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.
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
- December 27, 2023: 193, Mamy Rakotondrainibe on opposing corporate land grabbing in Madagascar in 2023 | Listen | Download
- December 20, 2023: 192, Sonali Kolhatkar on "The Power Of Narrative In Pursuing Racial Justice" | Listen | Download
- December 13, 2023: 191, Indigenous activist Nichole Keway Biber on the urgency of halting Line 5 pipeline of Enbridge | Listen | Download
- December 6, 2023: 190, Filmmaker Reem Al Ghazzi on the project Becoming Iphigenia | Listen | Download
- November 29, 2023: 189, Extinction Rebellion in the Netherlands stands against state subsidies to fossil fuel industry | Listen | Download
- November 22, 2023: 188, Andrea Alvarez Bermejo of Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos | Listen | Download
- November 15, 2023: 187, Journalist Dawn Marie Paley on the Ojalá project | Listen | Download
- November 8, 2023: 186, We Go Where They Go, The Story of Anti-Racist Action | Listen | Download
- November 1, 2023: 185, Bita Eslami on organizing with garment workers for just compensation in Montreal | Listen | Download
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- October 4, 2023: Live remote- Finding a place to stay | Playlist | Listen | Download
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- September 20, 2023: Artists on the Quebec student strike in 2012, Zéa Beaulieu-April and Norman Nawrocki | Listen | Download
- September 13, 2023: Artists on the Quebec student strike in 2012, David Widgington and Zéa Beaulieu-April | Listen | Download
- September 6, 2023: Jared Ball on contemporary cooptation of the current language and histories of Black struggles for justice | Playlist | Listen | Download
- August 30, 2023: Filmmaker Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Powerlands | Listen | Download
- August 23, 2023: Mallory Knodel on the collective origins and current maintenance of the Internet | Playlist | Listen | Download
- August 16, 2023: Ivetta Sunyoung Kang on reimagning National Geographic magazine images from Asian contexts beyond the colonial gaze | Listen | Download
- August 9, 2023: John Clarke on organizing against gentrification in Toronto | Listen | Download
- August 2, 2023: Love in the Time of Fentanyl | Listen | Download
- July 26, 2023: Philippe Blouin on the edited collection The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival | Listen | Download
- July 19, 2023: Anna-Esther Younes speaks on challenging systemic anti Palestinian racism in Germany today | Listen | Download
- July 18, 2023: Episodes 164, A conversation on Commonist Horizon, 165, IWC photobook project | Listen | Download
- July 12, 2023: Cindy Milstein on the book Try Anarchism For Life | Playlist | Listen | Download
- July 11, 2023: Episodes 163, Palestine solidarity organizing in Amsterdam and 162, Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal on Into the Weeds | Listen | Download
- July 5, 2023: Viviana Herrera on MiningWatch Canada | Listen | Download
- July 4, 2023: Sjoerd Stolk on OCCii, art, squatting and activism in Amsterdam today / Mohamed Bah on asylum seekers creating community radio in Amsterdam | Listen | Download
- June 28, 2023: Zahra Ali on Women and Gender in Iraq | Playlist | Listen | Download
- June 27, 2023: Javid Jah on art, public space and alternative cosmologies / Artists as activists in East Village anti gentrification battles | Playlist | Listen | Download
- June 21, 2023: David Barsamian on war in Ukraine | Listen | Download
- June 20, 2023: Filmmaker Malcolm Guy and Author Max Haiven | Listen | Download
- June 14, 2023: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada | Listen | Download
- June 7, 2023: Do Right by the Right Whale, multimedia work from a Mi'kmaq perspective | Listen | Download
- May 31, 2023: We Are Family DC, a community response to overcome systemic injustices | Listen | Download
- May 24, 2023: Lauren Benton on "A Search for Sovereignty" | Listen | Download
- May 17, 2023: Andy Moor of The Ex | Listen | Download
- May 10, 2023: Shiri Pasternak on the book Disarm, Defund, Dismantle- Police Abolition in Canada | Listen | Download
- May 3, 2023: Elle Sofe Sara on the The Answer is Land and Sámi cultural resistance | Listen | Download
- April 26, 2023: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief network in US responses to climate change | Listen | Download
- April 19, 2023: Tom Wakeford of ETC Group on opposing tech giant moves to crack the Convention on Biological Diversity | Listen | Download
- April 12, 2023: Mónica Vargas Collazos of GRAIN on Israeli state backed agribusiness colonialism in global south | Listen | Download
- April 5, 2023: Lim Li Ching on work to addressing legacies of colonialism in global biodiversity protocol COP15 summit | Listen | Download
- March 29, 2023: Laura Carlsen on listening to social activists in the Americas today | Listen | Download
- March 22, 2023: Vijay Prashad and Frank Barat on The Struggle Makes Us Human | Listen | Download
- March 8, 2023: The BJP government in India and the systemic undercutting of minority rights | Listen | Download
- March 1, 2023: Crise locale, crise globale / Local Crisis, Global Crisis | Listen | Download
- February 22, 2023: Kazembe Balagun on learning across generations in liberation struggles and Frantz Fanon | Listen | Download
- February 15, 2023: Ah! Kosmos on space time and the cultural resistance of trees | Listen | Download
- February 8, 2023: Filmmaker Philip Rizk on unexpected turns in revolutionary realities, from Egypt to Syria | Listen | Download
- February 1, 2023: Nour Sokhon on worlds of sound between Beirut and Berlin | Listen | Download
- January 25, 2023: Gentrification, vie nocturne and Indigenous street life | Listen | Download
- January 18, 2023: Sebastian Backhaus on Witnessing War in Ukraine | Listen | Download
- January 11, 2023: Hossam El Hamalawy on Activism and State Repression in Egypt 2022 | Listen | Download
- January 4, 2023: Artist Seth Tobocman Reflects on Struggles Against Gentrification in NY | Listen | Download