Podcast appearances and mentions of stefan christoff

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Mohammed Khizr who speaks on The Palestine Collective working in the UK context. Mohammd speaks about creating space in organizational spaces in design and architecture to lift up Palestinian life. Learn more about the Palestine collective here: https://www.instagram.com/palestine.collective This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Thank you to Hazem Jamjoum for helping to arrange this program. 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 CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am

A Voices for Palestine mix for Radio AlHara for June 15, 2025, thank you for listening, please pay attention to the track details below. The accompanying graphic is by Christeen Francis from the Justseeds artists' cooperative. Thank you for listening, below is the track listing. 01. Naseem Alatrash live cello excerpt, recorded at the People's Conference for Palestine 02. Atmosphere at Palestine solidarity action, recorded by Stefan Christoff 03. An interview with Palestinian activist Samar Alkhdour, recorded by Stefan Christoff in April 2025 04. William Ryan Fritch - Substrata 05. A Palestine solidarity protest at Concordia University winter 2025, recorded by Leon Louder 06. William Ryan Fritch - Cling to One Another 07. Interviews recorded at kite protest for Gaza by Sandra Hercegová 08. William Ryan Fritch - Adhesion 09. Cyrus Bayandor - Part 2 10. Amir ElSaffar - The People of Gaza Will Be Free (No Silence) 11. daniela solís introducing Ruido por Palestina Libre mixtape 12. Puzz Amatizta - con la mano en la tierra 13. Lucía R. - higos y espuma 14. Albania Juárez - algarabía de las especies 15. daniela solís - paloma regresa 16. Astrid Runa - Saladgima 17. Fritanny - ORAR 18. Prisma - k-rma 19. (CiYi) - System Memory Failure 20. Ehab Lotayef - Burning Hills (poetry reading) 21. Philippe Battikha - Lascia ch'io pianga 22. Sloan Lucas - Le Feat avec Niyagi 23. Pangea De Futura - Little Black Eyes (excerpt)

This mixtape was made to celebrate a joint release with Jarrett Martineau released on Pyramid Blood recordings. It was a pleasure to work on the project with Jarrett and also to highlight some other artists for this mix. The mix was created for broadcast on Radio AlHara - راديو الحارة in Palestine. Thank you for listening - Stefan. This is the link to the album with Jarrett: https://pyramidblood.bandcamp.com/album/a-turbulent-sky Track listing (artist name / track name) 01. Stefan Christoff & Jarrett Martineau - Lightening 02. Stefan Christoff & Jarrett Martineau - Prism 03. Stefan Christoff & Jarrett Martineau - Ghazal 04. Stefan Christoff & Jarrett Martineau - Atavistic Rites 05. Stefan Christoff & Jarrett Martineau - Eclipse 06. Stefan Christoff & Jarrett Martineau - Cloud Formation 07. shaun weadick - neil gow's lament for his second wife 08. David Parker & Graham Beverley - Theme from Verdun II 09. shaun weadick - yé ou le char- 10. WZRDRYAV - Resource 2.0 11. thisquietarmy - Respirer l'instabilité (excerpt)

On this edition of Free City Radio we go to Amsterdam and speak with author / activist Jarmo Berkhout who has been deeply involved in a series of high profile squatting actions. Also Jarmo has worked on editing and publishing a key book focused on the intersecting experiences of those working in the squatting movement over the recent years in Amsterdam. Learn more about the collected works that Jarmo worked on editing here via Spookstad publishing: https://spookstad.boo 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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/

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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 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

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.

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

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.

