| A quick rundown of the week's news -- ranging from student and labour strife to dishonouring treaties, to occupying everything!

| We report on the Enbridge oil spilling company and continued resistance against their pipelines, provide some info on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and read a protest against hydraulic fracturing.

| 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.

| 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.

| We are joined by KW poet and artist extraordinaire Janice Lee for discussion on the local Kitchener-Waterloo slam poetry series and to drop a couple of new poems.

| An update about Mumia Abu Jamal, a note from Nyki, wrongfully imprisoned in the Grand Valley Institute for Women, and a discussion about Bill C-10, Harper's #omnibus imprisonment bill.

| 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.

| 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.

| Canadian NGOs work for the violent colonial state even as Harper continues to reduce the ability of Environment Canada to protect the environment.

| The Smash the State Report takes the @mediacoop's December in review, adds some comments, highlights the CFRC prison radio project in Kingston, and more!