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Highlighting progressive voices reflecting on grassroots activism and the arts.

Through interviews and in studio discussions, Free City Radio gives a voice to alternative perspectives on contemporary political forces, focusing on underreported realities in Quebec society and global situations.
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Archives from 2023

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    September 20, 2023: Artists on the Quebec student strike in 2012, Zéa Beaulieu-April and Norman Nawrocki | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    September 13, 2023: Artists on the Quebec student strike in 2012, David Widgington and Zéa Beaulieu-April | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    September 6, 2023: Jared Ball on contemporary cooptation of the current language and histories of Black struggles for justice | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 30, 2023: Filmmaker Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Powerlands | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 23, 2023: Mallory Knodel on the collective origins and current maintenance of the Internet | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 16, 2023: Ivetta Sunyoung Kang on reimagning National Geographic magazine images from Asian contexts beyond the colonial gaze | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 9, 2023: John Clarke on organizing against gentrification in Toronto | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 2, 2023: Love in the Time of Fentanyl | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 26, 2023: Philippe Blouin on the edited collection The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 19, 2023: Anna-Esther Younes speaks on challenging systemic anti Palestinian racism in Germany today | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 18, 2023: Episodes 164, A conversation on Commonist Horizon, 165, IWC photobook project | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 12, 2023: Cindy Milstein on the book Try Anarchism For Life | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 11, 2023: Episodes 163, Palestine solidarity organizing in Amsterdam and 162, Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal on Into the Weeds | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 5, 2023: Viviana Herrera on MiningWatch Canada | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 4, 2023: Sjoerd Stolk on OCCii, art, squatting and activism in Amsterdam today / Mohamed Bah on asylum seekers creating community radio in Amsterdam | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 28, 2023: Zahra Ali on Women and Gender in Iraq | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 27, 2023: Javid Jah on art, public space and alternative cosmologies / Artists as activists in East Village anti gentrification battles | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 21, 2023: David Barsamian on war in Ukraine | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 20, 2023: Filmmaker Malcolm Guy and Author Max Haiven | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 14, 2023: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 7, 2023: Do Right by the Right Whale, multimedia work from a Mi'kmaq perspective | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    May 31, 2023: We Are Family DC, a community response to overcome systemic injustices | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    May 24, 2023: Lauren Benton on "A Search for Sovereignty" | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    May 17, 2023: Andy Moor of The Ex | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    May 10, 2023: Shiri Pasternak on the book Disarm, Defund, Dismantle- Police Abolition in Canada | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    May 3, 2023: Elle Sofe Sara on the The Answer is Land and Sámi cultural resistance | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    April 26, 2023: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief network in US responses to climate change | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    April 19, 2023: Tom Wakeford of ETC Group on opposing tech giant moves to crack the Convention on Biological Diversity | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    April 12, 2023: Mónica Vargas Collazos of GRAIN on Israeli state backed agribusiness colonialism in global south | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    April 5, 2023: Lim Li Ching on work to addressing legacies of colonialism in global biodiversity protocol COP15 summit | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    March 29, 2023: Laura Carlsen on listening to social activists in the Americas today | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    March 22, 2023: Vijay Prashad and Frank Barat on The Struggle Makes Us Human | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    March 8, 2023: The BJP government in India and the systemic undercutting of minority rights | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    March 1, 2023: Crise locale, crise globale / Local Crisis, Global Crisis | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    February 22, 2023: Kazembe Balagun on learning across generations in liberation struggles and Frantz Fanon | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    February 15, 2023: Ah! Kosmos on space time and the cultural resistance of trees | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    February 8, 2023: Filmmaker Philip Rizk on unexpected turns in revolutionary realities, from Egypt to Syria | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    February 1, 2023: Nour Sokhon on worlds of sound between Beirut and Berlin | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    January 25, 2023: Gentrification, vie nocturne and Indigenous street life | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    January 18, 2023: Sebastian Backhaus on Witnessing War in Ukraine | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    January 11, 2023: Hossam El Hamalawy on Activism and State Repression in Egypt 2022 | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    January 4, 2023: Artist Seth Tobocman Reflects on Struggles Against Gentrification in NY | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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