listen to an interview with Mritiunjoy Mohanty speaking on resistance and transition in neo-liberal India, detailing the shifts in federal policy over the past decade, specifically highlighting the ways that the economy has been shifted toward policies pushed by the World Bank and IMF, by extension pointing to the ways that these shits have incresed economic inequality, especially between urban and rural areas. In many ways this conversation situates the contemporary political and economic situation in India within a historical context.

feat. excerpt from Asian Dub Foundation's track 'ColourLine'

photo via Kolkata.

Mritiunjoy Mohanty teaches economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta) in Kolkata, India. He is currently on leave from IIM Calcutta and a visiting researcher at Le Centre d'études et de recherche sur l'Inde, l'Asie du Sud et sa diaspora (CERIAS) of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His areas of research interest are growth and structural change, employment and labour markets, open economy macroeconomics and the political economy of growth. He is an economic adviser to the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), Delhi, India. The NTUI is a federation of independent (politically unaffiliated) trades unions in India spanning multiple sectors working with labour in both the oranised and informal economy. He is also a member of CERAS, a Montreal-based advocacy group on issues related to peace, democracy and development in South Asia.

recorded live on CKUT radio's Free City Radio by Stefan Christoff @spirodon being uploaded here for public archiving purposes, info : http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with Mritiunjoy Mohanty speaking on resistance and transition in neo-liberal India, detailing the shifts in federal policy over the past decade, specifically highlighting the ways that the economy has been shifted toward policies pushed by the World Bank and IMF, by extension pointing to the ways that these shits have incresed economic inequality, especially between urban and rural areas. In many ways this conversation situates the contemporary political and economic situation in India within a historical context.

feat. excerpt from Asian Dub Foundation's track 'ColourLine'

photo via Kolkata.

Mritiunjoy Mohanty teaches economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta) in Kolkata, India. He is currently on leave from IIM Calcutta and a visiting researcher at Le Centre d'études et de recherche sur l'Inde, l'Asie du Sud et sa diaspora (CERIAS) of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His areas of research interest are growth and structural change, employment and labour markets, open economy macroeconomics and the political economy of growth. He is an economic adviser to the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), Delhi, India. The NTUI is a federation of independent (politically unaffiliated) trades unions in India spanning multiple sectors working with labour in both the oranised and informal economy. He is also a member of CERAS, a Montreal-based advocacy group on issues related to peace, democracy and development in South Asia.

recorded live on CKUT radio's Free City Radio by Stefan Christoff @spirodon being uploaded here for public archiving purposes, info : http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with Kristen / Dave, two community organizers / artists involved with "Solidarity Rock" a grassroots initiative aiming to lend support and direct aid to the independent punk rock music scene in Cuba.

in this interview we hear reflections and ideas surrounding the Solidarity Rock initiative and the bonds of grassroots solidarity between the artists involved in Cuba and #mtl artists engaged in the project.

also within this segment we hear a track from Cuban punk group Adictox. more info on the project : http://solidarityrock.com

this interview was recorded / produced for broadcast on CKUT radio by Stefan Christoff @spirodon being uploaded here for public archiving purposes via Free City Radio http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with Kristen / Dave, two community organizers / artists involved with "Solidarity Rock" a grassroots initiative aiming to lend support and direct aid to the independent punk rock music scene in Cuba.

in this interview we hear reflections and ideas surrounding the Solidarity Rock initiative and the bonds of grassroots solidarity between the artists involved in Cuba and #mtl artists engaged in the project.

also within this segment we hear a track from Cuban punk group Adictox. more info on the project : http://solidarityrock.com

this interview was recorded / produced for broadcast on CKUT radio by Stefan Christoff @spirodon being uploaded here for public archiving purposes via Free City Radio http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with Devlin Kuyek from GRAIN and two activists from Brazil's Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, speaking on corporate investments in land grabbing in Brazil.

specifically this interview addresses the details within the recent report that outlines the involvement of American investment giant TIAA-CREF, which often works with teacher / university pension funds, in the process of land grabbing in Brazil. also by extension this interview details the way in which there is a growing amount of speculative economic surrounding corporate land grabbing in Brazil today.

specifically on this recently released report :

https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5336-foreign-pension-funds-and-land-grabbing-in-brazil

additional info :

http://www.farmlandgrab.org

accompanying satellite photograph illustrates slash-and-burn forest clearing along the Rio Xingu (Xingu River) in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, via wikipedia.

this interview was recorded in #mtl by Stefan Christoff @spirodon from Free City Radio http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with Devlin Kuyek from GRAIN and two activists from Brazil's Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, speaking on corporate investments in land grabbing in Brazil.

specifically this interview addresses the details within the recent report that outlines the involvement of American investment giant TIAA-CREF, which often works with teacher / university pension funds, in the process of land grabbing in Brazil. also by extension this interview details the way in which there is a growing amount of speculative economic surrounding corporate land grabbing in Brazil today.

specifically on this recently released report :

https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5336-foreign-pension-funds-and-land-grabbing-in-brazil

additional info :

http://www.farmlandgrab.org

accompanying satellite photograph illustrates slash-and-burn forest clearing along the Rio Xingu (Xingu River) in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, via wikipedia.

this interview was recorded in #mtl by Stefan Christoff @spirodon from Free City Radio http://freecityradio.org

listen to the second late night / early morning radio mix, broadcast on friday nov. 27 from 4h-7h (!) this broadcast was compiled mainly through playing physical releases, cds, vinyls, cassettes and also a couple digital files, mainly trying to stick to playing from physical releases.

the sounds are diverse and expansive, many pieces that I hope offer / encourage some space for reflection, while selecting these works in the early morning hours the state of the world was on my mind, the massive refugee crisis, the injustice of the political system, the promise of change in Canada that most certainly wont be delivered by a political prince.

many of these works are selections that have been chosen from within the context of friendships, connections and collaborations, others reach back decades, or even more, looking to sounds from around the world, including nubia and the caribbean.

below is the playlist, really proud of this little radio project, I sincerely hope that listening creates some space for healthy reflection in your mind, but also encourages you to act on both your dreams and toward speaking-up about the injustices in our world.

take care & solidarity. -- stefan.

