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Smash the State Report: They ignore, we take action

dan kellar — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:19:07 +0000

Days of action for students (drop tuition, forgive debt) and labour (Caterpillar) 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 solidarity actions. We also look into more #deportkenney news, and the continuing and mounting disrespect from settler states towards Indigenous peoples through ignoring historic treaties.

More AW@L on the web at http://peaceculture.org - check out http://nooneisillegal.org for more info about Kenney's disgraceful behaviour.

Eco Update: Enbridge's leaky pipelines, Fukushima's radiation, and no frackin' way!

dan kellar — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:54:56 +0000

We unleash an eco update as we report on the Enbridge oil spilling company, and continued resistance against their shitty pipelines (and other ones). We jump into some info on the Fukushima nuclear disaster from http://globalresearch.ca before playing "No Fracking Way" from the @stimulator and read of a protest against hydraulic fracturing at the #winterX games.

Check out http://www.peaceculture.org for more AW@L and http://submedia.tv for more "It The End of The Word as we Know it and I Feel Fine"

Eco Update: Canadian mining destroying Indigenous communities around the world

dan kellar — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:50:25 +0000

This edition of the Eco Update on AW@L Radio jumps into mining operations in Canada and elsewhere undertaken by Canadian corporations on behalf of their capitalist owners. We look to South and Latin America for updates on continuing violence perpetrated against anti-mining activists and other community members opposed to having an ecologically devestating mine on their land. We see how far logging copanies will go to intimidate Indigenous groups and we highlight a few ways to resist mining in Canada, including getting tied up in the toothless and corrupt environmental impact assessment process (CEAA).

G20 report: Continued crackdown on dissent, demanding accountability

dan kellar — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:30:25 +0000

Our G20 report has updates from the May 2010 police slaying of Junior Manon and his family's quest for justice, 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/).

Smash the State Report: Bill C-10, CETA and decolonizing Occupy

dan kellar — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:29:16 +0000

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 Baird's hypocrisy and more. We are also saddened to announce the passing of long-term street warrior Ricky Lavaille, a Vancouver #DTES resident. And Erik is Out!

Slamming KW with poet Janice Lee

dan kellar — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000

We are joined today by KW poet and artist extraordinaire Janice Lee as she drops by CKMS (http://soundfm.ca) for discussion on the local slam poetry series and to drop a couple of new poems -- one quite against Harper, and another one on safe space.

For more information about the KW Slam Poetry Series, check: for more KW Slam check: http://www.kwpoetryslam.com/

We have a couple tunes as well from The Tra La Las, and Byron. - http://thetralalas.com

For the whole two-hour show check http://peaceculture.org/drupal/node/858

Against prisons, against Bill C-10! News from Prison Radio Land

dan kellar — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:56:43 +0000

We play a few clips from Mumia Abu Jamal, after updating his ongoing mistreatment by the injustice system since being taken off of death row. Right after the recording of this show, Mumia was finally released into the general population.

Julian Ichim and Dan discuss a piece from newsocialist.org (http://j.mp/ziRWFl) commenting on Harper's #omnibus imprisonment bill -- #C10, and Dan reads a piece from Nicole Kish, who was wrongfully convicted for second degree murder and writes from the closest prison to our radio station -- the Grand Valley Institute for Women.

For more on the Free Nyki Campaign check: http://www.freenyki.org/ - http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/canadas-tough-crime-agenda-and-its-imm...

Conspiracy of the Crowns: A G20 fallout update with Julian Ichim

dan kellar — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:38:40 +0000

G20 report

Julian Ichim joins us in studio as we read a piece from Shailagh Keaney giving us an update on the continuing fallout from anti-capitalist organizing from the Dominion (http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4318), give an update on the Adam Nobody case and discuss police impunity. We finish with a discussion about the conspiracy of the Crowns, and the ongoing criminalization of organizing in Canada.

Smash the State Report with Julian Ichim

dan kellar — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:29:08 +0000

Friday January 20, 2012 -- An extended Smash the State Report with guest co-host Julian Ichim, who reports on the SOApaRtycommittee New Year's Eve prison-noise demos, the continued growth of the security state across the Commonwealth, and London, Ontario's battle with corporate villain Caterpillar. We also read an update from the Toronto Stop the Cuts protests against the austerity of Rob Ford, and we report on the death of freestyle skier Sarah Burke.

The full 2.5 hour radio show is available at:

http://peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2012-01-20.mp3

G20 Report: Mandyland's vicious truth about the racist and colonial injustice system

dan kellar — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:27:44 +0000

On November 28, 2011, three members of the Southern Ontario Anarchist Resistance were forced to jail for their participation in organizing resistance to the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto.

