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Poesía y sonidos del pueblo - Radio Nopal x Radio AlHara This mix started with a recording in the rain that I did with Montréal based Ecuadorian poet Mireya Bayancela. I have known Mireya for many years now and often we cross paths at both Palestine solidarity actions but also gatherings to support the Immigrant Workers Centre, a grassroots community group in Côte-des-Neiges. This mix has been created for both Radio Nopal in Mexico City and Radio AlHara in Palestine. Below is the track listing for a mix that starts with Mireya reading two poems on a rainy afternoon in Montréal, I was there with my daughter doing the recording live. I have included some additional tracks by artists that I felt good about highlighting who have musician practices that consider and express emotional landscapes around the intersections between sound, justice and our world today. Accompanying photo: Mireya Bayancela by Juan Manuel Lobaton, "Le vol des oiseaux" Thank you for listening. – Stefan Christoff Track listing (artist name / track name) Mireya Bayancela - Live poetry reading in Montréal Stefan Christoff and Jarrett Martineau - Cloud Formation Jeremy Young - Whirld, Pt. I Ezra Teboul - Frosin Nicholas Maloney + Demetrio Cecchitelli - ae 2 (excerpt)

For the June 2025 edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we hear from New York City based artist Yasmeen Abdullah who speaks on a variety of initiatives in New York and beyond to bring together artists to express solidarity with Palestine. A large part of Yasmeen's practice related to Palestine revolves around gathering and creating spaces through which a creative voice can be expressed and centred within the context of the larger Palestine solidarity movement. Yasmeen has been involved in the Fiber Friends for Falestine project at The Interference Archive and has been involved in curating numerous events that bring together artists for Palestine. Learn more about Yasmeen's work here: https://yasmeenabdallah.com About the Interference Archive at http://interferencearchive.org Also the Fiber Friends of Falastin https://interferencearchive.org/event/fiber-friends-of-falestin/ This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series airs on CKUT 90.3 FM on the third Friday of each month at 11:30am. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net Music on the program is an excerpt of Passage by Anarchist Mountains

This edition of Free City Radio features a conversation with the filmmakers behind the project "Direct Action." Filmmakers Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell speak on a film that has been described this way: "Direct action is a tactical strategy of protest that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means. DIRECT ACTION is a contemporary portrait of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France: a 150-person strong rural collective that successfully resisted an international airport expansion project in 2018, created an autonomous zone between 2012 and 2018, survived multiple violent eviction attempts by the French state and spawned a new ecological movement in 2021. Using a collaborative and immersive observational approach, the film documents the everyday lives of a diverse ecosystem of activists, squatters, anarchists, farmers and those labelled by the government as “eco-terrorists”. Can the success of a radical protest movement offer a path through the climate crisis?" This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. Also thank you to Cinema Politica through which in my work with the organization I originally encountered the film DIRECT ACTION. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. The accompanying image is : Direct Action directors at St Soline, by Geoffrey Rodriguez. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

A mixtape to celebrate the album Balkan Winds that I worked on with Toni Dimitrov, to broadcast on Radio AlHara, broadcast on Thursday, May 29 at 4pm eastern time, 11pm in Palestine at radioalhara.net. Thank you for listening. - Stefan. Learn more about the album here: https://unfulfillmententertainment.bandcamp.com/album/balkan-winds 01. Toni Dimitrov and Stefan Christoff - Forever 02. Toni Dimitrov and Stefan Christoff - Forest 03. Toni Dimitrov and Stefan Christoff - Balkan Winds 04. David Parker & Graham Beverley - Taste Becomes Force 05 David Parker & Graham Beverley - Left Standing 06. David Parker & Graham Beverley - Arc Softly Over Dream (excerpt)

A mixtape by Stefan Christoff for a special broadcast of Funky Revolutions taking place at Maktaba bookshop on Saturday, May 31, 2-4pm live on CKUT 90.3 FM, ckut.ca Track listing (artist name / track name) 1. Philippe Battikha - Lascia ch'io pianga, from Make Fuzz Not War compilation 2. ​​Nelly Bassily reading poems by Shahd Alnaami (Gaza) recorded at a community benefit for Sudan on April 27, 2025 3. anthéne - illuminated (excerpt) 4. A poet reading from Where the Hibiscus Still Blooms zine project 5. Hazy Montagne Mystique x Melina Spiga - Quand les voix se rejoignent au crépuscule (excerpt) from Make Fuzz Not War compilation 6. Nadia Hawa Baldé performance with Rémi-Jean LeBlanc (excerpt) 7. Reading by Amber Rose Johnson 8. Ben Bertrand and Adriaan de Roover - Bright Attic from NO SILENCE benefit compilation 9. Amir ElSaffar - The People of Gaza Will Be Free from NO SILENCE benefit Compilation for Radio alHara

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from musician, community organizer and longtime Queer activist Jordan Arseneault. Jordan has long organized for the rights of people living with HIV and has done a lot of work at the intersections of intersecting grassroots struggles to both lift up and speak to marginalized experiences. Jordan reflects in this interview on the organizing efforts that took place under the Conservative government in Canada of Stephen Harper to oppose the omnibus crime bill in 2012. Jordan speaks about the ways that this corner stone of Conservative legislation in Canada, that included mandatory minimum sentencing, continues to have impacts. This interview took place in the context of thinking about how community organizers can and should be dealing with the rising threat of the Conservative Party in Canada which won the most votes since 1988 in the 2025 federal election. This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

