Nelson and Andrea from the News Collective joined Andre Goulet from Unrigged at Casa Del Popolo on Sunday June 21st during the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival to talk about the goings-on that provide the political backbone that holds up this legendary Montreal experimental music festival, now in its 26th year. They were joined by Stefan Christoff (Free City Radio), Kalden Dhatsenpa from CUTV, Katia Lo Innes from the Breach, Savannah Stewart from The Rover, and Niall Ricardo, the federal NDP president.

A live broadcast highlighting the ways that the extreme wave of gentrification that is taking place in Montréal is having a particularly heavy impact on Parc Ex. and other low income districts in the city.

Interviews with Sarah Shamy (organizer with Palestinian Youth Movement), Martin Lukacs (investigative journalist and managing editor of The Breach), Norma Rantisi (Academics for Palestine, Concordia), Michelle Hartman (Profs solidaires avec le camp), and a voice from Students In Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).

Join us for a discussion about the housing crisis in Montreal and the movements organizing to confront rising costs. Our panel will explore the organizing happening in neighbourhoods around the city, and efforts to build the kind of coalitions that can fight back against the hyper-commodification of housing.

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear about the documentary film “Love in the Time of Fentanyl,” a “feature documentary about a group of misfits, artists, and drug users who operate a renegade safe injection site in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.”

On this edition of Free City Radio, Viviana Herrera of MiningWatch Canada speaks about the long-term organizing and campaigning work that the organization does to challenge and protest the ways that Canadian mining corporations violate environmental and social rights. Particularly this interview focuses on Latin America, as Herrera is the Latin American program coordinator for the organization.

Stefan Christoff broadcasts live from the Sonic Fields of Reflection installation at Artexte, joined by curator Mojeanne Behzadi and artist Martín Rodríguez.