A live panel discussion at Concordia University, that took place at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation and was recorded for broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM. This discussion took place on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 and broadcast on Friday, Feb. 28 from 5-6pm on Off the Hour. The discussion features the participation of the following speakers: Faiz Abhuani, Founder and director at Brique par brique Fenton (zLadybug) Benjamin, Poet and Montreal resident struggling to find stable housing Hubert Gendron-Blais, Réverbérations d'une crise : une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal Jules Bugiel is the journalist in residence at CKUT Radio. With the support of the Local Journalism Initiative through the Community Radio Fund of Canada. This discussion was hosted by Stefan Christoff with an introduction by Christiane Bailey of the Social Justice Centre. This discussion aimed at exploring the realities of the housing crisis facing Montreal today and hear voices from community networks who are struggling for housing justice. This panel is focused on lifting up voices in the arts speaking out about housing rights and also work taking place, in the community, to create alternative institutions that challenge housing as a commodity. The event took place in the build up to the Housing justice gathering which will be taking place at Concordia University from March 7-9, for more information visit: https://housingjustice.now The accompanying image is by Josh MacPhee of Justseeds artists' cooperative. The technical support, broadcast set up and recording was done by CKUT volunteer Nic Trnka.

Listen to a panel discussion recorded at OT301 in Amsterdam, specifically at the Ventilator Cinema, an alternative screening room and cultural space in the city. This conversation was hosted by Stefan Christoff and explores the intersections of art and activism that has taken place over the last year to support the movement for Palestinian freedom. It was aired live 5-6pm Amsterdam time and stream on Radio AlHara airing live in Bethlehem 6-7pm Palestine time on Friday, Nov. 8, info: https://www.ot301.nl/agenda/16996 The live discussion featured a network of awesome folks including Ahmad Mallah, a Palestinian artist based in Amsterdam, a voice from Workers for Palestine NL, artist Alina Lupu, Jarmo Berkhout an activist involved in publishing collective Mokum Kraakt and Adil a community print artist working on the project NotShitPrint. Event logistics and programming support from Sarah Teixeira, Ivo from Amsterdam Alternative, Ibrahim from Ventilator Cinema and artist Zara Kanaan who designed the poster / graphics for the event. Technical support in Bethlehem from Yousef Anastas of Radio AlHara. Info on the participants: Ahmad Mallah https://artahmadmallah.com Workers for Palestine NL https://www.instagram.com/workersforpalestine.nl Alina Lupu https://theofficeofalinalupu.com/ Mokum Kraakt https://www.instagram.com/mokumkraakt NotShitPrint https://notshit.nl/

A discussion with two Montreal artists who were involved in bringing together voices and contributions for the No Silence zine project to support Radio AlHara and specifically a residency project as part of Sounds of Places at the Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem, info: https://wondercabinet.space Airing Monday, Dec. 2 on Radio AlHara at radioalhara.net For this edition we hear from artist Rickie Leach and also Raphael Foisy-Couture of Small Scale music which supported the benefit project which you can find here: https://smallscalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-silence-a-benefit-compilation-for-radio-alhara 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 will start to air on a network of community radio stations, specifically CKUT 90.3 FM in Jan. 2025. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

A report for CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg on a community panel that took place in Montreal entitled "Community Voices Respond To Poilievre's Corporate Agenda For Canada." This report has been produced for broadcast by Stefan Christoff, the host of the weekly program Free City Radio. The conference audio was originally recorded by Jules Bugiel at CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal. This panel featured the voices of: Ehab Lotayef, a community activist and poet Nakuset, of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal / Resilience Montreal Anaïs Zeledon Montenegro, community worker at Action Santé Travesti(e)s et Transexuel(le)s du Québec (ASTT(e)Q) Sandra Wesley, the executive director of Stella Montréal Dolores Chew, founding member of the South Asian Women's Community Centre (SAWCC)

A joint mix with the Montréal based duo Bibi Club, thank you for the collaboration and to Mischa Karam for helping to facilitate this mix. Artwork by Sarah Fathallah from justseeds.org Thanks for listening. - Stefan. Below is the track listing: 01. Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Ballad of the spirits 02. Blonde Redhead, 23 03. Aquaserge, Si loin Si proche 04. Moondog, Do your thing 05. Willie Trasher, Silent Inuit 06. Bibi Club, Ce qui va disparaître 07. Manja Ristić, The Witching Hour (excerpt) 08. Soledad Coyoli, Poema de luna, no.2 09. Badawi, Qaher III 10. Daniel Carter and Stefan Christoff, I can see it all turning now 11. Matteo Uggeri, ...and Then This Wonder 12. Matteo Uggeri, ...for God 13. Sonny Singh, Koi Bol Ram 14. Steve Bates, Seduction - Descent - The gloomy pits - Copper crown (excerpt)