A joint mix with Ognjen Glavonić for Radio AlHara, thank you Ognjen for the collaboration, below the track listing, with the artist name / track name, outlined, thank you. 01. Coby - Biseri Iz Blata 02. Dragana Mirković i Juzni Vetar - Treba mi neko 03. Svetlana Ceca Raznatovic - Licis Na Mog Oca 04. Viki Miljković - Hajde vodi me odavde 05. Viktorija - Daj Ne Pitaj 06. Toni Dimitrov and Stefan Christoff - Forever 07. Stefan Christoff and Jarrett Martineau - Ghazal 08. David Parker & Graham Beverley - Floralia Finale 09. shaun weadick - new moon in pisces (we were ours, we are ours, we will be ours, as we've always been) 10. Debeli Precjednik - Puška ne ubija ljude 11. Pasi - Odavno 12. WZRDRYAV - Resource 6.0 13. JOHANNES MALFATTI - Fragments IX (excerpt) Graphic: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA , SARAJEVO , OLD POSTCARD

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from community organizer Bill Van Driel. Bill speaks about experiences during the major protests against the G20 in Toronto in relation to the police and legal repression that was experienced by the protesters. Bill contextualizes this moment within a continuum of both protest actions taking place during this period against closed door international summits around the world, largely demonstrations focused on opposing the inherent inequality of capitalism. Also Bill places the repression that protest movements experienced within a realistic framework of understanding these moments of heightened police repression as reflected by media coverage that doesn't focus on the larger systemic mechanisms of social control and repression. Today Bill works with Solidarity Across Borders and has played a meaningful role in bridging anti-capitalist and migrant justice organizing spaces. This interview took place within the context of building discussions on the threat posed by a rising political support for the Conservative Party of Canada and what that means for social movements as well as vulnerable communities. This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Drawing is about the fence in Toronto during the G20 summit in 2010. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

This is a joint mix with Brad Rose who works on the Foxy Digitalis project, created for broadcast on Radio AlHara, live on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 (11am eastern time / 6pm in Palestine) at radioalhara.net Accompanying artwork by Valentina Gonzo. This is the track listing (artist name / track name) 01. Yumiko Morioka & Takashi Kokubo - Gaiaphilia 02. Ahmed Ag Kaedy & Will Guthrie - Mani Mani 03. Präsens Editionen - Unglued 04. Abdullah Miniawy - Jayhano Al Kawahi جيهن الكوهِ 05. Jako Maron - Paré po saviré 06. Charlatan - Parallel Orbits 07. Stefan Christoff and Jarrett Martineau - Cloud Formation 08. Raphaël Foisy - Internal Organ - Orgue Interne (excerpt) 09. JOHANNES MALFATTI - Fragments IV-VI 10. David Parker & Graham Beverley - Played by Water 11. WZRDRYAV - Resource 8.0

Listen to an interview with long time community organizer for housing justice and researcher Fred Burrill speaking about the ways that the systemic financialization of housing contributes to social violence for working class and low income people. Fred speaks about his research work in the context of having organized for many years with P.O.P.I.R. in the southwest of Montreal, particularly in St. Henri. Fred talks about the arc of municipal policies that have driven housing financialization in the city and how that reflects broader global questions around the commodification of housing. Learn more about P.O.P.I.R. – Comité Logement here: https://popir.org Artwork by Seth Tobocman, info: https://www.sethtobocman.com This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we speak with artist Shellyne Rodriguez. Shellyne is a Bronx based artist, educator and community activist. In this conversation we talk about the ways that solidarity can be both expressed and built between internal and external colonies to American imperialism. Shellyne outlines the ways that the Bronx, due to historical marginalization and patterns of racialized migration, is a key example of what the dynamics of internal colonialism are in the United States context. Shellyne outlines this point in relation to why expressions of understanding and also action in solidarity with Palestine, as both an artist and cultural worker is important. Info on Shellyne here: https://www.shellynerodriguez.com This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series airs on CKUT 90.3 FM on the third Friday of each month at 11:30am. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net Music on the program is an excerpt of Passage by Anarchist Mountains

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a conversation with a grassroots organizer involved in Brussels for Palestine, working on the streets in Brussels over the past year and a half to support displaced Palestinian refugees, but also to mobilize financial resources in Brussels and in western Europe to support projects like community soup kitchens in Gaza and also grassroots humanitarian projects in Lebanon. Learn more about Brussels for Palestine here: https://www.instagram.com/brussels4palestine Thank you to Hala El Mohor for helping to set-up this interview and for The Kitchen for hosting. This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Philadelphia based community organizer, zine maker and international solidarity activist Hannah Mermelstein. Over the past year and a half Hannah has been deeply involved in mobilizing for Palestine at a community based level in Philadelphia around the project Families for Ceasefire Philly. In past years Hannah has played a meaningful role in stitching together Palestine solidarity initiatives around the world, including through participating in human rights delegations in Occupied Palestine around projects like Librarians for Palestine. Learn more about Hannah's work here: https://www.hannahmermelstein.com The accompanying image is from a zine that Hannah worked on that highlights the collection of Palestinian books from homes seized by the Israeli state in 1948, the zine is called "Overdue Books: Returning Palestine's “Abandoned Property” of 1948." Read the excellent zine here: https://librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Overdue-Books-AP-zine.pdf This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from St. Louis based cultural worker Damon Davis. I have known Damon since 2016 and it is always a pleasure and very meaningful to catch-up. "Damon is an award-winning post-disciplinary artist who works and resides in St. Louis, Missouri. His work spans across illustration, painting, printmaking, music, film, and public art." The accompanying drawing is by Damon. This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

