The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for November 21st, 2014. 1. Indigenous Women Dies in RCMP Custody. 2. Federal Prison Guards Conspired To Run Illegal Auto-Shop. 3. Thin Blue Line Breaking in Ottawa Jail Beating Case. 4. Enough is Enough! Stop targeted policing of the Jane-Finch! 5. Suspended Timmins Cop Charged With Assaulting Lover. 6. Maine’s Legendary Trooper Gets Plea Deal in Sexual Assault of 4 Year-Old. 7. Montreal Gazette Releases Biting Editorial On Police Impunity. 8. Petition to Remove Mexico From Canada’s Safe Country List. 9. Rally in Solidarity With Migrant Detainees. 10. CUPE National President Releases Video In Support of Deepan Budlakoti. 11. American Pipeline Regulator Warns Against TarSands Repurposing Projects. 12. Arrests Made At #NoPipeline Resistance on #BurnabyMountain.
Living Wage Waterloo Region (LWWR) launched its Employer Recognition Program on Tuesday November 4th, commending ten local companies for their progressive wage schemes. LWWR is a local initiative to calculate a living wage for our region and to lobby employers to adapt their pay scales accordingly...
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for November 20, 2014. 1. Waterloo Regional Police purcase 182 Tasers. 2. G20 focus: Australia tries to avoid dealing with climate change issues. 3. G20 focus: G20 snub Putin. 4. G20 focus: Old ideas, old results. 5. A new approach to the international regime: Thomas Piketty - Capital in the 21st Century.
Sunday, December 7, 2014 - 10:00 to 16:00 Where: Critical Media Lab - 44 Gaukel St, Kitchener ON (Everest College Building - across from bus station)
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for Nov. 18, 2014. 1. Indigenous mom brutally beaten by cop in her own home on Halloween. 2. Brazil’s Guarani people despair after brutal murder of female leader. 3. Fight against fracking continues in Alberta amid earthquake aftershocks. 4. Over 625,000L of oil and wastewater spill...and mainstream media ignore it. 5. Northern Gateway project moves closer to the grave as vice president resigns. 6. Canadian consulate is in the ranks of ‘win ugly’ fossil fuel lobby groups. 7. Sioux tribe deems U.S. vote in favour of Keystone XL Pipeline an “act of war”.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for Nov. 17, 2014. 1. ‘Brussels burns’ as over 100,000 march against Belgian austerity measures. 2. Colorado high schoolers protest school board censorship of curriculum. 3. LGBTQ magazine names Vladimir Putin their (bad) person of the year. 4. U.S. appeals court judge slams those who upheld same-sex marriage bans. 5. Appeals court orders Harper to restore refugee health care program. 6. New leaves of absence for caregivers now available to Ontario workers. 7. Growing movement to mandate a living wage arrives in Brantford. 8. Owner of unfinished building ordered to pay back student’s deposit. 9. WPIRG calls for support of UW prof facing Islamophobic death threats.
When: Saturday., November 22 and Sunday, December 7 201410 am to approximately 5 pm (may be earlier)
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for November 14th, 2014. 1. Man Involved in Rehtaeh Parsons Rape Will Not Serve Jail Time. 2. Toronto Cop Pleads Guilty to Child Porn and Sexual Interference. 3. Poppies To Remember the War Dead Assembled by Prisoners. 4. Canadian Cops Getting Facial Recognition Tech. 5. Growing Support Around #JusticeForDeepan. 6. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Executive VP Resigns. 7. Bringing Down The Walls in Jerusalem.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for November 13, 2014. 1. Ghomeshi-gate update. 2. 2 Liberal MPS ejected from Liberal Caucus by Trudeau. 3. Bill C36 or Safety at work, only for some women. 4. Julien Blanc “dating coach” (#ChokingGirlsAroundtheWorld). 5. Keira Knightley poses nude (with intention).
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for Nov 12th, 2014. 1. Allan Ryan Peoples community front host Christmas Dinner. 2. Craigavon Two Meeting to go ahead. 3. Hands Up Don't Shoot. 4. Dec. 10th dealing with drug problem.
