tamil eelam

Friday May 27th 2011 - In this 45 minute AW@L Radio (https://www.facebook.com/peaceculture.radio), some news from across turtle island is reviewed including youth at Six Nations Occupy a police station demanding a youth centre. We also look at ongoing illegal support for Abousfian Abdelrazik, surging solidarity for Alvaro Orozco, and gve an update on other targets of Harper and @kenneyjason's racist immigration policies.

Cambridge may block the cruelty of animal circuses, and waterloo region is on the cusp of a light rail system annoucement. All this and some killer tunes!

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2011-05-27.mp3

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As Canadian members of parliament are set to return to work after their winter break, Bill C-49 – the conservative government’s anti-refugee bill, will be reintroduced and voted upon. We need to mobilize support, tell the ruling government that we oppose their xenophobic regulations, and show the migrants from Tamil Eelam who arrived aboard the MV Sun Sea, that Harper and his race and incarceration based policies are not values we hold dear in the Waterloo Region.

As Canadian members of parliament are set to return to work after their winter break, Bill C-49 – the conservative government’s anti-refugee bill, will be reintroduced and voted upon. We need to mobilize support, tell the ruling government that we oppose their xenophobic regulations, and show the migrants from Tamil Eelam who arrived aboard the MV Sun Sea, that Harper and his race and incarceration based policies are not values we hold dear in the Waterloo Region.

Now Fear This: Ewoks, Anarchists, and Anyone Unfamiliar! Harper Address Students at WLU

Thursday October 14th 2010,

TODAY- Stephen Harper was in the concourse at Wilfrid Laurier University today to deliver a speech on what he is calling an invasion of illegal thought, actions, and people. A spokesman for the prime minister notes that “First Jews tried to invade our shores to avoid the holocaust, then Tamils try to jump the queue and exploit our broken refugee system, and now Ewok terrorists and insurgents are flooding into Canada to spread radical ideas about equality and equity. We have a long history of refusing entrance to those who claim to need help, and it this policy of refusal has created a strong Canada!"

September 10th 2010 - We start with a solid update of our G20 friends, move into resistance to colonialism and toss in a bit of climate change news for fun. The music is kick ass all the way with new tracks from abstract random and dinah thorpe

Be sure if you are in Toronto or KW to check out the "Strengthening Our Resolve" speaking series next week.
http://peaceculture.org/drupal/node/653

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/486

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-09-07-g20andmore.mp3

by: Rachel Avery and Dan Kellar

"No one is illegal, Canada is illegal!"
-No One Is Illegal - Vancouver/Coast Salish

As the Harper government continues to hold 492 Tamil refugees in detention on unfounded, racially-based suspicions, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews continues to make clear the racist, anti-immigrant motivations of his department and this Conservative administration. Over the past week, four men have been arrested and three of them charged as part of a 2-year investigation entitled "Project Samosa". Because of their ethnicity they have been demonised in government rhetoric, and presented as guilty before they have been able to face trial. This troubling discourse has been supported and furthered by mainstream media and public commentary. We must continue to counter such narratives and challenge the xenophobia they encourage.

August 19th 2010 - Xenophobia and racism in Canada as Tamil migrants arrive seeking refuge. Statements and information from No One Is Illegal and a response from AW@L's Rachel Avery. We also read new G20 stories and reflections on patriarchy, police and the G20.

The music on this week's show which is played does not match up with what is claimed to be played as this show was put together in a tent with a computer with a more limited music selection than was first thought, but it all still rocks!

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-08-19-g20tamil.mp3

**AW@L joins the Canada-wide call for actions to demand that the Tamil migrants who have arrived on the MV Sun Sea be immediately released from detention, that their rights be upheld, and that the racist criminalization of refugee claimants ceases immediately.**

WHEN: Monday August 23rd, 7:00pm *NEW TIME*
WHERE: K-W Community Centre for Social Justice, 63 Courtland Ave. E

by: Rachel Avery and Dan Kellar

Once again, the approach of a ship carrying refugees has been met by racist hostility and unfounded accusations of terrorism. The arrival of the MV Sun Sea to the shores of Vancouver Island has seen an outpouring of explicitly racist, anti-immigrant discourse throughout Canada. In a country which would like to consider itself a champion of humanitarianism, it should be shocking that the government’s racist treatment of these refugees has been largely met with support and further racism rather than with disgust and protest. The actions of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and the Canada Border Services Agency in response to this situation are abhorrent; these policies must be challenged along with the racism that supports them.

Hello folks,
Here is a brief, excellent write-up about the 490 Tamil refugees, put out by No One Is Illegal - Vancouver that we encourage you to read. The text is below, and it can also be read at http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=2167
Stay tuned for more on this issue.

Myths and Realities about 490 Tamil Refugees on MV Sun Sea

Myth 1: They are illegals who are jumping the queue.

There is no ‘queue’ for refugee claimants. Refugees are forced from their homes in emergency situations due to human rights abuses committed during wars, military occupations, or persecution against a minority group. We cannot expect refugees to wait for Canada to select them from overseas. We must understand that they undertake long and dangerous journeys to protect their lives and the lives of their families. According to the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees, to which Canada is a party, there are no penalties on refugees who arrive without pre-authorization and irregularly.

-May 21. Dan blabbers on about a bunch of things: Ongoing Demonstrations to highlight the humanitarian crisis in Tamil Eelam, neoliberal governments in BC, the 2010 olympics, and evo Morales.
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-may212009.mp3

-May 7 2009, Dan and Alex chat with AW@Ler Nadeem Lawji about the Abousfian Abdelrazik affair. Dan's follow up interview on the Tamil protests and ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka and an interview with lawyer/activist Davin Charney on the new KW Cop Watch. Also, selections off the new Brat Attack album from Rebel Time Records.
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-may7-09.mp3

-April 30, 2009. Dan presents Alex's interview with Tamil protesters in Toronto, Dan reads a birthday letter from Subcommadante Marcos to Mumia Abu-Jamal and also discusses the UN Durban review racism conference.
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-april302009-fe.mp3

-April 16, 2009. We talked about the ongoing crisis in Tamil territory and responses in Canada, the attack of the drones in Pakistan, and like every other media outlet on earth we also talk about pirates.
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-april16-2009.mp3

-April 9, 2009. Dan speaks about the NATO protests, Ian Tomlinson's murder at the G-20 protests, the massacre of Tamil's, and other MIC issues.
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-april9-2009.mp3