Taking radio out of the studio and into the streets, into sanctuary, and into the hands of the people! Radio-activists talk about using remote technology to broadcast from diverse locations, allowing marginalized groups unprecedented access to the airwaves.
Gretchen King, CKUT
Gretchen King has been cultivating spaces for Indymedia radio mobilizations since the WTO dared to meet in Seattle in 1999. Gretchen has been an active participant in using the radio revolution as a means of connecting mobilizations worldwide through the FM dial and over the internet. Gretchen is currently the Community News Coordinator at CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, creating a space for communities to broadcast their resistance over the FM dial. She has coordinated Canada's annual Homelessness Marathon for the last six years and is currently cultivating a formal Community News Network across the country.
Aaron Lakoff, CKUT
Aaron Lakoff is an independent journalist and community organizer based in
Montreal. He has been working with the CKUT community news collective for
the last 5 years, trying to deepen the links between social justice
movements and independent media. As an organizer, Aaron is a member of
Solidarity Across Borders (a migrant justice network), and Block the
Empire. He has reported on a variety of struggles from occupied
Palestine, Haiti, Mexico, and across North America.
Mostafa Henaway, SNAP!
Mostafa Henaway is a former news collective coordinator and current host and producer of the Tuesday Morning After at CKUT 90.3FM. He is also an independent journalist, active with Solidarity Across Borders and the Immigrant Workers' Centre. Mostafa was involved in helping to coordinate the SNAP! youth of colour radio project this past summer and has worked to produce radio programming on racial profiling and from sanctuary.