And on Friday, January 13, 2012, Mandy Hiscocks was sentenced to 15 months in jail for her participation in organizing for a better world. Today's AW@L radio presents Mandy's legendary statement to the courts along with statements of love for Mandy and Co., as we start off with "the Average Joe vs. the CEO," presented by the Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Hear the statement from the 17 charged -- Regarding our Plea Deal -- https://conspiretoresist.wordpress.com/about-2/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIjEv6VtV0w

Eco Update: New year but the world still collapses

dan kellar — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:52:35 +0000

Turns out, even more Canadian NGOs are willing to suck on the industrial-colonial straw as, World University Service Canada (WUSC), World Vision Canada, and Plan Canada team up with mining companies Rio Tinto Alcan, Barrick Gold, and IAMGOLD, and CIDA to help destroy communities and Indigenous cultures around the world. We introduce a piece from the Dominion (Foreign Aid to Mining Firms: CIDA teams up with NGOs to do development work at mine sites | The Dominion) which exposes these travesties.

Smash the State Report: December in review

dan kellar — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:58:06 +0000

The Smash the State Report takes the @mediacoop's December in review, adds some comments, and then plays a bit on stopping being a racist against indigenous people, provides some info about how lesbian couples have a zero per cent rate of beating up their children, and highlights the CFRC prison radio project in Kingston.

For more from the Toronto Media Co-op, check: http://mediacoop.ca -- more from CFRC at https://cfrcprisonradio.wordpress.com/ for more from AW@L check http://peaceculture.org

Regarding his G20 resistance jailing: Adam's statement to the court

dan kellar — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:36:42 +0000

On November 28, 2011, three members of the southern Ontario anarchist resistance were forced to jail for their participation in organizing resistance to the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto. Here is a representation of Adam Lewis's statement to the court before and a message from Erik Lankin as he went in: conspiretoresist.wordpress.com/individual-statements/adam-lewis-statement-to-the-court/

For the statement from Peter Hopperton see: conspiretoresist.wordpress.com/individual-statements/peter-hoppertons-statement-to-the-court/

(De)Occupy and radicalize, your gov't is trying to kill you!

dan kellar — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:56:32 +0000

Don't rape and don't joke about rape

dan kellar — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:16:41 +0000

We present a powerful blog post:

To all those men who don't think the rape jokes are a problem:

Smash the State Report: November in review

dan kellar — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:37:29 +0000

The Smash the State Report takes the @mediacoop's November in review, adds some comments, and focuses on anti-Olympic actions and the use of Western spy-tech against the freedom fighters of Syria, Bahrain, Iran and more.

Test Their Logik releases music video denouncing Canada on Canada Day

dan kellar — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:03:21 +0000

Controversial hip-hop duo Test Their Logik released their newest music
video "No One is Illegal" today, to commemorate so-called Canada Day. The
music video, directed and produced by film-maker Amy Miller of "Wide Open
Exposure", takes a strong stand against Canadian nationalism. Demanding the
abolition of all borders while calling attention to Canada's current system
of exploiting migrant labour for its own economic gain, the song's lyrics
unravel the root causes of immigration while pointing out the genocidal and
colonial underpinnings of the Canadian state.

"We 're releasing this video on Canada Day in an attempt to rain on your
racist parades," said Testament. "Today in every city across 'Canada'

A Huck Farper song from the Tra La Las: Harper is the Root of All Evil

dan kellar — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:34:54 +0000

The Tra La Las from Kitchener-Waterloo have released a Huck Farper track (which they recorded last night) to remind people to not vote for Harper in today's election. Based on the "Money of the Root of All Evil" cover they play, this song points to the Harper government's failures and violence.

More Tra La Las:

Video for Harper is the Root of All Evil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVH9C_JWwJU

The Tra La Las myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thetralalasmusic

The Tra La Las on CBC radio 3: http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/The-Tra-La-Las

A Royal Huck Farper, MayDay preview -- Vote in the Streets

dan kellar — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:44:35 +0000

Friday April 29th 2011 -- The show is opened with some royal screwjobs and Dan reads an update on the People's Commissions 1267 Collaborators list as a feature in the #HuckFarper section of this hour long edition of AW@L Radio.

House Arrest Interview #3 -- An interview with Toronto anarchists

dan kellar — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:21:25 +0000

An interview with Toronto anarchists -- House Arrest Interview #3: Alex Hundert interview with Toronto anarchists on organizing against the police, in general and for the upcoming Toronto Anarchist Bookfair, April 15-17. The interview is accompanied by new music from The Rebel Spell.

Revolutionary words and music with hip-hop artist Testament of Test Their Logik

dan kellar — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:03:58 +0000

Now out of prison and again under house arrest, AW@L radio co-host ALex Hundert is back in on AW@L radio. This time he interviewes Testament from revolutionary hip-hop duo Test Their Logik.