A mix for Radio AlHara that features the latest collaborative album between Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff. This mix also includes some drones and live recordings from Palestine solidarity protests in Mexico City to round out the hour, an excerpt of a protest participant, recorded in Spanish. Information on the album via OKLA records in Poland: https://oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/transmissions-in-silver The album will be released on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, to get a physical or digital copy visit the link above. Broadcast in full on Radio AlHara on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 4pm eastern / 11pm Palestine time, streaming at radioalhara.net This is the write-up on the project: The next chapter in the ongoing artistic conversation between two friends, shaped and built upon live improvisations weaving instruments, radio captures, and punctuated by binaural field recordings of cityscape walks. Joseph's synth work enhances circular, frantic guitar lines laid by Stefan as footsteps ground the work in a natural rhythm of bodies resonating with stimuli of time and space. Two lives intersecting in a room - mourning the dead, raging against injustices, channelling homeland lullabies to synthesize healing waves to pass forward. “Take a walk at night, and walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” – Pauline Oliveros

Listen to an interview with Ramzi Kaiss of Human Rights Watch's office in Beirut, Lebanon speaking on the massive displacement of people from south Lebanon that has been ongoing since fall 2023. This interview gives some context to the current Israeli attacks in Lebanon and the ongoing work of Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/lebanon This interview was recorded, produced and edited by Stefan Christoff for broadcast on Radio AlHara in occupied Palestine. It aired on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. The accompanying graphic is by Roger Peet, view the work here: https://justseeds.org/graphic/solidarity-with-lebanon/

This is a mix that features both unreleased practices and experimentations, as well as recorded tracks. This mix is an homage to a long musical relationship with Norman Nawrocki, a Ukrainian-Canadian musician and activist. I felt that it would be nice to share the lo-fi tracks on this mix and also put them in a context of broader collaborations. Norman and I have played many fundraising events, recorded for albums. Also I have included tracks from many of Norman's projects, below is the track listing. The accompanying photo is of Norman Nawrocki reading a poem, playing violin and speaking at the Gaza solidarity encampment that took place at McGill University in Montreal. The photo is by Hamza. 01. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff duet experiment, guitar and violin, March 2024. 02. Norman Nawrocki solo track from the ne pas plier - Artists Against Austerity project, recorded at La Sala Rossa by Adrian Roy Taylor, produced by Stefan Christoff. 03. Bakunin's Bum, People Already Know (Adian Girt and Norman Nawrocki), from the album, Fight to Win! 04. Rhythm Activism, Venimos a la guerra, from the album Blood and Mud. 05. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff duet experiment, piano and violin, recorded 2023. 06. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff, Duet for Abdelrazik (from the album Duets for Abdelrazik), recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Hotel2Tango. 07. Palestine String Solidarity, by Norman Nawrocki, recorded for broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine. 08. Stefan Christoff explains the mixtape. 09. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff, Duet for Abdelrazik live at La Sala Rossa for benefit concert to support the Awan family who was facing deportation and took sanctuary in a church as a political action to demand status, the family won their status in the end as a result of their action and a major community mobilization. 10. Norman Nawrocki plays the song of Giovanni Passannante in Italy, video recording. 11. Helen Armstrong, Rhythm Activism (an excerpt) from the album Jesus Was Gay. (extended excerpt)

