Radio Against Repression

Marie-Alice, a Haitian-German Flotilla organizer and Anté, spoken word poet from Southern Africa, join Radio Against Repression to discuss perspectives on blackness, the Palestinian struggle and solidarity across identity lines. 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. https://r...

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...

Discussing the censorship of her work Nothing New in Berlin by nGbK (New Society for the Fine Arts) and Kunst im Untergrund (Art in the Underground), in 2025, İpek Burçak joins us to frame last weekend’s powerful international symposium in which Art Worker Solidarity brought together over 100 practitioners and activists to face off the global authoritarian turn. Image Credit: Eren Ileri/Radio Agai...

Live from Beirut to Berlin, Jara will be down the line from Lebanon to report back from the violent displacement caused by the Zionist war machine as it continues to encroach upon the region. Embedded with teams doing civil defense work, join us to hear directly from Lebanese society and the wider global network as they step up to support day to day life within a war zone. Music: https://ergophizm...

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 perspe...

A discussion of the artist duo's current show "The Circulation of Labour, Capital and Life as a Supply Chain", that mixes artistic intervention with the permanent artifacts of the Dommuseum Hildesheim. We explore the political expediency of racism both historically and in the context of censorship, defunding and repression in contemporary Germany. Exhibition Until April 06: https://www...

Radio Against Repression reports back from the Academic Boycott Conference Berlin shining a light on how Israeli Universities and research centers play an integral role in occupation and genocide, and the ways in which their German counterparts are complicit and breach international and humanitarian law through exchange programs, common infrastructure and joint projects. With a spotlight on curren...

Revolution as a Creative Practice with Ahmed Tobasi What is the revolutionary potential of art in troubled times? We sat down with long-time artistic director of the Freedom Theater Jenin, Palestine, to explore lessons on resilience and the revolutionary potential of the creative act. This show was recorded with Tobasi at the end of 2025 in Berlin. Tune in to Radio Against Repression on Wed-07-Jan...

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 tha...

With the removal of Ari, a statue commemorating the sexual slavery of over 200.000 women at the hands of the Japanese military during WWII, Berlin once again enacts political censorship through the arts. In 1992, the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, began weekly Wednesday protests and to commemorate the 1000th protest, a public statue known as The Statue of Pe...

Discussing censorship and the threat thereof in the German cultural scene, as a form of negative psychic and political energy that enters the physical and social body. With Siegmar Zacharias, performance artist and founding member of freelance dance ensemble berlin, and Merlin Gebhard, theater director and musician. Join Radio Against Repression to discuss the playbook of defunding and strategies...

Tune in for a Q+A episode with Jara and Alex, live in the studio, where they will discuss everything that's been happening in Germany recently - the defunding of the Collecting Dreams literature festival, whether Germany will cast a deciding EU vote to bring in a mass-surveillance law known as "Chat Control", and of course the largest protest for Palestine in the history of Germany. &#...

Artist Irwan Ahmett is interviewed about the worlds that brutal resource extraction has created and destroyed. From the sacred mountains of Papua to the live-streamed genocide of Palestinians on your device, Irwan’s work with Tita Salina charts the terror of now and the eternal creativity of the human species over deep time. #Branding #Death #TheBody #ColonialHypocrisy #Gaza #Palestine #TheIndones...

Radio Against Repression shares perspectives from within the Occupy Against Occupation (Bezetzung gegen Bezatzung), protest camp currently active opposite the German parliamentary building (Bundestag), in Berlin. Join us live from the studio for a one-to-one discussion of interviews and vivid sonic landscapes, exploring the camps’ wider goals while centering the crises Israel has long created for...

On air discussion with Jason Oberman addressing their three part series Inciting Hatred and Slinging Insults: Exploring the Legal Apparatus of the BRD on The Left Berlin. Jason Oberman (they/them) is an anti-zionist Ashkenazi Jewish American based in Zürich. A musician, composer, songwriter and rogue scholar who formerly lived in Berlin, Jason researches, lectures and writes on Jewish identity, Zi...

A lecture by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, as part of the February 19th event: Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy, Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide - at bUm, Berlin. The lecture was supposed to take place in a big lecture hall at Freie universitat, along with Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture. but the university cancelled the event after...

In episode one: Policing Education, we give a subtextual reading of the parliamentary resolution "Confronting anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment at schools and universities and securing free space for debate". Analysed with guests within and adjacent to contemporary formal education in Germany, sounding the alarm around shrinking spaces for free speech and expression. Guest contributi...