Amanda Ruiz + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

For @radioalhara Broadcasting on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

01. Arnaldo Antunes - Alta Noite

02. Billie Holiday - Just Friends

03. Meridian Brothers - Desesperanza

04. Toña la Negra - Oración Caribe

05. John Martyn - Dreams By The Sea

06. Irreversible Entanglements - Bread Out of Stone

07. B R A H J A {aka Devin Brahja Waldman} - Sorcery of Terminology

08. Şevket Akıncı - Dört Kanatlı Kuş

09. KMRU - MR2

10. KMRU - MR3

11. Ikebe Shakedown - Road Song

12. Nick Kuepfer - Grouse Wings

13. Philippe Battikha - Side A (Someone's Always Listening excerpt)

Accompanying photo taken by Stefan at CASA at San Agustín Etla in Mexico.

On this edition of Free City Radio Tom Wakeford of ETC Group on opposing tech giant moves to crack the Convention on Biological Diversity. Tom details the ways that corporations are pushing to open the global limits on involving "new technologies" within agricultural production and the monitoring of territories and lands through information systems. Essential tech giants are trying to move toward digitizing farming systems and through that move to assert control of agricultural markets and limit the autonomous control of lands by peasant, Indigenous and farming communities, particularly in the Global South. These issues were deeply debated at the COP 15 meetings in Montreal and ETC Group was in those fights within the negotiations. Learn more about ETC Group's work here:

https://www.etcgroup.org

Music on this edition is by Büşra Kayıkçı with the track Bring the light (Project XII).

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 Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Now also broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Mónica Vargas Collazos of GRAIN on Israeli state backed agribusiness colonialism in global south. This interview revolves around a report published by GRAIN in fall 2022 called "Farms, arms and Israel's agro-diplomacy," which is described by GRAIN this way:

"Israel has an international reputation for its high-tech agriculture. Its companies offer everything from the latest in drip irrigation systems to pesticide-spraying drones. But Israeli agribusiness has developed out of a militarised and illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and, in recent years, its growth is closely tied to the promotion of Israel's diplomatic and economic agenda abroad. Much of this agro-diplomacy is carried out by a handful of little known companies led by former defence and secret service officers with high-level political connections. The companies they own specialise in expensive agricultural projects that are structured through offshore financial vehicles, involving the purchase of Israeli products and technologies and, often, connections with arms deals. Africa is a key target, but Israeli agribusiness projects are mushrooming around the world-- from Colombia to Azerbaijan to Papua New Guinea. Few of these projects produce tangible benefits for local communities. But the consequences, from land grabbing to debts, can be severe and long-lasting. This report pulls back the curtain on the overseas activities of Israeli agribusiness and considers the consequences for local people as well as the ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands."

Read the report here:

https://grain.org/en/article/6878-farms-arms-and-israel-s-agro-diplomacy

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 Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Now also broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

Tanha Gomes + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

For @radioalhara

Broadcasting on Dec. 25, 2022.

01. Irene Cara - What a Feeling.

02. Helado Negro - There Must Be A Song Like You.

03. Devendra Banhart - Santa Maria Da Feira.

04. TNS - Umona ft. Mpumi.

05. Womack & Womack - Teardrops.

06. Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You.

07. Snap - The Power.

08. DJ Zandimaz, Ft Nokwazi - Emathandweni.

08. Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam.

09. Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run).

10. Richard Russell - She Said (ft. Obongjayar & Kamasi Washington).

11. Rhythm Is Rhythm - Strings Of Life.

12. Elton John - I'm Still Standing.

13. Corona - The Rhythm of the Night.

14. Salt-N-Pepa - Shoop.

Lim Li Ching of the Third World Network speaks about the negotiation battles that took place during the international summit surrounding the biological diversity convention which took place during the COP 15 meetings in Montreal. Lim talks about the struggle to work to address historic legacies of colonial violence that are manifested through economic systems like debt and debt financing as impacting the capacity of nations within the global south to fund biological diversity protection programs.

