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• 257, Community organizer Mostafa Henaway on opposing racism and war abroad and at home

  This program explores the ways that opposing policies of war abroad are inherently connected with local struggles against racism at home. Mostafa Henaway, an organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre, connects the local and the global. This interview addresses the connections between campaigns against war and racism in the months after 9/11 to current events. This interview provides urgent and necessary analysis. Info on Mostafa's book "Essential Work, Disposable Workers Migration, Capitalism and Class" here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/essential-work-disposable-workers Graphic is by Andrea Marcos via Justseeds, info: https://justseeds.org/graphic/freedom-of-movement-for-all/ This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

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• Never stop acting for Palestine - كواليس (CKUT 90.3 FM broadcast)

  Never stop acting for Palestine - CKUT 90.3 FM broadcast Saturday March 1, 2025 Darren Ell, Photographer Ehab Lotayef, Poet and community organizer Rickie Leach, Musician and photographer Emma, community organizer and activist Hosted by Stefan Christoff Kawalees (كواليس) 5175A Park Ave Montreal, Quebec H2V 4G3 This broadcast will be live on CKUT 90.3FM during the Funky Revolutions program 2-4pm across Montreal, at ckut.ca as well as for broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine. Music in the broadcast, in order of appearance: Fadi Tabbal - All those nights Fadi Tabbal - I am all that is left Michel Banabila - Where Old Meets New William Ryan Fritch - Phototropic koeosaeme - VI (excerpt) This broadcast is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University and the accompanying graphic is by Josh MacPhee. A community event series about grassroots mobilization and action in the face of genocide in Palestine. This series aims to create space for people to hear from community members who have moved from talk into action, have engaged in collective work toward creating space to both express solidarity with the Palestinian people and also to call out the complicity of the Canadian state with the extremist right-wing government carrying out genocidal actions in Gaza. This event series aims to lift up grassroots voices of people working on diverse initiatives and projects to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, voices who have both refused silence and who have found pathways for action in the community. Info on participating groups and speakers Rickie Leach helped make the community zine ‘No Silence’ with Stefan Christoff and Rapaël Foisy-Couture and she also helps the group Papineau pour Palestine. This group has a meeting the following day that is open to the public, Sunday March 2nd, at William Kingston Centre at 2pm. Ehab Lotayef is an Egyptian-Canadian poet, writer and justice activist who moved to Canada in 1989. He is deeply involved in social and community work, including campaigns against the sanctions and war on Iraq, opposing the blockade of Gaza and advocating for Indigenous rights. Over the years he has worked with the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy, the Muslim Council of Montreal, the Muslim Schools of Montreal, the Canadian Arab Federation, Fair Vote Canada, and Montreal City Mission. He is also a founder of Non a la loi 21 (#NL21) campaignand and Kalemat, a freethinkers' forum aiming to advocate open dialogue among Arabic-speakers. Emma is a Lebanese-Palestinian-Canadian community organizer and activist. Since the early 2000s, she's been involved in different forms of pro BIPOC activism, lately, mainly for Palestine. Most forms of her activism involve fundraising for families and projects on the ground in Palestine and Lebanon via bake and merch sales with organizations such as Families 4 Palestine MTL, which is a family-friendly, warm and versatile group full of talented parents and children. She's also involved in community organizing, political organizing, creative content creation, as well as organizing demonstrations and protests in Montreal and surroundings with many individuals and groups such as Action Mtl. Darren Ell is a documentary photographer and a recently retired teacher and union representative. His work on Palestine dates back to the 1990’s when he was writing for independent media in Saskatchewan. In 2001, he began publishing photo essays with Electronic Intifada about Palestine solidarity in Montreal. He travelled throughout the West Bank and Gaza during the Second Intifada, publishing photo essays with Electronic Intifada, conducting interviews and making portraits for Defence for Children International Palestine, and fundraising for a family that lost its home through demolition by the IDF.

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• Cultural workers for Palestine - Ana Quiroga

  For the March 2025 edition of Cultural workers for Palestine I am sharing a conversation with Ana Quiroga, a London based sound artist and musician. Ana's experimental work explores different sonic landscapes and cultural identities as expressed in sound. Ana speaks, in this interview, about experiences joining protest movements in both Spain and London, going back to the mass protests against the U.S. driven invasion of Iraq in 2003, to the M8 protests for gender equality in Spain and the recent wave of solidarity actions for Palestine. Learn more about Ana's work here: https://www.anaquiroga.net 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 on Jan. 17, 2025. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

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• 256, A critique on militaristic Canadian foreign policy

  On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a critique of the role that respective NDP and Liberal governments have played in boosting military exports and spending. Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University. Tamara is involved in the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, info: https://www.foreignpolicy.ca Graphic is Expedition Press in Seattle https://expedition.press/en-ca/products/no-to-war This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7:30am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

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• Community voices speak out against the Conservatives in Canada

  A special program for broadcast on Free City Radio weekly spot on CKUT 90.3 FM, this program focuses on hearing community voices involved in organizing against the Conservatives in Canada. Specifically the voices you hear detail why directly listening to community organizing spaces when building opposition to the extreme right and Conservative Party of Canada is important. These voices were recorded on Sunday, Feb. 23 at Alternatives space in Montreal. Nikolas Barry-Shaw, from the Council of Canadians, speaks about campaigning for a national public Pharmacare program, Gaurav Sharma from the Immigrant Workers Centre speaking on the persisting importance of the #StatusForAll movement for migrant justice and Jordan Arseneault from SéroSyndicat speaks about community organizing efforts during the last Conservative gov. under Harper to oppose the imposition of a mandatory minimum sentencing bill aiming to criminalize many communities, including Queers and that pushed extend the prison population and by extension the prison industrial complex in Canada. All these voices speak on what the challenges we will face under the Conservatives are, also on ways to block the Liberals and NDP from exploiting the rising opposition to the extreme right / Conservatives in Canada for their own electoral gains. These voices were recorded in the build up to a protest in Montreal against the Conservatives that is taking place on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 5:30pm, info: https://stoppoilievre.couragecoalition.ca This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Graphic is by Mobile Print Power https://www.mobileprintpower.com Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and this is a special edition specifically produced for broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM.

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