By Teresa Gutierrez, Workers World, Apr. 27 2011
More than 1 million immigrants have been deported since President Barack Obama took office. One million! This is a tsunami of injustice.
Join us for a solidarity picket and flyering action outside the Australian consulate. Thursday April 28, 2011. 12pm – 1pm. Australian Counslate at 1075 West Georgia (at Thurlow) Downtown Vancouver – Coast Salish Territory
On April 20, 2011 detained asylum seekers climbed to the roof of the Villawood detention centre in protest. The next day riots were started in the detention centre by the rest of the detainees demanding justice. Three people continue to be on the roof of the detention centre. Several asylum seekers are now on a hunger strike at the Curtin detention centre in Western Australia’s north. No One is Illegal – Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories stands in solidarity with all asylum seekers in Australia. We denounce the action of the Australian government – its exclusionary immigration and refugee policies that criminalizes migrants as well as the violence of its police forces to quell migrant resistance. Join us this Thursday outside the Australian consulate in Vancouver to send a message and demand justice and freedom for all refugees. Below is a letter of solidarity from No One is Illegal – Vancouver, Coast Salish territories.
New Zealand Herald, Apr. 26 2011
Concerns are held for the health of three detainees on the roof of Sydney’s Villawood Detention Centre, as their protest enters its seventh day. “They are very weak, they are very distressed, they are very disappointed,” Social Justice Network advocate Jamal Daoud told AAP this morning, after speaking with the detainees on the phone.
The special issue on No Borders As Practical Politics has finally come out in the Canadian journal *Refuge*
You can access the entire issue here
Table of Contents
Editorial
A Note from the Editor
Sharry J. Aiken
Introduction
Editorial: Why No Borders?
Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma, Cynthia Wright
By Amy Coopes, AFP, Apr. 25 2011
SYDNEY — Australia moved to toughen its refugee stance, launching a stricter character test so those convicted of crimes, including rioting, while in immigration detention could be shipped home. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen on Tuesday said the new law, if passed by parliament, would mean any asylum seeker found guilty of an offence while in detention would automatically fail character requirements for a visa.
