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Coming to you live from a world marching towards boiling point. Caught on camera, caused and broadcast by interwoven technologies of power. Large Language Model (“AI”) movement pattern analysis surveillance cameras have begun to be installed in Berlin, only to be met by a thousand person protest. In parallel, “Chat Control” an EU bill to introduce arbitrary mass surveillance of our devices has recently passed the first round of becoming law. Digging us out of the hypnotic doomscroll that such knowledge can understandably induce we’re joined by Jasmine Guffond, an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures, and by Andric Spaeth, an artist and activist pushing the boundaries of aesthetics and technology to challenge social and political conventions such as the police state and technofascism.

Music: 

Polizeistaat - Toxoplasma - Live at AZ Freiberg

Thru Your Phone - Cardi B

The Message - M.I.A

The Light 3000 - Schneider TM & Kpt. Michi.gan

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Chat Control

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview

Berlin enters new surveillance era

https://theleftberlin.com/berlin-enters-new-surveillance-era/

Sweden withdraws tech from education:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly0vk77vdko 

Movement detection “AI”

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/06/berlin-ki-gestuetzte-videoueberwachung-schutz-sicherheit.html

„Schaufenster in die Zukunft der Polizeiarbeit“

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/ki-kameras-in-hamburg-schaufenster-in-die-zukunft-der-polizeiarbeit/

Israeli Movement Detection company Trigo - poses same potential issue as AI companies writing UK laws! https://www.techwontsave.us/episode 328_the_uk_governments_ai_obsession_is_a_big_risk_w_will_dunn

Israeli Movement Detection company Trigo

https://www.trigoretail.com/

Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

https://youtu.be/lnBPhelCdWE?si=7JpDWIsWjq3ERUKG

Digital Safety Guide

https://archive.org/details/untitled_20251028_1043/Untitled%202%20PRINT%202/

Marie-Alice, a Haitian-German Flotilla organizer and Anté, spoken word poet from Southern Africa, join Radio Against Repression to discuss perspectives on blackness, the Palestinian struggle and solidarity across identity lines.

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KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/

Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was...

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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With the removal of Ari, a statue commemorating the sexual slavery of over 200.000 women at the hands of the Japanese military during WWII, Berlin once again enacts political censorship through the arts.

In 1992, the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, began weekly Wednesday protests and to commemorate the 1000th protest, a public statue known as The Statue of Peace was installed opposite the Japanese embassy in Seoul. 

Ari, a sister to that statue, is a sculpture of a young woman created by the Korean artists Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung located in the Berlin district of Moabit, until 18th of October 2025. The campaign in Germany seeks to put pressure on the Japanese government for acknowledgement and reparation while also drawing attention to the politicians in Germany that have pushed for her removal - Stefanie Remlinger (Green Party), and former Berlin mayor Kai Wegner to name but two.

We chart the history of this powerful movement, the relevance of its goals and strategies for contemporary Germany and the attempts of multiple politicians to relativize the specific crimes of the Japanese army in a manner that attempts to obscure the established pipeline between sexual abuse, anti-democratic efforts and the billionaire class.

AGF

https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com

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KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/

Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was...

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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Discussing censorship and the threat thereof in the German cultural scene, as a form of negative psychic and political energy that enters the physical and social body. With Siegmar Zacharias, performance artist and founding member of freelance dance ensemble berlin, and Merlin Gebhard, theater director and musician. Join Radio Against Repression to discuss the playbook of defunding and strategies of resistance.

Hosted by Jara Nassar and Alex Head

Seigmar Zacharias https://soundcloud.com/siegmar-zacharias/re-generation-master-10-10

Merlin Gebhard https://sprechwerk.hamburg/produktionen/they-thought-they-were-free/

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KOP Berlin - https://kop-berlin.de/ Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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Tune in for a Q+A episode with Jara and Alex, live in the studio, where they will discuss everything that's been happening in Germany recently - the defunding of the Collecting Dreams literature festival, whether Germany will cast a deciding EU vote to bring in a mass-surveillance law known as "Chat Control", and of course the largest protest for Palestine in the history of Germany.

"Chat Control" https://edri.org/our-work/chat-control-what-is-actually-going-on/

Radio Alhara (Jara Nassar October 8th at 6pm) https://www.radioalhara.net

Alt Orient (Fake Lines Levant drop Oct 17th) https://soundcloud.com/altorient

Energy, Flows, Power, and Politics Along the Berlin-Spandauer Shipping Canal https://www.plural-studio.net/tour

CSU Repression Package https://www.csu-landtag.de/lokal_1_4_2273_Unionsfraktionen-zeigen-klare-Kante-Starkes-Netzwerk-gegen-Judenhass-und-Extremismus.html

90mil programme https://www.90mil.berlin/artschool/

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Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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Artist Irwan Ahmett is interviewed about the worlds that brutal resource extraction has created and destroyed. From the sacred mountains of Papua to the live-streamed genocide of Palestinians on your device, Irwan’s work with Tita Salina charts the terror of now and the eternal creativity of the human species over deep time.

