indigenous resistance

Friday February 3rd 2012 - Days of action for Students (drop tuition, forgive debt) and Labour (catepillar) in Canada as #Occupy Oakland attempts, unsuccessfully, to take an abandoned convention hall to use as a social space and for lodging. The vicious attack by the police in oakland sparked continent wide solidarty actions. We also look into more #deportkenney news, and the continuing and mounting disrepect from settler states towards Indigenous peoples through ignoring historic treaties.

We also unleash the first eco-update in a while as we report on the Enbridge oil spilling company, and continued resistance against their shitty pipelines, and other canadian mining oeprations. We jump into some info on the Fukashima nuclear disaster from http://globalresearch.ca before playing "No Fracking Way" http://submedia.tv and read of a protest against hydraulic fracturing at the #winterX games.

Some tunes and more!

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-02-03.mp3

Friday January 27th 2012 - KW poet and artist extraordinaire Janice Lee drops buy for discussion on the local slam poetry series after we read a piece by @harshawalia on Decolonising (from http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-together) and play Leanna Simpson's audio from the Occupy Talks: Indigenous Perspectives on the Occupy Movement.

The show starts with a Smash the State report looking into: a slightly confused report about a neo-nazi attack in Vancouver (check http://van-noii.resist.ca for a statement and more accurate report), the cost of #omnibus imprisonment bill #c10, an action against the canada-eu trade deal (CETA), John Barid's hypocrisy and more. We are also saddeneded to announce the passing of long term street warrior Ricky Lavaille, a vancouver #DTES resident.

Our G20 Report has updates from the police slaying of Junior Manon, the call for police accountability, the crackdown on another anti-police blogger, spying on librarians, and a call to "action" from the KW Spot collective (https://julianichim.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/call-and-email-the-attorney-general-demanding-political-status-and-an-end-to-political-persecution/).

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-01-27.mp3

Studies indicate significant increased risk of hospitalization of children due to asthma correlated to formaldehyde exposure

June 23, 2011. Toronto - A chemical widely used in wood products mills has been newly found to cause cancer. On Friday, June 10 2011, the U.S. government’s National Toxicology Program Report on Carcinogens listed formaldehyde as “known to be a human carcinogen” following a “rigorous scientific review;” a change from its previous listing as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.” The report found sufficient evidence from studies in humans that formaldehyde causes nasopharyngeal cancer, sinonasal cancer, and lymphohematopoietic cancer, specifically myeloid leukemia. [1] The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires labeling for “all materials capable of releasing formaldehyde at levels above 0.5 ppm during normal use, the label must contain the words ‘potential cancer hazard’.” [2] The measurement unit parts per million is often abbreviated as ppm.

Friday June 3rd 2011 - The Smash the State Report starts this show before a rundown of resistance to canadian mining and extractive industries (Mordor = Tar Sands Hoax), and a look into the strike actions from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). We also discuss new attacks on Abdelrazik, play an interview from @JaggiSingh and celebrate the victory for Alvaro Orozco.

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2011-06-03.mp3

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Barriere Lake Solidarity has produced this video to help bring attention to the current struggle by the Algonquins of Barriere Lake (ABL) against the Canadian Government's imposition of Section 74 of the Indian Act. By enacting this obscure piece of the Act, the Canadian Government is attempting to take control of the community by imposing band council elections on the community. The ABL have always had their own customary government.

For more information, visit:
barrierelakesolidarity.org

http://vimeo.com/23103527

Friday April 29th 2011 - Oil spills in Alberta and the NWT are met with condemnation from Indigenous youth and band chiefs, and by inadequate action from the governmental and corporate criminals responsible. Dan looks into other environmental catastrophe's (and upcoming collapses) while he celebrates the 2 Year anniversary of the victorious land defense camp at Site 41 (http://stopdumpsite41.ca) and we have a bit more END:CIV talk (@ENDCIV).

There is also an update on G20 arrestees, Dan reads a response to Margret Wente's Slutwalk article, and we look into No One Is Illegal (@noii_to) new "stop the cuts" campaign among attacks from neoliberal, anti-immigrant, anti-poor, and anti-women governments at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels.

