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In this interview we hear from Bob Rose a long term community organizer who has worked in the low income Parkdale area of Toronto for many years. Bob speaks about the urgent need for housing justice across the board and speaks to the challenges that frontline community organizers who are supporting low income tenants face without there being larger structural policy change. Bob has worked with many organizations and has been staff at Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) for many years.

This interview series takes place in collaboration with SEIZE and takes place as part of an effort to asses and speak to the realities, challenges and critical importance of networking across housing justice struggles in Canada. Learn more about SEIZE and the work on this issue here: www.solidarityeconomy.ca

Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. Artwork Martha Rosler, Housing Is a Human Right, Time Square Spectacolor animation detail, 1989. Thank you to the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University for their support toward this radio 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!

Stefan's monthly mix for Radio AlHara, for June 2024, "All forever" mix. Below is the track listing, track name and then artist(s) name(s).

Stefan took the photo in August 2021 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

01. Janek Krukowski @krukowski - Latent - I (via @oklarec)
02. Stefan Christoff - In Burgas
03. Jessica Zambri - Foresting (via @crashsymbols)
04. Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Cenote (via @moonvillain)
05. Matteo Uggeri @greysparkle - ...for Myself in Difficult Times
06. Man Rei @man_rei - Gate
07. Paradise of Yesterday - Sophistication
08. Paradise of Yesterday - Remembrance
09. Wojtek Kiwer @wojtek-kiwer - PARTICLES
10. Grimório de Abril - Ophidic Haze (via Municipal K7 in Brazil)
11. Grimório de Abril - A Distância Entre Duas Constelações
12. Hydenburg - Kind Disregards (@christiancarriere and Pascal Delaquis)
13. Totenbaum Träger - Fleur de néon VII

A mix that I worked on for Radio AlHara to celebrate the release of my solo electric guitar album "Declarations," out on Cuchabata Records, info here:

https://cuchabatarecords.bandcamp.com/album/cuch-217-declarations-2024

Artwork is by Vasilios Billy Mavreas.

Here is a track listing for the mix, with artist name(s) and then track name.

01. Stefan Christoff - Declarations
02. Stefan Christoff - Morning shift
03. Stefan Christoff - Amazing action
04. Stefan Christoff - Guitar in Griffintown
05. Stefan Christoff - Stratospheric
06. Bosho - Relay
07. Piero Umiliani - Officina stellare
08. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff - Explorations on Van Horne
09. Seta Kien - Fusible (from Sounds for your Anterior Insula 2)
10. John Clarke - Clip from Free City Radio interview for "From Crisis to Consensus: A Report on Canada’s Housing Movement" project.
11. Lazzaro & LY Foulidis - Gathering # 1 (from Sounds for your Anterior Insula 2)
12. The Ex - Soon All Cities
13. Stefan Christoff and Joseph Sannicandro - Excerpt of live performance at transmutations i at Ateliers Belleville in Montreal.

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Catherine Lussier the coordinator of Front d'action populaire en réaménagement urbain (FRAPRU) who speaks about the urgency of both collective grassroots action on housing but also on the needs to have the advancement of the mobilization of public funds to massively construct social housing units in Quebec and beyond.

The artwork is by Seth Tobocman.

This interview series takes place in collaboration with SEIZE and takes place as part of an effort to asses and speak to the realities, challenges and critical importance of networking across housing justice struggles in Canada. Learn more about SEIZE and the work on this issue here: www.solidarityeconomy.ca

Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. Get more information about FRAPRU here: https://www.frapru.qc.ca/le-frapru Thank you to the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University for their support toward this radio 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!

A conversation with activist scholar Fayrouz Yousfi, based in Belgium, who speaks on the mobilization to support Palestine within universities across Belgium. Fayrouz offers a window into a context where there has been an important mobilization for Palestine in western Europe. Fayrouz speaks about the student encampment actions, the push in Belgium to divest from Israeli university collaborations and how these campus based organizing efforts are tied to the larger Palestine solidarity movement in the country.

This interview was recorded and produced by Stefan Christoff for broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine and is airing on Tuesday, June 11 at 9am eastern time, 4pm Bethlehem time, streaming at http://radioalhara.net

The accompanying music is by Badawi, with a short excerpt of a piece "Cette lumi​è​re qui surgit des d​é​combres" by Jo​ë​l Lavoie from this album:

https://aosmosis.bandcamp.com/album/artists-against-apartheid-montr-al-session

The accompanying graphic is from Justseeds artists' cooperative http://justseeds.org

On this edition of Free City Radio we share the first in a series of 4 interviews that speak to housing justice struggles today in Canada. This first interview is with long time anti poverty organizer John Clarke who is based in Toronto and currently deeply involved in the 230 Fightback campaign which is organizing to block the conversion of a downtown east Toronto building into a massive condominium tower, you can learn more about this campaign here: https://230fightback.com/

This interview series takes place in collaboration with SEIZE and takes place as part of an effort to asses and speak to the realities, challenges and critical importance of networking across housing justice struggles in Canada. Learn more about SEIZE and the work on this issue here: https://www.solidarityeconomy.ca/

Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. The image is from a screenshot of a video promoting the 230 Fightback campaign. Thank you to the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University for their support toward this radio 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!