June 2nd at @interferencearchive For more information and to enroll, visit the “Current Courses” link in bio. 📷: Orson Welles in publicity gag for Los Angeles Musical Fiesta

May 5th we'll be screening the film WTO/99, an immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization. Learn about this crucial bit of social movement history, now more relevant than ever. Q&A to follow with editor/producer @prophetkotto and scholar AK Thompson. RSVP link in bio! Art by @clouders1996

watcha doing Friday night? Come hang with us at Espacio de Culturas @espaciodeculturas_nyu for the opening of Printing Internationalism, organized by Auriane Benabou with @verofication @aprovecharse and myself on behalf of @interferencearchive in support of our book Armed by Design: Posters and Publications of Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) published by @commonnotions - we’ll have books!! And next Tuesday April 7th I’ll be playing records from the resistance movements OSPAAAL supported.