The Council of Canadians has joined with MiningWatch Canada, Rights Action and numerous other organizations in sending a letter to the Canadian government following the murders of land defenders Berta Cáceres and Nelson Garcia, ongoing threats against the Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), and the precarious situation of Mexican activist Gustavo Castro, who witnessed Berta's murder.
Supreme Court Grants Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Challenge to Line 9: Community Hopeful of Meaningful Consultation with the Crown
This episode of KW Radio Basics we talk about police impunity. Topics explored include the murder of Beau Baker by police, as well as Waterloo Regional Police Services screening police complaints of the so called independent body overlooking policing known as the OIPRD in the case of Thornton.
Badee Dwaik, a human rights defender in Palestine sits down and talks with us about the occupation of Palestine, g4s, the Oslo agreement and the need for Palestinians to control their own destiny. Badee Dwaik is the coordinator of Human Rights Defenders, and they can be contacted at defenders.human@gmail.com
Today we have a discussion with a member of our community Evalyn who is seven and goes to Silver Heights Public School.
Discussion with Cait Trainor from Ireland about the case of Seamus Daly, wrongly imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. For more info please check www.releaseseamusdaly.com
Kitchener based artist Janice Jo Lee joins AW@L Radio in studio for a discussion on her new album Sing Hey and the cross Canada tour she is embarking on.
This morning individuals have shut of the flow of oil on Enbridge’s line 9 pipeline. At 7:30 this morning, individuals used the manual hand wheel at a valve site to shut off the flow of oil through line 9 as an act of protest. They have locked themselves on site to prevent the operation of the pipeline.Line 9 is a highly contested tar sands pipeline that began shipping crude earlier this month between Sarnia and Montreal. Those involved assert that the operation of line 9 is a violation of indigenous sovereignty and treaty rights.
A summary of the "Being Queer is Not Illegal" campaign at the Federal Jail in Kitchener, and wrongfully convicted GVI prisoner Nyki Kish reads one of her new blog posts.
On KW Radio Basics we had a discussion with Francis Mackey, chair of the 32CSM on the current state of Irish Revolutionary Republicansism. Issues discussed included the coming Centenary of the 1916 uprising.
Mohammad Akbar discusses LSPIRG's "I Am Not A Costume" campaign and the negative reactions to it, from vandalized posters to online harassment. We also discuss safe space and free expression.
An interview with Holli-Lynne of the KW Solidarity Network on the ongoing campaign against Kitchener-based housing gentrifiers and rental agents Revel Development.
Today we sit and chat with Green Party member and Candidate David Weber. Weber is running in the riding of Kitchener South-Hespler and on this program issues such as poverty, the enviroment euthanasia and others are covered.
First Nations vow to protect lands and waters stating no consent means nopipelines. #NoConsentNoPipelines
Before the Friday 7pm showing of the This Changes Everything documentary at Princess Cinemas, hear Chippewas of the Thames band councilor and educator Myeengun Henry speak about resource developments and the line 9 pipeline, and Indigenous rights. 5:30pm at Waterloo Town Square
September 2, 2015 Port Hope -- Opponents of Enbridge's Line 9 Tar Sands and fracking pipelineare in Port Hope at the site of testing operations of the controversialpipeline. Enbridge is conducting newly mandated hydrostatic testing onthree segments of the 40-year-old pipeline before the company can bepermitted to pump bitumen through it. Activists maintain that this testingin no way mitigates Line 9's impacts.
Ahead of the June 16 court date for the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, we read an article from Rachel Avery and Dan Kellar discussing the federal appeal, constitutional responsibilities, third-party consultation, as well as the ongoing risks associated with the Line 9 pipeline reversal project.The piece features an interview with Myeengun Henry, of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation and an active participant in the court case against the Line 9 pipeline decision.
Ahead of the June 16th court date for the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Rachel Avery and Dan Kellar of the Grand River Media Collective have written an article for the Media Coop discussing the federal appeal, constitutional responsibilities, third party consultation, as well as the ongoing risks associated with the Line 9 pipeline reversal project.
The Daily GRRR!HEADLINES for May 1st, 2015. 1. May Day 2015 - Solidarity With Workers, Status For All. 2. Canada's Jails Fail To Prepare Prisoners for Release. 3. Canadian Prisons Torturing Prisoners With Solitary Confinement. 4. Mumia's Health Still Critical as "Mumia Gag Law" Struck Down. 5. Don't Frack Ontario! 6. Waterloo Region Kids Are Sharing Child Porn. 7. New Toronto Police Chief Defends Illegal Carding Policies. 8. Hamilton Police's "ACTION" Squad-1 Under Investigation.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for April 24th, 2015. 1. Settler Killers of Loretta Saunders Plead Guilty. 2. Montreal Woman Found Guilty For Posting a Picture of Graffiti. 3. Quebec Town Enacts By-law Against Insulting Local Police. 4. Ayotzinapa Delegation in Quebec Testifies on the Human Rights Crisis in Mexico. 5. Mining Companies To Be Targeted in Toronto. 6. #DamLine9 Blockaders Emerge From Court Unrepentant. 7. Enbridge Has Rough Week With Fines and Political Interference. 8. Marineland Animal Defense is Dead, Long Live Marineland Animal Defense! 9. Support The Tower - Hamilton's Anarchist Social Space Needs a Ramp!