On this edition of Free City Radio we go to Lithuania and speak with Monica and Noura who work with a project to build the Palestine solidarity movement in the context of Lithuania. The group in Lithuania is called POPPIES, Palestine Action Group, Vilnius. I wanted to highlight this organizing initiative because we often hear about Palestine solidarity organizing within centres of power, protests in Paris, or New York City, but not as much in cities on the edges, in this case on the edge of the EU, in the Baltic context of Lithuania. This conversation was originally recorded in Nov. 2024. This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. The graphic is from Justseeds.org and their ongoing Palestine solidarity graphics packages. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Beirut based writer Yazan Al-Saadi, who offers some important critical context on the systemic biases within western media outlets and how that works to criminalize the Palestinian and Lebanese people who face military violence at the hands of Israeli state military action. Learn more about Yazan's work and comics here: https://www.newarab.com/author/74089/yazan-al-saadi-and-ghadi-ghosn This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on : CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am CFRC 101.9FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

A mixtape for Radio AlHara that Stefan worked on to celebrate the release with Nour Sokhon. The track listing below highlights first the track name and then the artist name. The accompanying artwork is by Margarita Barros. 01. Circular transmissions - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 02. A shadow signal - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 03. Open channels - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 04. Another time is now - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 05. Where are you from - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 06. Harmonics at sea - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 07. No silence - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 08. Ships on the horizon - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 09. Narrative flipsides - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 10. Every moment - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 11. Cascading effects - Nour Sokhon + Stefan Christoff 12. Moieties - William Ryan Fritch 13. Resisting Rupture - William Ryan Fritch 14. slow burn - Thanya Iyer 15. Early Spring - Luke Loseth and Stefan Christoff 16. Palestine Sunday, The Ring - Rickie Leach (field recording excerpt) 17. Qaher III - Badawi 18. sending, receiving - ben grossman (excerpt)

Listen to a conversation with artist Erik Ruin. In this exchange with the Philadelphia based artist we hear about a number of projects including a series Erik worked on about Palestine titled "10 Plagues of the Occupation." Also we speak about local work that was done with the Coalition to Save the Libraries in Philadelphia. Erik is a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative learn more here: https://justseeds.org/artist/erikruin Also visit Erik's website here: https://www.erikruin.info This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, on Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays, on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm and on Thursdays at 4:30pm on CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver.

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we feature a conversation with author and Palestinian human rights advocate Amy Abdelnoor. Based in Essex, England, Amy is a long time cultural worker and educator and today contributes regularly to The Electronic Intifada. This is an excerpt from Amy's bio: "While studying English and Arabic at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, she reconnected with her Arab family roots, living in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and later under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank during the second intifada. Her debut novel, Ever Land, grew out of these experiences. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and has been acquired by Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House, to be published in 2026. She now lives in Essex with her husband and three children. Alongside writing and teaching secondary English, she is a member of Critical Collective, a woman's group advocating against racism and crimes against humanity." This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series airs on CKUT 90.3 FM on the third Friday of each month at 11:30am. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net Music on the program is an excerpt of Passage by Anarchist Mountains

This edition of Free City Radio features audio from a Montreal launch for the zine Voices Beyond Lockdown: Collective action and care across borders in a time of crisis, a zine publication of Free City Radio. On the show we hear from community organizers, artists and cultural workers reflecting on the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in Montreal before any vaccines were available. The zine is a transcribed set of interviews with a set of voices and the launch includes the voices of: Indigenous photographer Martin Akwiranoron Loft; a Guinean community organizer in Montreal, Mohamed Barry; longtime community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre, Mostafa Henaway; poet and educator Shanice Nicole; artist and author Sundus Abdul Hadi; and educator/researcher Brian Aboud. Read the full zine in PDF format via Justseeds here: https://justseeds.org/voices-beyond-lockdown-zine The launch of the project was recorded at Casa del Popolo in Montreal. This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

A live panel discussion at the Housing Justice Convergence (housingjustice.now) that took place on Friday, March 7, moderated by Stefan Christoff of Free City Radio. This panel includes: Alessandra Renzi An educator and researcher on housing justice https://antievictionmontreal.org/en/maps John Clarke A long time community organizer in Toronto, currently working on the 230 FightBack project http://230fightback.com Fenton Benjamin A poet and community radio volunteer facing struggles of precarious housing Dru Oja Jay A member of the organizing team of the housing justice gathering Lisa Freeman Canadian Labour Congress housing researcher Hubert Gendron-Blais Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal https://www.reverberationscriselogement.org/

This mixtape is a collaboration with two musicians, Dhangsha and Elyze Venne-Deshaies mixtape, I selected the last two tracks. First this is the write-up on the first six tracks. Elyze selected the following five. Dhangsha writes: "Over the past 6 years, I've been working under the moniker of Dhangsha (Bengali for 'destruction'), exploring the connections between bass culture and experimental noise and sound art. A significant part of my research has been to listen to other experimental artists of colour - some of whom are represented here - and to note the often political implications of their sound." This mix is broadcasting on Radio AlHara on March 23, 2025 at 12 noon eastern, 6pm in Brussels and 7pm in occupied Palestine, streaming at radioalhara.net This is the track listing in order of appearance, thank you for listening. Artwork by Valentina Gonzo. 01. Saint Abdullah - Battlefield Culture (ft. Travis Laplante) 02. Dhangsha - Every Accusation is a Confession 03. Sayf - Brutale Wave 04. Bantu - Excavating The Future 05. evicshen - Fever Pitch 06. Shersh - High Exposure 07. Oiro Pena - Kaiju Kaiju 08. Selvhenter - Rundhyl 09. Yussef Dayes - The Light feat. Bahia Dayes 10. jaimie branch - take over the world 11. Elisapie - Qimatsilunga (I Want to Break Free) 12. Nour Sokhon & Stefan Christoff - A shadow signal 13. Marion-Mucci - Rinnovato con la prossima primavera I (excerpt)

