By Shireen Soofi on December 18, 2013

On International Migrants Day, my heart feels heavy but beats strongly for the immense resilience of countless individuals crossing borders that rip apart families, and deny the building and rebuilding of home.

I am reminded by the “local” sign on the fruit stand of the migrant workers who feed us and the strong women who care for elders and children but are denied minimum wage, limited work hours and the benefits of “citizenship” after years of work, life and even government taxes.

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Bring the NOIIse!

An extravaganza to celebrate 10 years of No One Is Illegal-Vancouver Unceded Coast Salish Territories

WHEN: SUNDAY DECEMBER 15TH @ 1-5 PM
LUNCH served at 1 pm, EVENT from 2-5 pm

Please RSVP so we have # estimates for food:
https://www.facebook.com/events/654064921282986/

WHERE: BONSOR COMMUNITY CENTER, 6550 Bonsor Avenue
(one block from Metrotown Skytrain Station)
Burnaby, Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, Squamish, Sto:lo, and Tsawwassen nations)

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Land is Life: Indigenous Defenders Speak!

Monday December 16th. Door at 6:00 pm, Event at 6:30 pm
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, 1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive).
Unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.

Indigenous land defenders from across the interior and north will be converging in Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories in a few weeks for the Tsilhqot’in Mass Dance Ceremony on Dec 13 (https://www.facebook.com/events/399603263506395/) and Bring the NOIIse: A celebration of 10 years of NOII on Dec 15 (https://www.facebook.com/events/654064921282986/)

On Monday December 16th, join us in a powerful panel to hear about ongoing frontline struggles by these communities to protect their lands, to assert their nationhood, and to defend their ways of life. These communities have all been asserting and exercising traditional governance, laws, and jurisdiction and have taken up courageous actions to stop mining, oil and/or gas development in their territories.

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*** Click HERE for easy to download leaflet and handbills

*** Growing list of Solidarity Actions on Oct 17 and Oct 18
(25+ actions so far including Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Victoria, New York, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Nanaimo, Regina, Toronto, Fort McMurray, Sault Ste. Marie, Six Nations, Saskatoon, Halifax and more) :
http://www.wearepowershift.ca/stand_with_elsipogtog_actions
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AosCZUVjH-UBdF9PakZmNzFDd3RtTzYwM0FxMTlBclE

*** Sign this petition:
http://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/tell-the-rcmp-don-t-violently-intervene-in-peaceful-first-nations-protests

*** Idle No More is requesting people contact the New Brunswick Premier:
Express your concern over the government and RCMP’s actions against the Mi’kmaq.
New Brunswick Premier – David Alward
Email: premier@gnb.ca
Phone: (506) 453-2144
Fax : (506) 453-7407

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Note: The majority of this event will be in Farsi

On fb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1380749095481071/

Thursday, August 22, 2013
6:00pm until 9:00pm
1720 Grant street, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
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