anti-racist

Friday October 28th 2011 - A shortened episode of AW@L radio looking at Canada's ten years of occupation in Afganistan. We also talk about racism and play a super great interview from the amazing Juliet Belmas.

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2011-10-28.mp3

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

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 January 14th 2011 - We one up last weeks show by actually having Alex's voice as we look at the racist, xenophobic and anti-immigrant bill C-49, communities of support and unity, and environmental destruction on the west coast and in the north (and the strong Indigenous resistance to any more of it).

All that and more on this edition of AW@L Radio!

http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2011-01-14.mp3

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

Christie Blatchford blocked from speaking in KW by Anti-Racist Action

First posted on the toronto media coop:
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/spectre-ara/5123

photo: Nick Lachance - Cord Weekly

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.

June 25 2009 - Solidarity with Six Nations: Audio from the rally against the Caledonia militia, and an interview with Steve "Boots" Powless at the Pine Ridge Tobacco shop. Also, Pt.2 of Adil Charkoui's talk at UW on June 17.
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-June25-09.mp3