Defend / Defund
By Interference Archive & Brooke Darrah Shuman &Publisher Description
- Important historic context. Shows how the modern Defund movement builds on Black feminist and abolitionist movements, and imagines alternatives to policing for community safety.
- Over 100 full-color images of archival and contemporary materials produced by: The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Young Lords in the 1960s and 70s, CopWatch and the Stolen Lives Project in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Movement for Black Lives, Project NIA, and INCITE! In the 2000s.
- An original document of strategies utilized by organizers, and the art and propaganda they made to resist state violence, much of which isn’t publicly available information. Will appeal to organizers, as well as designers and artists interested in visual history.
- Original interviews with prominent scholars, activists and artists directly involved in anti-police brutality organizing in the 20th and 21st century, including an account of the occupation of New York City’s City Hall Plaza during the 2020 uprising.
- Timely contribution to a fiery debate on racial justice. Published at a time of increased organizing in response to police brutality, interest in abolition, and awareness of and conversations about connections between policymaking, police budgets, and the practice of policing.
- Expanded edition of a well-selling pamphlet. The book develops a sold-out publication from the celebrated 2022 art exhibition, Defend / Defund, at Interference Archive.
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About Interference Archive
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.
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Brooke Darrah Shuman
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
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
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.
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Mariame Kaba
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Dread Scott
Dread Scott is a visual artist who makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. He is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2020 United States Artists Fellow, whose work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Jack Shainman Gallery, and Gallery MOMO in South Africa. It is in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. The New York Times selected his art as one of The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II. In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history. The project was featured in Vanity Fair and on CNN.
Dennis Flores
Dennis Flores is a Nuyorican multimedia artist, activist and educator born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He is the cofounder of El Grito de Sunset Park, a grassroots community-based organization that advocates around issues of discriminatory policing and housing rights.
Joshua Myers
Dr. Joshua Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University. He is the author of Of Black Study, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition, and We are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Protest of 1989.
Jawanza Williams
Jawanza Williams has won awards including Citizen Action of New York 2019 Everyday Hero Award and 2020 Village Independent Democrats Honor for Progressive Activism. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Nation, Slate Magazine, NBC News and Vice.
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