#Branding #Death #TheBody #ColonialHypocrisy #Gaza #Palestine #TheIndonesianHospital #LiveRadio

Interview by Alex Head

Images: #1 A rotten security post container on a decaying reclaimed island. #2 Offering to the ocean - 1 #3 One of the ugliest beaches made from metropolitan residents' sins caused the silting of the rivers in Jakarta. #4 Offering to the ocean - 2

Tracklist:

Glass Assembly - ai yamamoto https://aiyamamoto.bandcamp.com/track/glass-assembly

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Radio Against Repression shares perspectives from within the Occupy Against Occupation (Bezetzung gegen Bezatzung), protest camp currently active opposite the German parliamentary building (Bundestag), in Berlin. Join us live from the studio for a one-to-one discussion of interviews and vivid sonic landscapes, exploring the camps’ wider goals while centering the crises Israel has long created for Palestinians.

BABA DEIN HERZ - Jara Nassar https://www.instagram.com/p/DLcRZv2ibCW/

1001 Accurate Memories - Alex Head https://www.plural-studio.net/1001-accurate-memories

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Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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On air discussion with Jason Oberman addressing their three part series Inciting Hatred and Slinging Insults: Exploring the Legal Apparatus of the BRD on The Left Berlin. Jason Oberman (they/them) is an anti-zionist Ashkenazi Jewish American based in Zürich. A musician, composer, songwriter and rogue scholar who formerly lived in Berlin, Jason researches, lectures and writes on Jewish identity, Zionism, Palestine, and Germany’s weaponization of the “fight against Antisemitism”. https://www.instagram.com/jason.oberman/

Interview by performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar. Joined by Alex Head and juwelz in the studio.

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Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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A lecture by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, as part of the February 19th event: Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy, Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide - at bUm, Berlin.

The lecture was supposed to take place in a big lecture hall at Freie universitat, along with Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture. but the university cancelled the event after massive critique, amongst others from the Israeli ambassador, and from the mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, who called it antisemitic. The relocated event at bUm took place under police presence. A few days earlier, Albanese’s lecture at a University in Munich had also been cancelled, as we mentioned in Episode One.

Huge thanks to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Zoë Claire Miller and bUm Berlin.

View the entire event at bUm here: https://vimeo.com/1058614428

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No Deportations to Greece Fundraiser - bUm - PAUL-LINCKE-UFER 21,10999 BERLIN Friday 18.04.25 from 7pm

In episode one: Policing Education, we give a subtextual reading of the parliamentary resolution "Confronting anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment at schools and universities and securing free space for debate". Analysed with guests within and adjacent to contemporary formal education in Germany, sounding the alarm around shrinking spaces for free speech and expression.

Guest contributions from Aviad Albert, an Israeli citizen working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, Thomas Herzmark, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen and Carmen an academic working in the field of religion in Germany.

With performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, jewelz, an independent radio activist of 10 years, and artist Alex Head.

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Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt

3ezwa, association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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From the Bantustans and townships of South Africa to the fractured lands of Palestine, overcoming apartheid has been a struggle across the lines of privilege.

Radio Against Repression is joined live in the studio by the artist Adam Broomberg. As a descendent of Jews who fled the Holocaust but benefited as whites from the apartheid regime in South Africa, Broomberg witnessed the subtle interweaving of Zionist and apartheid ideologies. Adam joins Radio Against Repression to discuss the complex paradoxes of twentieth-century diasporic communities during a period of upheaval that continues to inform the artist’s interrogation of photography’s power, complicity and banality.

Music:

The Flame Thrower - Soweto Kinch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akpIBYL-Q5U

Otis - The Durutti Column - https://thedurutticolumn.bandcamp.com/track/otis

No Love - Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - https://ropeadopeselect.bandcamp.com/track/no-love

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Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was...

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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Discussing the censorship of her work Nothing New in Berlin by nGbK (New Society for the Fine Arts) and Kunst im Untergrund (Art in the Underground), in 2025, İpek Burçak joins us to frame last weekend’s powerful international symposium in which Art Worker Solidarity brought together over 100 practitioners and activists to face off the global authoritarian turn.

Image Credit: Eren Ileri/Radio Against Repression

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Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was...

