Community Supper and Discussion to Celebrate International Migrants Day

When: Monday Dec 19th
Where: GVBC, 1803 East 1st Avenue
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Organized by: Philippine Women’s Center, No One is Illegal, and Justicia for Migrant Workers

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December 18th has been designated as a Global Day of Action Against Racism, And for the Rights of Migrants, Refugees and Displaced People to commemorate and celebrate the struggles of migrant workers around the world (http://globalmigrantsaction.org/) Join us in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories for a community supper and participatory discussion across communities to continue to organize, to resist and to build a strong and vibrant migrant justice movement to demand dignity, justice and status for all.

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Support at Detention Hearing. Thursday, December 15th at 11:00 am. Immigration and Refugee Board Offices, 300 West Georgia Street

Nader is a 46 year old Iranian refugee who has been detained and imprisoned by Canadian Border Services Agency since 2005. Nader has spent over six years behind bars, without any substantive charges, under the jurisdiction of the Immigration Act.

His length of detention is unprecedented in Canada.

Nader has now been on a six-week hunger strike and will be appearing yet again for a detention review on Thursday December 15th at 11 am at Immigration and Refugee Board offices (300 West Georgia). He is calling on the public and allies in the anti-detention movement to bear witness to this arbitrary, inhumane, and indefinite detention hearing. No One Is Illegal attended his last hearing and he said that it was a huge boost in morale for him. (We ask supporters to please keep in mind about bearing witness and to be cautious of how our conduct will reflect/impact on him.)

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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 TO MONDAY NOVEMBER 7
2ND INDIGENOUS ASSEMBLY AGAINST MINING AND PIPELINES
VANCOUVER COAST SALISH TERRITORIES

No Mining on Native Land!
Sunday November 6th. March starts 3 pm at Vancouver Art Gallery
Monday November 7th Panel at 6:30 pm at 1803 East 1st Avenue

Full details on the Assembly below.
FB https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=262857950422244&ref=ts
Download poster here and leaflet here

The first Indigenous Assembly against Mining and Pipelines was held in Neskonlith, Secwepemc Territories. The second Indigenous Assembly is being planned in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories to coincide with the pro-mining “Meeting Minds, Making Mines” Conference being held at the Pan Pacific Hotel from November 6-8th. The conference is sponsored by mining corporations and the Canadian Aboriginal Mineral Association who want to want to “sell” and push mining further into Indigenous communities. Brochure: http://www.aboriginalminerals.com/pdfs/CAMA-2011_W.pdf

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Monday October 17th at 6:30 pm. GCBC (Grandview Calvary Baptist Church). 1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive)

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199018473501657

* Free parking at the corner of 1st and Victoria
* Light snacks provided. Childcare on-site.
* Accessibility entrance at street level, which gives access to hall, washrooms, and kitchen. The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm.

With the recent Harper Conservative majority, an omnibus crime bill is being proposed that will double the budget for policing, expand prisons, enforce mandatory minimum sentences, and focus on punitive instead of rehabilitative programs. This US-style approach will further criminalize poor people and communities of colour.

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Monday May 30. Starts at 7 pm. Cost: $20 per ticket at GCBC Lower Hall (Grandview Calvary Baptist Church) 1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive).

Accessibility info: Grandview Calvary Baptist Church’s kitchen’s entrance is at street level, which gives access to washrooms, kitchen and lower hall. The women’s washroom has a stall that can accommodate a wheelchair. The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm.

Please join us in a fundraiser to support Abousfian Abdelrazik, in active defiance of the UN 1267 sanctions regime. According to federal law implementing the 1267 sanctions regime anyone who contributes money to Mr Abdelrazik risks federal prosecution. Join the hundreds of individuals and labour unions who have decided to openly defy the unjust sanctions by making a donation to Mr. Abdelrazik (view full list here: http://www.peoplescommission.org/en/abdelrazik/supporters.php)

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