Free City Radio22 Joulu 2024

246, Poet Fenton Benjamin on living homeless in Montreal today

This is the first in a series of 4 interviews that will air here on Free City Radio that address the crisis of homelessness in Montreal, Quebec and Canada. This interview series takes place in the build up to a gathering on housing justice taking place from March 7-9, 2025 at Concordia University, for more information on that gathering visit http://housingjustice.now The first interview in this series is with poet Fenton Benjamin, a Caribbean-Canadian poet and spoken word artist, who I first got to know in the context of doing community radio work in Montreal at CKUT 90.3 FM. Fenton and I were both on a community radio cultural morning magazine program, Fenton would come into read poems sometimes on air and also offer social commentary. Today Fenton is living with homelessness in the city and shares a direct first hand experience about the ways that rising rents and the lack of affordable housing units is driving young artists and workers into homelessness. This interview series is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The accompanying drawing is by Stefan and the music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. 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!

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326, Artist Sam Gould speaks on community action challenging ICE in Minneapolis

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear directly from artist and scholar Sam Gould, a community voice in Minnesota who speaks on the realities of the ICE raids under the Trump administration as th...

15 Heinä 30min

Cultural workers for Palestine - Dima Abu Sbeitan on Seeds of Hope

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine, for July 2026, we hear from Palestinian artist and community organizer Dima Abu Sbeitan who speaks on the Seeds of Hope initiative in Gaza. This pr...

6 Heinä 29min

325, Reviving Gaza mutual aid

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Ghassan Ghaben, who is Palestinian and was born in Gaza, is the co-founder of Reviving Gaza, a mutual aid group set up to help displaced Palestinian fam...

5 Heinä 30min

Art in Action interview - KMRU

On the July 2026 edition of the Art in Action interview series we hear from Berlin-based sound artist and musician KMRU. For more information visit: https://kmru.info Stefan Christoff produces this ...

3 Heinä 30min

324, AI and systemic violence against migrants in Canada

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the third in a series of a three programs that gather and present audio recordings from Montreal at the Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry, an event co-...

29 Kesä 30min

323, Voices signal warnings in Canada on AI injustice and environmental impacts

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the second in a series of a three programs that gather and present audio recordings from Montreal at the Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry, an event co...

16 Kesä 30min

322, Sheldon Sunshine of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation shares an Indigenous critique on AI in Canada

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the first in a three part series that draws from a set of recordings done in Montreal at the Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry, an event co-convened by...

15 Kesä 30min

321, Gaetan Heroux on housing justice organizing in Toronto

In this conversation with community organizer Gaetan Heroux we get a contemporary window into housing justice organizing in Toronto. Gaetan speaks specifically about the 230 Fight Back campaign, but a...

7 Kesä 30min