[antiwar-van] ACTION AGAINST SECURITY CERTIFICATES

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

CANADA WIDE DAY OF ACTION AGAINST SECURITY CERTIFICATES
please post widely


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IN VANCOUVER:

DECEMBER 10 FRIDAY
AT 4 PM- 6 PM
CIC OFFICES 300 WEST GEORGIA

Contact No One is Illegal
noii-van at resist.ca
(604)682-3269 x 7149

please bring banners and placards
and noisemakers.
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No One is Illegal Vancouver, along with other defenders of immigrant and
refugee rights, will be continuing the fight to repeal the racist Security
Certificates process.

This measure has been used to indefinetely detain, without charge, 5
Muslim men in the post 9/11 climate. They remain detained without charge
or bail on secret evidence neither they nor their lawyers are allowed to
see, in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. They have been behind bars anywhere
from 18 months to over four years, denied a fair trial, and are at risk of
deportation to torture.

The families of these men and their supporters are calling for a
CROSS-CANADA DAY OF ACTION on FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER to demand FOUR things:

1. That the five men be released immediately; or, if any case against them
actually exists, that they be allowed to defend themselves in open, fair
and independent trials with full disclosure of the case against them.
2. That they not be deported.
3. That the federal government abolish the secret trial security
certificate process.
4. That CSIS, RCMP, and CIC end its ongoing harassment and intimidation of
individuals and communities of Arab, Middle Eastern, and South Asian
heritage and/or Muslim faith.

On International Human Rights Day, December 10, which is also the second
anniversary of the detention of one of the Secret Trial Five, protests
will be happening in about ten cities in Canada.

The attacks on the dignity and rights of these men is part of a much
broader attack  on refugees and immigrants, and very specifically Muslim,
Arab, and South Asian communities.

And many of those immigrants and refugees who courageously fight back
against the government policies of repression have been swiftly detained,
deported, viciously beaten, consistently intimidiated and threatened: the
deportations of Operation Threadbare victims, the brutal beatings of
non-status Algerians and supporters, and the string of deportations of
immigrants and refugees who have been fighting back. Supporters such as
Justin Goodman in Vancouver have been prosecuted and sentenced, while
others around the country face pending trials. But we will continue to
fight.


STOP THE ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS NOW!
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!


More background information is available at

Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada (Toronto)
www.homesnotbombs.ca

Coalition for Justice for Adil (Montreal)
www.adilinfo.org

Committee for Justice for Mohamed Harkat (Ottawa)
www.zerra.net/freemohamed



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No One is Illegal- Vancouver
noii-van at resist.ca
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The No One is Illegal campaign is in full confrontation with Canadian
colonial border policies, denouncing and taking action to combat racial
profiling of immigrants and refugees, detention and deportation policies,
and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people.

We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their
livelihoods and resist war, occupation and displacement, while building
alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting
theft of land and displacement.