Posted by admin on Jul 5th, 2008
Wednesday, July 16th @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am. Federal Court Building. 701 West Georgia Street on the 3rd floor
This is a critically important security-related situation that requires your support. Please come out! A recent June 2008 report reveals that thousands of refugees in Canada are living in legal precarity and limbo due to security checks and processes. The ever-expanding security apparatus is less about protecting society than it is about creating a culture of fear and stigmatization in the post 9/11 climate.
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Posted by admin on May 17th, 2008
SUNDAY JUNE 1 AT 2 PM. RALLY AT SURREY IMMIGRATION OFFICES
Located in Centralcity Shopping Centre (north entrance by SFU Surrey Tower). 1 short block from Surrey Central Skytrain Station!
@Â 13450 102nd Avenue SurreyÂ
Join us in an action to call for the scrapping of Bill C-50! Demand justice and dignity for migrants- No One Is Illegal!
Recently the Conservative government introduced a series of amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act buried in Bill c-50, the budget bill. This undemocratic move sneaks in critical changes to immigration policy without proposing any of those changes before Parliament.
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Posted by admin on May 17th, 2008
¡Rechaza ser invisible! Únete a la lucha contra leyes inmigratorias racistas.
Miércoles, 28 de mayo, 7p.m. Mount Pleasant Neighborhood House. 800 East Broadway (esquina Prince Albert). En Español (traducción disponible).
Con la propuesta ley C-50, el gobierno canadiense quiere hacerlo aun mas difÃcil para los emigrantes entrar en Canadá. De partida, rechazamos el pensamiento que algunos emigrantes valen más que otros. Nosotros creemos que el movimiento libre de las personas es un derecho humano fundamental y luchamos por un mundo en que nadie está forzado a migrar contra su voluntad y en que la gente puede mudarse libremente para poder vivir y crecer con justicia y dignidad.
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Posted by admin on May 17th, 2008
All out to protest Immigration and Citizenship Minister Diane Finley!
TUESDAY MAY 20. SURREY: 9:15 am @ Sheraton Guildford (15269 – 104 Avenue, Surrey)
From Vancouver: Gather at 8:15 am in South East corner of Safeway Parking Lot, Corner Commercial Drive and Broadway.
*** Transport to Surrey provided- if you have access to a vehicle please email harjap@resist.ca or call 778 552 2099
As part of the Conservative government’s frantic efforts to appease immigrant communities about Bill C50 and to attempt a positive media spin on the fundamentally unjust and racist Bill C50, Diane Finlay will in Surrey on Tues May 20th.
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Posted by admin on May 10th, 2008
refuse to be invisible! join the fight against racist immigration laws
TAKE ACTION AGAINST BILL C-50. NO TO REPRESSIVE IMMIGRATION CONTROLS!
TUESDAY, MAY 13TH @ 5 P.M. meet outside BURRARD SKYTRAIN STATION (corner Burrard and Dunsmuir)
WHAT IS BILL C50?
/arbitrarily reject/ an immigration application, even if it meets criteria/ have the power to issue restriction quotas on the category and the country of origin of people/ control the order in which applications are processed/ simply hold on to, return or throw out a visa application.
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