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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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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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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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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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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Friday March 9th 2012 - This show features an #ACAB smash the state report looking at the international day against #policebrutality, including actions in #kitchener and #montreal. A second #smashthestate presents a little more on the quebec student strike, then we jump into Dick Cheney being scared away from Canada as he is a War Criminal and he thinks he will be arrested here. this announcement follows aggressive non-violent actions taken against Cheney the last time he came to Canada when a human blockade disrupted the event.

Friday March 9th 2012 - This show features a smash the state report featuring the 130,000+ student strike in quebec, the #mediacoop's February in review, hacktivisting, and more! This is followed by an indepth conversation with recently released AW@Ler Adam Lewis on prison and continuning the struggle. We also feature a full #ACAB report including an update from the Coalition Justice for Levi Schaffer (http://www.justiceforlevi.org/).

Adam joins the conversation during the Eco and Indigenous Resistance update where we see continued impunity from Barrick Gold - #stopbarrick - and unwavering resistance from Cheif Donny Morris of KI in the face of threats of armed invasion by mining intrests - http://kilands.org - all this and more on AW@L Radio!!

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-03-09.mp3

Friday March 2nd 2012 Radical historian Luke Stewart joins the show for a discussion on the complicity and the roles of the canadian government in acts of torture to Canadian citizens and others. We discuss the case of Abdullah Almalki who survived months of torture and of his speaking tour with Matthew Berens (resisting rendtion). We jump into the implications of using toruture, and information gained thorugh the use of torture in the international "intelligence" community.

The second half of the show is a Smash the State Report with G20/injustice news about Kelly Pflug Back, the launch of the People's Commission Don't Talk Don't Cooperate with CSIS campaign, continuing resistance to destructive capitalism/colonialsim around the world (HWY blockade in Quebec, 100 000 000 strike in India, Honduran plantation occupation), and more!!

We play the entire new album from Star Fuckin Hipsters - From the Dumpster to the Grave during the first half of the show!

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-03-02-lukeCSISsmash.mp3

Friday February 24th 2012 - A whole bunch of interesting news from across the spectrum of resistance, then a feature on Vic Towes and the twitter campaigns #tellviceverything + @Vikileaks30 and the efforts to #stopC30 + #stopC11, 2 bills that will limit internet freedom in canada. "You want our info Vic, well we will get yours...."

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-02-24-fe.mp3

Friday February 17th 2012 - An #ACAB report looking at the police as a rotten institution and not just a few bad apples, followed by the launch of the DouchBag Collective - a focus on the conservative cabitnet minsters and their incompetence. We also look into continued resistance and repression in Northern Ireland, hear an interview against tar sands oil pipelines from Indigenous land protectorToghestiy

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-02-17.mp3

Friday February 3rd 2012 - Days of action for Students (drop tuition, forgive debt) and Labour (catepillar) in Canada as #Occupy Oakland attempts, unsuccessfully, to take an abandoned convention hall to use as a social space and for lodging. The vicious attack by the police in oakland sparked continent wide solidarty actions. We also look into more #deportkenney news, and the continuing and mounting disrepect from settler states towards Indigenous peoples through ignoring historic treaties.

We also unleash the first eco-update in a while as we report on the Enbridge oil spilling company, and continued resistance against their shitty pipelines, and other canadian mining oeprations. We jump into some info on the Fukashima nuclear disaster from http://globalresearch.ca before playing "No Fracking Way" http://submedia.tv and read of a protest against hydraulic fracturing at the #winterX games.

Some tunes and more!

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-02-03.mp3

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