Listen to an interview with researcher, organizer and author Shir Hever speaking on the critical importance of the continued push for an arms embargo on the Israeli government. This interview was recorded for broadcast on Radio AlHara. Learn more about Shir's work here: https://www.shirhever.com This interview was recorded, produced and edited by Stefan Christoff for broadcast on Radio AlHara in occupied Palestine. It aired on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. The accompanying graphic is an excerpt of a design from the second graphic care package for Palestine from the Justseeds artists' cooperative and is by Aaron Hughes. Info on the project: https://justseeds.org/graphic/palestine-will-be-free-graphic-care-package-2/

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we hear from author and educator Zahra Ali who wrote the critically important book "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation" Zahra speaks about the connections and parallels between the reality on the ground in Palestine today and the media narratives that devalue and dehumanize Palestinian life. Zahra connects this reality to the post 9/11 political atmosphere that worked to undercut and dehumanize Iraqi lives, the cultural context that created conditions for the 2003 invasion. Info on Zahra's book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/women-and-gender-in-iraq/B0AA03350B9131073429EF0CFF7059B1 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 will start to air on a network of community radio stations. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

Paysages sonores du Portugal by Diana Duta and Stefan Christoff Broadcast on Radio Panik, Bruxelles, 1er octobre à 12h00 https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-heure-de-pointe/paysages-sonores-du-portugal-juillet-2024/ Radio Campus Bruxelles, 21/10/2024 – 16h https://www.radiocampus.be/creation-radiophonique-21-10-2024-16h-paysages-sonores-du-portugal-juillet-2024-diana-duta-et-stefan-christoff/ Radio AlHara, Bethlehem, Palestine, 03/11/2024 - 18h http://radioalhara.net This mix came together after being in touch with sound artist Diana Duta. I recalled a conversation we had last year over a coffee in Brussels after we joined a Palestine solidarity protest together. We talked about how creating experimental non corporate sounds can possibly create ruptures in the flow of the hyper colonial capitalist death machine that is aiming to commodify everything. The soundscape blends together my own recordings from a visit I made to Portugal with my family in 2024, and Diana's recordings from the 25th of April, which marked the 50 year anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal - a symbol of independence and freedom. It is really about listening and arriving at a solidarity that is about being open, also about taking action, but also reflecting in real time beyond the noise of colonial capitalist power that is trying to always occupy our minds. Ce mix est né après avoir pris contact avec l'artiste sonore Diana Duta, basée à Bruxelles. Je me souviens d'une conversation qu'on a eu autour d'un café à Bruxelles, après avoir participé ensemble à une manifestation de solidarité avec la Palestine en 2023. Après la marche, on est allées prendre un café avec notre amie commune Julia E. Dyck. On a continué notre conversation, en parlant de la manifestation et de la façon dont nous pouvons, en tant qu'artistes, trouver des moyens pour exprimer notre soutien pour la Palestine. Ces questionnements ont fait egalement partie de ce moment, et la conversation a portée sur la façon dont la création de sons expérimentaux non corporatifs peut éventuellement créer des ruptures dans le flux de la machine capitaliste hyper coloniale, qui vise à tout marchandiser et tout ettoufer. J'ai apprécié la façon dont Diana et Julia ont été presentes et ont vraiment écouté. Track listing (artist name / track name) 01. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 13h00, Douro beach ZOOM H5 on the rocks on Praia Cabedelo do Douro 02. Anarchist Mountains, Underwater From the album VHS 03. Diana Duta - 24/04/2024, 12h19, taxi Motorola Edge 30 Neo in the taxi to Douro beach 04. Stefan Christoff, Lisbon morning birds 07/2024 ZOOM H4n, recorded at a small playground not far from Parque Eduardo VII 05. Stefan Christoff, Wind chimes in Lisbon 07/2024 ZOOM H4n, recorded at a BBQ with some family friends 06. Anarchist Mountains - Inside the Signals From the album Fire Waves 07. Stefan Christoff - Street sounds in Lisbon 07/2024 ZOOM H4n, recorded while walking in the city 08. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 16h44, bus 15 ZOOM H5 on the bus from Porto to Coimbra 09. Anarchist Mountains - Moving a Dimension From the album Fire Waves 10. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 21h25, Barril de Alva ZOOM H5 to the studio and back, Barril de Alva 11. Stefan Christoff - Chalga Remixed From the album Inner Lands 12. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 13h00, Douro beach ZOOM H5 on the rocks on Praia Cabedelo do Douro 13. Diana Duta - 25/04/2024, 15h50, taxi Motorola Edge 30 Neo in the taxi to Campanhã Bus terminal 14. Diana Duta - River while I swim