This podcast is a discussion with Gary Donnelly of the 32CSM and a local IPLP organizer on a variety of issues ranging from life under occupation to internment political policing and resistance. This Podcast is a leadup to the Mayday event in Kitchener which will be held at the Downtown Community Center in Kitchener and will have distinguished speakers including The Chair of The IPLP and Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru Movement.
The Daily GRRR!HEADLINES for April 23, 2015. 1. Anti Bill C 51 Protest.2. 4 20 Celebrated. 3. Meeting to Organize to stop Bill C 51. 4. Event in Solidarity With Venezuela.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for April 17th, 2015. 1. Harper Loses Another Supreme Court Decision As Mandatory Minimums on Gun Crimes Ruled Unconstitutional. 2. Warden At Kitchener Jail Denies Media Access to Nyki Kish. 3. Hospital Visiting Hours Restricted for Mother of Man Severely Beaten on First Night in Nova Scotia Jail. 4. Reading Program in New Brunswick Jail at Risk Over Funding and Access Obstacles. 5. Racially Charged "Carding" Policies of Toronto Police Blasted by Ontario Human Rights Commission. 6. Toronto Police Release Taser Use Statistics. 7. Railway Protests Planned In Response to CN Injunction Against Anishinabe Water Ceremony.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for April 15, 2015. 1. Irish Police Ombudsman Probe PIRA Murders. 2. Raise the Minimum Wage - #FightFor15 + #15andFairness. 3. Farc-EP Mourn The loss of Eduardo Galeano.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for April 10th, 2015. 1. Vigil, Demo, and Autonomous Action Responding to Police Killing of Beau Baker. 2. Peterborough Police Facing 2nd SIU Investigation in a Week After Cop Kills Man. 3. Cop Kills Injured Worker And Mental Health Advocate Don Dunphy. 4. Seeking justice for Jermaine Carby. 5. Keeping Count of People Killed By Police in North America.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for Apr. 7, 2015. 1. Atlas of Environmental Justice e-maps eco-protests around the world. 2. N.W.T. reveal proposed fracking regulations while many seek moratorium. 3. Remote Nunavut town takes oil companies to court over seismic testing. 4. Nestle profits on California drought, selling water bottled from state aquifers. 5. Mauna Kea protest to preserve Hawai’ian mountain grows in spite of arrests. 6. UWinnipeg approves mandatory indigenous studies course for all students.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for Apr. 6, 2015. 1. Ex-foreign affairs minister leaves post to get in bed with Barrick Gold. 2. ShitHarperDid launches fundraising push for anti-Harper election campaign. 3. Bomb threat made against Columbia University’s Israeli Apartheid Week. 4. Montreal student politician files human rights complaint against colleagues. 5. Research shows econ majors more antisocial, makes a case for liberal arts. 6. Canada’s first recovery high school opens in Ontario but needs gov help. 7. Sadness, confusion, and outrage follow police shooting of Kitchener man.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for April 3rd, 2015. 1. No Justice, No Peace! Canada Wide Demos Honouring Cindy Gladue. 2. The Solitary Confinement Death Of Ashley Smith is Remembered in a New Theatre Piece. 3. Academics Call Bullshit Over Attorney General's Untrue Statements on Solitary Confinement. 4. Matt DeHart's Awful Trip Down South. 5. Mumia Hospitalised After Diabetes Remained Undiagnosed In Jail. 6. Support The Compassionate Release of Prisoner Peter Collins.
The Daily GRRR! HEADLINES for April 2nd, 2015. 1. Direct Action By Heiltsuk Force DFO to Re-Close Commercial Herring Fishery. 2. The US EPA Confirms That Toxically Diluted Tarsands Sinks In Water. 3. BC NDP MP Presents Anti-Pipeline Petition in Parliament. 4. TransCanada Drops Plans For New TarSands Export Terminal In Quebec. 5. Smashy Retaliation Against McGill For Spying on Students. 6. KW Solidarity Network Pickets At Kitchener's Revel Developments.
Dozens of Civil Society Organisations Demand Canadian Government Take Action for Berta Carceras and the People of Honduras
