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Reb Ngu, one of our volunteers, interviews their teammate, Lua Ferreira, about their queer/trans pick-up soccer group, which Lua started in the summer of 2020. They talk about losing soccer as kids and recovering it as adults, the transforming effects of play, maintaining the group as a free and open space, and learning how to build community — or “being together everywhere” — through soccer.

Photo courtesy of Madi Ruff

Produced by Interference Archive and Reb Ngu

Story editing by Rob Smith

Music: “A Common Pause” and “Filing Away” by Blue Dot Sessions

What does solidarity mean to you? This episode of Audio Interference was made with Musicians for Palestine and Radio Alhara as a gesture of solidarity with Palestine. Community members explore what solidarity looks like, feels like, and even smells like. To learn more about Musicians for Palestine, check out https://musiciansforpalestine.com/our-letter.

What does May Day Mean to you? In this episode of Audio Interference we dive into the history of May Day and explore what it means to a few of our community members.

In this episode, volunteer Jen Hoyer explains how the archive is using donated materials to create an online presence for noteworthy, but digitally absent groups like Sister Serpents. But generating new materials and new discussions is not without a few risks. Stay tuned to find out more.

To learn more about Sister Serpents, check out episode 52!

Audio Interference is produced by Interference Archive.

Music:

“The Crisper” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

“Soundboy” by 4bstr4ck3r

“Scenery” by Kai Engel

“Elk” by Meydän

In this episode, we speak with Interference Archive volunteer Dane Michael about his favorite zines in the archive’s collection as well as his interest in collecting radical print materials and mutual aid ephemera, which he regularly donates to the archive. In particular, Dane shares experiences traveling to social centers and radical spaces in Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia in Spain. He also talks about the mutual aid work he is a part of in the Bay Area in California.

References from this episode of Audio Interference:

Doris Zine: www.dorisdorisdoris.com

Todo Por Hacer: www.todoporhacer.org

Dane is part of a few mutual aid groups in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco, including: East Bay Food Not Bombs: www.eastbayfoodnotbombs.org

Omni Commons: www.omnicommons.org

Bound Together Bookstore: www.boundtogetherbooks.wordpress.com

Prisoners Literature Project: www.prisonlit.org

North Oakland Mutual Aid: www.instagram.com/northoakland_mutualaid/?hl=en

Thank you to J.Cruz/COVR for creating the music for this episode, which is titled “shake shake shake”.

Audio Interference is produced by Interference Archive.

Free City Radio contribution for Audio Interference: Asylum seekers fighting back against workplace exploitation in Montréal

In this segment we hear about the struggles for workplace justice for non-status people and asylum seekers in Montréal. The segment revolves around an ongoing campaign on the part of the Immigrant Workers Centre to support the workers at the warehouse distribution centre for Dollarama, one of the largest dollar shop corporations in North America. Many of the workers at the 24-hour distribution centre for North America, which was declared an essential service by the government in Québec City last spring, are asylum seekers and non-status people.

Mostafa Henaway, an organizer with the Immigrant Workers Centre speaks about the campaign to support Dollarama warehouse workers, giving some context and background. Mohamed Barry, a former asylum seeker from Guinea who recently won status, speaks on experiences working within the Dollarama warehouse distribution centre and details the ways that asylum seekers from West Africa and the Caribbean are being exploited in such workplaces in Québec.

Mohamed is one of the founders of the Statut pour les guinéens campaign to demand regularization for all refugees from Guinea and is a former worker at the Dollarama warehouse. View a silk-screen poster worked on by artist Christeen Francis, a member of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, that is up here to support the campaign.

Thank you for listening ! –– Stefan Christoff.