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Support Imprisoned Comrades: Toronto G20 “Main Conspiracy Six”

On November 22, 2011, six of our friends pled guilty to counselling
charges for organizing to disrupt the Toronto G20 summit in June, 2010. On
November 28, 2011, Erik Lankin, Adam Lewis and Peter Hopperton were each
sentenced to 3-5.5 months in jail. Leah Henderson expects to be sentenced
to 10 months on December 20, 2011. Mandy Hiscocks expects to be sentenced
to 16 months on January 13. Alex Hundert expects to be sentenced to 13.5
months, date to begin TBA.

A support flyer for the “Main Conspiracy Six” facing imprisonment can be
found at http://guelphprisonersolidarity.wordpress.com

To read the collective statement of the G20 Main Conspiracy Group,
individual statements of co-defendants, and statements read to the courts,
visit: http://conspiretoresist.wordpress.com.

Friday November 25th 2011 - We give a run down on the #occupy movements resistance to the police crackdown and then highlight the plea deal which will end the #G20 main conspiracy group prosecutions and see 3 AW@L members and 3 others abducted to jail, while 11 other amazing organisers have their charges entirely dropped. THe police operation adn the spy operation around the G20 convergence was the largest in Canadian history.

We also look at the actions of anonymous, point out shitty police behaviour, and bring up some european struggles against austerity including a mortgage strike!

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

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2011-11-25.mp3

from Conspire to Resist

“They call me an enemy of the state, so I know I must be doing something right.”
-Marilyn Buck (1947-2010)

The prosecution has gone to incredible lengths to attempt to control, isolate and divide our communities. They infiltrated community organizing groups in an attempt to create fear, quash dissent and incarcerate us. The state has gone to such lengths to destroy our communities of resistance because they know we are creating change.

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

http://peoplescommission.org
http://nooneisillegal.org

Elections 2011: 'Vote' on the Streets!
6th Annual No One Is Illegal May Day of Action for Status for All

invite everyone you know on facebook: http://on.fb.me/fDXIpW
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

1pm, May 1 (International Workers Day)
Rally and March. Free Meal.
Queen St. W & Jameson St. (Parkdale)

To get ready for May Day, make Art, Banners, Help Poster, Volunteer. ALL INVITED!
>>> Apr 16, 11am - 5pm, Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre (220 Cowan Avenue, located just east of Lansdowne south of Queen)
>>> Apr 17, 10am - 6pm, 358 Dufferin Street, Suite 109
>>> Apr 23, 12pm - 5pm, 55 Gould Street (People's Assembly for Climate Justice III)

On the eve of the 2011 Federal Elections, 'vote' on the streets.

Friday March 11th 2011 - Dan reads a cross-section of international, national and regional news around Israeli Apartheid Week and provides updates on migrant justice campaigns and the surging integrated security state. We also update the surging security state in the new security perimeter deals and integration of military control.

Songs of resistance are included alongside info about the aid industry, the Boycott Divestment Sanctions Campaigns, and IAW activism on campuses in Canada. Words from Palestinians and Jews who resist the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, and the brutal repression of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces and international state supporters such as Canada and the U.S.

The last hour is our #IAW from 2009 with UW students from Palestinian Rights (@UWSPFR) members.

See: http://apartheidweek.org/ for more info.

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2011-03-11-IAW.mp3

On "Helpless", CANACE, and the “Truth and Reconciliation” Rally

by Luke Stewart
from Toronto Media Coop

On 27 February 2011, over one hundred Six Nations solidarity activists gathered to hold a truth and reconciliation rally and celebrate the fifth anniversary of the reclamation of Kanonhstaton (the Douglas Creek Estates) by people of the Six Nations on 28 February 2006. Coinciding with the solidarity celebration was the counter “truth and reconciliation”[1] rally held by Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality (CANACE).

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

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.

You've Got Bail! (But No Freedom)

Ryan Rainville, "freedom" and the letter of G20 law

by Megan Cotton-Kinch
from The Dominion

TORONTO—The men’s shelter doesn’t look like a prison. There are no bars on the windows, no sign announcing the building’s institutional status. The walls are decorated with posters about Indigenous pride and occasionally the air is tinged with the sweet smell of burning sage.

For Ryan Rainville however, it is a prison. He is not allowed to leave the shelter except to see his lawyer and for occasional group activities. There is a long list of people—some of whom he has never met—whom the courts have ordered him not to contact. Because of these conditions he can’t work or go to school.

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.

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CALLOUT FOR AN ANTI – CAPITALIST CONTINGENT AT THE 01/29 “PEOPLE VS US
STEEL” MOBILIZATION, HAMILTON ONTARIO

Since late November 2010 United Steel Workers 1005 have been locked
out of their workplace US Steel Hamilton (Stelco) for refusing a bad
deal put forward by their employer – the Pittsburgh based multibillion
dollar, multinational company, US Steel. US Steel has demanded the
union make a number of concessions and has taken aim specifically at
pensions.

900 workers and over 9000 retirees have now been forced into a fight
for their livelihoods. US Steel is attempting to exploit the current
economic downturn hoping young workers feel they have no choice but
“take the bait” accepting a deal that will shaft thousands of fellow

first printed in The Cord October 20th 2010: http://www.thecord.ca/articles/35739

In last week's Cord, it was mistakenly printed that Sterling Stutz is a former student at WLU. While this error was an honest mistake (and quickly corrected), it is not surprising it was made. There has been a complete lack of support from the WLU Students Union and administration towards students and alumni who have been the target of the G20 security apparatus.

October 15th, 2010 - October in Review I starts the show as "the smash the state report" and we visit the issue of Alex Hundert's targetting and treatment by a malicious state, including ridiculous bail offer, and a coerced acceptance of conditions. We speak of other g20 fallout, and are joined by Winnie once again discussing a whole range of issues.

Finally, we have an update of AW@L's actions of the week along with a speech delivered by stephen harper at WLU on wednesday reminding everyone not to create communities, as criminal elements have infilitrated everything!

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-10-15.mp3