Изгражадане на солидарност отвъд границите Building solidarity across borders Среща и разговор със Стефан Христов в автономно читалище коприва. A gathering at коприва (kopriva) space with Stefan Christoff in downtown Sofia Recordings voices from Sofia expressing solidarity with Palestine for broadcast on Radio AlHara, Palestine. This conversation features: Maxim Mokdad, musician and architect based in Sofia who also supported the broadcast technically. Оgnian Kassabov, writer and professor of philosophy at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. Irina Borova, a Bulgarian community activist supporting Palestinian human rights. Rima Dogmush, a Palestinian-Bulgarian community organizer living in Sofia. Pepel, from коприва space. Andrea Cirio, Radio AlHara resident. Originally broadcast on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 at коприва. Thank you to Eero Turka for participating in the broadcast also.

This program explores the ways that opposing policies of war abroad are inherently connected with local struggles against racism at home. Mostafa Henaway, an organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre, connects the local and the global. This interview addresses the connections between campaigns against war and racism in the months after 9/11 to current events. This interview provides urgent and necessary analysis. Info on Mostafa's book "Essential Work, Disposable Workers Migration, Capitalism and Class" here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/essential-work-disposable-workers Graphic is by Andrea Marcos via Justseeds, info: https://justseeds.org/graphic/freedom-of-movement-for-all/ This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

For the March 2025 edition of Cultural workers for Palestine I am sharing a conversation with Ana Quiroga, a London based sound artist and musician. Ana's experimental work explores different sonic landscapes and cultural identities as expressed in sound. Ana speaks, in this interview, about experiences joining protest movements in both Spain and London, going back to the mass protests against the U.S. driven invasion of Iraq in 2003, to the M8 protests for gender equality in Spain and the recent wave of solidarity actions for Palestine. Learn more about Ana's work here: https://www.anaquiroga.net This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series airs on CKUT 90.3 FM on the third Friday of each month at 11:30am on Jan. 17, 2025. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

Never stop acting for Palestine - CKUT 90.3 FM broadcast Saturday March 1, 2025 Darren Ell, Photographer Ehab Lotayef, Poet and community organizer Rickie Leach, Musician and photographer Emma, community organizer and activist Hosted by Stefan Christoff Kawalees (كواليس) 5175A Park Ave Montreal, Quebec H2V 4G3 This broadcast will be live on CKUT 90.3FM during the Funky Revolutions program 2-4pm across Montreal, at ckut.ca as well as for broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine. Music in the broadcast, in order of appearance: Fadi Tabbal - All those nights Fadi Tabbal - I am all that is left Michel Banabila - Where Old Meets New William Ryan Fritch - Phototropic koeosaeme - VI (excerpt) This broadcast is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University and the accompanying graphic is by Josh MacPhee. A community event series about grassroots mobilization and action in the face of genocide in Palestine. This series aims to create space for people to hear from community members who have moved from talk into action, have engaged in collective work toward creating space to both express solidarity with the Palestinian people and also to call out the complicity of the Canadian state with the extremist right-wing government carrying out genocidal actions in Gaza. This event series aims to lift up grassroots voices of people working on diverse initiatives and projects to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, voices who have both refused silence and who have found pathways for action in the community. Info on participating groups and speakers Rickie Leach helped make the community zine ‘No Silence' with Stefan Christoff and Rapaël Foisy-Couture and she also helps the group Papineau pour Palestine. This group has a meeting the following day that is open to the public, Sunday March 2nd, at William Kingston Centre at 2pm. Ehab Lotayef is an Egyptian-Canadian poet, writer and justice activist who moved to Canada in 1989. He is deeply involved in social and community work, including campaigns against the sanctions and war on Iraq, opposing the blockade of Gaza and advocating for Indigenous rights. Over the years he has worked with the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy, the Muslim Council of Montreal, the Muslim Schools of Montreal, the Canadian Arab Federation, Fair Vote Canada, and Montreal City Mission. He is also a founder of Non a la loi 21 (#NL21) campaignand and Kalemat, a freethinkers' forum aiming to advocate open dialogue among Arabic-speakers. Emma is a Lebanese-Palestinian-Canadian community organizer and activist. Since the early 2000s, she's been involved in different forms of pro BIPOC activism, lately, mainly for Palestine. Most forms of her activism involve fundraising for families and projects on the ground in Palestine and Lebanon via bake and merch sales with organizations such as Families 4 Palestine MTL, which is a family-friendly, warm and versatile group full of talented parents and children. She's also involved in community organizing, political organizing, creative content creation, as well as organizing demonstrations and protests in Montreal and surroundings with many individuals and groups such as Action Mtl. Darren Ell is a documentary photographer and a recently retired teacher and union representative. His work on Palestine dates back to the 1990's when he was writing for independent media in Saskatchewan. In 2001, he began publishing photo essays with Electronic Intifada about Palestine solidarity in Montreal. He travelled throughout the West Bank and Gaza during the Second Intifada, publishing photo essays with Electronic Intifada, conducting interviews and making portraits for Defence for Children International Palestine, and fundraising for a family that lost its home through demolition by the IDF.

