Counter Institutions - Activist Estates of the Lower East Side is a podcast with Nandini Bagchee and Matt Williams
Amid ongoing debates about the accessibility of public spaces, this podcast will focus on the sites and buildings where activist groups in the Lower East Side would meet to organize and plan acts of political dissent and collective participation. Author Nandini Bagchee will discuss with Matt Williams the situated histories of re-purposed buildings on the Lower East Side that activists have used over the past forty years. They include Peace Pentagon, the headquarters of the anti-war movement, El Bohio, a metaphoric “hut” for the Puerto Rican Community, and ABC No Rio, an artists-run storefront gallery in a run-down tenement.
