Sounds of Resistance is an ongoing series of liberatory news radio hosted by longtime CKUT member Samaa Elibyari. As of June 2024, it will have a regular slot on the third Wednesday of every month from 5-6pm.

Off The Hour is CKUT's in-house daily corporate-free news program. It reflects our community because it is made by our community. CKUT’s spoken word programming features alternative news, public affairs and arts and culture shows. We cover Montreal and McGill goings-on, LGBTQIA+ culture, environmental and social justice issues, feminism, theatre, African and Latin America current affairs, and more.

Every 3rd Wednesday of the month, 5 - 6pm (EST)

February 18, 2026: featuring Dr. Dorothy Williams, Dr. Mariam Hasan, and TATO.

To honour February, Black History Month, Samaa Elibyari invites Dr. Dorothy Williams https://dorothywilliams.ca to share her thoughts, and projects. Shining a light on Canada’s rich Black history through research and education, historical scholarship and advocacy, Dr. Dorothy Williams is ensuring that Black History is not just remembered but integrated into the fabric of our collective history. Dr. Williams is an adjunct Professor at Concordia University & Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability. She founded Blacbiblio.com Inc. an ABC's of Canadian Black History Kit I ABC de l'histoire des Noirs du Canada (https://blacbiblio.com). She is also the author of Blacks in Montreal and The Road to Now.

Second interview with Dr. Mariam Hasan, author of the 2025 Hostile Campus Ratings Report conducted for CAIR, Council of American-Islamic Relations. In the liberal imagination, the university is often narrated as the last remaining sanctuary of critical thought—a space ostensibly insulated from the demands of market rationality, political coercion, and imperial discipline. Yet this mythology collapsed under the repression of pro-Palestinian activism on US campuses after October 2023.

Sound as a form of resistance, what is it? What activist sound artists are doing as a matter of resisting against the system? On this matter, I interviewed TATO, he is a composer, sound artist, painter and writer. I asked him about his award winning composition, Concord. He describes the work as "an exploration of coexistence, conceptually, sonically, and spatially. The composition investigates how divergent sonic elements can share space without collapsing into sameness, inviting the listener to engage with difference not as conflict, but as layered presence."

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