This week, we’re sharing a recent interview with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee, editors of Strike While The Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt from Common Notions. We speak about audio strike records, their role, what they tell us about the struggles they cover or were produced to amplify, and a bit about where music and popular resistance stand today.
To hear an extra 30 minutes of chat, some more music and Sean Swain’s segment, check out our podcast.
Until the end of the month, the book is available from CommonNotions.org with a 15% discount if you check out using the code: strike15 .
Josh can be reached on instagram via @jmacphee or via email at [email protected]
They’re also both involved with Interference Archive (which produced audio of this collection of Stop Cop City communiques for their podcast, Audio Interference), and Josh is a co-founder of JustSeeds.Org, produces Signal Journal (he was interviewed by Ian for the show on the topic)
Free Jack, Free The Airwaves zine can be found here
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Featured Tracks:
- Sciopero Interno by Fausto Amodei from Sciopero Interno, 1968, Italy
- More Percent by Kirk Thorne from Songs from the NCU Strike, 1987, UK
- A Year and a Bit by The Hindle Strikers with TBE from Part of the Union!, 1984 , UK
- Viva La Huelga! by Polibio Mayorga from La Huelga, 1982, Ecuador