“ There Hwang Hwang Hoyer, Jen Karen Gordon, Bonnie Bayer, by Organized Metropolitan Council on circa Housing, 1970 the of COMMITTEE MOVE WON’T WE The Partner &Partners Partner by Design Arts Council (BAC). (BAC). Council Arts by administered Affairs, Cultural of Department York New City the of Fund Development York New Arts Greater the by part, in sponsored, is project This Urban Homesteading Assistance Board Assistance Homesteading Urban United Community Centers, Inc. &Neighbors Tenants Alliance Nicks St Sures –Los HDFC United Southside Housing on Council Metropolitan Flatbush Tenant Coalition Flatbush for Equality Union Tenant Heights Crown Cooper Square Committee Apartments Safe for Action Community CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities Inc. CIA, Kelly Banana Equality for Americans Asian with: collaboration in developed was exhibition This stay and fight to the finish.” the to and fight stay and Greg Mihalko Maggie Schreiner with Ash Ash with Schreiner Maggie is no place to place ® move Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 12—5pm Sunday, and Saturday, Friday, Thursday, 1—9pm Hours & 9th 4th to F/G/R trains 11215 NY Brooklyn, Street 131 8th Archive Interference for more information. more for Visit involved. get to you We welcome people. help of many on the relies and volunteer all is archive The struggles. current and histories own our with engagement creative as well as critical encourage and projects, like-minded with collaboration in work We all. for accessibility and stacks open with powered, people is that space run acollectively are we below, from archive an As institutions. mainstream in alized margin- often is that culture material and histories honoring and preserving of way a be to collection our of use the consider We transformation. social for mobilizing people of histories animate to ephemera cultural use we programming, our Through presence. online an and shops, work- publications, screenings, ter, talks, cen- social and a study exhibitions, public in manifests work This movements. social and production cultural between tionship rela- the explores Archive Interference www.interferencearchive.org -- so -- let’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, the coordinated takeover of vacant housing during Operation Move-In, and re- peated campaigns to renew and strengthen the rent laws. In addition to highlighting the diverse array of tactics by tenant employed organizers, the exhibi- tion situates the fight for affordable housing within racial and economic justice struggles. Through these campaigns have claimed Yorkers New the right to live in a city that is integrated and affordable. The exhibition brings together materials from tenant organizations, community archives and institutions to present flyers, posters, photographs, clippings and audio recordings from past and present tenant organizing. The final section the of exhibition, developed in collaboration with tenant organizations from across the city, examines current campaigns against tenant harassment, predatory equity, luxury housing, the cluster site shelter program, and gentrification-driv- policing.en rent With laws set York’s to New expire thisin June 2015, exhibition showcases our city’s continuous history effective of and militant tenant action for housing justice. Formed in by 1936 residents of Knickerbocker Village, the City Wide Tenants Council was the first citywide federation of tenant associations in NYC (1938). Printed Ephemera Collection Organizations,on Tamiment Library and Robert Wagner F. Labor Archives

March 26 through March 26th An exhibition at June 15, 2015 Opening Reception Interference Archive TENANTS ORGANIZE TENANTS IN NEW IN CITY Rent Guidelines Board Above hearing (1984). Private collection of the Metropolitan Council Housing on Left Tenants demonstrate in support the of Emergency Tenant Protection Act, which extended rent stabilization to most of the apartments affected by vacancy decontrol (circa 1975). Private collection of the Metropolitan Council Housing on , an exploration We Won’t Move: Interference Archive presents Tenants Organize City in New York collectiveof action by NYC tenants for decent and affordable housing from the to 1940s the present. The creation and subsequent dismantling the of rent regulation system forms the backdrop to a rich history tenant of struggle, including: neighborhood resistance to urban renewal in the South Bronx, integration struggles at Stuyvesant and in Town Brooklyn, rent strikes in Harlem and Programs & Events

MARCH March 26 April 10 Opening Party Strengthening 7pm Rent Regulation RECEPTION at Interference Archive 3pm Join us to celebrate the opening of We Won’t Move: Tenants Organize in WORKSHOP with Tenants & Neighbors an exhibition of collective Explore the loopholes in the rent action by NYC tenants for decent and regulation system and how they cause affordable housing from the 1940s to the present. Learn about the current campaign for a gentrification in our communities. APRIL stronger rent regulation system. We Won’t Move: Tenants New in York Organize City April 4 April 30 My Brooklyn 7pm Policing and Gentrification SCREENING & DISCUSSION at Interference Archive 7pm Director Kelly Anderson of issues raised in the film with PANEL DISCUSSION at Interference Archive Introduction by Christina Hanhardt, author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhoods History and the Politics of Violence with pan- elists from Equality for Flatbush, GOLES and Picture the Homeless. This panel brings together organizers, residents and academics to discuss the intersections between policing and housing policy. Topics include policing in public housing, in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, and of people experiencing marginal housing. May 16

March through 26 June 15, 2015 Housing Justice in NYC: Tenant Organizers in Conversation MAY 4pm May 6 May 30 DISCUSSION at Know Your 10 Grand Army Plaza, Info Commons Lab Join Open House and us for an informal conversation between Rights Workshop members from CAAAV: Organizing Asian Curator Tour Communities, Community Action for Safe for Tenants Apartments, Cooper Square Committee, 1pm Crown Heights Tenant Union, Equality 7pm for Flatbush, Flatbush Tenant Coalition, GUIDED TOUR at Interference Archive Met Council on Housing and Tenants & Join us for light refreshments. WORKSHOP at Interference Archive with Neighbors about current issues and orga- Mario Mazzoni of Penn South Mutual nizing in different neighborhoods. Connect Redevelopment Houses Get an overview with the organizations and individuals of basic NYC tenant rights, learn how to determine the type of housing you live in, fighting for housing justice in our city!

and how to fight for your tenant rights!

WE WANT to build the power of new and old tenant organizers, 131 8TH STREET -- NO. 4 and connect participants with current housing justice campaigns. INTERFERENCE BROOKLYN, NY 11215 Check interferencearchive.org for a complete and up-to-date list ARCHIVE INTERFERENCEARCHIVE.ORG of related programming.