Today has become a celebration of military force and propaganda for racist, imperial wars waged by western countries who are willing to commit atrocities for more political power or natural resources that are not theirs to take. This show will instead honour of those who are against the war, particularly after having served in one (or more) themselves, and all those who return alive only to be denied the support they need by the very government who sent them to kill people in other parts of the world.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for Nov. 10, 2014. 1. Indigenous elder violently arrested at Kinder Morgan protest camp in BC. 2. Activists mock facial expression ‘assault’ charge from Kinder Morgan. 3. Quebec National Assembly calls on province to review Energy East risks. 4. Ontario calls inquest into deaths of indigenous students in Thunder Bay. 5. First Nations chiefs ask for more dialogue with Ontario municipal leaders. 6. Saskatoon high schoolers organize round dance for #MMIW. 7. Protests prompt Australia to revoke visa for misogynistic ‘pick-up artist’. 8. RCMP reveals plan to build 700km surveillance between us and the U.S. 9. California voters strike a blow against the prison industrial complex.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for November 7th, 2014. 1. >3 Charged For #MMIW Blockade of HWY 6. 2. Disgraced Cop Drops Appeals - Goes Directly To Jail. 3. Mountie Refused Ambulance to Inmate who Later Died. 4. Sex Assault Stats Staggering. 5. Harper Reigns Over a 25% Surge in Food Bank Use. 6. China Ends Sprawl Over “Permanent Basic Farmland”. 7. Uprising for the 43 Disappeared Continues in Mexico. 8. Mexico Jails Molotoving Anarchists Quebecers. 9. US Sending Depleted Uranium Spraying Fighter Jets to Middle East.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for November 6, 2014. 1. Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board stiffs German authorities $20 million in tax. 2. Hundreds of Companies Seen Cutting Tax Bills by Sending Money Through Luxembourg. 3. The Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion Project fiasco. 4. Francois Hollande, Frenchman, shows up in Canada. 5. Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) the Canadian–EU proposed trade deal.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for Nov. 5th, 2014. 1. IRA attacks RUC\PSNI with Mortars. 2. Mexico Popping off. 3. Kobane. 4. Boka Harram Jail Break. 5. Where is international solidarity.
Prior to the Waterloo premier of the documentary This Changes Everything, a #NoLine9 demonstration was held in the uptown square which called on the Canadian government, the national energy board, and the Enbridge pipeline company to stop moving forward with the line 9 pipeline project until the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation has their demand for proper consultation met.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for Nov. 4, 2014. 1. Kinder Morgan slaps B.C. residents with multi-million dollar lawsuit. 2. Oil-and-gas lobbyist gives “play dirty” advice in secretly taped talk. 3. Alberta wetland contaminated with over 190,000 litres of toxic water. 4. Bay Area activists declare victory after Israeli carrier cancels all ships. 5. Apple’s CEO comes out...while 29 states could fire him for being gay. 6. Eight men jailed after a video of Egypt’s first gay wedding goes viral. 7. Tsilqot’in chiefs hanged in 1864 formally exonerated by BC premier. 8. Onigaming First Nation declares state of emergency after fourth suicide. 9. T.O. police launch investigation into Jian Ghomeshi’s career of abuse.
An interview w/ Oscar Cole-Arnal, an anti-poverty activist + progressive candidate for the position of Waterloo Regional Chair in the upcoming elections. http://www.allianceagainstpoverty.com/
On September 17, Waterloo region residents presented to council urging them to enact a municipal tar sands dilbit ban, and to honour settler treaty responsibilities to Indigenous nations.
An interview with Tings from the End Immigration Detention Network to mark one year since the migrant strike actions by detained immigrants in Ontario and Quebec.
An Interview with Deepan Budlakoti, an Ottawa-born man whose citizenship was unilaterally revoked by the Harper government, a move that was recently upheld by a federal judge
In an interview with Boots Riley of "punk-funk, Communist revolution" band, The Coup, we talk the band, bringing the revolution to art, withholding labour, hopeful organizing in Oakland and more.
An interview with Tammy, who is helping to organize the International Week for Anarchist Prisoners from August 23 to 30 with events being held at "The Tower" social space in Hamilton, Ontario.
Brayden, an organizer with Kitchener's Alliance Against Poverty, speaks about the Out of the Cold shelter and food program now that a fourth host site has backed out.
From the #DailyGRRR!, an interview with Lana, a blockader at the Dam Line 9 occupation in Innerkip. Lana talks about why blockaders are concerned about Line 9 as well as what is happening on site.
Update with Deepan Budlakoti, a target of the Harper government who, despite holding only Canadian citizenship and having lived in the country his entire life, risks deportation.
#DailyGRRR! host Rachel Avery speaks with Stephane McLachlan, the lead researcher of a study released this week about the health and ecosystem impacts of the tar sands in Fort Chipewyan.
We speak with former AW@L Radio host and long time activist Alex Hundert about what he is doing 4 years after the Toronto G20. Hint: same thing as before, but more...
An anti-gentrification tent city and week of action is ongoing in Kitchener to resist the ongoing tech sector and condo takeover of the downtown. Julian Ichim joins us in studio to talk about it.
Anti Colonialist Working Group member Julian Ichim interviews 32CSM Chairman Francis Mackey about the impacts of British Occupation on the 6 Counties in N. Ireland as well as the political resistance.
The Daily GRRR! - November 21st, 2014 - Waves Through Walls: Prison Radio