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a critique of the role that respective NDP and Liberal governments have played in boosting military exports and spending. Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University. Tamara is involved in the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, info: https://www.foreignpolicy.ca Graphic is Expedition Press in Seattle https://expedition.press/en-ca/products/no-to-war This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

A special program for broadcast on Free City Radio weekly spot on CKUT 90.3 FM, this program focuses on hearing community voices involved in organizing against the Conservatives in Canada. Specifically the voices you hear detail why directly listening to community organizing spaces when building opposition to the extreme right and Conservative Party of Canada is important. These voices were recorded on Sunday, Feb. 23 at Alternatives space in Montreal. Nikolas Barry-Shaw, from the Council of Canadians, speaks about campaigning for a national public Pharmacare program, Gaurav Sharma from the Immigrant Workers Centre speaking on the persisting importance of the #StatusForAll movement for migrant justice and Jordan Arseneault from SéroSyndicat speaks about community organizing efforts during the last Conservative gov. under Harper to oppose the imposition of a mandatory minimum sentencing bill aiming to criminalize many communities, including Queers and that pushed extend the prison population and by extension the prison industrial complex in Canada. All these voices speak on what the challenges we will face under the Conservatives are, also on ways to block the Liberals and NDP from exploiting the rising opposition to the extreme right / Conservatives in Canada for their own electoral gains. These voices were recorded in the build up to a protest in Montreal against the Conservatives that is taking place on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 5:30pm, info: https://stoppoilievre.couragecoalition.ca This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Graphic is by Mobile Print Power https://www.mobileprintpower.com Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and this is a special edition specifically produced for broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM.

A round table discussion between community organizers and artists who are involved in prisoner justice work in both the Chicago and Montreal areas. Olivia Dumas who works with formally incarcerated folks in the Montreal area doing physiological and social support, Aaron Hughes and Damon Locks who both do arts based community projects with prisoners in Illinois and Sheena Hoszko who has been involved in Prisoners' Justice Day and does artwork related to the realities of prisons today in Canada. This discussion is a window into both the organizing work and activism that these voices are involved in and also is really just a capsule, there could easily be a full program about the work of each respective guest. Links and information on the voices you hear on this program: Aaron Hughes https://justseeds.org/artist/aaronhughes Damon Locks https://damonlocks.black Sheena Hoszko https://www.sheenahoszko.com The Prisoner Correspondence Project https://prisonercorrespondenceproject.com The Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP) https://p-nap.org/ Choosing Real Safety https://www.choosingrealsafety.com This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. The accompanying image is by Damon Locks. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

A joint mix that I worked on with Quarter Tones, "a forward-thinking collaboration between German artist Henrik Raabe and Lebanese-Canadian artist Sary Sehnaoui (performing as HEAR)." Below is the track listing, airing on Radio AlHara at 5pm Palestine time on Feb. 23, 2025. Accompanying photo by Amanda Ruiz Méndez. Track listing (artist name / track name) 1. Quarter Tones - Space Concierto 2. Jordan Christoff - Glitch Love 3. Quarter Tones - Day 1 in Bingen 4. Julia E. Dyck - Induction 5. Quarter Tones - Fountain Of Youth 6.Quarter Tones - Habibi Beirut (Homage to Lev Knipper & Fairuz)

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Şeyma Altundal, an Istanbul based activist who works with the group Filistin icin Bin Genc. Şeyma speaks about the organizing of youth activists in Turkey to challenge the economic ties and relationships between Turkish corporations with the Israeli government. In the interview we particularly address Turkish companies like the Zorlu Energy Group which plays a major role in supplying power to, through contracts, to Israeli army bases via Dorad Energy. Learn more about Filistin icin Bin Genc here: https://www.instagram.com/filistinicin1000genc This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. The accompanying image is by Josh MacPhee of the Justseeds artists' cooperative http://justseeds.org Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

In this interview we hear from collective members of Sonoscopia space in Porto, Portugal. This space is a community focused centre that provides a non-commercial orientation for artistic creation and performance. An important space for local alternative culture in Porto but also for the many folks from all over the world who both perform and participate in residencies at the space. For more information on Sonoscopia visit: https://sonoscopia.pt/en Thank you to my friend Diana Duta in Brussels for making the original connection. Stefan Christoff produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.

An interview with visual artist and designer Roger Peet, a member of the Justseeds artists' cooperative. Roger speaks about the ways that visual communication can play a role in both conveying and pushing forward the message of social movement forces and collective demands. Roger speaks about working on a design to express solidarity with the student strike movement in Québec in 2012 as a moment of collective power and also work more recently that Roger has worked on to express in visual language solidarity with the Palestinian people. Roger like many Justseeds artists are very active in the visualization of critical collective struggles both locally and globally. Learn more about Roger's work here: https://justseeds.org/artist/rogerpeet Stefan Christoff produces this artist interview series, Art in Action, broadcasts monthly on: Radio AlHara, Palestine On the first Friday of each month at 3pm in Bethlehem and 8am eastern time (radioalhara.net) CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal On the third Friday of each month at 11am (ckut.ca) CJLO 1690 AM, Montreal On the second Thursday of each month at 8am. (cjlo.com)

In this interview we hear from Hajer Khader El Bizri speaking on Bairro Árabe walks in Lisbon, Portugal, which is a contemporary gathering and educational space in the city. Hajer invites people to walk in the city to learn about the contested and complex cultural history in a city that is also shaped by Islamic cultural heritage, a reality that in the contemporary context of systemic racism in the European context is important to consider. Hajer also makes the connection between the histories of othering Muslims in Portugal and Spain, the displacement of communities in centuries past through colonial conquest and how it is connected to the present. Learn more about this project here: https://bairroarabe.com Thank you to my friend Nour El-Tibi in Lisbon for helping to arrange for this interview to take place. Stefan Christoff produces this artist interview series, Art in Action, broadcasts monthly on: Radio AlHara, Palestine On the first Friday of each month at 3pm in Bethlehem and 8am eastern time (radioalhara.net) CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal On the third Friday of each month at 11am (ckut.ca) CJLO 1690 AM, Montreal On the second Thursday of each month at 8am. (cjlo.com)

