No One Is Illegal is excited to partner with the DOXA film festival this year for the screening of Seeking Refuge.

Seeking Refuge (2008). Monday May 25 at 6:00PM. Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, corner Davie. Filmmaker Karen Cho in attendance. TICKET INFORMATION: Single tickets are $10, Festival membership (for all movies) $2. Can be purchased at select locations, online or door: http://www.doxafestival.ca/festival/tickets.html

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As you all know there has been unprecedented raids of non-status workers in Southern Ontario. CBSA is boasting this as one of their largest enforcement operations in Canadian history. Approximately 100 people are still in detention, primarily in the Greater Toronto Area district. Our allies in Toronto have requested urgent national responses to send a clear message that we are outraged and angered – that we will not remain silent as hundreds of non-status and migrant workers are being brutalized -that we will stand now before these raids escalate across the country. Actions have occured in Toronto, Edmonton, with more planned in Montreal and elsewhere.

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SATURDAY MARCH 21. rhizome cafe, 317 e. broadway

* 6:30 – 7:30 pm: artists of colour showcase. please bring $ and support their creations! (tshirts, crafts, prints, posters, art and more) Free food served during artists showcase (on us and Rhizome)
* WITH: Louis Cruz, Tania Willard, Afuwa Granger, Riadh Hashim, Angela Sterritt, Gord Hill, Kat Norris, People’s History of Kanada posters, Café Ramona and products made by Zapatista Mayan women, and more.

* 7:30 – 9:30 pm: wicked performances and inspiring words includes spoken word, storytelling, children’s songs, hip hop, comedy, musical performances, and talks! Enjoy dinner and drinks from Rhizome’s delicious menu
* WITH: George Ciccariello-Maher from OAKLAND!, Kat Norris, Aysha and Sahara, Carnegie Community Action Project Choir, Hari Alluri, Reem Alnuweiri, Ros Salvador, Sinag Bayan Filipino Cultural Collective, Priscillia Mays, Gupreet Kambo, Alaaeldin Abdalla, and Lindsay Bomberry.

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Friday, 27 February 2009 from 12-5 pm. UBC First Nations Long House. Register: environment.colonialism.justice@gmail.com

12:15-12:30: Registration and Musqueam Welcome:  Ros Campbell, Musqueam Nation, First Nations Law Students Association

12:30-2:30: Environmental Racism and the Tar Sands. Facilitator:  Gordon Christie, UBC First Nations Legal Studies; Andrea Hilland, Associate Director, UBC First Nations Legal Studies; Jada Voyageur, Fort Chipewyan First Nations; Harjap Grewal, Council of Canadians; Chiinuuks Ruth Ogilvie, Tla-o-qui-aht and Checlesaht First Nations, University of Victoria

2:45-4:45: Film Screening: “To the Tar Sands”. Facilitator: Usman Majeed, UBC Colour Connect, No One is Illegal and Director Jodie Martinson present. 

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SAT FEB 28TH from 4:30 – 7 pm. 706 Clarke Drive (between Hastings and Venables) Right on #22 or any Hastings busline
* Dinner served at 4:30 and childcare on site

We know you already know that mega-corporate industries like the 2010 Games and Tar Sands suck. But how does it affect displacement of peoples from their land, their homes, their jobs, their communities. From traditional Indigenous territories to urban ghettos, from migrant workers to low-income families, thousands are being evicted or pushed out, and once displaced many become cannon-fodder as precarious labour.

As intense policing and security measures (like 1000+ military personal in Vancouver earlier this month for training exercises!) disproportionately target the dispossessed, the ones with the wrong skin colour, the undesirables, we rise in struggle against injustice. against the ongoing occupation of this land. against the racist police state. against the exploitation of displaced migrant workers. against gentrification and so-called revitalization. For our dignity as the poor, the displaced, the colonized.

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