SANCTUARY: OF PAIN AND HOPE

Join us on Saturday August 26th @ 6 PM at St. Michael’s Anglican Church (409 East Broadway- just east of Main) for a night of dinner, music, poetry, films, and presentations to honour the two-year struggle of Amir Kazemian in sanctuary. Suggested donation $5-20 and all proceeds go to Amir.

Amir Kazemian has been seeking sanctuary in St Michaels Church in Vancouver since June 2004. Amir is a survivor of torture who came to Canada and filed a refugee claim in 1997. Amir fears for his life from the Iranian authorities due to his and his father’s political activities for human rights; for which they both faced imprisonment and torture.

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“SELLING SECURITY”

A public forum with films and speakers to discuss the climate of fear, racism, repression of civil liberties, and war-making in the wake of the recent arrests of 17 young Muslim men. A critical perspective, rooted in the historic and current reality about Canadian domestic and foreign policy, is necessary so join us for speakers, films, and discussion.

THURSDAY JULY 20TH AT 6:00 PM
ROOM 2270, SFU HARBOUR CENTER, 515 WEST HASTINGS
For more information, call 778-552-2099 or email noii-van at resist.ca

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SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO NORTH!

Canada-wide Day of Action on the International Day Against Torture. Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal. Monday, 26 June 2006

IN VANCOUVER: MONDAY JUNE 26TH FROM NOON – 6 PM JOIN US FOR AN INFORMATION TABLE OUTSIDE OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CANADA OFFICES AT 300 WEST GEORGIA. 

On 24 April 2006 the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) inaugurated a new detention facility at the Millhaven Penitentiary in Ontario by welcoming its first inmates – three men who are currently being detained indefinitely without charge or trial on secret evidence that neither the detainees nor their lawyers can access. The CBSA-run prison, dubbed “Guantanamo North”, was built at a cost of $3.5 million with the express purpose of holding those being incarcerated under Canada’s ‘Security Certificate’ legislation, which allows for the indefinite imprisonment of immigrants and refugees on the basis of secret evidence and trial proceedings. Described by Amnesty International as “fundamentally flawed and unfair,” Security Certificates allow for detainees to be deported to their country of origin, even when there is a substantial threat of torture or death.

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May 27: National Day for Immigrant Rights and Status for All!
Stop the Deportations! STATUS FOR ALL!
Dignity and Justice for Immigrant Communities!

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Fredericton, Peterborough, and more…

For our poster (available in Spanish, Punjabi, Chinese, English, Arabic, Farsi) and more information: www.solidarityacrossborders.org

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Gather at 2pm
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)
In solidarity with marches in the US, please wear white.

==> Family-friendly march
==> Free charter buses will be at 12:30 pm at Kwantlen College, Surrey and 1 pm at parking lot corner Fraser and Southeast Marine Drive, Vancouver. Return 5 pm.

With historic marches with hundreds of thousands of immigrants taking to the streets in the US, grassroots immigrant groups are mobilizing for a National Day of Action this coming May 27, 2006, with demonstrations planned in several cities. Across Canada, migrants, refugees and their allies will demonstrate against the deportation and detention of migrants and refugees, for a full, inclusive, unconditional and ongoing regularization program, and for full rights and dignity for immigrant communities against racism, poverty, and criminalization.

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For Immediate Release, Friday May 19 2006

GOLDEN EAGLES FARMS MIGRANT WORKER THREATENED WITH FORCED REPARTIATION TO MEXICO FOR VOICING CONCERNS ABOUT WORKPLACE AND LIVING CONDITIONS

Human rights organizations urge federal and provincial governments and Francesco Aquilini, Co-owner of the Vancouver Canucks and Managing Director of Aquilini Investment Group with holdings in Golden Eagle Group, to rectify situation.

PRESS CONFERENCE: WEDNESDAY MAY 24 AT 10 AM
BC FEDERATION OF LABOUR OFFICES, #200 – 5118 Joyce Street

(VANCOUVER)—Marcos Baac, a Mexican migrant farm worker who was employed by Golden Eagle Farms in Pitt Meadows through a contract under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, received notice on May 9th that he would be sent back to Mexico immediately.

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