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Friday January 20th 2012 - An extended Smash the State report, with guest co-host Julian Ichim starts this week show which also features an anti-prison/#freemumuia update and a G20 Report!

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-01-20.mp3

Smash the State Report:
reports from the SOApaRtycommittee new years-eve prison noise demos, the continued growth of the security state across the commonwealth, and London Ontario's battle with corporate villain Caterpillar. We also read an update from the Toronto Stop the Cuts protests against the austerity of Rob Ford, and we report of the death of freestyle skier Sarah Burke.

Anti- Prison:
Reports from Mumia Abu Jamal's ongoing mistreatment by the injustice system since being taken off of death row and we discuss a piece from newsocialist.org commenting on Harper's #omnibus imprisonment bill - #C10

http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id...

G20 Report
We read a piece Shailagh Keaney giving us an update on the continuing fallout from anti-capitalist organising from the dominion (http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4318), update on the Adam Nobady case and discuss police impunity. We finish with a discussion about the conspiracy of the crowns, and the ongoing criminalization of organising in canada.

see http://conspiretoresist.wordpress.com for statements from targets of the #g20toronto police state and http://julianichim.wordpress.com for more #julianichim.

from CLAC: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 at 5:30pm at PHILLIPS SQUARE
(Ste-Catherine West, between Union & Aylmer, McGill métro)

Montreal november 1st-The next G20 summit will take place November 3rd and 4th in Cannes, France. This meeting between the 20 most powerful countries on the planet will take place while Europe is in a full-blown debt crisis. More than 10 000 police and military personnel will be on hand for the occasion, but resistance is being organized and will be heard in the streets of France and Europe.

Why the Occupy Everything movements should be supported and how it changes contemporary politics

from someone at St Petersberg Fla. occupy protests.

find the pdf here:
http://www.zinelibrary.info/occupy-everything-and-politics-act

Many people wonder what it is that these new 'occupy' protests can accomplish, and have trouble envisioning the so-called "ends" of the movement. But the beauty of what is happening is not found in the "ends", but the "means" that has been chosen. Politics is changing, and we can and should push it to be more localized.

Politics, as many of us are accustomed to thinking of it, usually boils down to what has been called the 'politics of demand'. The politics of demand can be understood as the coming together of three interlocking ideas

*the post that was here was taken down due to arrests made and the threat of more arrests if it was not taken down. more details to come. but the details will not be here, nor can the location of the details be reported here as that may constitute a breach of the conditions imposed as a condition of release from the arrest made as a result of the post that was here.

December 21, 2010: TORONTO, MISSISSAUGA NEW CREDIT—Jailed G20 defendant Alex Hundert will be starting trial on January 31, 2011 over allegations that his participation in University panel discussions in September this year contravened his bail condition to not participate in public demonstrations. Since the G20, Hundert has been forced to spend some 120 days in jail without going to trial for original charge of alleged “conspiracy” or any of the subsequent charges the Crown laid on him.

Friday December 10th 2010 - A big G20 update with the ombudsman report and updates on past AW@L Radio co-host Alex Hundert. We take a look at the criminalisation of dissent at UW then have a few updates from Cancun's Climate Cluster Euck.

dan also reads a piece from the vancovuer.media.coop.ca about the perpetuation of patriarchal rape myths in the "bogus-claim" defenses of WikiLeak's julian assange.

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-12-10.mp3

Anti-Racists challenge ‘Globe and Mail’ columnist’s colonial propaganda at the University of Waterloo, get Thrown off Campus.

December 7th 2010 Waterloo – A UW Student and Alumnus were issued trespassing notices, and other anti-racists were forced off the University of Waterloo campus for picketing outside Christie Blatchford’s book tour stop. The picketers were holding signs and distributing informational pamphlets to people entering the talk. After having been denied entrance to the building, the picketers were then ordered by the Waterloo regional police services and campus police to leave the snowy outdoor courtyard in front of the entrance.

(please forward widely!)

