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Hasan Alam
Nov 26, 2012, 3:44:30 PM11/26/12
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Hey all,
There is a community supper in solidarity with immigrants and refugees happening tonight at 6:00 pm. I know it's at the same time as our meeting, but please forward the info along to anyone else that you think would be interested.
Hasan
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From: No One is Illegal-Vancouver <noii...@resist.ca>
Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Subject: [Noii-announce] Action on Tues and Community Supper Tonight
To: noi...@lists.resist.ca
Community Supper in solidarity with immigrants and refugees
with the Figueroa family as special guests.
Monday November 26, 2012. Doors at 6:00 pm
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church
1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive)
Dinner and Childcare provided. By donation (no one turned away).
The situation of the Figueroa family is part of a frightening anti-refugee trend in Canada that includes increasing deportations, mandatory detentions including for some children, fatal cuts to refugee health care, a two tier refugee system with discrimination based on nationality, and so-called safe country lists making it harder for queer refugees.
The condition for immigrants is also rapidly deteriorating with a moratorium on parent and grandparent sponsorships, heightened anti-terror and security measures, the unilateral cancellation of 300,000 immigration applications, stripping thousands of citizens of their citizenship, implementation of a niqab ban at citizenship ceremonies, slashing the quota for live-in caregivers to become permanent residents by almost 50 percent, conditional permanent residence for spouses that places women at increased risk for spousal and partner abuse, and over $50 million in cuts to immigrant services.
All of these changes are paralleled by an exponential increase in temporary migrant workers, who can legally be paid 15 percent less than the prevailing wage. The number of migrant workers, who have no rights to permanent residency and are constantly exploited for their labour, is up 30 percent. This is a model of temporariness; Canada is ensuring that migrants have no permanent rights of residency including family reunification, and instead migrants are recruited primarily as indentured labour for big business. Hundreds of refugees languish behind bars, while hundreds of thousands of temporary workers and non-status people toil in fields and factories.
Meanwhile, Canada continues to support policies of global militarism and intervention, including in Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Haiti, as well as negotiating economic trade agreements with Colombia, China, EU, India, Tanzania, and Israel that facilitates corporate plundering, environmental degradation, and displacement of people from their lands, homes, and livelihoods. Under the guise of both the ‘War on Terror’ and ‘Austerity’, there is a rush to secure borders, expand the prison and military, cut and privatize public services, extract and commodify natural resources especially on Indigenous lands, and exploit labour.
Please join us on November 26th to continue to organize and raise awareness around unjust immigration and refugee policies and their painful impacts within our communities.
Please join us for a community supper to highlight the particular struggle
of the Figueroa family - including their Canadian-born children - who are
facing deportation to El Salvador after having resided in Canada for
fifteen years. To learn more about the Figueroa family:
http://wearejose.wordpress.com/
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Program update:
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* Doors at 6 pm.
* Dinner served by 6:10 pm.
Program featuring:
* Figueroa family
* Daisy Chen of NOII and Sanctuary Health on current immigration issues
* Performances by Hari Alluri, Ruby Smith Diaz, and Cecily Nicholson
* Caroline N. Chingcuanco and Kim Villagante of Social Justice Art in
support of Jose Figueroa
* Maryam Adrangi of Rising Tide and CoC on the current austerity, and
anti-environmental/land defense agenda in the context of the War on Terror
* Hamoudi, a Palestinian refugee will be speaking about the current
Israeli attacks on Gaza, as well his personal struggle to remain in
Canada.
* Followed by breakout discussions at 7:30 pm, including:
- How you can get involved with the We are Jose campaign and Sanctuary Health
- Button-making with NOII and art table by Social Justice Art
- Strategizing concrete next steps and actions with NOII
- How can we build bridges between environmental justice and migrant
justice organizing with Ananda Tan of Rising Tide
- Discussions on growing the migrant justice movement: building solidarity
with those who are directly affected, countering growing anti-migrant
sentiments, and expanding spaces of resistance and sanctuary.