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Shayana Kadidal, a Senior Managing Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. In this interview we hear about the plea deal that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, detained by the U.S. since 2003, largely at Guantánamo Bay, which was shut down in the last period of the Democratic Biden administration. The interview places important context on understanding the realities of indefinite detention and the inherent injustice of Guantánamo Bay as persistent across both Democratic and Republic administrations in the US. Critically also we hear about the combined role that both legal advocacy and activism for the rights of those unjustly detained has done in securing the release of many formally detained at Guantánamo. Illustration is by Guantánamo detainee Abu Zubaydah: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/may/11/abu-zubaydah-drawings-guantanamo-bay-us-torture-policy This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from author and educator Tania Islas Weinstein speaking on the recently published collective work "Beyond Mestizaje: Contemporary Debates on Race in Mexico." The book is described this way: "Racism has historically been a taboo topic in Mexico. This is largely due to the nationalist project of mestizaje which contends that because all Mexicans are racially mixed, race is not a salient political issue. In recent years, however, race and racism have become important topics of debate in the country's public sphere and academia. This book introduces readers to a sample of these diverse and sometimes conflicting views that also intersect with discussions of class. The activists and scholars included in the volume come from fields such as anthropology, linguistics, history, sociology, and political science. Through these diverse epistemological frameworks, the authors show how people in contemporary Mexico interpret the world in racial terms and denounce racism." Info on the project: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/4m90dz09n This interview series is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we hear from Belgian musicians Kwinten Mordijck and Stef Heeren speaking about their collaboration with Iraqi vocalist/percussionist Saif Al-Qaissy, as Use Knife. This interview goes into the sound of the project but also the cultural landscape in western Europe within which the project was shaped. This project speaks to the profound impact and influence that mixing of contemporary western European artists with cultural workers from Diaspora communities has created today. This collaborative space has not only created new sounds and ground breaking cultural work but also totally shifted collective understandings around the urgency of supporting the Palestinian freedom struggle today. Learn more about Use Knife here: https://useknife.bandcamp.com Thank you to friends at Radio AlHara for making this connection happen. This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series airs on CKUT 90.3 FM on the third Friday of each month at 11:30am on Jan. 17, 2025. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

A mixtape drawing together contributions from friends around the world, including folks running independent record labels, record producers, poets, community radio producers, musicians and others. All these tracks were recorded directly, drawn from community radio producers and collected directly from the artists, or through direct communication with some independent record labels. All the works were pulled together with the intention of sharing a mix that can point in a tiny way to the depth of different artistic and activist voices from around the world who have Palestine in their hearts. This mix was originally broadcast on Radio AlHara on Sunday, Feb. 16, 7am-11am eastern time, 2-6pm Palestine time, live on radioalhara.net Thank you for listening. - Stefan Christoff 01. Saadet Türköz & Beat Keller @beat_keller - Yarkent 02. Shalabi Quintet - Artists Against Apartheid (Montréal Session) - 01 Artists Against Apartheid, Montr​é​al Session – Part I, excerpt (released by @aosmosis) 03. 2/5BZ - MENi TENKS (2002) 03. Ana Quiroga @ana_quiroga - We Exist, We Resist [fabric Originals] 04. Notnef Greco - Sirens Off the Clock 05. Pelada @pelada420 - Cerdo 06. Pelada - Pilas 07. Badawi - A Better Place (reprise) 08. Midland @midland - Drift In The Algorithm 09. Adriaan de Roover - Nudge forward 10. Aidan Baker & Stefan Christoff - Januar Part I (released by @time-released-sound) 11. Amirali @amirali_ofc - Nemesis 12. Andy Aquarius @andyaquarius - Kyrie 13. anthéne @anthene - Lightbox 14. ate & NOWA ZIEMIA @nowa-ziemia - Substrate A 15. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey - Speaking at a National Demonstration For Palestine (English language, recorded in Ireland) - 13.01.24 16. Sana Moussa and Naseem Alatrash - duet clip 17. Sabr from Gaza (Arabic language, thank you to Ewa Jasiewicz for the audio) 18. Charbel Haber @charbel-haber - We Spend Our Days In The Fog Of Your Nightmares 19. Zoë Mc Pherson @zoemcpherson - Chaos 20. Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Engines 21. DC BLOB - Untitled (practice recording excerpt) 22. Evitceles @evitceles - Ethereal Force 23. Dali de Saint Paul + Maxwell Sterling - 2 24. Demetrio Cecchitelli @cecchitellidemetrio - Oxygen 25. Budapest Blacklights - Forma Nera (via @moonvillain) 26. Fifths - Long gone 27. Grim Beverage - A Point in Space 28. Leon Louder @leonlouder - Mockingbird 29. Leo singing in Mexico City at ObreraCentro 30. Lighter - Acid Release 31. Lucille Cornelius & Michel Banabila @michel-banabila - The People United Will Never Be Defeated 32. M01E - So Many, So Little- - DOWNER - why we hide behind a screen 叹 (excerpt) 33. Matteo Uggeri - ...for Mother and Father 34. Melodies In My Head - I World 35. Mireya Bayancela Ordonez (poetry reading in Spanish and French) 36. Badawi - Al-Aziz (Dhikr Wave Mix) 37. Enrico Coniglio @enricoconiglio - Waterfront (excerpt) The accompanying image is a film photo snap taken by Rickie Leach at a Palestine solidarity protest in London.

