Free City Radio

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 proposed for the traditional Indigenous territories of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation.

Here is the info on the gathering:
https://aicivilsociety.ca/

Info on Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation court challenge to AI data centre on CBC:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/sturgeon-lake-cree-nation-alberta-wonder-valley-9.7228016

The Council of Canadians is supporting this first in a series of three editions of Free City Radio.

The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on:

CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am
CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Thursdays 8am
CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am, Fridays 1:30pm
CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am
CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am
Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am
CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm
CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Tuesdays at 4pm
CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am

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 Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on:

CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am
CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Thursdays 8am
CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am, Fridays 1:30pm
CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am
CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am
Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am
CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm
CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Tuesdays at 4pm
CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am

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 marginalized communities who are struggling with housing precacity and a host of intersecting points of violence.

Learn more about this project here:

https://christinewhite.ca/pedalbox-gallery

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 and 9:30am eastern time (radioalhara.net)

CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal
On the third Friday of each month at 11am (ckut.ca)

CJLO 1690 AM, Montreal
On the second Thursday of each month at 8:30am. (cjlo.com)

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 Palestinian people from their land and push for ethnic cleansing.

Learn more about Lena's book here:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/stolen-nation-9780755652822

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. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

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.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on:

CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am
CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Thursdays 8am
CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am, Fridays 1:30pm
CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am
CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am
Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am
CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm
CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Tuesdays at 4pm
CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am