Radio Against Repression

Exploring censorship, defunding and repression

About

about
Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin, while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin

S1E6 Q+A Episode: Collecting Dreams, Largest Demo, “Chat Control”, Fake Lines Levant

October 27, 2025

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.