A mixtape for Radio AlHara airing Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. The first mixtape of 2025 for the station. The photo was taken at an exhibition at The Interference Archive about community activism against the expanding prison industrial complex in NY, info: https://interferencearchive.org Track listing (artist name / track name) 01. Laura Agnusdei - The Drowned World 02. David August - VĪS (Ulla Reinterpretation) 03. Adrián de Alfonso - ¡Repliéguese la guardia toda! 04. Dave Deporis - One Day (2011 @ Tribes Gallery) 05. GUIOM - Orange Skies (Love cover) 06. Paul Serralheiro - While You're at It 07. Tétano-Cutané - 12 Lune et luisant 08. Nour Sokhon - The destruction and the rebuilding 09. Andy Aquarius - Jagten 10. Daniel Carter and Stefan Christoff - A sunflower in the city 11. Stefan Christoff - Chalga Remixed 12. Acasta Gneiss - Flutter (From Anterior Insula (Sounds for your Anterior Insula 2) 13. Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Alluvial 14. Brendon Moeller - Once

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from journalist Ermilo Mendoza who speaks about work on a project called La Coperacha in Mexico. This is an alternative media project that is focused on highlighting the role that cooperatives play in Mexican economic and political life. La Coperacha is also a cooperative journalistic project. Learn more about La Coperacha here: https://lacoperacha.org.mx This interview series is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Thank you to filmmaker Mary Ellen Davis for the networking support on this interview. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

This discussion focuses on the AirGo community media project in Chicago. It is with Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger who coordinate the project. This initiative speaks to alternative histories of cultural narratives, poetry and activism in Chicago and beyond. The project has a particular connection to Black community organizing and culture but also visits many takes on alternative histories of Chicago and how they connect with the present. Info on the project here: https://airgoradio.com This interview series is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Thank you to educator, academic and musician Mohamed Mehdi for the networking support on this interview. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

On the Feb. 2025 edition of the Art in Action interview series we hear from sound artist Nicola Di Croce speaking about the ways that city spaces and their cultural and class identities can be understood and critiqued through sound. Learn more about Nicola's beautiful work here: https://nicoladicroce.cargo.site The accompanying image is of Nicola Di Croce. Thank you to Joseph Sannicandro for helping to arrange the connection for this interview. Stefan Christoff produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.

On the March 2025 edition of Art in Action we hear from Brazilian painter and photographer Renato Custodio in São Paulo. Renato speaks about interventions in public space using painting in the context of public skateboard parks and on this Renato speaks about the ways that class layers can be challenged in the context of skateboarding spaces in the city. Renato also speaks about the contemporary city landscape in Brazil urban inequality and his painting practice. The accompanying painting is by Renato Custodio is it oil on canvas. 60x45cm, titled: "Lojinha." Thank you to Paula Dykstra for helping to arrange this interview. Stefan Christoff produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.

A mixtape to air on Radio AlHara on Sun Jan 19, 2025 1pm - 2pm (EST), in Palestine at 8pm, that is based on the No Fest 2024 compilation of experimental Montreal music released by Cuchabata Records. Below you can find the link to the compilation: https://cuchabatarecords.bandcamp.com/album/cuch-232-cuch-2024-2024 This is the track listing for the 1 hour mixtape based on the compilation album: 01. Stefan Christoff - In All The Noise We Can Still See 02. L'Ordre de l'Infiniment Nada - Résonance 03. Fatrasie - Trimardeur tropical (excerpt) 04. Hazy Montagne Mystique - Luang Namtha (Ville des larmes) 05. Géraldine Eguiluz & Michel F. Côté - Voces del espacio de afuera (excerpt) 06. Marion-Mucci - Maserati Tone Factory II 07 David and the Mountain - Trautonium 08. ce qui nous traverse - La nuit renaît toujours (live à Ste-Barbe) (excerpt) The red square as the graphic represents the participation of these artist networks in the 2012 student strike against rising tuition fees in Quebec, you can learn some background information about this here: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/5/31/quebecs-conflict-of-contrasting-social-visions

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from community organizer and researcher Ryan MacRae who works with the Cooper Institute in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Ryan speaks about housing justice organizing in PEI and the specific context within a wider framing of housing justice organizing in Canada. Ryan organizes with the PEI Fight for Affordable Housing campaign and has been campaigning in the context of PEI as being one of two Canadian provinces that has wide reaching rental control legislation, similar to Manitoba, while having no credible enforcement mechanisms for addressing landlord abuses that go against legislation. Learn more about Ryan's work and the campaign in PEI here: https://www.cooperinstitute.ca https://peifah.ca This interview is being shared as part of a current series on Free City Radio airing in the build up to a gathering on housing justice that is taking place from March 7-9, 2025 at Concordia, for more information visit: housingjustice.now This interview series is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from educator and researcher Alessandra Renzi speaking on the ways that the AI technology boom in Quebec is impacting gentrification in Parc Ex. Alessandra specifically speaks about efforts to both document and organize around the impacts of the AI industry in the Montreal neighbourhood of Parc Ex. A process that Alessandra describes as shaped by "a disregard to life worlds already on the ground," by institutions like MILA and others that are heavily backed by public funds by the Quebec and Canadian governments often with little strings attached. This funding for AI companies comes at a time when public investments in social housing, by all levels of government, are at an all time low, exemplified by the cut of Quebec gov. support for AccèsLogis. Alessandra is the co-author of "Digital Divides – The Impact of Montreal's AI Ecosystems on Parc Extension: Housing, Environment and Access to Services. April 2022," which you can read, along with other research resources here: https://antievictionmontreal.org/en/publications/ This interview is being shared as part of a current series on Free City Radio airing in the build up to a gathering on housing justice that is taking place from March 7-9, 2025 at Concordia, for more information visit: housingjustice.now This interview series is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

