Free City Radio

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Stephanie Manriquez who speaks on Lumpen Radio, a community radio project in Chicago. The discussion revolves around the importance of multi-linguistic broadcasting at a time of fascist policies being adopted in the US and the attacks on different migrant communities by ICE. Stephanie speaks about the important of community radio as a space of gather...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the first in a two part series that looks at prisoner justice struggles in Canada and beyond. Kriss Li, who was also involved for years in the Prisoner Correspondence Project - a collective based out of Montreal that seeks to support queer/trans inmates speaks on this edition. Kriss is an artist and organizer, you can learn more about their work here: htt...

A set of two conversations between Indigenous musician and scholar Jarrett Martineau and Stefan Christoff. These conversations illustrate a range of focal points that revolve around the exchange between two artists actively engaged with anti-colonial movements across many years. In April 2025 Jarrett Martineau and Stefan Christoff released their first album A TURBULENT SKY, out on Pyramid Blood re...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the first in a two part series that looks at prisoner justice struggles in Canada and beyond. Olivia Dumas, who was involved for years in the Prisoner Correspondence Project - a collective based out of Montreal that seeks to support queer/trans inmates speaks on this edition. Olivia speaks about the particularities of prisoner justice struggles in Canada...

A monthly mixtape for Radio AlHara, airing Sept. 27, 2026 Tracks and excerpts from these albums: Thresholds (Featuring Marcus Vale) by Paul Finlay Tomorrow, we'll know by Space Mountain Live at Casa del Lago by Adriana Camacho and Stefan Christoff Mastodonian by Marion/Mucci Flowers Not Bombs by V/A (out on Beacon Sound) Photo by Amanda Ruiz Méndez

This interview with Eric Shragge is a part of a two part series focused on the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. These recordings aim to create a reference point of the perspectives of some of the co-founders of an important workers centre in Canada. For more information on archival / oral history work on the IWC you can visit: deindustrialization.org/voices-of-the-iwc/ Free City Radio is host...

This interview with Tess Tesalona is a part of a two part series focused on the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. These recordings aim to create a reference point of the perspectives of some of the co-founders of an important workers centre in Canada. For more information on archival / oral history work on the IWC you can visit: https://deindustrialization.org/voices-of-the-iwc/ Free City Radi...

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we hear from Graham Arendse (Boeta Gee) in Cape Town speaking about independent cultural work in the post-apartheid context in South Africa. Graham offers reflections on the ways that artists in South Africa also have been mobilizing and speaking out about the Palestinian struggle and intersections between struggles, locally and globally. This inte...

Nancy Durán Orizaba speaks on cultural work in the centre and margins of Mexico City today. Nancy worked for sometime as the coordinator of the Casa Rafael Galván, a cultural center operated by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City. This space prioritized the voices of students from the margins of Mexico City who were studying at UAM. This interview is part of the TRANSBORDA...

José Cortés Ortega speaks on alternative cultural venues in Mexico City today. This interview is part of the TRANSBORDAR series focused on the voices of independent cultural workers in Mexico City. José was a founding member of the alternative music venue 316centro in the heart of Mexico City. This series has also been published as a zine, also called TRANSBORDAR, during the Suoni per il Popolo...

CERRUCHA speaks on the intersections of cultural worker and organizing in relation to Feminist movements in Mexico today. This interview is part of a series focused on the voices of cultural workers today in Mexico City. This series has also been published as a zine, called TRANSBORDAR, during the Suoni per il Popolo festival in 2026 in Montreal. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Ch...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the second in a series of 5 interviews with cultural workers in Mexico City. This series has also been published as a zine, TRANSBORDAR, during the Suoni per il Popolo festival in 2026 in Montreal. Cinthya García Leyva speaks on alternative cultural work today in Mexico City. Cinthya has worked for many cultural organizations in Mexico City including Cas...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the first in a series of 5 interviews with cultural workers in Mexico City. This series has also been published as a zine, TRANSBORDAR, during the Suoni per il Popolo festival in 2026 in Montreal. The first in the series is with Diego Aguirre Fernández the founder of Radio Nopal in Mexico City. https://www.radionopal.com The accompanying music is from th...

On this edition of the Art in Action interview series we hear from Indigenous composer and musician Laura Ortman. Laura is a key voice within the contemporary Indigenous music worlds of Turtle Island today. Laura is a White Mountain Apache, originally from East Fork, Arizona, who grew up outside of St. Louis and currently lives in Brooklyn. Here are some recordings by Laura: https://thedustdivefla...

A conversation with cultural worker, music selector and writer Atiyyah Khan speaking in Cape Town, South Africa. Atiyyah speaks on the interconnections between struggle in South Africa and Palestine, today and in the past. Listen to a mix by Atiyyah on Stegi radio here: https://stegi.radio/artist/atiyya-khan This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear directly from Alex Nelson, a frontline housing researcher in London, Ontario who is actively working to bridge the social and economic gaps between the many researchers looking at the crisis along with those holding direct frontline experience on the ground. Alex speaks to the active policy decisions by successive Liberal and Conservative governments who...

On this edition of Free City Radio we feature a long format conversation with Latin American historian Alexander Aviña. Alex speaks about the current US neo-colonial designs for the region, but how that exists in a historical context. Also Alex critically speaks to a topic that I have been wanting to see expressed more widely which is around the ways that the experiences of thousands of activists...

A joint mixtape with the Marionette label for Radio AlHara. Learn more about the label here: https://marionettelabel.bandcamp.com/

On this edition of Free City Radio we will hear a conversation with professor and author focused on Latin America, Miguel Tinker Salas. Miguel speaks specifically in this exchange on the complexities of addressing the current wave of US neo-imperialism in Latin America as occurring not in a vaccum but within a historical context and in many ways a trajectory of US power dating back to the Spanish-...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear directly from artist and scholar Sam Gould, a community voice in Minnesota who speaks on the realities of the ICE raids under the Trump administration as they impacted Minneapolis and particularly the area of the city, Powderhorn Park. Sam has long been involved in the intersections of the arts and social movements and teaches at the Minneapolis College o...

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine, for July 2026, we hear from Palestinian artist and community organizer Dima Abu Sbeitan who speaks on the Seeds of Hope initiative in Gaza. This project is supported by the Gaza is the moral compass benefit album that is out on Beacon Sound: https://beaconsound.bandcamp.com/album/gaza-is-the-moral-compass This interview series hosted by Stefan Chr...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Ghassan Ghaben, who is Palestinian and was born in Gaza, is the co-founder of Reviving Gaza, a mutual aid group set up to help displaced Palestinian families. He runs the group with his sister Amal and a network of volunteers inside the strip. Reviving Gaza mutual aid is a group supported by the Gaza is the moral compass benefit album released by Bea...

On the July 2026 edition of the Art in Action interview series we hear from Berlin-based sound artist and musician KMRU. For more information visit: https://kmru.info Stefan Christoff produces this artist interview series, Art in Action, the theme music is by Anarchist Mountains. This program broadcasts monthly on: Radio AlHara, Palestine On the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem an...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the third in a series of a three programs that gather and present audio recordings from Montreal at the Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry, an event co-convened by the Council of Canadians. The voices featured in this project are: Gabriel Bergevin-Estable is a research fellow in the geography of migration at the Canada Research Chair in Global Migrat...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the second in a series of a three programs that gather and present audio recordings from Montreal at the Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry, an event co-convened by the Council of Canadians. On this edition we hear from Cynthia Khoo, a technology and human rights lawyer, who places a critique of AI within the context of a long series of battles to pu...