From: No One is Illegal-Vancouver <noii...@resist.ca>
Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Subject: [Noii-announce] Action on Tues and Community Supper Tonight
To: noi...@lists.resist.ca
Community Supper in solidarity with immigrants and refugees
with the Figueroa family as special guests.
Monday November 26, 2012. Doors at 6:00 pm
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church
1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive)
Dinner and Childcare provided. By donation (no one turned away).
The situation of the Figueroa family is part of a frightening anti-refugee trend in Canada that includes increasing deportations, mandatory detentions including for some children, fatal cuts to refugee health care, a two tier refugee system with discrimination based on nationality, and so-called safe country lists making it harder for queer refugees.
The condition for immigrants is also rapidly deteriorating with a moratorium on parent and grandparent sponsorships, heightened anti-terror and security measures, the unilateral cancellation of 300,000 immigration applications, stripping thousands of citizens of their citizenship, implementation of a niqab ban at citizenship ceremonies, slashing the quota for live-in caregivers to become permanent residents by almost 50 percent, conditional permanent residence for spouses that places women at increased risk for spousal and partner abuse, and over $50 million in cuts to immigrant services.
All of these changes are paralleled by an exponential increase in temporary migrant workers, who can legally be paid 15 percent less than the prevailing wage. The number of migrant workers, who have no rights to permanent residency and are constantly exploited for their labour, is up 30 percent. This is a model of temporariness; Canada is ensuring that migrants have no permanent rights of residency including family reunification, and instead migrants are recruited primarily as indentured labour for big business. Hundreds of refugees languish behind bars, while hundreds of thousands of temporary workers and non-status people toil in fields and factories.
Meanwhile, Canada continues to support policies of global militarism and intervention, including in Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Haiti, as well as negotiating economic trade agreements with Colombia, China, EU, India, Tanzania, and Israel that facilitates corporate plundering, environmental degradation, and displacement of people from their lands, homes, and livelihoods. Under the guise of both the ‘War on Terror’ and ‘Austerity’, there is a rush to secure borders, expand the prison and military, cut and privatize public services, extract and commodify natural resources especially on Indigenous lands, and exploit labour.
Please join us on November 26th to continue to organize and raise awareness around unjust immigration and refugee policies and their painful impacts within our communities.
Please join us for a community supper to highlight the particular struggle
of the Figueroa family - including their Canadian-born children - who are
facing deportation to El Salvador after having resided in Canada for
fifteen years. To learn more about the Figueroa family:
http://wearejose.wordpress.com/
---------------------------
Program update:
---------------------------
* Doors at 6 pm.
* Dinner served by 6:10 pm.
Program featuring:
* Figueroa family
* Daisy Chen of NOII and Sanctuary Health on current immigration issues
* Performances by Hari Alluri, Ruby Smith Diaz, and Cecily Nicholson
* Caroline N. Chingcuanco and Kim Villagante of Social Justice Art in
support of Jose Figueroa
* Maryam Adrangi of Rising Tide and CoC on the current austerity, and
anti-environmental/land defense agenda in the context of the War on Terror
* Hamoudi, a Palestinian refugee will be speaking about the current
Israeli attacks on Gaza, as well his personal struggle to remain in
Canada.
* Followed by breakout discussions at 7:30 pm, including:
- How you can get involved with the We are Jose campaign and Sanctuary Health
- Button-making with NOII and art table by Social Justice Art
- Strategizing concrete next steps and actions with NOII
- How can we build bridges between environmental justice and migrant
justice organizing with Ananda Tan of Rising Tide
- Discussions on growing the migrant justice movement: building solidarity
with those who are directly affected, countering growing anti-migrant
sentiments, and expanding spaces of resistance and sanctuary.
Bard Suen
Nov 26, 2012, 3:46:36 PM11/26/12
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Thanks for sending this along! Will forward this to networks.
B
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