On this edition of Art in Action we hear perspectives from contemporary Brazilian artist Dudu Tsuda. Dudu speaks about recent projects that are influenced by intersecting layers of reflection, reading and cultural practice. Specifically this interview highlights reflections on relationship to land, sparked by a series of recent industrial and water based industrial accidents in northern Brazil, like the Mariana disaster, which impacted Indigenous territories particularly. Dudu speaks about the impact of the writings of both Indigenous Brazilian thinker Aílton Krenak and Japanese writer Shoko Yoneyama. Learn more about Dudu's practice here: https://www.instagram.com/dudutsuda The accompanying image info: Série A Vida é uma Utopia, Robalo em prato inflamado, 2019 – Dudu Tsuda. Thank you to Paula Dykstra for helping to arrange this interview. Stefan Christoff produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.

"Art and scholarship in action for Palestine" A live broadcast that took place in Brussels, Belgium, an opportunity to share ideas, experiences and reflections on many layers of mobilization and action in Belgium to stand up for Palestinian liberation in 2023. All the groups and individuals included here continue to find ways to speak out and take action for Palestine. A great opportunity to zoom in and hear to grassroots perspectives from Brussels on the many layers of incredible solidarity work taking place which is about refusing silence in the face of injustice. This conversation was moderated by Stefan Christoff and took place in the art studio of Brussels based artist Julia E. Dyck. It was broadcast live on Radio AlHara, streaming at The Wonder Cabinet. The conversation included voices from these Brussels-based cultural initiatives supporting Palestine: Palettes of Palestine (Suzanne Groothuis, Joanna Bueds and Hala El Mohor, Estafette4Palestine (Jonathan Cant and May Abnet) and Caddy For Palestine (Maria Dogane). Also we hear from two activist scholars Jouke Huijzer and Jihane Sliti. Technical and broadcast support for this transmission in Palestine from Yousef Anastas, who also did the artwork that accompanies the broadcast, the art is shared with permission.

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we hear from Squirrel Flower, the celebrated American musician. Squirrel Flower canceled her performance at South by Southwest festival last year to protest the involvement of military industrial complex companies in sponsoring the festival. Squirrel Flower's cancelation inspired many others to cancel their participation in official showcases to express solidarity with Palestine. Read some background here in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/06/sxsw-musicians-palestine-weapons-raytheon Thank you to Eve Parker Finley who coordinates POP Symposium and had invited me to look into voices of artists who canceled their participation in SXSW due to the sponsorship of arms industries at the festival. The panel we were planning didn't happen, but this interview did, so thanks to Eve for sparking this pathway. This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series airs on CKUT 90.3 FM on the third Friday of each month at 11:30am on Jan. 17, 2025. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : http://radioalahra.net

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from author, researcher and community organizer Dru Oja Jay speaking about work on a recently published report on housing justice movements in Canada. The report is called "From Crisis to Consensus: A survey of 60 housing groups from across Canada," which you can read here: https://www.solidarityeconomy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/housing-design-draft-v4-EN-online.pdf Dru speaks about this report in the context of a current series on Free City Radio airing in the build up to a gathering on housing justice that is taking place from March 7-9, 2025 at Concordia, for more information visit: https://housingjustice.now/ Also on this broadcast we hear two pieces from R​é​verb​é​rations d'une crise: une enqu​ê​te sonore sur le logement à Montr​é​al, Philippe Battikha with "Q-Block" and Aidan Girt + Stefan Christoff, ft. Mostafa Henaway "Housing and care for all (Down with real estate capital vultures)." This album of soundscapes and music on the housing crisis, you can get more information about the project here: https://reverberationscriselogement.bandcamp.com/album/r-verb-rations-dune-crise-une-enqu-te-sonore-sur-le-logement-montr-al This interview series is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The accompanying drawing is by Stefan and the music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

Live from Casa del Popolo: Palestine solidarity movements in Montreal and beyond This panel discussion was hosted by Stefan Christoff in collaboration with Kai Szablowski and Sequoia Kim from the Community News Collective at CKUT 90.3 FM. For background on the broadcast and the original post on the CKUT website visit : https://ckut.ca/playlists/shows/21715 Featuring: Ali, student organizer at Concordia University Yasmine, an organizer with SPHR McGill last year and during the Gaza solidarity encampment Philippe Blouin, the co-author of The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival, Phil has been deeply involved in the political support and legal cases around the Mohawk Mothers. Nalini Mohabir, an educator and author who teaches geography at Concordia. Nalini has coordinated many important events at Concordia, including events to address the struggle against systemic racism at Concordia during the Sir George Williams protests against anti Black racism. Nalini helped to coordinate this project: protestsandpedagogy.ca Nalini also contributed to this recent zine addressing and denouncing repression at Concordia: https://justseeds.org/no-security-in-repression-zine Michelle Hartman, a professor at Islamic Studies at McGill who has been very supportive of the Palestine solidarity movement at McGill and beyond. Off The Hour is CKUT's in-house daily corporate-free news program. It reflects our community because it is made by our community. CKUT's spoken word programming features alternative news, public affairs and arts and culture shows. We cover Montreal and McGill goings-on, LGBTQIA+ culture, environmental and social justice issues, feminism, theatre, African and Latin America current affairs, and more.