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This is a portion of a blog written by Julian Ichim regarding his G20 court case.

This week, Smash the State on AW@L Radio includes discussion of the omnibus crime bill, the Canada-EU trade deal, anti-racism, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, decolonizing the Occupy movement and more.

Our G20 report includes updates from the May 2010 police slaying of Junior Manon and his family's quest for justice, the call for police accountability and a crackdown on another anti-police blogger.

An extended Smash the State Report with guest co-host Julian Ichim, who reports on the SOApaRty committee New Year's Eve prison-noise demos, the continued growth of the security state and more.

G20 police state target Julain Ichim joins us for an update on G20 legal cases and continuing resistance to capitalist imperial rule. When organizing is a crime, organize!

G20 political prisoner Mandy Hiscocks writes about the parole system in prison and why she won't be applying.

What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the U.S. became unpalatable. Universal health care. A good record on the environment. But that was the old Canada.

The trial of a Montreal man who was arrested after taking photos of undercover police will be heard in court later this week. Scott Weinstein was arrested on July 1, 2010, during a Montreal march.

It's Sunday, January 22, and this is my 10th day. So far things are going well, there haven't been any problems and I have no regrets about my decision to do this time.

Investigations into policing issues during the Toronto G20 summit continue, more than two years after the demonstrations occured.

As others have said, I don't think of Hiscocks as going to jail; I think to myself that another community is just borrowing her for a while.

G20 protest organizer and activist Mandy Hiscocks writes her first dispatch from jail.

On 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.

On Friday, Jan. 13, Mandy Hiscocks was sentenced to 16 months in prison for her participation in G20 protest organizing. During the sentencing hearing, she made this statement to the court.

Featuring reflections from activists who helped organize the mobilizations, demonstrators and passersby, Whose Streets offers insight on how local organizing and global activism can come together.

A few songs accompany Adam Lewis's statement to the court as he was sentenced for his participation in community resistance to colonial capitalism.

The Smash the State Report takes the @mediacoop's November in review, adds some comments, and talks security.

These are our friends, our community. On November 22, I stood in Occupied St. James Park and I, and a few hundred others said together: Leah, Mandy, Alex, Peter, Erik, Adam, we will not forget.

Three days after starting to blog about his experience at the G20 and with undercover infiltration, activist Julian Ichim was ordered by the OPP to remove a blog post.

Group statement by 17 people charged with conspiracy during the G20 regarding a plea deal.

rabble.ca joined the G20 protests, not only blogging from the streets and from inside the summit, but capturing and sharing images, podcasting and live-tweeting the events as they unfolded.

A poll of some of the great protests in Canadian history -- and what happened because of them.

On this week's episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with the Media Committee of Occupy Hamilton on the origins and importance of the Occupy movement, and what Occupy Hamilton hopes to achieve.

Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus finally gets Tony Clement to answer questions on the G8 spending scandal.

I can't help but compare the Occupy Wall Street protests to the movements that sprang up against corporate globalization at the end of the 1990s, most visibly at the WTO summit in Seattle.