Radio Against Repression

Radio Against Repression

The live radio hour archived as a podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on DAB+ Chanel 7D monthly, and thereafter published as a podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin, while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin.  Please rate us on your podcast app and share this project with 1 person today. Word of mouth is the best way for a show like ours to find an audience. Thank you.

  1. Apartheid States with Adam Broomberg

    5D AGO

    Apartheid States with Adam Broomberg

    From the Bantustans and townships of South Africa to the fractured lands of Palestine, overcoming apartheid has been a struggle across the lines of privilege. Radio Against Repression is joined live in the studio by the artist Adam Broomberg. As a descendent of Jews who fled the Holocaust but benefited as whites from the apartheid regime in South Africa, Broomberg witnessed the subtle interweaving of Zionist and apartheid ideologies. Adam joins Radio Against Repression to discuss the complex paradoxes of twentieth-century diasporic communities during a period of upheaval that continues to inform the artist’s interrogation of photography’s power, complicity and banality. Music: The Flame Thrower - Soweto Kinch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akpIBYL-Q5U Otis - The Durutti Column - https://thedurutticolumn.bandcamp.com/track/otis No Love - Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - https://ropeadopeselect.bandcamp.com/track/no-love Please rate us on your podcast app and share this project with 1 person today. Word of mouth is the best way for a show like ours to find an audience. Thank you. . . . KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/ Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/ Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was... 3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/ Please consider supporting us on https://www.patreon.com/c/RadioAgainstRepression Help us stay on the air! https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-radio-against-repression-going

    56 min
  2. SPECIAL EDITION: IRAN

    MAR 5

    SPECIAL EDITION: IRAN

    On the horrendous occasion of the brutal Israeli and US attacks on Iran, as well as the renewed ground invasion and bombing of Lebanon, we will be joined by Dorna to discuss what has been unfolding over the last week, how this should be interpreted within the colonial imperialist power structure, and what we in the West can do about it. A discussion around what is happening from a socialist perspective. Music: DJ / rupture - https://www.negrophonic.com/dj-rupture-mixes-free-download/ Baraye - Shervin Hajipour - https://soundcloud.com/shervinine/baraye Iranian Organising: https://lowerclassmag.com/2026/02/28/es-gibt-auch-einen-dritten-weg https://sozvu.org/iran-krieg-keine-befreiung/ https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/fuer-die-niederlage-der-usa-und-israels-nieder-mit-dem-imperialistischen-krieg-gegen-iran/ A Testimony Under Bombardment: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVd6GvBCJjJ/ Lebanese mutual aid: Lebanon Solidarity Collective - https://www.instagram.com/p/DVb6iULCXKl/ Several initiatives supporting migrant workers - https://www.instagram.com/p/DVbTtyciK7m/ Art Worker Solidarity Group (AG AWS) - #1 Unionising - https://zabriskie.de/products/how-do-we-self-organise-1-unionising Please rate us on your podcast app and share this project with 1 person today. Word of mouth is the best way for a show like ours to find an audience. Thank you. . . . KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/ Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/ Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was... 3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/ Please consider supporting us on https://www.patreon.com/c/RadioAgainstRepression

    1h 11m
  3. Police Violence with Anabel - Arrest Documentation Unit

    12/03/2025

    Police Violence with Anabel - Arrest Documentation Unit

    It has been the most striking feature of current political repression in Germany: police brutalizing protesters with extreme force. Especially in Berlin, police violence against political dissidents has become a regular occurrence. But what is behind this violence? Anabel from the Arrest Documentation Unit (ADU) will be joining R A R live in the studio to discuss the specific role and function that police violence fulfills within systemic state repression in Germany today, starting with the repression of Palestine solidarity and expanding from climate activism to the police violence against anti-AfD protesters in Gießen this weekend. ADU is one of the publishers of the report Repression Against Palestine Solidarity in Germany, which describes in great detail the different forms of repression utilized by the German state against Palestine solidarity protesters. arrestunits-berlin@proton.me Poesie-Lesung: Die Legende von Gaza | Galerie & Atelier Arabisk | 18:00 | Karl-Kunger-Straße 6 Poesie Abend mit Fares Matar, Saad Al-Abtah, Thaer Ayoub, Hevi Qico und Marwan Al-Ezzi Gaza Biennale - https://gbb2025.substack.com/p/program-gaza-biennale-berlin-pavilion-faa To order Muqawama, the first edition of Uncolonial Ethnographers Magazine, with Jara's poem krank in original and English translation - https://www.instagram.com/uncolonialethnographer Help us to stay on the air! https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-radio-against-repression-going Please rate us on your podcast app and share this project with 1 person today. Word of mouth is the best way for a show like ours to find an audience. Thank you. . . . KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/ Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/ Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was... 3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/ Please consider supporting us on https://www.patreon.com/c/RadioAgainstRepression

    56 min

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The live radio hour archived as a podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on DAB+ Chanel 7D monthly, and thereafter published as a podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin, while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin.  Please rate us on your podcast app and share this project with 1 person today. Word of mouth is the best way for a show like ours to find an audience. Thank you.