[antiwar-van] DATE CHANGE: The Canadian Refugee Camp

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

Please note the change in date for the Canadian Refugee Camp.
The camp and rally will be held on Saturday, Feb. 5th.

Information about upcoming organizing meetings is listed at the bottom of
the page.

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                A CANADIAN REFUGEE CAMP
        The resistance within Fortress North America
                SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5th, 2005
            Vancouver Art Gallery from Noon- 5pm
                      Rally at 1 pm
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No One is Illegal will be coordinating a "Canadian Refugee Camp" on Feb 6
2005. The camp will involve participation from various community groups
and organizations involved in historical and present struggle against
Immigration Canada and racist border and immigration policies, while
making the links to Canadian policies of corporate globalization and
imperialism that result in mass displacement from lands in the Third
World.

The refugee camp is more than symbolic as it shatters the myth of Canadian
mulitculturalism, humanitarianism, and tolerance. Migrants are typically
permitted into Canada as domestic labour, as live in caregivers, as
farmers and berry pickers, as disposable labour to build the railway. The
exclusion of Chinese migrants after Confederation, the internment of
Japanese-Canadians during World War II and the refusal of Jewish refugees
in the “None is too Many” policy after World War II are three well-known
examples of Canada’s immigration history.  The War on Terrorism has
wrought terror onto the lives of South Asian, Muslim and Arab migrants
being interrogated, profiled, detained, targeted through secret trials,
and/or deported.

Perhaps the most draconian and exclusionary measure on the rights of
migrants in Canadian history is the Safe Third Country Agreement taking
effect by the end of 2004. The Safe Third Country Agreement would mean
asylum seekers who land in the US would no longer be allowed to make their
way to Canada, creating a fortress in North America similar to Fortress
Europe and reducing the number of refugee claims in Canada by an estimated
40%.

Rather than continously being relegated to ‘model minority’ status,
immigrant and refugee communities will construct this camp as a public
testament to the struggles for justice and self-determination. The
solidarity and collective histories will be become the battleground for
our ongoing resistance.


Feel free to get in touch
noii-van at resist.ca
778-885-0040
website: noii-van.resist.ca


UPCOMING MEETINGS

* all meetings at 6:30 pm at Palestine Community Center. 1874 Kingsway
(corner Victoria)

Monday, Janurary 3rd
Monday, January 10th
Thursday, January 13th
Monday, January 17th
Monday, January 24th
Thursday, Janurary 27th
Monday, January 31st


There is much work to make all this happen and we invite anyone interested
to come meetings.

Feel free to get in touch
noii-van at resist.ca
778-885-0040
website: noii-van.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.