No One Is Illegal Radio 2006 ARCHIVE

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL RADIO – 2006 ARCHIVE

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#001: MAY 9, 2006

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Our first show! Excerpts include:

LATIFA CHARKAOUI: Latifa is the mother of Adil Charkaoui, who was arrested and detained without trial on a security certificate in 2003. This excerpt is her testimony at the People's Commission into Immigration "Security" Measures in Montreal. (3:13)

ARNOLDO GARCIA: Arnoldo is an organizer with the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights in Oakland, California. In this live phone interview, he speaks about the immigrant justice mobilizations in the USA. (7:35)

KAHEHTI:IO: Kahedio is a Mohawk youth activist from Kahnawake. He was arrested and detained at the Six Nations Land Reclamation, after a police raid on April 20, 2006. He refused to recognize the authority of the colonial courts and was eventually released from custody without charge after several days of detention. (7:44)

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#002: JUNE 13, 2006

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This month's No One Is Illegal radio show focusses on the struggle against security certificates and secret trials. Excerpts include:

SHERENE RAZACK: Sherene is the author of "Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms" and "Dark threats and white knights: The Somalia affair, peacekeeping and the new imperialism." We play her testimony from the People's Commission into Immigration "Security" Measures. (11:01)

HASSAN ALMREI: Hassan has been detained without charge since October 2001, one of the Secret Trial Five. For almost four years he was held in solidarity confinement, and he has undertaken several long-term hunger strikes to obtain basic rights while in prison. (9:17)

KAREN COQ: Karen is an organizer with No One Is Illegal-Kingston, and is active in mobilizing against the "Guantanamo North" prison at Millhaven, near Kingston, Ontario. (8:48)

AMIR HODHOD: Amir is a refugee from Egypt, active with the Worker's Solidarity Network and Solidarity Across Borders in Montreal. We play an excerpt of a speech by Amir outside the offices of Immigration Canada, just three days before a scheduled deportation on April 3, 2006.

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#003: JULY 11, 2006

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July 11 marks the anniversary of the 1990 police invasion of the Kanehsatake Mohawk Territory. The July No One Is Illegal radio show highlights indigenous resistance across "Canada". The show includes:

- An interview with HAZEL HILL of Six Nations, spokesperson for the Land Reclamation near Caledonia, Ontario. Since February 28, 2006, Six Nations people and their supporters have blocked further construction by Henco Industries on their land, saying they will stay until jurisdiction and title over the land is properly restored to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. (19:42)

The Land Reclamation continues; for more
information: http://www.reclamationinfo.com or
http://sisis.nativeweb.org/index.html

- An interview with KAHENTINETHA HORN of Mohawk Nation News (MNN), and an elder from the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. Kahentinetha reflects on the July 11 anniversary of the police invasion at Kanehsatake in 1990 (the so-called Oka Crisis). Kahentinetha, with her daughters, was directly involved in the resistance at Kanehsatake. (20:17)

For background to the events of 1990, consult:
http://www.kanesatake.com/heritage/crisis/index.html

- An interview with ROBERTA KEESICK of the Grassy Narrows indigenous community in Northwestern Ontario. Roberta is a trapper and grandmother, as well as a blockader against the clear-cut logging of Grassy Narrows territory. The blockade began in December 2002, and is the longest standing indigenous blockade in Canadian history. (20:50)

For background to the struggle at Grassy Narrows, consult: http://freegrassy.org or http://friendsofgrassynarrows.com/

Music on the July 2006 show by BLACKFIRE: http://www.blackfire.net

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#004: August 8, 2006

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This month, No One Is Illegal Radio contributes to CKUT's special programming for Prisoner Justice Day, with a focus on immigration and detention. This month's show includes recorded presentations and interviews with:

ARASH ASLANI: Arash, a refugee from Iran, was a detainee at the Laval Immigration Prevention Center near Montreal for 10 months. He speaks out about the conditions at the detention center, and his experiences as a migrant in Europe and Canada. At any one time, there can be upwards of 100 detainees at the Laval Immigration Prevention Center. Arash continues his struggle for status in Canada. (14:04)

TERESA HAYTER: Teresa is an activist and writer based in England. She is the author of "Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls" (Pluto Press 2004), and has been an organizer of the Campaign to Close Campsfield (an immigration detention center near Oxford, England) for over a decade. Teresa speaks about current campaigns against detention in Britain, and the case for abolishing all detentions centers (as well as the inherently racist nature of all immigration controls). (16:27)