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Live from Beirut to Berlin, Jara will be down the line from Lebanon to report back from the violent displacement caused by the Zionist war machine as it continues to encroach upon the region. Embedded with teams doing civil defense work, join us to hear directly from Lebanese society and the wider global network as they step up to support day to day life within a war zone.

Music: https://ergophizmizmusic.bandcamp.com/album/oud-music-from-gaza

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Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was...

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On the horrendous occasion of the brutal Israeli and US attacks on Iran, as well as the renewed ground invasion and bombing of Lebanon, we will be joined by Dorna to discuss what has been unfolding over the last week, how this should be interpreted within the colonial imperialist power structure, and what we in the West can do about it.

A discussion around what is happening from a socialist perspective.

Music:

DJ / rupture - https://www.negrophonic.com/dj-rupture-mixes-free-download/

Baraye - Shervin Hajipour - https://soundcloud.com/shervinine/baraye

Iranian Organising:

https://lowerclassmag.com/2026/02/28/es-gibt-auch-einen-dritten-weg https://sozvu.org/iran-krieg-keine-befreiung/

https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/fuer-die-niederlage-der-usa-und-israels-nieder-mit-dem-imperialistischen-krieg-gegen-iran/

A Testimony Under Bombardment: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVd6GvBCJjJ/

Lebanese mutual aid:

Lebanon Solidarity Collective - https://www.instagram.com/p/DVb6iULCXKl/

Several initiatives supporting migrant workers - https://www.instagram.com/p/DVbTtyciK7m/

Art Worker Solidarity Group (AG AWS) - #1 Unionising - https://zabriskie.de/products/how-do-we-self-organise-1-unionising

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Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was...

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A discussion of the artist duo's current show "The Circulation of Labour, Capital and Life as a Supply Chain", that mixes artistic intervention with the permanent artifacts of the Dommuseum Hildesheim. We explore the political expediency of racism both historically and in the context of censorship, defunding and repression in contemporary Germany.

Exhibition Until April 06: https://www.dommuseum-hildesheim.de/en/exhibitions/the-circulation-of-labour-capital-and-life-as-a-supply-chain/

Music:

Nagorny Karabach - Einsturzende Neubauten

Piñata Beats by Fredie Gibbs & Madlib - https://madlibinvazion.bandcamp.com/track/broken

Interview by Alex Head

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Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

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Radio Against Repression reports back from the Academic Boycott Conference Berlin shining a light on how Israeli Universities and research centers play an integral role in occupation and genocide, and the ways in which their German counterparts are complicit and breach international and humanitarian law through exchange programs, common infrastructure and joint projects.

With a spotlight on current developments in Iran from Dorna of Socialism from Below. 

We are joined live in the studio by Lucho from BDS FU and Interbündnis Berlin and down the line by artist, activist Zoë Claire Miller.

Music: Død & Hav, by Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/track/d-d-hav

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Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

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Revolution as a Creative Practice with Ahmed Tobasi

What is the revolutionary potential of art in troubled times? We sat down with long-time artistic director of the Freedom Theater Jenin, Palestine, to explore lessons on resilience and the revolutionary potential of the creative act. This show was recorded with Tobasi at the end of 2025 in Berlin. Tune in to Radio Against Repression on Wed-07-Jan at 17.00 or find us in you podcast app now.

Music: Dj /Rupture - Mole In The Ground Feat. Sindhu Zagoren

https://djrupture.bandcamp.com/album/uproot

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It has been the most striking feature of current political repression in Germany: police brutalizing protesters with extreme force. Especially in Berlin, police violence against political dissidents has become a regular occurrence. But what is behind this violence?

Anabel from the Arrest Documentation Unit (ADU) will be joining R A R live in the studio to discuss the specific role and function that police violence fulfills within systemic state repression in Germany today, starting with the repression of Palestine solidarity and expanding from climate activism to the police violence against anti-AfD protesters in Gießen this weekend.

ADU is one of the publishers of the report Repression Against Palestine Solidarity in Germany, which describes in great detail the different forms of repression utilized by the German state against Palestine solidarity protesters.

arrestunits-berlin@proton.me

Poesie-Lesung: Die Legende von Gaza | Galerie & Atelier Arabisk | 18:00 | Karl-Kunger-Straße 6

Poesie Abend mit Fares Matar, Saad Al-Abtah, Thaer Ayoub, Hevi Qico und Marwan Al-Ezzi

Gaza Biennale - https://gbb2025.substack.com/p/program-gaza-biennale-berlin-pavilion-faa

To order Muqawama, the first edition of Uncolonial Ethnographers Magazine, with Jara's poem krank in original and English translation - https://www.instagram.com/uncolonialethnographer

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Palestina Spricht - https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/

Rote Hilfe - https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was...

3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine - https://3ezwa.de/

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