Posted by admin on Dec 14th, 2012
by Krystle Alarcon
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/world/canada/report-canadas-growing-culture-exclusion
Jason Wong came from China as a refugee in 1987 to avoid aborting his child, who was conceived out of wedlock – as family law at the time persecuted unplanned babies. That baby, born in Vancouver, is now a 25-year old student who currently supports Wong, as he cannot legally work in Canada since he was given a deportation order in 1989.
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Posted by admin on Nov 7th, 2012
Monday November 26, 2012. Doors at 6:00 pm
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church
1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive)
Dinner and Childcare provided. By donation (no one turned away).
FB RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/375379869211981/
(espanol abajo)
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Posted by admin on Oct 29th, 2012
by Ter Garcia
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/10/in-spain-doctors-resist-by-healing/
Some of Spain’s hospitals and clinics have recently begun offering a new kind of public service. In an effort to defend the threatened health care system, thousands of doctors and their supporters have chosen to add civil disobedience to their practice.
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Posted by admin on Oct 15th, 2012
Sanctuary Health: United for Refugee and Migrant Health is coordinating with our friends in the Latin American community to celebrate the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). This is an event open to all members of our communities to honour our friends and family who have died. We will also be noting the death of Interim Federal Health benefits for most refugees in Canada and recent changes in Canadian law and government policy that threaten the lives and wellbeing of refugees and migrants in our communities. Please join us outside First United Church (Hastings and Gore) for a procession through the neighbourhood.
Where: Meet near First United Church at Hastings and Gore, Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
When: 6:00pm Thursday November 1
Contact: 604-446-1823
Posted by admin on Oct 12th, 2012
By Karl Nerenberg
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2012/10/right-wing-hate-roma-people-and-jason-kenneys-trip-hungary
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a tweet can be worth at least a 100 carefully crafted news releases.
Take the following tweet, for example: “…now get them the f — outta here cuz most are false asylum seekers. They had their free vacay, now it’s time to go!”
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