More info about the Campaign to Close Campsfield, and anti-detention struggles in Britain is available at:
http://www.closecampsfield.org.uk and
http://www.barbedwirebritain.org.uk

AARTI SHAHANI: Aarti is an immigrant rights organizer based in New York City. She is the co-founder of Families for Freedom, a multi-ethnic defence network by and for immigrants facing and fighting deportation, comprised of immigrant prisoners, former immigrant prisoners, their loved ones and individuals at risk of deportation. Aarti speaks about current campaigns against detentions and deportations in the United States. (21:31)

More info about Families for Freedom is available at:
http://www.familiesforfreedom.org

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#005: October 10, 2006

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The October 2006 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio focuses on the struggles of queer and LGBT people in the Middle East, as well as efforts to launch a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel.

On this month's show, you will hear from:
-> RASHA MOUMNEH of Helem; Helem is a LGBT group based in Beirut, Lebanon. (7:39)
-> NAY of Aswat in Palestine; Aswat is a Palestinian Lesbian group. (25:49)

Both Rasha and Nay were speakers at "Out Against the Occupation" events in Montreal. Out Against the Occupation is a Montreal-based queer and LGBT response to the recent Israeli aggression against Lebanon and the ongoing occupation of Palestine.

Also, we hear from:
-> RAFEEF ZIADAH, of the Sumoud Political Prisoner Solidarity Group and the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) in Toronto (22:26)

Rafeef speaks at the opening of the "Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle
Continues" conference (October 6-8 in Toronto) dedicated to promoting the growing anti-apartheid movement in Palestine and abroad through a comprehensive boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israeli apartheid.

For more info:
Helem: http://www.helem.net
Aswat: http://www.aswatgroup.org
Sumoud: http://sumoud.tao.ca
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid: http://www.caiaweb.org

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#006: November 14, 2006

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On this month's edition of No One Is Illegal Radio, we hear from two organizers and activists based in the New York City area, Ashanti Alston and Biju Mathew:

-> ASHANTI ALSTON OMOWALI: Ashanti is an anarchist activist, a former political prisoner, and member of the Black Panther Party; he is the former
northeast coordinator for Critical Resistance, a current co-chair of the National Jericho Movement to free U.S. political prisoners and a member of pro-Zapatista people-of-color U.S.-based Estación Libre. (31:39)

For more info:
http://www.anarchistpanther.net/
http://www.criticalresistance.org/
http://www.illegalvoices.org/

-> BIJU MATHEW: Biju is originally from Hyderabad, India. For the past decade, he has been an organizer with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents thousands of predominantly immigrant taxi drivers. He is also the author of "Taxi: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City" and active with the Campaign to Stop Funding Hate. (29:41)

For more info:
http://www.nytwa.org/
http://www.samarmagazine.org/
http://stopfundinghate.org/

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#007: December 12, 2006

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On this month's edition of No One Is Illegal Radio, we hear directly from the voices of supporters fighting against injustice on behalf of their family members.

-> We speak with both TRUDY MILLER and ANGEL SMITH, mother and cousin of indigenous political prisoner Trevor Miller. (29:53)

Trevor has been in preventive custody for more than four months, since August when he was arrested at a blockade at Grassy Narrows. Trevor has been referred to as the "Forgotten Warrior" because his situation was not publicly known for several months, until a letter he wrote his mother was published in a local Six Nations newspaper.

-> We also speak with KHADIJA BENNIS, the twin sister of Mohamed Anas Bennis who was killed by Montreal police last December 2005. (29:09)

Mohamed Anas Bennis left a neighbourhood mosque, just minutes from his home, after early morning prayers on December 1, 2005. He was shot by Montreal police. Bennis is alleged to have tried to stab a cop and was shot twice and killed. Bennis' family is adamant that the allegations against
Mohamed are ludicrous. In the words of one sister: "The idea of Mohamed Anas walking around with a kitchen knife as he left mosque on the morning on
December 1, there is no way we're going to swallow a story like that. We'd do better to believe in Santa Claus!" The mystery and secrecy surrounding this Anas killing reinforces the belief by many in the Montreal community that Mohamed Anas Bennis was killed by police in a case of racial profiling.

For more information about SIX NATIONS, please consult the resource site by Autonomy and Solidarity for background and more links:
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/2012

For information about the MOHAMED ANAS BENNIS case: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2006/12/le-cas-de-mohamed-anas-bennis.html

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