Archive - Backbeat

Album, video releases.

Nov 4, 2022

August 2022

Watch 'Continuous Hinge.'

Aug 31, 2022

June 2022

Workplace democracy? Or workplace abolition?

Jun 23, 2022

May 2022

Museums play bank to enterprising landlords. Trustees get paid.

May 9, 2022

April 2022

Tenants in Oakland and San Francisco have more rights and protections under the law than in most cities in the country. Yet landlords retain the power…

Apr 1, 2022

March 2022

Introducing: 'A Generous Grift: Museums, Finance Capital, and the Clash of Cultural Workers and Collector-Trustees.'

Mar 21, 2022

June 2021

On the politics of public space in Oakland during the pandemic and uprising.

Jun 8, 2021

February 2021

How museum collector-trustees recapture charitable donations.

Feb 15, 2021

January 2021

Terrain: Art & Crisis in Downtown Oakland, Dragged Through the Garden, Some Poems

Jan 21, 2021

May 2020

Welcome to Backbeat by me, Sam Lefebvre. recovering media worker Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!

May 9, 2020

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