Name: 06 Pueblos de Amanalco, el cuidado del bosque en beneficio de todos by La Coperacha
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A través de series de radio y trabajos sonoros, La Coperacha difunde historias y experiencias de comunidades que transforman el mundo desde abajo. Además de los formatos de radio, este medio de comunicación publica trabajos periodísticos sobre temas ambientales y organización ciudadana, en su sitio: lacoperacha.org.mx

06 Pueblos de Amanalco, el cuidado del bosque en beneficio de todos

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from longtime activist Adam Shapiro, a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Palestine. Adam is an important voice in the Palestine solidarity movement that I thought would be important to highlight in the current context of heightened mobilizations to support Palestinian life as the Israeli state continues to attack Gaza.

Learn more about the ISM here: https://palsolidarity.org

Accompanying music is by Anarchist Mountains. Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

233, Adam Shapiro speaks on the dynamics of the global movement for Palestine

This is a report based on recordings that I did at Spartacus books in Vancouver surrounding a gathering focused on building connections between housing justice activists in Montreal and Vancouver. 

Airing on Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 10am Pacific time at https://www.citr.ca

This gathering builds on my involvement in a report titled "From Crisis to
Consensus: A survey of 60 housing groups from across Canada," which you can read in PDF format here:

https://www.solidarityeconomy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/housing-design-draft-v4-EN-online.pdf

The accompanying photo was taken at Spartacus books.

I recorded the voices of Mariah Gillis of the Vancouver Tenants Union speaking about their work. Filmmaker Imtiaz Popat on displacement in Vancouver that is impacting socially engaged artists and Lina a community worker with the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre.

I produced this segment for broadcast on CiTR 101.9FM in Vancouver. 

Thank you for listening! - Stefan.

Vancouver voices for housing justice, 08/2024, for CiTR, a report by Stefan Christoff

A beautiful music selection by Sarah El Miniawy of the awesome Simsara music created for Radio AlHara - راديو الحارة

The accompanying photo is shared by Sarah who writes:

“Listening room in Arabic, taken at the basilica turned public library in Oran, Algeria.”

Live now radioalhara.net Sept. 15, 2024.

01. Nass El Ghiwan - Sobhan Allah 
02. Dina El Wedidi, Maryam Saleh & Nancy Mounir - El-Ors 
03. Maurice Louca - Higamah (Hirudinea) 
04. Kamel Messaoudi - Chemaa 
05. Land Of Kush - "Trema" feat. Nadah El Shazly 
06. Irreversible Entanglements - Our Land Back 
07. Tamer Abu Ghazaleh - Alameh 
08. Meriem Fekkaï - Istikhbar Aâraq & Qalb Bat Sali Ouel Khater Fan 
09. Meryem Benallal - Kassidat Ibrahim el Khalil
10. Fifths - Long Gone - Never arriving
11. koeosaeme - II
12. koeosaeme - V
13. Lighter - Unwind
14. Lighter - Pins and Needles
15. Evitceles - Flawed (ft. Kloxii Li)
16. Leon Louder - Rockinghorse
17. Badawi - Deepening the Wonder
18. Badawi - Al Quds Transmission
19. Joël Lavoie & Sébastien B Gagnon - midi noir
20. Andy Aquarius - La Force Aquarienne
21. Dali de saint paul + Maxwell Sterling - 5
22. Budapest Blacklights - Blacklight District (excerpt)
23. Rick Countryman - Suspension of disbelief

Sarah El Miniawy mix for Radio AlHara, راديو الحارة

SILVER MOON X mix, Sept. 2024

This mix draws from the first live performance in Montréal by SILVER MOON X that took place at Casa del Popolo on May 19, 2024. The duet project by Julia E. Dyck and Stefan Christoff is a creative collaboration aimed at exploring sound as an opportunity to engage with fantasy and storytelling. For the live performance in Montreal experimental filmmaker Guillaume Vallée created projections, Guillaume’s work accompanies this mix as the artwork. Julia recorded the live set in Montreal. 

This soundscape mix travels from the live show to recorded collaborations that Stefan drew from, including works by Anarchist Mountains, a piano recording, dream reflections and also field recordings. Also we hear an extended excerpt of a live performance by Julia that was given in Brussels in 2023. 

This mix was broadcast on Radio AlHara, Sept. 17 5pm eastern time / midnight in Palestine / 11pm in Brussels

Editing / selections by Stefan Christoff
SILVER MOON X is Julia E. Dyck and Stefan Christoff

Track listing 
Artist name / track name

01. Anarchist Mountains - Heart River
02. SILVER MOON X - Live at Casa del Popolo II (May 2024)
03. Stefan Christoff - A solo piano recording (June 2024)
04. Stefan Christoff - Morning birds in Lisbon (July 2024)
05. Anarchist Mountains - Shore
06. SILVER MOON X - Live at Casa del Popolo I (May 2024)
06. Anarchist Mountains - Fire on the Mountain
07. Anarchist Mountains - A Spacewalk Memory
08. Stefan Christoff - A dream memory from a ride in a 1970s airplane hovering over the Alps 
09. Anarchist Mountains - A Yugoslavian Spacecraft
10. Julia E Dyck - June (Extended excerpt)

A Balkan Spacewalk

SILVER MOON X mix II

Alumnas y alumnos del BIC 41 de Benito Juárez en San Miguel Chimalapa nos hablan sobre las muchas especies que habitan en su comunidad y cómo el cambio climático, la degradación de la naturaleza o la caza amenazan su supervivencia.

Esta es una producción sonora fue realizada con el acompañamiento de Ojo de Agua Comunicación en el marco de un proyecto realizado en colaboración con KCD ONGD y con la financiación de la Agencia Vasca de Cooperación al Desarrollo.

BIC 41 de Benito Juárez - Las drogas

Listen to an interview with a Montreal community member who is involved in organizing a local action for the campaign to challenge Indigo bookshop in Canada. The owner of Indigo, Heather Reisman, who is a key funder of the HESEG foundation which offers both living expenses and scholarships to foreign nationals to fight in the Israeli military. There are actions taking place across Canada on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, for more information on the campaign visit:

https://boycottindigobooks.com/

Also you can get some background information here:

https://breachmedia.ca/naomi-klein-calls-on-heather-reisman-drop-charges-indigo-11/

This interview was recorded and produced by Stefan Christoff and will air on CKUT 90.3 FM on Saturday, Sept. 21 on Funky Revolutions at 3:30pm, stream globally at ckut.ca

Indigo Kills Kids campaign, interview for Funky Revolutions on CKUT 90.3 FM

Artists and tenants under attack by real estate monsters 
A live community broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM

Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024
2-4pm live on CKUT 90.3FM on Funky Revolutions
5500 Saint Hubert
Montreal

Full info

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1403LG70YxIGlVUr68qC9Wv5MkLjzQI18Rt95dbdT680/edit?usp=sharing

A discussion co-hosted by Stefan Christoff and Khalid M'Seffar of Funky Revolutions, the weekly program on CKUT 90.3 FM program that hosted this show.

Speakers:

Lauren Laframboise, Vanier Scholar and PhD student at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) (profile page) and the External Affairs Officer for the Concordia Research and Education Workers’ Union (CREW–CSN).

Kiva Stimac, the general and artistic director of the Suoni per il Popolo festival.

Asher Woodhead, a Concordia student and independent musician (Doldrums / Crasher)

Catherine Bodmer, a visual artist and General Director of RCAAQ (Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec)

A Solidarity Economy Incubation Zone (SEIZE) researcher who co-authored the report “From Crisis to Consensus: A survey of 60 housing groups from across Canada,” looking at the state of the housing justice movement in Québec and Canada.

CKUT 90.3 FM's production coordinator Spencer Gilley is the broadcast engineer. Photographer Amru Salahuddien took photos and the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University supported this project.

This community radio broadcast to looks at the ways that real estate monsters are attacking independent artists in the context of an unprecedented housing and space affordability crisis in the city and beyond. 

This broadcast took place at 5500 St. Hubert, a space that has served for years as a gathering point for independent artists. The location is currently the locale for a thriving independent arts network, including multiple small visual arts studios and music rehearsal locations. This address is inhabited by cultural workers with creative practices not defined by mainstream art market paradigms. 

Today this location, a former potato chip factory, is slated for demolition by UTILE, a company aiming to construct private student condo units. This process also involves massive amounts of public funding (report), as $21.4 million is going to the company just from the city of Montréal, for a larger process that involves few mechanisms for full accountability or democratic access to the decision making of the company. 

UTILE claims to be creating accessible student housing while the company is making massive profits and has little meaningful track record of creating truly affordable non-market student housing that is safe from rising rents in the long term. In the context of the current housing crisis market driven projects are not the solution. Today students and other communities who are dealing with precarious housing are being presented with false market oriented projects that are billed as solutions.

Non-market housing options, like the urgent need for public financial support for co-op housing from all levels of government, is a key element to building any real long term solutions. Demolishing affordable artist studios, where many students and community members work, thrive and create is what UTILE is doing in this case and this is unacceptable.

Artists and tenants under attack by real estate monsters, on CKUT 90.3 FM

A joint mix for Radio AlHara in Palestine, airing on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 11am eastern / 6pm Palestine time, the tracks were jointly selected by T. Gowdy and Stefan Christoff, below is the track listing, artist name and then track name.

01. The Hilliard ensemble, Responsorium 1
02. The Tallis Scholars, Amplius lava me
03. Sistine Chapel Choir, Allegri miserere, Palestrina
04. The Hilliard ensemble, Se la mia vita
05. Rebecca Stewart Capella Pretensis, Missa Sancti Iacobi II Kyrie
06. Sam Shalabi and Stefan Christoff, Flying Street
07. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Presentiment
08. Don Cherry, Utopia & Visions
09. Secret Pyramid, Valerian
10. Lori Goldston & Stefan Christoff, Pacific Beyond Borders
11. Andy Aquarius, U Lisi
12. Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord, Sternenjubel (excerpt)

Radio AlHara

T. Gowdy + Spirodon mix for Radio AlHara, راديو الحارة‎

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