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

"WE ARE CALLING ALL SIX NATIONS YOUTH, ALL YOUTH EVERYWHERE, ALL PEOPLE, ALL ALLIES TO SPEAK UP AND SUPPORT THE YOUTH ON FRIDAY AT 9AM AT THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE IN BRANTFORD!!!"

-Six Nations Youth Reclamation.

Following in the footsteps of Caledonia and Brantford, Six Nations Elected Council is seeking an injunction to forcefully remove Six Nations Youth from the site of the Old Police Station, which they have been peacefully occupying in Ohsweken for near...ly 3 months.

Melissa Elliott & Wesley Elliott were served with the notice of application for an injunction on Thursday August 11th at the site of the Youth Reclamation by 5-6 cops and reports of OPP in the area (other persons named in the injunction, Tahnee Wilson and Skyler Williams, have yet to be served).

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

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.

From our Allies:
Sunday, March 6th, 2011

*ANISHINABE WOMEN CALL ON BRUCE POWER TO HALT SHIPMENT OF NUCLEAR WASTE
THROUGH GREAT LAKES*

*Christian Island, ON – *Anishinabe Kweag, the group of women who
successfully protested Site 41 is calling on Bruce Power to halt it's
plans to ship 16 decomissioned nuclear steam generators of through the
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.

“The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River have been the source of life for
over 30 000 years for the Anishinabe People, as well as the Algonquin,
Mohawk, Cree and other Indigenous Nations. We will, by any and all
means, protect the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River from this
potential hazard” says Vicki Monague, spokesperson for Anishinabe Kweag.

Friday March 4th 2011 - We review some cops being naughty and a callout for a March 15th response to this bad behaviour. We also have a preview of Israeli Apartheid Week, and have a report back from the 5 year anniversary of the reclamation of Kanonhstaton by Six Nations land defenders near Caledonia.

We also have another installment of Alex's house arrest interview series. This time with anarchist and rocker Will Dean. We also link migrant and workers struggles from Hamilton, to Pittsburg, and Wisconsin, to BC and Greece.

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/AW@Lradio-2011-03-04.mp3

February 28th, 2011
by: Tallula Marrigold

from the toronto media coop

Today, February 28 2011, is the 5th year anniversary of the land reclamation at Kanonhstaton in Caledonia, Ontario. Yesterday, solidarity activists and and local residents were asked by members of Six Nations to be present to help protect this land from bitter, over-colonized settlers. The Freudian aim of these settlers was to erect a monument on the reclaimed land asking for an apology from Six Nations, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ontario Provincial Government for what they call 'unfair treatment of white residents during the occupation.'

Friday February 25th 2011 - February 27th will mark the 5 year anniversary of the Six Nations reclamation of Kahnonstaton, and as indigenous and non indigenous allies prepare to celebrate, racists and anti-indigenous white supremacists organise their own demonstrations. Letters to the editor are read and some anti-racism goes down in the first half of the show as Phil D of Rebel Time Records tell us about Hamilton's Rebel Fest happening March 12-13th in the second hour.

A CKLN interview with Mohawk Nation News editor Kahentinetha Horn rounds out the first hour and the show finishes with a feature of political prisoner, birthday boy, and Indigenous warrior Oso Blanco.

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

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.

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
by Gord Hill

June 4 2010
7:30pm @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which '”civilization” was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land and cultures. A more critical history might present it as a genocide in which Indigenous peoples were helpless victims, overwhelmed and awed by European military power. In reality, neither of these views is correct.

@ the University of Waterloo
Room:tba
7:45
*no charge/pay what you want

Ojistario, co-founder of Young Onkwehonwe United (YOU), and of the Tuscarora from the Haudenasaunee of Six Nations will speak along side Indigenous solidarity activist Alex Hundert at this panel.

Ojistario, of the Tuscarora from the Haudenasaunee of Six Nations. She is co-founder of Young Onkwehonwe United (YOU - a rising youth group at Six Nations that has been campaigning for a Band Council funded youth centre and a stronger youth voice in their community), and she has also sat as the youth delegate on the Six Nations land claims negotiations team.

April 16th 2010 - Taser use on pregnant women and 10 year olds, what the hell is wrong with the police state... Dan relates Canada's policies to the G8/20 and reads the call out for the Indigenous sovereignty day of action during the G20 convergence and a VMC interview with Arthur Manuel of Defenders of The Land. We also play a piece from Lia Tarachansky on neoliberalism in Israel, and read a review of 'Direct Action: An Ethnography'.
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-04-16.mp3

February 8, 2010 - Rethinking the Olympics - Resisting the University Conference at UBC. Discussion of the impact of the 2010 olympics on the environment, on the indigenous, on civil liberties, and on social justice issues, featuring prominent local activists Dr. Chris Shaw, Gord Hill, and Alissa Westergard-Thorpe.
http://www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/awl/2010/02/rethinking-olympics-resisting-university-conference-ubc.mp3

November 5th 2009 - AW@L takes Olympics fight City Hall and Solidarity w Six Nations. Full coverage of AW@L's address to Kitchener City Council, including an interview w attorney Davin Charney, and full audio from the Indigenous Sovereignty Week event at the KWCCSJ featuring Missy Elliott and Jim Windle. Also; the SPP, memorial for a fallen cyclist, music and more. This show comes in at over 3 hours, so we're making individual audio segments available.
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-nov5-2009.mp3