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Free City Radio

Free City Radio explores the intersection of social activism and the arts. The weekly program features interviews on contemporary political currents in Montréal, Canada and around the world, highlighting creative voices involved in struggles for transformative social change. This Free City Radio page also features contemporary music mixes contributed to stations around the world. The 30 minute weekly Free City Radio is produced and hosted by Stefan Christoff and airs weekly on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm. 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.

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    250, Journalist Ermilo Mendoza in Mexico City speaking on La Coperacha

    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!

    30 min
  2. No Fest 2024 (Montreal experimental music)

    JAN 12

    No Fest 2024 (Montreal experimental music)

    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

    1 hr
  3. 249, Housing justice organizing on Prince Edward Island with Ryan MacRae

    JAN 8

    249, Housing justice organizing on Prince Edward Island with Ryan MacRae

    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!

    30 min
  4. 248, Alessandra Renzi speaks on AI industries as driving gentrification in Parc Ex, Montreal

    JAN 2

    248, Alessandra Renzi speaks on AI industries as driving gentrification in Parc Ex, Montreal

    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/ Alessandra is an educator who investigates how society's increasing reliance on platforms, algorithms and artificial intelligence is changing social justice activism Alessandra speaks on the impacts of the AI technology "boom" in Quebec and how it is impacting and hyper-driving gentrification in the immigrant working class area of Parc Ex. in Montreal. 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!

    30 min
  5. Art in Action interview - Artist Dudu Tsuda

    JAN 2

    Art in Action interview - Artist Dudu Tsuda

    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.

    30 min
  6. 247, Dru Oja Jay on Conservative party in Canada exploting the housing crisis

    JAN 1

    247, Dru Oja Jay on Conservative party in Canada exploting the housing crisis

    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!

    30 min
  7. Art and scholarship in action for Palestine (Live in Brussels), راديو الحارة

    JAN 1

    Art and scholarship in action for Palestine (Live in Brussels), راديو الحارة

    "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.

    1 hr
  8. Cultural workers for Palestine - Squirrel Flower

    12/31/2024

    Cultural workers for Palestine - Squirrel Flower

    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 cancellation 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 into the 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

    30 min
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Free City Radio explores the intersection of social activism and the arts. The weekly program features interviews on contemporary political currents in Montréal, Canada and around the world, highlighting creative voices involved in struggles for transformative social change. This Free City Radio page also features contemporary music mixes contributed to stations around the world. The 30 minute weekly Free City Radio is produced and hosted by Stefan Christoff and airs weekly on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm. 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.

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    Free City Radio
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
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