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Listen to an interview with Brussels based researcher and activist Omar Jabary Salamanca. In this interview Omar speaks about the ways that Brussels has become an important hub for Palestinian solidarity organizing in Western Europe. Beyond only speaking about the organizing over the last months this interview situates strands of popular organizing history in the city within different diaspora communities representing, both culturally and politically, territories in the global south that are shaped by struggles against colonization.

This interview is broadcasting on Radio AlHara on Tuesday, May 28 at 7am eastern time, 2pm Palestine time, streaming at https://www.radioalhara.net

Stefan took the accompanying photo at a Palestine solidarity rally in Brussels in fall 2023.

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!