Defend / Defund

Interference Archive is a community-supported archive of material from social movements around the world, created with a mission to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.
Brooke Darrah Shuman is a video producer at More Perfect Union covering labor and workers' rights. Her video and writing has appeared in HuffPost, Bon Appétit, The New Yorker and the Southern Foodways Alliance. She is a volunteer at Interference Archive, an open stacks archive of political movement material, where she has worked on exhibitions on antifascism in the United States and disability/crip activism.    
Jen Hoyer is a librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and has volunteered on collections, exhibitions, and education projects at Interference Archive since 2013. Her writing about the intersections of education, archives, and social movement history is available in The Social Movement Archive (Litwin Books, 2021) and What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom (Libraries Unlimited, 2022).
Josh MacPhee has been collaboratively making, researching, and collecting political art for over twenty years. In 2011, he cofounded the Interference Archive, a library, exhibition, event, and research space in Brooklyn dedicated to the exploration of social movement culture. He is also a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, and the author/editor of multiple books including Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution (Feminist Press, 2010 and 2020), An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), and Graphic Liberation: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements (Common Notions, 2023). His solo exhibition We Want Everything was hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022. Interviews with Mariame Kaba, Dread Scott, Dennis Flores, Dr. Joshua Myers, Jawanza Williams (VOCAL-NY and Free Black Radicals), Cheryl Rivera (NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group and Abolition Action), and Bianca Cunningham (Free Black Radicals).

Introduction 
Legacies of Violence 
Self Defense  
Living Under Disinvestment
Whose Streets? Our Streets! 
Civilian Watch Groups 
A Conversation with Mariame Kaba
Attempts at Reform  
Civilian Complaint Review Board  
Diversifying The Force  
Eyes on the State 
Copwatch  
Stolen Lives Project  
Copaganda  
A Conversation with Dread Scott
A Conversation with Dennis Flores
Naming the Problem: Pig Nation  
The Black Worker and Police Brutality 
Riot! 
Queer Resistance 
Fighting for Demilitarization 
Cultural Organizing 
A Conversation with Joshua Myers
Imagining An Abolitionist Future 
A Conversation with Occupy City Hall