On Free City Radio 115 we hear a conversation with filmmaker Rami Farah speaking about the film "Our Memory Belongs to Us," the work is described this way:

"How do you survive? By forgetting or by remembering? This eternal question is still very alive for the three Syrian activists Yadan, Odai, and Rani. Before the war they were, respectively, a law student, a lover of literature, and a volleyball champion. In 2012, Yadan crossed the border into Jordan, carrying a hard disk containing more than 12,000 videos shot by himself and other citizen journalists in Daraa, the birthplace of the Syrian revolution. In this emotion-laden documentary, the old friends meet again in an empty theatre in Paris after a long period of separation.

Here, on the stage, they share their experiences with us and the Syrian director Rami Farah, to whom Yadan entrusted his hard disk full of scenes of protest and atrocity. The director confronts the three men with their own footage projected on large screens, rekindling their suppressed memories and offering these citizen journalists their say in how Syrian history is presented, and how the story of the revolution is told."

The film is being featured as part of the June 2022 6th edition of SYRIA SEES YOU taking place at the Cinémathèque québécoise, you can view the full program that screens on June 21 / 22 / 23 here:

https://lasyrievousregarde.wordpress.com

Music on this edition of the podcast is by Khyam Allami.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3m and @cjlo1690am in Tiohti:áke/Montréal, on @ckuwradio 95.9 in Winnipeg and on @cfrc 101.9 fm in Kingston, Ontario. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

Eduardo Brechó + Spirodon mix

For Radio alHara @radioalhara

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01. Alfia - Salve Geral

02. Taiguara - Público

03. Gonzaguinha - A fábrica de sonhos

04. Visão de Rua - Meu Filho Minhas Regras

05. Racionais - Negro Drama

06. Olodum - Revolta Olodum

07. @thenarcicyst - Time (feat. Mashrou' Leila)

08. Nomadic Massive (@nomadic-massive-official) - Bon Bagay

09. @waahli - Sundance (feat. KAYTRANADA)

10. Vox Sambou - Idantité

11. @leberger - retouché

12. Le Berger - your peg yo (outro)

13. @zodiaquemusique - Delight Frozen Over Ether

An Anarchist Mountains mix for @radioalhara in Palestine.

June 2022.

This mix is to celebrate the recent release of "Fire Waves" out on Oxtail Recordings in Australia. Anarchist Mountains is Stefan and Jordan Christoff, accompanying art work by Julian Demoulin which is also the cover for the album, info on the release here:

https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/fire-waves

01. @anarchistmountains - Anarchist Signals

02. @markusfloats - And

03. @julia-kent - Salt Point

04. Julia Kent - Guarding the Invitations

05. Anarchist Mountains - A Lighthouse at Night

06. Anarchist Mountains - Neon Haze

07. Anarchist Mountains - A Yugoslavian Spacecraft

08. Pharoah Sanders - Harvest Time

09. Hülya Süer - Şeker Oğlan

10. Purelink - Spirit & Sport (excerpt via @lillerne)

This week on edition 114, I am sharing a conversation with Loren Cardeli from A Growing Culture speaking on the neo-colonial realities that shape food systems globally. Loren offers a critical vantage point toward thinking about the ways that the corporatization of agriculture as shaped by both the practices and ideological frameworks of the "green revolution," are today enforcing a reality for global food systems that enforces the power relations of a neo-colonial world. Tangibly Loren encourages us to listen to voices and think about the possibilities of food sovereignty, looking beyond food security, but linking our understandings of food as tied with anti-colonial possibilities and frameworks of action.

A Growing Culture : https://www.agrowingculture.org

Thanks to my friends at GRAIN for suggesting this interview. https://grain.org

Music on this edition by KMRU @kamarujoseph

Free City Radio is a weekly program hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff which broadcasts on @radiockut 90.3m and @cjlo1690am in Tiohti:áke/Montréal, on @ckuwradio 95.9 in Winnipeg and on @cfrc 101.9 fm in Kingston, Ontario. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please tell a friend to tune-in !

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from historian Michael Zhang who offers research based reflections on the legacy of John Redpath, founder of Redpath sugar and also a colonial business mogul who was deeply involved in the construction of the Lachine canal, a process through which many workers lost their lives. In this exchange Zhang highlights the complicity of Redpath in the context of the colonial Caribbean where the production of sugarcane relied on the systemic enslavement of a Black African workforce.

Redpath sugar to this day makes no note of this violent history that is linked to the corporation:

https://www.redpathsugar.com/our-history

Music on this edition is by Markus Floats @markusfloats from the work Third Album released by @constellation-records

For the June 2022 edition of Stefan Christoff's monthly artist interview for Radio AlHara we hear a conversation with cellist Lori Goldston. Lori is an amazing cellist based in Seattle who tours globally and has collaborated in many contexts over decades. Lori describes her practice this way, "Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher.. Her voice as a cellist--amplified or acoustic- is full, textured, committed and singular. She is a soloist and prolific collaborator with bands, composers, singers and film makers, including Earth, Nirvana and many, many more. "

Accompanying photo taken by Jacopo Benassi.

Listen to Lori's work here:

https://lorigoldston.bandcamp.com

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from longtime housing rights activist François Saillant (speaking in French) who works with Le Front d'action populaire en réaménagement urbain (FRAPRU) over decades to organize protests and popular power to fight for social housing and gentrification.

François speaks in French about the broader social implications of gentrification and the importance of collective action to challenge the harsh realities of gentrification taking place today in many cities, particularly in Montréal.

Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains from the album Fire Waves.

Art work is by Seth Tobocman.

dj krem + Spirodon mix

For Radio alHara @radioalhara

Thank you to Marija Balubdžić @umbra-balubdzic for this collaboration.

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01. Asher & Jordan - Carol (via @crashsymbols)

02. Roh Yugen x Nemerov - Con Grazia – Allegro Molto

03. Lars Warn - Menial Reality (via @youngbloods)

04. Alone - Zara (via Žrtva stilizacije)

05. Ben Wheeler - Spider Crab (via @crashsymbols)

06. Avila Santo - Butoh (via @youngbloods)

07. Lalić - Post Mortal Gothic

08. @umbra-balubdzic - B3 Stoner

09. RXM REALITY @rxm1 - 16 end me

10. CYCLES001/Suplington - Music For Life Cycles (I-VII) (excerpt)

(via @youngbloods)

Photo taken by Stefan in Thessaloniki

Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix

For Radio alHara @radioalhara

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01. 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real

02. Fadi Tabbal - The New And Improved Guide To Birdwatching Vol. 2

03. Asher & Jordan - Ripples (via @crashsymbols)

04. Michael Pisaro - A mist is a collection of points Part I

05. ZA! - Sancha

06. Ramsey Lewis - Dear Prudence

07. Oddjob - Kali Ma

08. Urban Tribe - Transaction

09. Adrian Copeland - Sons of Our Fathers

Photo taken by Stefan on a trip to Oaxaca by bus.

An interview with Kendra Cornejo of Make the Road New York speaking about the intersectional community organizing work that the grassroots community organization is working on surrounding housing rights, the rights of public school students and undocumented people. Kendra speaks about the efforts that Make the Road New York undertook to demand relief support for undocumented people within the context of the pandemic, a campaign that was successful, resulting in billions of public funding for undocumented people and families. Kendra also speaks about the organizing efforts within the project surrounding a call for an end to detentions within public schools in New York state, a reality that often results in sever disruptions for students from marginalized communities, breaking efforts to succeed within the public school system against the odds.

Information on Make the Road New York here: https://maketheroadny.org

Music on this edition is from the Crépuscule album by Rêves sonores.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff.