Montreal hosted the longest lasting Gaza solidarity encampment in North America. In this episode, learn how student activist at Concordia and McGill made it happen and their ongoing struggle for Palestinian human rights.

This project is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada.

Art by James Fay

Discordia 08: The 2024 Encampment for Gaza

Ліля Гемеджі, Ельвіна Семедляєва та Сафіє Шабанова стали юристками та адвокатками, хоч і мріяли про інші професії. Сьогодні їхні підзахисні — політичні ув'язнені та цивільні заручники, яких переслідують та судять у Криму за погляди та прагнення жити вільно, без страху. Відповідно, російська влада не зупиняється у своїх репресіях і проти незалежної кримської адвокатської спільноти, вдаючись до адміністративних арештів, штрафів і навіть позбавлення адвокатського статусу. Адвокатки ж не здаються, навіть коли їхні власні родини стають цілями для переслідувань, і продовжують боротьбу за права своїх підзахисних. Цей епізод — про те, як важливо не втрачати надію, навіть коли здається, що всі двері зачинено.

Авторка матеріалу: Лутфіє Зудієва
Продюсерка: Анна Кравець
Обкладинка: Саша Авербах
Музика: Ніка Зенова


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Beatrice speaks with Kareem Rabie about how capitalist visions for “the day after” ceasefire often rely on economic development projects that act as an extension of settler colonialism, Rabie’s research on housing development projects in the West Bank in 2005-2009, and his 2021 book, Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank.

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| The London Circle | 24 April 2025

With all eyes on Gaza and the ongoing genocide, Kashmir remains, 78 years on, under Indian occupation and subject to continuous genocidal policies.

Whilst receiving plentiful prayers and well-wishes, and whilst recognized as an ongoing occupation which wants to eradicate the natives, it seems that no one has a clue what to do regarding the crisis of Kashmir. For 78 years and counting, India has been implementing policies of extermination against the people of Kashmir, yet no state, let alone Muslim state, has stood for the freedom of Kashmir on the public sphere.

India being the economic and human resource powerhouse that it is, seems to have succeeded in intimidating everyone into accepting this calamity to simply carry on and continue.

Anas Altikriti, speaks with Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur about this and the ongoing struggle of freedom for Kashmir.

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Guests:

| Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur, President, World Kashmir Freedom Movement (WKFM)



Kashmir; The Forgotten Occupation | The London Circle

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Alina Becker’s Cosplay Modeling Goes Viral on Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit. Russian cosplayer, show, social media influencer, Instagram star, substance maker and businesswoman Alina Becker is well known.

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Alina Becker was born into a affluent family in Russia. We did a part of investigate and found out that she was born on September 22, 1999 (Wednesday).

Alina is 22 a long time ancient, concurring to records (in 2021). Each year on September 22, she celebrates her birthday.

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Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw all Jewish settlers from Gaza in 2005 and build a security barrier between Israel and the West Bank to keep suicide bombers out. Includes interview with messianic settler Daniella Weiss who opposed the construction of the wall. 

Sharon and Gaza withdrawal report

As Israel escalates its genocide in Gaza and prepares to execute its final cleansing or "transfer" of the populace of the Strip, calls are mounting for humanitarian intervention to protect the Palestinians. In Episode 280 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg explores the concrete steps already taken by elements of the international community to implement the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine in the Gaza Strip—as well as exploring the critique of humanitarian intervention repeatedly raised in other contexts by Noam Chomsky and the anti-imperialist left.

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Humanitarian intervention for Gaza?

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Beatrice and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today.

Annie Powers is an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, and a scholar of landless people’s political movements in the United States. She studies the history of housing and homelessness, and poor people’s urban land struggle, in the US and the world.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Tranquility

This episode focuses specifically on a mistake that a number of people make in thinking about what will produce happiness, tranquility, or contentment for them, namely living a certain lifestyle or having a particular occupation. If one does not have one's mindset, assumptions, desires, habits in order, one simply brings the reason for one's lack of tranquility from whatever previous lifestyle or occupation one had into the new lifestyle or occupation one adopts.

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Plutarch, On Tranquility - Tranquility, Lifestyle, and Occupations - Sadler's Lectures

The Flame is a song of grief and memory—spoken for those whose voices are too often silenced. It traces the arc of destruction: from occupation to retaliation, from blame to blindness, from denial to rage.

Built on minimal, mournful tones, acoustic guitar, the song asks what happens when those crushed underfoot finally rise—when silence becomes fire.

This isn’t protest for effect.
It’s a witness statement.

For the shattered streets.
For the lost names.
For the truths we bury, then mourn when they burn.
For Gaza

Lyrics 

You fenced them in with walls and wire,
Then watched their dreams burn out in fire.
You starved their hopes, denied their name,
Then turned and asked, “Who lit the flame?”

You dropped your bombs, then blamed their cries,
Called every tear a pack of lies.
You called them beasts, you called them wrong—
But beasts are made when pain is long.

You cut their roots, you stole their land,
Then crushed them with a bloodstained hand.
You took their fathers, stole their bread,
Then built your walls while children bled.

You made their schools into a tomb,
Their playgrounds echo war’s perfume.
You made their skies a place of dread,
Where drones now sing above their head.

And when they rose with stone or flame,
You wrapped them in a terror’s name.
But what you cage will learn to bite—
And fire will grow in absence of light.

So don’t pretend you do not know
Why hatred blooms where nothing grows.
You birthed this fury, fed its breath—
Then cried for peace while sowing death.

You didn’t just react to pain—
You primed the fuse, then cursed the flame.
And until truth is seen and spoken,
No truce will hold, no cycle broken.

The Flame

Sweet venom. Sad poetry. Savage satire.
I write in the spaces where shame meets seduction, where grief morphs into goonbait, where beauty and bitterness share a bed.
Some tracks are lullabies for lost boys. Others are traps for the ones who think they’re in control.
You’ll find humour, heartbreak, humiliation — often in the same breath.
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