(beautiful accompanying #mtl photo via http://satyyy.info)

arvo pärt - cantus in memory of benjamin britten - tabula rasa

keiron phelan & david sheppard - zurich sunday - 2

anton batagov - 1U - post production

anton batagov - weather forecast - post production

moondog - bird's lament - sax pax for a sax

sokoun trio - qamar - zanneh

maurice louca - salute the parrot - salute the parrot

47soul - shamstep - meeli

ali hassan kuban - the rough guide to ali hassan kuban - mabrouk

exuma - exuma - exuma, the obeah man

bob marley & the wailers - catch a fire - 400 years

count ossie and the mystic revelation of rastafari - grounation - lumba

ras moshe - ras moshe quartet - interstellar brooklyn

l'appel du vide - mergin' spaces - wait a while

ibrahim maalouf - nomade slang - illusions

charbel rouhana - sourat trait d'union - solitude

antonín dvořák - serenades for strings - tempo di valse

keith jarrett - sacred hymns - reading of sacred books

mos def - the ecstatic - auditorium ft. slick rick

pumpkinhead - orange moon over brooklyn - rock on

vox sambou - dyasporafriken - maliayiti

william ryan fritch - the waiting room - a matter of life

saxsyndrum - sxd ep - maceonectar

supercooling - wild blue yonder - our shadows are made of mist

nick kuepfer - sonic carvings with self healing clay

tamara filyavich - return fire

listen to the second late night / early morning radio mix, broadcast on friday nov. 27 from 4h-7h (!) this broadcast was compiled mainly through playing physical releases, cds, vinyls, cassettes and also a couple digital files, mainly trying to stick to playing from physical releases.

the sounds are diverse and expansive, many pieces that I hope offer / encourage some space for reflection, while selecting these works in the early morning hours the state of the world was on my mind, the massive refugee crisis, the injustice of the political system, the promise of change in Canada that most certainly wont be delivered by a political prince.

many of these works are selections that have been chosen from within the context of friendships, connections and collaborations, others reach back decades, or even more, looking to sounds from around the world, including nubia and the caribbean.

below is the playlist, really proud of this little radio project, I sincerely hope that listening creates some space for healthy reflection in your mind, but also encourages you to act on both your dreams and toward speaking-up about the injustices in our world.

take care & solidarity. -- stefan.

(beautiful accompanying #mtl photo via http://satyyy.info)

arvo pärt - cantus in memory of benjamin britten - tabula rasa

keiron phelan & david sheppard - zurich sunday - 2

anton batagov - 1U - post production

anton batagov - weather forecast - post production

moondog - bird's lament - sax pax for a sax

sokoun trio - qamar - zanneh

maurice louca - salute the parrot - salute the parrot

47soul - shamstep - meeli

ali hassan kuban - the rough guide to ali hassan kuban - mabrouk

exuma - exuma - exuma, the obeah man

bob marley & the wailers - catch a fire - 400 years

count ossie and the mystic revelation of rastafari - grounation - lumba

ras moshe - ras moshe quartet - interstellar brooklyn

l'appel du vide - mergin' spaces - wait a while

ibrahim maalouf - nomade slang - illusions

charbel rouhana - sourat trait d'union - solitude

antonín dvořák - serenades for strings - tempo di valse

keith jarrett - sacred hymns - reading of sacred books

mos def - the ecstatic - auditorium ft. slick rick

pumpkinhead - orange moon over brooklyn - rock on

vox sambou - dyasporafriken - maliayiti

william ryan fritch - the waiting room - a matter of life

saxsyndrum - sxd ep - maceonectar

supercooling - wild blue yonder - our shadows are made of mist

nick kuepfer - sonic carvings with self healing clay

tamara filyavich - return fire

listen to an interview with Matthew Behrens offering a critical perspective on the fact that despite campaign promises Canada continues to participate in bombing runs on Iraq and Syria. Matthew highlights the fact that the bombings continue despite the Liberal campaign promise to end the bombing mission, this discussion was recorded on the day after reports began circulating that at least 10 civilians were killed in an airstrike on Mosul, Iraq.

report on bombing :

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-airstrike-iraq-civilian-death-allegations-1.3331882

Matthew Behrens is a freelance writer and social justice advocate who coordinates the Homes not Bombs non-violent direct action network.

recorded live on the Wed. Morning After program on Nov. 25, conducted by Stefan Christoff @spirodon being uploaded here for public archiving purposes here on Free City Radio http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with Matthew Behrens offering a critical perspective on the fact that despite campaign promises Canada continues to participate in bombing runs on Iraq and Syria. Matthew highlights the fact that the bombings continue despite the Liberal campaign promise to end the bombing mission, this discussion was recorded on the day after reports began circulating that at least 10 civilians were killed in an airstrike on Mosul, Iraq.

report on bombing :

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-airstrike-iraq-civilian-death-allegations-1.3331882

Matthew Behrens is a freelance writer and social justice advocate who coordinates the Homes not Bombs non-violent direct action network.

recorded live on the Wed. Morning After program on Nov. 25, conducted by Stefan Christoff @spirodon being uploaded here for public archiving purposes here on Free City Radio http://freecityradio.org