Immigration Enforcement Pushed Out of Anti-Violence Against Women Spaces across the GTA

Check out the video and share with friends, colleagues, on facebook, email list-servs, etc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIKZ0ciBMjc

The Greater Toronto Enforcement Centre (GTEC) of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), GTA Region, has issued a directive to all its officers, stating:

1. When conducting a road investigation, officers will not enter shelters or other spaces designated as resources for women fleeing/experiencing violence.
2. Officers are not to wait outside or approach the above-noted spaces and will maintain a reasonable distance.

EMERGENCY RALLY! TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12
12:30 PM--MEET AT WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY AMPHITHEATRE (OUTSIDE DINING HALL), MARCH FROM THERE

On Friday, G20 Defendant and AW@L activist Alex Hundert was found to be in breach of his ‘no-demonstration’ bail condition for speaking as an invited panelist at two university events in mid-September 2010. He has remained behind bars since his arrest.

October 6, 2010

Re: Road work on our territory.

To whom it may concern:

Our community is repairing washouts and beaver damage to nearby back-roads to facilitate our ongoing use and enjoyment of our traditional territory. The back roads are used by Grassy Narrows members to access hunting, trapping, wild rice and berry picking areas, medicine gathering and ceremonial site access, and for access to the Ball Lake fishing lodge. For generations the lodge has been a key source of employment for our community, but since the mercury poisoning of the English-Wabigoon River System the lodge has had minimal economic development benefits for us.

-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

Crown unreasonably delaying jailed G20 defendant Alex Hundert breach hearing

October 6, 2010 - Toronto, Mississauga New Credit - G20 defendant Alex Hundert appeared in a Scarborough court today over the allegation that he breached his existing bail condition to not participate in a public demonstration. Hundert was arrested on September 17th after speaking at a panel discussion at Ryerson University. He has remained in jail since his arrest.

Toronto - Jailed G20 defendant Alex Hundert appears in court to fight breach charge laid by Crown and OPP for speaking on university panels

G20 defendant Alex Hundert is appearing in Scarborough court on October 6 at 10am over the allegation that he breached his existing bail condition to not participate in a public demonstration. Hundert was arrested on September 17th after speaking at a panel discussion at Ryerson University. He has remained in jail since his arrest.

September 27th 2010. Toronto - Today, over 250 people will be receiving the beginnings of disclosure on accusations including conspiracy, mischief, and assault from the G20 Convergence this past June—accusations that are a criminalisation of dissent and an intensified targeting of activists and community organisers. The release of today’s disclosure will begin to show us the lengths the state will go to stifle dissent.

These court proceedings are a way for the state to punish those who dare to challenge it. Unfortunately what will not be disclosed today is any plan to hold the 19000 state security agents to account for their aggressive and illegal actions that week, or to bring community justice upon the G20 politicians and their corporate manipulators whose austerity agendas devastate cultures, and ecosystems around the planet.

*please post and forward freely*

De-mystifying the “Project Samossa” arrests
From: Community Advisory from the People's Commission Network

Montreal, September 2010

The recent arrests associated with the RCMP’s offensively named "Project Samossa" have generated a lot of questions and uncertainties in communities targeted by Islamophobia and racism. This community advisory is aimed at providing information and advice to address some of those questions. We hope that it will contribute to confident resistance to profiling, marginalization and criminalization.

Questions

1. What is the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act?
2. What does it mean if individuals are arrested on terrorism-related charges?
3. Why are they in prison if they haven’t been found guilty of anything?

September 15th 2010 – Kitchener-Waterloo

G20 Policing, Political Targeting, and Anarchy

The Toronto G20 and G8 summits of so-called “leaders” of the self-described free world were defiantly met by a massive convergence of people oriented towards social justice. Indigenous Nations and anti-poverty groups, migrant justice activists, anti-capitalists, environmentalists, community builders, disAbility rights advocates, radical feminists, anarchists, moms and grandmothers, animal liberation crusaders, maternal health advocates, civil libertarians, liberals, and some people from the right and a score of others from the entire spectrum of the ecological and social justice movements took the streets to share their love and rage. For another time on Turtle Island in 2010, a people’s convergence was met with scorn and repudiation from these uncaring leaders and with violence and violations from the massive security operation mobilized to keep us silent.