AW@L and WPIRG (www.wpirg.org) (and soon to be announced co-conspirators) are proud to present feature length documentary END:CIV (http://endciv.com) from radical media maker Franklin Lopez. The event will feature a screening of the film, a Q + A with director Franklin Lopez, followed by a regional ecological justice social and free copies of the Dominion's Climate Justice Special Issue (http://dominionpaper.ca).

When: May 17th 2011, Waterloo - 19:00-02:00
Location: University of Waterloo - EIT room 1015 from 19:00-22:00pm. Map: http://uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php#

Cost: Free-$50 pay what you can/want.

details on 2-way transportation from Guelph will be provided.

Any proceeds will be split between the Guelph ABC's G20 legal defense support fund, the upstart Kitchener ABC, and other local social justice initiatives.

more details to follow...

This is one of only 4 stops in ontario, so be sure to check it out! The summer of social justice is here!

Friday March 18th 2011 - Today's show starts with the Smash the State Report, before reviewing warnings from the Anishinabe Kweag and several Mohawk communities against the planned shipments of decommissioned nuclear steam generators through the Great Lakes. We also look into resistance to the Keystone XL oil pipeline and other tar sands related news, and talk about resistance to canadian mining companies.

Vandana Shiva is blocked from entering canada as 2000 Indian women are arrested on IWD. We introduce Gary McHlae's assault on Six Nations solidarity activist Tom Keefer at McHale's "truth and reconciliation rally" and introduce Luke Stewart's review of Christie Bltachford's "Helpless" and recent anti-native events in Caledonia.

We also read a review of David Harvey's latest book, warn folks about white supremacist organizing in london and talk about No One is Illegal's recent action against Jason Kenney in Vancouver.

We end with a review of International Day Against Police Brutality, including Toronto and Montreal events, and mark a bunch of upcoming events including the Speak Up Speak Out conference at WLU faculty of social work on March 19th.

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2011-03-18.mp3

The University of Waterloo Department of Religious Studies, with support from the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University and Waterloo Public Interests Research Group (WPIRG - wprig.org) are proud to present:

Speaker: Splitting the Sky

Topic: The Sun Dance and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff

Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011

Location: Hagey Hall 373 (University of Waterloo)

Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm

In 1995 Splitting the Sky led a major Indian uprising in Canada at Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia. Preceding what would be the most costly RCMP operation in Canadian history, he was the leader of a Sun Dance which had been practiced at the site annually since 1990. He had been participating in Sun Dances in the North America since 1981 and even danced in the 1994 ritual at Gustafsen Lake. The Sun Dancers who took occupation of the sacred grounds sought an international investigation into the matter of unceded indigenous territory, believing that sovereignty would help to alleviate the suffering caused by the actions of the various institutions of the Canadian state.

Friday December 3rd 2010 - Kelly joins the show and we talk about mining, resistance and have a G20 report. Geographer Emily Slofstra joins us as well for a quick run down on issues around rising sea levels for coastal communities in Netherlands and Guyana.

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-12-03.mp3

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.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Indian Affairs imposes new Chief and Council on Barriere Lake on the basis of a half-dozen nomination ballots: “This looks like tyranny,” say community spokespeople 

Kitiganik, Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - The Department of Indian Affairs has announced that a new Indian Act Chief and Council have been elected by acclamation in the community of Barriere Lake, after between 6 and 10 nomination mail-in ballots were received by a government electoral officer.

But even the acclaimed Chief, Casey Ratt, has announced he will not take the position, refusing to break ranks with the community’s broad opposition to the Indian Act band elections that the Department of Indian Affairs has been trying to impose on Barriere Lake.

In this music heavy show, Dan Discusses G20 violence, plays a CRIME on France, and re-broadcasts an Abousfian Abdelrazik Interview from rabble.ca, all this among other updates...

from 1 hour in until the end, we play a soundtrack for critical mass including a bunch of songs from the Pedal Pushers debut album "The Iron Horse Trail."

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-july302010-criticalmass.mp3