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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...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the first in a three part series that draws from a set of recordings done in Montreal at the Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry, an event co-convened by the Council of Canadians. Sheldon Sunshine of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation offers an Indigenous critique of AI industries and particularly the pending impacts of a major AI data centre that is being pro...

In this conversation with community organizer Gaetan Heroux we get a contemporary window into housing justice organizing in Toronto. Gaetan speaks specifically about the 230 Fight Back campaign, but also more generally on the impacts of extreme housing injustice in Toronto as it relates to wealth inequality. Info on 230 Fight Back here: https://230fightback.com The music track is Passage by Anarch...

On this edition of the Art in Action interview series we hear from artist practitioner Christine White who speaks on the PedalBox Gallery project. This is a mobile art gallery that can move around the city as a bike trailer, stopping at various points, including public parks and squares. It is a project of social intervention creating space for alternative culture and also workshops with marginali...

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we hear from Lena El-Malak author of Stolen Nation: The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees. This book is critically important and creatively brings together a constellation of different ideas around articulating the legal right of Palestinians to historic Palestine and directly challenges Israeli state driven attempts to legally dispossess...

In this conversation with Emile YX? we discuss on hip-hop culture and collective memory in South Africa. Emile goes back into his experience building up the Black Noise project in the context of apartheid and the ongoing challenges across generations in South Africa to continue to struggle for both representation and social justice until today. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Fr...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Eric Roberts a voice from Bank Block Tenants who speaks about the specifics of tenant organizing within downtown Ottawa, specifically on Bank street. Eric details the organizing that took place between tenants to fight a local eviction within the larger context of rising tenant organizing within Ottawa and across Canada. Info on Centretown Tenant Pow...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from educator, researcher and author Brian Aboud, who teaches at Vanier college in Montreal speaking about the heightening of administrative repression taking place within academic institutions. Brian places this within a context of understanding how this is connected to larger trends of the targeting of anti racist action on campus as well as internation...

This is an important conversation with cultural worker Brodie Conley who breaks down the ways that financialization in music is taking place and the cultural violence it entails. Brodie speaks about the ways that this fans out through both digital streaming platforms and the ways that it works to shift frameworks of culture around music creation at a grassroots level. Critically Brodie speaks on t...

In this conversation with Samer Jaber who offers reflections on understanding this global moment of Palestine solidarity organizing as connected to an intergenerational arc of grassroots Palestine organizing for justice in occupied Palestine. Samer is a researcher, activist and columnist for Al Jazeera English, find his columns here: https://www.aljazeera.com/author/samer_jaber_201472911611970485...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Leandro Lanfredi who speaks on organizing oil workers in Brazil for climate justice. This conversation takes place in the context of the massive mobilization that happened in Belém, Brazil during the UN climate summit in fall 2025. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadc...

On the May 2026 edition of the Art in Action interview series we hear from artist Amanda Gutiérrez. Amanda speaks about sound walk collaborations with collectives across the hemisphere, particularly in Latin America. Amanda brings an intersectional critique to the experience and practice of sound walks with a look toward expanding space within that specific cultural practice to include an underst...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Brazilian bookshop owner and content coordinator Pedro Gama who speaks on climate justice voices and Livraria Travessia in Belém, Brazil. This interview was recorded right after the UN Climate Summit took place in Belém in fall 2025 and it offers an interesting and critical insight into the role that bookshops can play is presenting counter-cultural...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from filmmaker Filmmaker Noam Gonick on Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance. View the film PARADE through the NFB at the link below. Also to note that I first came across this film project within the context of my work with the Cinema Politica Concordia chapter. https://www.nfb.ca/film/parade/ The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free Ci...

Radio más allá de las fronteras coloniales / Radio Beyond Colonial Borderlines / La radio sans frontières coloniales Hoy, a las 14:00 (hora de Ciudad de México, 16:00 hora de Montreal), se transmitirá una charla del fundador de @radionopal, Diego Aguirre Fernández @holadiego, que sucedio en la Librairie Résonance de Montréal @librairie.resonance.bookstore Esta presentación se realizó durante el Fe...

On the April 2026 edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we hear about The Lost Paintings Project with two of the project co-curators, Jolle Tomb and Haidi Motola. The project is described this way: "The Lost Paintings, a Prelude to Return is an imagined recreation of the last exhibition held in Palestine by Palestinian-Lebanese artist Maroun Tomb, which opened on November 29, 1947 in Haifa. Th...

On the April 2026 edition of the Art in Action interview series we hear from Clément Libes from the band BRUIT ≤. This interview addresses some of the key themes that the band has looked at within their latest album The Age Of Ephemerality. After the interview we hear the track "Ephemeral." Clément speaks on the challenges that AI presents to independent artists, the voice of a band that also ha...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a conversation with filmmaker Michael T. Workman who speaks about the documentary film The Encampments. This film explores and addresses the wide range of Gaza solidarity encampments across cities in North America (Turtle Island) particularly in New York City. Learn more about the project here: https://www.watermelonpictures.com/films/the-encampments This...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a window into the Palestine solidarity movement in Montreal. Recorded at the launch of a zine publication that highlighted the voices of participants in the ongoing protests in Montreal, reflected also in cities around the world, of the Palestine solidarity movement. This is the zine: https://justseeds.org/solidarity-zine/ In this program Norma Rantisi wh...

In this conversation with scholar Rachel Rosen, who works at the University College London, we hear about the process and ideas surrounding the organizing of an exhibit of Gazan children artwork in London. This interview is interesting particularly because it outlines the process of organizing such an event across borders that can highlight the work of children in Gaza. It is a meaningful referenc...

This is a conversation with Elias Anastas, Yazan Khalili and Saeed Abu-Jaber, three Palestinian artists who are co-founders of the vibrant and critically important Radio AlHara project in occupied Palestine. This initiative is both local and global, based in Palestine but airing internationally with hundreds of contributors around the world. This conversation particualrly looks at the intersection...