A joint mix with Mexico City based musician Emiliano Cruz for Radio AlHara in Palestine. Track listing below, artist name / track name. Photo taken in Mexico City at ObreraCentro. 01. Torso Corso, # 1 02. La Kriego, Abrir lo mirado 03. Gibrana Cervantes, V​ó​rtex Submarino 04. Rodrigo Ambriz, Las Brasas (excerpt) 05. Melodies In My Head, Life Is A Sine Wave (featuring Fira Yakawrath) 06. Cyrus Bayandor, Part 1 Monarch 07. Clayborne, [Sn2309] 08. Martín Rodríguez, Radio Vestige broadcast featuring Stefan Christoff (excerpt)

Listen to an interview with Sara and Rodrigo from the Landra collective speaking about their involvement in the Sismógrafo art space in Porto, Portugal. The interview is centred on a project that took place in the summer of 2024 to open up a community reading group with a list co-curated by Palestinian artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna. The reading list aimed to highlight historical critiques of imperial based practices of political, economic and cultural control over people's relationship to land, from Portugal historically going back to the Roman imperial period, to the last centuries of Portugal as a violent colonial force. Critically the reading list also looks at the centrality of the Palestinian relationship to land in the context of the struggle against Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine today. For more information about Jumana visit: https://www.jumanamanna.com Info on the Landra project here: http://www.landra.pt Info on Sismógrafo here: https://sismografo.org 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 will start to air on a network of community radio stations. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

This live broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM broadcast today, on Sounds of Resistance was co-hosted by Samaa Elibyari, a long-time CKUT volunteer programmer and Stefan Christoff. Stefan presented an extended segment on migrant justice organizing in Montréal. In this segment we will hear audio from an interview with Palestinian lawyer and community organizer Rabie Masri speaking about the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees in 2003. This is archive material that Stefan has prepared within the context of the ongoing Community Radio in Action Archive Project. This segment will speak to the post 9/11 political environment in Canada that saw attacks on the rights of migrants and refugees, in this context migrant communities organized collectively for justice and against deportations, this process led to the formation and emergence of projects like Solidarity Across Borders. In this segment we will also hear from longtime community organizer Mostafa Henaway in an interview recorded on Wednesday, Sept. 18 speaking about the ways to understand the organizing that took place in the years after 9/11 and the current #StatusForAll movement. The live in-studio element for this program was a round table on current movements for Palestine solidarity with Samar Alkhdour, poet Ehab Lotayef and Shelley Frydman who is a member of Independent Jewish Voices. The accompanying photo is by Allen Bleich. Thank you to Sasha Avrutsky for the technical support during the broadcast and to Jack Solar for admin support from CKUT 90.3 FM.

A joint mix for Radio AlHara in Palestine, airing on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 11am eastern / 6pm Palestine time, the tracks were jointly selected by T. Gowdy and Stefan Christoff, below is the track listing, artist name and then track name. 01. The Hilliard ensemble, Responsorium 1 02. The Tallis Scholars, Amplius lava me 03. Sistine Chapel Choir, Allegri miserere, Palestrina 04. The Hilliard ensemble, Se la mia vita 05. Rebecca Stewart Capella Pretensis, Missa Sancti Iacobi II Kyrie 06. Sam Shalabi and Stefan Christoff, Flying Street 07. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Presentiment 08. Don Cherry, Utopia & Visions 09. Secret Pyramid, Valerian 10. Lori Goldston & Stefan Christoff, Pacific Beyond Borders 11. Andy Aquarius, U Lisi 12. Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord, Sternenjubel (excerpt)

