EMERGENCY RALLY

Thursday April 6
12:30 pm at Canadian Border Services Agency
333 Dunsmuir, Vancouver

In a move that broke major headlines last week, Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) closed Dufferin Mall in Toronto last Sunday and demanded shoppers produce status papers as buses waited outside to detain and deport those who could not produce papers. This racist attack targeted primarily Latin Americans and is part of a mass deportation in Toronto carried out by Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) over the past few weeks. Deportees were flown out on two airplanes in the past two weeks.

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RALLY TO STOP THE THE FOOLS ON THE BORDER
Stop the Minutemen Project!

Saturday April 1st 10:00am-4:00pm
Peace Arch State Park in Blaine, WA

CONTINUED RESISTANCE TO BORDER VIGILGANTES AND REPRESSIVE BORDER POLICIES

No One is Illegal-Vancouver denounces and completely opposes the Minutemen Project and we affirm that this opposition will continue to grow and that we stand united against and will not tolerate any such activity on the Canadian side of this border.

Just yesterday, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, and Presidents Bush and Fox announced a renewed commitment to what they term “border security” and cutting down on so-called “illegal immigration”. This is all coming at a time, when already, tens of thousands have taken to the streets in the U.S. to protest HR 4437 which would increase border militarization, indefinite detentions removals and make the act of not having status a felony by U.S. law.

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n a t i o n a l   ( i n ) s e c u r i t i e s

…. An evening of cultural resistance with our community of courageous poets and word warriors performing staged readings of Kafka’s The Trial, readings of statements from detainees in the War on Terror, along with poetry readings and spoken word performances….

Hari Alluri * Chin Banerjee * Nadine Chambers * Charlie Demers * Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance * Junie Desil * Phinder Dulai * Raul Gatica * Fiona Jeffries * Aziz Khaki * Katsumi Kimoto * Marge Lam * Cecily Nicholson * Carmen Rodriguez * Tom Sandborn * Ange Sterritt * Itrath Syed * Marcus Youssef

“There can be no doubt—said K.  that behind all the actions of this court of justice, that is to say in my case, behind my arrest and today’s interrogation, there is a great organization at work. An organization which not only employs corrupt warders, oafish Inspectors, and Examining Magistrates of whom the best that can be said is that they recognize their own limitations, but also has at its disposal a judicial hierarchy of high, indeed of the highest rank, with an indispensable and numerous retinue of servants, clerks, police, and other assistants, perhaps even hangmen…”  -The Trial

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“Dirty Pretty Things”

Tuesday February 21 @ 7 pm. SFU Harbour Center Room 2270. Free admission / by donation. Info: noii-van@resist.ca/ 778-552-2099

“Dirty Pretty Things”
Written by Steven Knight and Directed by Stephen Frears 2002, 97 minutes

The startling reality of the politics of immigration and the precariousness of employment for undocumented workers, particularly for young women, reaches high drama in this “political thriller” blockbuster. With its look at the undocumented working community, Dirty Pretty Things focuses fairly well on the topic. The movie occasionally goes into sensationalistic territory, but does so in a low-key, non-exploitative manner. 

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Anti racism workshop series at SFU

A series of three interactive Anti-Racism workshops organized by Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group, SFU Women’s Centre, SFU’s Out-On-Campus, and African Carribean Heritage Students Association. Facilitated by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver.

The workshops will explore racism and several themes including colonization, migration, white privilege, globalization, intersections with gender and sexuality, institutional racism within media and education, and the application of anti-racism to organizational practice
and process.

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