Interaction and Information

Friday May 4th 2012 - The Dominion's April in Review kicks off the Smash the State Report, which then has some G20 legal updates (from Mandy + Leah, Carmelle Wolfson's most recent "2 years later" piece with Pat Cordette, and looks into police state america a little more and how its creeping into canada more and more. We also ask folks to save the bees, watch the Coconut Revolution, and Protest Barrick!

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This looks to be a great event hosted by Common Cause KW!!

What is the Common Cause Day School?

Every year Common Cause hosts a Day School for our members, allies and other anarchists in Ontario. A day of workshops and facilitated discussions, the Day School aims to provide a space for the sharing of knowledge, skills, experience and organizing ideas. The 2012-Day School will focus on Labour Solidarity and Community Organizing, and be divided into 2 streams accordingly.

Friday April 27th 2012 - This Smash the State Report starts off with info on the re-opening of the abortion debate in Canada, then jumps into the Quebec Student strike with a critique from Stefan Christoff of Mainstream coverage, before an update of the April 28th Walk for Peace Respect and Friendship . We also introduce the discuss the Yinka-Dene alliance, their Freedom Train, and the resistance to the Northern Gateway Pipeline, look into the crackdown on Dr. Seuss in BC, the continuing censorship of federal government environmental scientists, and the gutting of the canadian environmental assessment act.

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http://wccctoronto.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/from-wallmapu-to-kanonhstaton-only-struggle-will-set-us-free-castellano-abajo/

Friday April 20th 2012 - The Smash the State Report updates on the April 28th Walk for Peace Respect and Friendship , looks into the #occupytoronto eviction of #ranoufthegoof, looks at #occupy Venezuela - Chavez style, updates us on theCanadian gov't support for #Honduran #coup government and rips apart Margret Wente's hypocritical and ill-informed att

Friday April 13th 2012 - While the show starts off with The Smash the State Report, however, the real feature of Today's show is our discussion with radical historian Luke Stewart on the upcoming Rally, Walk, and Community Celebration taking place on April 28th in Grand River Territory of the Six Nations, hosted by the April 28th Coalition (http://april28.net). This discussion looks at the the intentions of the event organisers (both indigenous and settler), respecting historical friendships and honouring our treaties (such as the Silver Covenant Chain, The Two Row Wampum, and the Haldimand Proclamation) and the resistance to the event from business interests and white citizens' councils, among other topics.

listen to the whole show:
http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-04-13-fe.mp3

listen to the rabble podcast with the April 28 Coalition

audio of the invitations for this event Indigenous Land Protectors and their Settler Allies.

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Friday April 6th 2012 - The Smash the State Report features "March in Review" from the #mediacoop - http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4418 which looked at #policebrutality against the ongoing #occupytoronto efforts, resistance to the federal budget, and much more! The Smash the state report then looks more indepth at the demonstration in Vancouver against the #NorthernGateway #pipeline, the quebec #studentstrike, and the CSIS watch efforts in Montreal. We close this first segment with a quick look at ontario's "sunshine list"

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-04-06.mp3

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At 2pm on April 28th, 2012, there will be a gathering at Edinburgh Square, a Haudenosaunee park across from the Caledonia Fairgrounds in the Township of Caledonia and then we will peacefully walk down Argyle St. to the site known as Kanonhstaton. At the site there will be a potluck, live music, games, activities and discussions to which all people – from Six Nations, Caledonia, and all other communities – are invited to attend.

Invitations to Walk for "Peace, Respect and Friendship":

From Land Protectors at Kanonhstaton: https://april28coalition.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/invitationfromlandprotectors/

From non-Native allies: https://april28coalition.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/an-invitation-from-non-native-allies-to-attend-the-april-28th-walk-and-rally-for-peace-respect-and-friendship-in-caledonia/

Lead-Up Events in KW

1. Six Miles Deep documentary showing
April 10th
7-9pm
Queen Street Commons (43 Queen Street South, Kitchener)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/258211080940405/

2. Mapping the Haldimand Tract with Phil Monture
April 20th
6:30-9:30pm
MC 2034
University of Waterloo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/185250734927167/

Getting on the free bus:
There are buses leaving from Kitchener, Guelph, Toronto, Hamilton, etc. Please fill out the form (even if you've already told me you're going).
http://april28coalition.wordpress.com/our-transportation-registration-form/

From Kitchener, we will leave around 11am and return later in the evening. We will leave from the Weber St. side of Kitchener City Hall (across of WLU Faculty of Social Work).

For more information on the April 28th Community Walk and Celebration, visit: http://april28coalition.wordpress.com/

Dick Hill and Gene Johns on being found “guilty” of mischief

April 2, 2012 - Six Nations - Dick Hill and Gene Johns, Rotiskenekete of Six Nations of the Grand River, were charged with mischief in relation to housing developments protected by an injunction granted to the City of Brantford. They were both arrested and released by the Brantford Police on conditions preventing them from going within 1.5 kilometers of any “land claim protest.” Through a year long Charter challenge, they fought that condition and Justice K.G. Lenz reduced the zone to 100m. In a criminal justice system that would silence Onkwehonwe (native) voices, these are their words.

Grassy Narrows calls on ON to fund permanent community run environmental monitoring station; 2010 study shows mercury in fish still often above safe level

Friday March 30th 2012 - The response to white power #boneheads organising in Edmonton and London is strong as hundrdeds of anti-racists and #antifa warriors drive neo-nazis back under the rock they came out from under. These actions occur as communities in Vancouver come together to march for the elimination of racial discrimination and as canadian minister of censorship and deportation Jason Kenney uses questions period to have his government attack No One Is Illegal (http://nooneisillegal.org) as "more than just a noisey protest group." This first section also includes MMC audio of the Musqeam blockade against condo developments (http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/audio/musqueam-against-condo-development-th...) and a piece from Tracy Bomberry on 6 years after the Kanonhstaton land reclamation and subsequent OPP raid on the site near Caledonia on Six Nations - Haldimand tract land.

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-03-30.mp3

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here is a press release from a great action in Montreal which targeted the canadian spy agency CSIS.

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CSIS targeted for profiling and intimidation

Montreal, 29 March 2012 – Around forty people gathered this morning outside the offices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in Montreal to 'profile the profilers'. The group photographed, recorded and questioned people entering the offices. Security agents quickly closed the doors and tightly controlled entries into the building.

Friday March 23rd 2012 - The show kicks off with a smash the state report updating us on the police murder of Micheal Eligon, and a disgusting police killer in jail, the new Israeli desert mega-prison for refugees, ongoing resistance to Shell Oil in Erris, Ireland as anti-colonial warrior Marian Price is re-jailed in Belfast. We also play a clip from the NYT Examiner reminding us of 9 years of "shock and awe" in Iraq and tell of some resilient digital pirates in Sweden. We close of the #smashthestate report with an interview with Egyptian journalist and activist Deena Gamil from the Montreal Media Co-op on the ongoing revolution in Egypt (http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/audio/ongoing-egyptian-revolution)

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-03-23.mp3

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