Watch our 30-sec promotional vides for the upcoming march to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. Thank you to Isaac Oommen and Alejandro Zuluaga for the videos! The march is on Sunday March 20th at 2pm at Waterfront Skytrain Station. Details on the march here.
Video: Self-determination and end all racist wars and occupations!
By Douglas Quan, Postmedia News, Mar. 9 2011
One Tamil migrant out of the hundreds who came ashore in B.C. last summer was ordered deported Tuesday after he was found by the Immigration and Refugee Board to have been a member of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from 1991 to 1996. During that time, the man — who can only be identified as B189 due to a publication ban — joined the Tamil Tigers’ naval wing and engaged in a three-hour battle with a Sri Lankan ship, during which he was shot in the leg, said IRB spokeswoman Melissa Anderson, who attended Tuesday’s hearing.
Vancouver Sun, Mar. 8 2011
The Immigration and Refugee Board ordered the release of a Tamil migrant Monday, just days after he was cleared of being a security threat to Canada. The man’s lawyer said the ruling raises questions about the strength of the government’s assertions that some of the 492 migrants who arrived on B.C.’s coast last summer aboard the MV Sun Sea are suspected terrorists.
Put a thousand activists at the gates of Australia’s most notorious refugee detention centre and leave the cops in the pub then things are bound to happen, but no one expected the fences to come down so easily.
“..High adrenaline…Supercharged.” – New York Times
“A nonstop, frenzied verite account of the assault on Australia Woomera detention facility on Good Friday 2002, by 1000 Australia activists.” – Newsday.com
“Three documentaries were show-stoppers at HRWFF… One is Pip Starr’s Through the WIre, set outside an Australian refugee camp. Starr’s incredible footage of activists freeing inmates from behind fences and razor wire is a testament to organized resistance, to the sheer physical power of people to raze tangible barriers to freedom.” – Film Journal International
CBC News, Mar. 4 2011
A former Surrey, B.C., border guard found guilty of sexually assaulting three women while he was on duty has been sentenced to two years less a day in jail. A B.C. Supreme Court judge in New Westminster also sentenced former Canada Border Services Agency agent Daniel Greenhalgh to three years probation. Crown prosecutor Winston Sayson said the sentence sends a strong message to people in positions of authority.
