listen to an interview with community activist and anarchist Norman Nawrocki speaking live on Free City Radio on CKUT radio, specifically highlighting work from a new book called "Agitate! Anarchist rants, raps and poems" launching in Oct. 2015 at Casa del Popolo in Montreal.

info : http://www.nothingness.org/music/rhythm

this interview was recorded by Stefan Christoff live on CKUT fm, info http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with lawyer Danielle Linnen, who specializes in indigenous law, speaking on the crisis of incarceration facing indigenous communities in Canada, specifically indigenous women. In this interview Danielle makes the links between the historical injustice of Residential Schools and the crisis facing indigenous women in prisons today.

Danielle spoke at an event hosted by the Centre for Gender Advocacy at McGill University in Sept. 2015, recorded for broadcast on CKUT radio in Montreal by Stefan Christoff @spirodon http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with musician / composer Youmna Saba (@youmna-saba) speaking on her most recent release "Njoum" described as "an experiment in storytelling and songwriting, rendered in vocals, oud, and processed guitars."

in this interview Youmna speaks about the creation of "Njoum" but also more broadly about the creative process and artistic creation within the context of Beirut and the artistic residency in South Korea that had a deep influence on the album.

also in this interview Youmna speaks about the relationship between Lebanese society today, within the context of the surrounding regional political turbulence, and the growing independent arts / music scene in the city.

this interview was recorded / produced for broadcast on CKUT radio by Stefan Christoff @spirodon for Free City Radio info http://freecityradio.org

listen to an interview with media maker Samer Beyhum from 99% media speaking on the realities of systemic repression against independent media makers by the Montreal police (SPVM). in this interview Samer details the ways in which corporate / state run media outlets are given preferential access / treatment by police services, while independent journalists are often arrested and face street level repression.

this interview was recorded within the context of a recent video report on this subject produced by 99% media called "Le sixième pouvoir" view the report here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQtOfi4TRU

info : http://www.99media.org/

this interview was produced / recorded for broadcast on CKUT radio by Stefan Christoff @spirodon info Free City Radio http://freecityradio.org/

listen to an interview with Hera Chan and Pooja Sen on the upcoming "common aliens: diaspora conference" taking place in Montreal between Oct. 1-4, info :

"Inaugural conference bringing together artistic practitioners to explore and create a contemporary understanding of a people of colour diasporic way of being based in Montreal."

info : http://www.atelierceladon.com/

this interview was recorded live on CKUT radio by Stefan Christoff @spirodon for Free City Radio http://freecityradio.org

listen to a discussion with journalist and author Dawn Paley who offers a critical outlook on Obama's foreign policy legacy in Latin America, particularly looking at the "War on Drugs" in Mexico and the ways that violence has spiked for rural and urban communities under the US-backed Merida Initiative.

this interview was recorded in order to try to contrast the liberal discourse on Obama's foreign policy in regards to Latin America that focuses on the opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba, while sidestepping more complex and important issues like the relation between US policy and the brutal violence in Mexico.

Dawn is the author of Drug War Capitalism, info :

http://www.akpress.org/drug-war-capitalism.html

this interview was recorded by Stefan Christoff @spirodon for broadcast on CKUT radio in Montreal more info http://freecityradio.org accompanying graphic is a remix of Carlos Cruz-Diez.

listen to an interview with cellist Rebecca Foon speaking on the Pathway to Paris initiative which is hosting a series of concerts in the lead-up to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference meetings in Paris in late 2015, as well as the corresponding grassroots protests for climate justice.

Pathway to Paris hosted a concert in New York City in 2014 to coincide with the People's Climate March, is hosting one in Montreal in Sept. 2015 as part of Pop Montreal and will host a concert in Paris on Dec. 4th, 2015.

this interview was recorded in Montreal for broadcast on CKUT radio by Stefan Christoff @spirodon for more info on Free City Radio visit http://freecityradio.org

photo by Camille Seaman.

listen to an interview with documentary filmmaker Eylem Kaftan speaking on the eighth day of the Gezi park protest uprising in Istanbul in 2013. this interview explores some important background information and context to the social and political context that created the conditions for the mass protests to expand.

Eylem describes first hand the conditions on the streets during the protests and offers a moving / thoughtful account on this important time in recent Turkish history.

interview originally recorded for broadcast by Stefan Christoff on CKUT fm in Montreal being uploaded here for public archiving purposes by Stefan Christoff info http://freecityradio.org

photo from wikipedia.

listen to an interview with Abousfian Abdelrazik recorded live on CKUT radio's community news program Off the Hour. this interview was recorded in the months after Abdelrazik returned to Canada are years in exile and imprisonment in the Sudan, a jailing that took place with the complicity of the Canadian government.

this interview was recorded / produced for broadcast on CKUT fm in Montreal by Stefan Christoff @spirodon being uploaded here for public archiving purposes, info http://freecityradio.org

graphic by Nazik Dakkach from the Duets for Abdelrazik album, info http://howlarts.net/duets-reviews

listen to an interview with Globe and Mail reporter Paul Koring speaking on the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik's exile, detention and torture in Sudan. Paul Koring's reporting on Abdelrazik's case was important in creating awareness and information within the Canadian media landscape on this issue.

recorded live on CKUT radio's Off the Hour in fall 2009 by Stefan Christoff @spirodon being uploaded here for public archiving purposes. info http://freecityradio.org