Free City Radio

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from community organizer Yvonne Yen Liu who is based in LA and speaks about organizing counter power at a city based level. Yvonne talks about efforts to create popular assemblies that can connect different local struggles throughout the larger LA area. I thought to feature this conversation because it is an interesting example of organizing counter power at a city wide level, while speaking to interesting ideas and points around organizational process. Find more information on the projects highlighted in this conversation here: https://losangelesassembly.org https://solidarityresearch.org Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. The image is by Antonio Gritón. 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!

Stefan's monthly mix for Radio AlHara, for May 2024, "Beyond borders" mix. Below is the track listing, track name and then artist(s) name(s). Stefan took the photo in May 2024 inside the Gaza solidarity encampment at McGill University. 01. Matteo Uggeri - Observing, Waiting for... 02. Notnef Greco - Mannequins Road 03. Stefan Christoff - Mirrors 04. Dear Ocean - The Narcicyst and Stefan Christoff 05. Stefan Christoff - Sounding Worlds 1 06. Godspeed you! black emperor - Sleep 07. Matteo Uggeri - ...for the Little Silver Stars

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a recording of a panel discussion that took place at Concordia University in Montreal, entitled Voices of the Immigrant Workers Centre. The panel focuses on the grassroots organizing in one of Montreal's former garment districts in the city around supporting garment sector workers at Lamour Inc. who were facing mass layoffs. This panel highlights a campaign that took place at a grassroots level, largely outside of the formal labour sector and took place at the intersection of many points of systemic violence targeting workers, all of whom were racialized immigrant textile workers. Information on this panel can be found here: https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/voices-of-the-immigrant-workers-centre On the program we hear from the event host Lauren Laframboise, IWC activists and organizers Yumna Siddiqi and Mostafa Henaway, as well as the host of this program, Free City Radio, Stefan Christoff. Background information on the oral history interview series that aired on Free City Radio for this project to document the campaign that the Immigrant Workers Centre organized to support Lamour Inc. workers can be found here: https://deindustrialization.org/voices-of-the-iwc Stefan's work on this event was supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University and took place at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS). The accompanying photo was taken by Amru Salahuddin. Music on this edition 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!

Broadcast on Monday, May 13 from 6-8 in Palestine / 11-1 eastern time on Radio AlHara, a set of interviews with artistic and media voices from Beirut, Lebanon. These interviews speak to the devastating impacts of the Israeli governments military attacks on south Lebanon and also serious attacks on other regions of the country, including the capital region. On this program we hear from Hashem Adnan from The Black Hole theatre // Racha Najdi, a long time filmmaker, originally from South Lebanon // Public Works Studio in Beirut Music on this edition is by Badawi. With this I am sharing a photo that I took on my last visit to Beirut in May 2019. Thank you for listening. - Stefan.

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Indigenous artist and musician Status/Non-Status. For more information about the work of this important artist working today visit: https://www.statusnonstatus.com Music on this edition is by Status/Non-Status. Thank you to my friend Jessie Lauren Stein for helping to set up 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!

Voices for Gaza Thursday, May 9, 2024 2-3pm live on CKUT 90.3 FM www.ckut.ca A live community radio broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM that aims to highlight the ways that the Gaza solidarity encampment at McGill University creates political space in both the media landscape and within the city to lift up Palestinian life. This broadcast will also underline the ways that media workers in the Gaza context are facing deadly danger at the hands of the Israeli state military machine. At least 92 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza due to Israeli military strikes since October 7th according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Featuring the voices of Sarah Shamy, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. Martin Lukacs, an investigative journalist and the managing editor of The Breach. A representative from Students in Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. Norma Rantisi, Academics for Palestine, Concordia University. Michelle Hartman, Profs solidaires avec le camp.

On this edition of the program we hear from Palestinian sound artist and musician Byjayr. This interview was originally included in a major broadcast for Radio AlHara in Bethlehem, but I thought it would be also important to share this conversation as a stand alone exchange. Byjayr (Jeena) speaks about her creation process, journey as an artist and shares reflections on the critical importance of speaking up for Palestine today. Music on this edition 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 we hear an interview with Terry Weber of Friends of Freedom Theatre, which is a project that exists in different countries to support the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine. Terry is one of the co-founders and organizers of the project in New York City. On this edition we also hear music shaped by Palestinian culture created by Badawi. 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

Listen to an interview with Tsvetan Tsvetanov a cultural worker in Bulgaria who is a host on the Alarma experimental radio show on Bulgarian National Radio. Tsvetan also hosts Alarma Punk Jazz concerts, which is a series focusing on sounds from around the world and experimental music. Tsvetan's project are open to giving space for activists and in the Bulgarian context works to create links between the Bulgarian music scene and the world. Here is an article on Tsvetan's work: https://vijmag.bg/en/article/radioman-tsvetan-tsvetanov The accompanying photo was taken at Fabrika Avtonomia (Фабрика Автономия) where I first met Tsvetan Tsvetanov. Music on this program is "Passage" by Anarchist Mountains. Stefan 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 Free City Radio we hear from long time Vancouver based community activist Garth Mullins about the project Crackdown, which is a podcast that explores the voices of drug users and particularly the intersections of community activism in Vancouver around the voices of drug users as an important element within broader movements for progressive social change in the city. Info on the podcast here: https://www.crackdownpod.com Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. The image is from the Crackdown podcast. Thank you to my friend, the journalist Dawn Paley, for suggesting the idea of highlighting Crackdown project on this program. 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!