197, Artists, squatting and undercutting gentrification in Amsterdam

Free City Radio

A conversation on Free City Radio with Ivo Schmetz a long time squatter, housing rights activist and community organizer in Amsterdam. Ivo works with many projects in Amsterdam, including OT301. In this interview Ivo speaks about the ways that collective squatting actions that challenge the supremacy of the neoliberal city and conceptions of real-estate can work to fundamentally shift a city like Amsterdam and fundamentally change the lives of those involved. For more information on OT301 visit : https://www.ot301.nl Thank you to my friend Sarah Teixeira St-Cyr for suggesting this interview subject. Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. The accompanying photo I took while biking in Amsterdam in Oct. 2023. 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!