Check Your Head is a youth-driven nonprofit organization working with young people to take action for social & environmental justice.  Working together with No One Is Illegal, a grassroots anti-colonial migrant justice group with leadership from members of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds, we are excited to announce a new workshop – and we’re looking for volunteer facilitators!

How can I get involved?

We’re looking for youth with direct experience of migration and migrant issues to lead workshops with school and community groups. In addition to leading workshops, volunteers will also take part in a weekend of facilitation training. Youth of all genders, abilities, backgrounds, of any status, and LGBT2IQ folks are encouraged to apply. You must be available January 24 & 25th to participate in a mandatory facilitation training.

Send a statement of interest (max. 500 words) to aleks@checkyourhead.org by noon on January 2nd.
Tell us why you’re passionate about migrant justice, and what issues are important to you!

The moratoria on deportations to Haiti and Zimbabwe have just been lifted:

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=index&crtr.page=1&nid=910599

This means thousands of folks face removal orders very very soon. according to the Canadian Council of Refugees, there are 3200 Haitians living in Canada who are affected, and 300 Zimbabweans.

Noii and other migrant justice groups nationally are trying to get more info, setup a way to reach out and let people know and respond and support, in the meantime please spread this basic info around as thousands of removals are likely

http://ccrweb.ca/en/lifting-moratoria-haiti-and-zimbabwe

Calling for access to transportation without fear! Stop transit police collaboration with CBSA!

December 14th, 4 PM, Main Street Skytrain Station

https://www.facebook.com/events/793591157350925/

This vigil marks the one-year anniversary of Lucia Vega Jiménez’s detention. Please join us at Main Street Skytrain Station where Lucia was first stopped because she did not have fare.

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(en español abajo)
https://www.change.org/p/conservative-government-remove-mexico-from-the-refugee-list-of-safe-countries

The Canadian government considers Mexico, its North American Free Trade Agreement partner, a safe country for refugees.

Since the 2012 Refugee Exclusion Act, Mexico and forty other countries have been placed on the “Designated Countries of Origin” list. Refugee claimants from these countries face a different legal system: they have fewer rights and the timelines for their claims are shorter. This enables Canada to fast-tracks deportations to these countries.

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Wednesday October 15th from 6:00-8:00
YWCA 733 Beatty St, Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1469256423338435/

Every day in the Greater Vancouver area, at various skytrain stations and bus stops, transit police check fares and issue tickets. And every day, some of those people who cannot show proof of purchase are reported to Canada Border Services Agency.

Three hundred and twenty eight people were reported to CBSA by Transit Police last year, one-in-five of whom faced a subsequent immigration investigation. One of these people was Lucia Vega Jiménez, who later committed suicide in a detention center.
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