Info on Lim's work here: https://www.twn.my

Music on this edition is by AH! KOSMOS, info:

https://ahkosmos.com

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 Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Now also broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a conversation with Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy based in Mexico City. In this interview we discuss the complexities of listening to the voices of social movements today in the Americas specifically within contexts where centre left and progressive governments have been elected into office. This conversation specifically focuses on Mexico with the Presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

For more information on Laura's work:

https://www.americas.org/people

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 Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Now also broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

Greg Caz + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

For @radioalhara

Broadcasting on Tuesday the 13th of December at 3:30 pm Bethlehem time, in Palestine 2022, that is 8:30am Montreal time.

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01. Ashford & Simpson - It Seems To Hang On

02. Tim Maia - Não Vá

03. Khari Simmons - Belle Of Byron Bay (feat. Monday Michiru)

04. Maria de Fátima - Candombe Brasileiro Montevideano

05. Ingram - Mi Sabrina Tequana (My Sister’s Daughter)

06. Bobby Sparks II - Jamie Starr

07. Matinee Idol (Monk-One Mix)

08. Caetano Veloso - Tropicália

09. Merry Clayton - Touch The Hem Of His Garment

10. Esse Ran - Insect Behavior

11. Angelo Mallia - Attratto Da Una Lacrima

Photo taken by Stefan in Brooklyn at the Interference Archive.

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Vijay Prashad and Frank Barat @frank-barat co-authors of the book "The Struggle Makes Us Human," which visits points of connection between social movements around the world.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1869-struggle-makes-us-human

The book is described this way:

"An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars. Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad, under covered struggles being waged all across the world by workers in countries such as India, Kenya, Peru, Tunisia, and Argentina. A marvellously global but grassroots perspective. Prashad also examines pressing topics such as debt cancellation, a wealth tax, austerity, the pandemic, the arms industry, the climate crisis, socialism, working-class social movements and much more."

Music on this edition is the track "Deckard" by @drinknightmilk

Graphic is a detail of a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf.

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 Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Now also broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

An Anarchist Mountains mix for "If You Got Ears" broadcasting on CKUT 90.3FM on Dec. 7, 2022, below is the track listing.

01. Oklou @oklou93, @casey-mq - Lurk.

02. @anarchistmountains - Anarchist Signals.

03. @joni_void + N NAO - Les Grillons.

04. Count G @stathis-gourgouris - Karma fugitive in Tunisia.

05. Joni Void + N NAO - Bonne Sorcière.

06. Gabriel Teodros @gabriel-teodros - Open Letter.

07. Julia E Dyck @ghoultalk - Warp.

08. Esse Ran @esse-ran - Wind Whirl.

09. Ah! Kosmos @ahkosmos - Never Again.

10. PJS @pjs11 - Source.

11. Count G - Fingers on white buttons.

12. Amanda Harvey @irlhuman - How We Negociate Worlds.

13. Devenir-ensemble @devenir-ensemble - Forces de dispersion (Joseph Sannicandro @thenewobjective Remix).

14. Devenir-ensemble - Délicat champ de différences (Nicola Di Croce @nicoladicroce Remix).

15. Stefan Christoff @spirodon - A silver digital glitch.

16. Anarchist Mountains - A Lighthouse at Night.

17. Anarchist Mountains - A Signal at 1 AM.

18. Anarchist Mountains - Alright the Wind Is Beyond It All.

19. Anarchist Mountains - A Yugoslavian Spacecraft (excerpt).

For my monthly artist interview on Radio AlHara I am featuring a conversation with Viktoria Draganova (Виктория Драганова), educator, writer and curator who is the director of Swimming Pool space in Sofia and works with the Centre for Social Vision in Bulgaria.

In this interview Viktoria speaks about her work to create intersectional spaces surrounding contemporary art and society in a Bulgarian context, we hear about the challenges of running an independent socially engaged arts space in the heart of Sofia and the vision that drives the project.

For information and context visit:

https://swimmingpoolprojects.org

http://viktoriadraganova.com

Thank you to Jenny Decheva for helping to arrange this interview.

This interview was recorded in August. 2022 by Stefan @spirodon Christoff in Sofia, Bulgaria. Each month Stefan contributes an interview to @radioalhara in Palestine