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"Funny, I was just saying last week that our Interference
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Archive project might be at the cutting-edge of a good new trend across this continent. Similar to how a few anarchists & like-spirited others borrowed the infoshop idea from Europe, and brought it to a few solitary cities, and then infoshops caught on and proliferated across the North American landscape, in villages and metropoles, now perhaps archives from below will spread like decentralized wildfire too, stealing back our histories and keep them alive for further use and experimentation. So it's such a pleasure to read of Peter Linebaugh's archivery adventures in London -- yet another alluring stop on a potential, increasingly far-flung, Interference archivista field trip itinerary. Or simply mutual inspiration from an expanding list of archive spaces meant to keep our rebel voices loud, clear, and strong:
"In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives. We do not want the voice of George Jackson to be silenced. His words still eloquently describe a desirable program, a necessary program. This is the need that brought about the project of May Day Rooms run by a remarkable collective of activist scholars, artists, teachers."
"In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives. We do not want the voice of George Jackson to be silenced. His words still eloquently describe a desirable program, a necessary program. This is the need that brought about the project of May Day Rooms run by a remarkable collective of activist scholars, artists, teachers."
Cindy Milstien
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Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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