Alex and Testament discuss hip-hop, community organizing, revolution, and the fucked-up-ness of the G20 police state/COINTELPRO shit that has been going on in Canada over the past 2 years (and beyond).

This podcast features tracks from Test Their Logik including the evidence in their conspiracy trial "G8/G20 Crash the Meetings," a re-mix of "Fuck the System," their new (and unmastered) track "Conspiracy Rap," and a couple of others.

Test Their Logik will be dropping a new album and going on tour across Turtle Island in March 2011.

New video: Test Their Logik's 'Conspiracy Rap'

dan kellar — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:09:32 +0000

Hip-hop duo "Test Their Logik" refuses to back down from government intimidation.The new video "Conspiracy Rap" responds to conspiracy charges with a "fuck you" to Canadian authorities.

Check the video: http://vodpod.com/watch/5761365-conspiracy-rap-test-their-logik-g20-revenge

Contact: holler@testtheirlogik.com, testamenthiphop@gmail.com

PitchEngine: http://www.pitchengine.com/testtheirlogik/hip-hop-duo-test-their-logik-r...

House arrest interviews on AW@L Radio: Anarchist rocker Will Dean

dan kellar — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:19:33 +0000

Will Dean, an anarchist targeted for G20 resistance visits Alex for an interview and to listen to Test Their Logik. Will talks about the interrogation the pigs put him thorugh and their attempts to turn our friend into a snitch, the scum of communities.

Foul language and resistance mark this entertaining episode of House Arrest Interviews on AW@L Radio.

Israeli Apartheid Week special, part 1

dan kellar — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:57:38 +0000

Dan reads a cross-section of international, national and regional news around Israeli Apartheid Week. 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 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.

Part 2 will feature Anarchists against the Wall and more militant resistance to occupation and Apartheid.

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

Rebel Fest is coming! Steel town and punk rock!

dan kellar — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:47:58 +0000

Phil D of Rebel Time Records joins us for a preview of the music which will be in Hamilton (@ This Ain't Hollywood) on March 12-13, 2011 for Rebel Fest.

Bands Featured Include The Rebel Spell, Broadcast Zero, Jeunesse Apartheid, The Rotton, and others.

Phil and Dan discuss Rebel Time Radio, working your ass off for nothing, and labour solidarity, with a pinch of syndicalism.

check out AW@L on the web http://www.peaceculture.org

Poverty still makes us sick!

dan kellar — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:02:33 +0000

As the Liberal government in Ontario continue their attacks on the poor, anti-poverty activists in Kitchener-Waterloo are rallying the community to support each other and fight austerity!

Protect the Special Diet Allowance, Raise the Rates and Promote Access to Healthy Food for Everyone!

The Ministry of Community and Social Services says "some people will stop getting an allowance." We say this is unacceptable!

Interviews with Kitchener-Waterloo-based anti-poverty activists Ian and Alison of the SPOT Collective and AW@L.

Even this concrete cage can't dampen his resolve: Another jailhouse interview with Alex Hundert

dan kellar — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:20:51 +0000

He is still in jail... :(

Since June's Toronto G20 Summit, AW@L Radio co-host Alex Hundert has spent over 5 months behind bars -- having been forcefully abducted and held captive by a system of injustice in Ontario.

He has been granted bail twice, with ridiculous and baseless re-arrests following each release; including one arrest for speaking at a university on a panel, and another arrest for allegedly sticking his tongue out at the crown attorney (or something like that...).

The crown attorneys have shown obvious bias by having Alex re-arrested twice after they failed in keeping alex locked up at the original bail hearings.

I STILL WANT MY CO-HOST BACK! FREE ALEX HUNDERT!

Strengthening Our Resolve - The WLU Tapes - Harsha Walia (3 of 3)

dan kellar — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:36:09 +0000

This is part 3 of 3 from the recording of "Strengthening our resolve after the G20: Movement building and ongoing resistance to the G20 agenda", which was a panel discussion which took place at the WLU faculty of social work on September 17th 2010.

full talk:
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-12-31-strengthen...

Strengthening Our Resolve - The WLU Tapes - Lindsay Bomberry and Ojistar:yo (2 of 3)

dan kellar — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:18:13 +0000

This is part 2 of 3 from the recording of "Strengthening our resolve after the G20: Movement building and ongoing resistance to the G20 agenda", which was a panel discussion which took place at the WLU faculty of social work on September 17th 2010.

full talk:
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-12-31-strengthen...

Strengthening Our Resolve - The WLU Tapes - Alex Hundert and Humera Javed (1 of 3)

dan kellar — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:54:26 +0000

This is part 1 of 3 from the recording of "Strengthening our resolve after the G20: Movement building and ongoing resistance to the G20 agenda", which was a panel discussion which took place at the WLU faculty of social work on September 17th 2010.

full talk:
http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/radio/aw@lradio-2010-12-31-strengthen...