Smash the State Report: Indigenous resistance and Quebec student strike
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Podcast
Show Notes:
Friday April 27, 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 [11], before an update of the April 28th [12] Walk for Peace Respect and Friendship [13]. 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 B.C. [14], the continuing censorship of federal government environmental scientists [15], and the gutting of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act [16].
We then look at the the attack on Indigenous in the Amazon [17] by loggers, the gathering of 40,000 Norwegians against fascist racism [18], then two stories on Canada's increasingly racist and restrictive immigration and refugee system. The first is the story of a Mexican refugee claimant who was deported to Mexico from Canada last year and later murdered [19]. The second is of the targetting of Roma refugee [20] claimants from so-called "safe countries" in Europe for rejection.
Finally, we discuss the Ontario NDP saving the provincial budget by selling out the poor, federal bureaucrats living in luxury [21], and we finish with a tie for the "taze of the week" between the arrest of a 6 year old at school, and a search of a 4 year old at an airport for hugging her mom.
And this show finishes up with the announcement of Julian Ichim's $4-million lawsuit against the Toronto police and others for the political policing undertaken against anti-poverty, anti-capitalist, and anti-G20 organisers, including himself. Check http://julianichim.wordpress.com [22] for more info
- Check http://april28.net [12] for more information about the upcoming rally, walk and community celebration in Caledonia and @Kanonhstaton [23], Southern Ontario.
This is a weekly 2-hour radio show AW@L Radio on CKMS 100.3 http://soundfm.ca [24] from 16:00-18:00 on Fridays.
Check the whole episode: here [25]