Artists and tenants under attack by real estate monsters A live community broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024 2-4pm live on CKUT 90.3FM on Funky Revolutions 5500 Saint Hubert Montreal Full info https://docs.google.com/document/d/1403LG70YxIGlVUr68qC9Wv5MkLjzQI18Rt95dbdT680/edit?usp=sharing A discussion co-hosted by Stefan Christoff and Khalid M'Seffar of Funky Revolutions, the weekly program on CKUT 90.3 FM program that hosted this show. Speakers: Lauren Laframboise, Vanier Scholar and PhD student at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) (profile page) and the External Affairs Officer for the Concordia Research and Education Workers' Union (CREW–CSN). Kiva Stimac, the general and artistic director of the Suoni per il Popolo festival. Asher Woodhead, a Concordia student and independent musician (Doldrums / Crasher) Catherine Bodmer, a visual artist and General Director of RCAAQ (Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec) A Solidarity Economy Incubation Zone (SEIZE) researcher who co-authored the report “From Crisis to Consensus: A survey of 60 housing groups from across Canada,” looking at the state of the housing justice movement in Québec and Canada. CKUT 90.3 FM's production coordinator Spencer Gilley is the broadcast engineer. Photographer Amru Salahuddien took photos and the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University supported this project. This community radio broadcast to looks at the ways that real estate monsters are attacking independent artists in the context of an unprecedented housing and space affordability crisis in the city and beyond. This broadcast took place at 5500 St. Hubert, a space that has served for years as a gathering point for independent artists. The location is currently the locale for a thriving independent arts network, including multiple small visual arts studios and music rehearsal locations. This address is inhabited by cultural workers with creative practices not defined by mainstream art market paradigms. Today this location, a former potato chip factory, is slated for demolition by UTILE, a company aiming to construct private student condo units. This process also involves massive amounts of public funding (report), as $21.4 million is going to the company just from the city of Montréal, for a larger process that involves few mechanisms for full accountability or democratic access to the decision making of the company. UTILE claims to be creating accessible student housing while the company is making massive profits and has little meaningful track record of creating truly affordable non-market student housing that is safe from rising rents in the long term. In the context of the current housing crisis market driven projects are not the solution. Today students and other communities who are dealing with precarious housing are being presented with false market oriented projects that are billed as solutions. Non-market housing options, like the urgent need for public financial support for co-op housing from all levels of government, is a key element to building any real long term solutions. Demolishing affordable artist studios, where many students and community members work, thrive and create is what UTILE is doing in this case and this is unacceptable.

A wave of springtime releases might be just around the corner, but the biggest albums out this week are keeping things cool in an enticing variety of ways. Ann Powers and Hazel Cills discuss what Jack Antonoff, Norah Jones, Moor Mother's Camae Ayewa and Kim Gordon have in common, besides a common release date.Featured albums:1. Kim Gordon, The Collective2. Bleachers, Bleachers3. Norah Jones, Visions4. Moor Mother, The Great BailoutOther notable releases for March 8:• Ariana Grande, Eternal Sunshine• Bolis Pupul, Letter to Yu• Judas Priest, Invincible Shield• YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Compliments of Gravedigger Mountain• Oisin Leech, Cold Sea• Cyrille Aimée, à Fleur de Peau• Dion, Girl Friends• Chris Potter, Eagle's Point• Torrey, Torrey• Daniel Carter and Stefan Christoff, In the wind now• homeshake, CD Wallet• Pixies, At the BBC• Meatbodies, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom• Ronnie Lion, Spanish Town• Vanessa Bedoret, Eyes• Charles Moothart, Black Holes Don't Choke• Anja Huwe, Codes• Erika Angell, The Obsession With Her Voice• The Rhythm Method, Peachy• The Hanging Stars, On A Golden Shore• astrel k, The Foreign Department• Observers, The Age of the Machine EntitiesLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy