[antiwar-van] Community programming for May 27th- National Day for Immigrant Justice and Status for All!

[Harsha]

For our poster (available in Spanish, Punjabi, Chinese, English, Arabic,
Farsi) and more information: www.solidarityacrossborders.org

* This week tune into coordinated radio-programming at Co-op Radio
Vancouver, CKUT Montreal, and CKLN Toronto. In Montreal: CKUT Radio
Presents - Broadcast Against Borders; tune in to 'Off the Hour' on CKUT,
90.3fm, from TUESDAY,  May 23rd, to FRIDAY, May 26th, 5-6pm for this
unique broadcast....!

Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO, 102.7FM is a non-commercial,
co-operatively-owned, listener-supported, community radio station. From
Monday May 22nd to Saturday May 27th, CO-OP Radio will bring daily reports
leading up to May 27th National Day for Immigrant Justice and Status for
All! Tune in daily (May 22nd to May 25th) to the Brown Bagger lunch show
noon to 1pm for reports from across Canada and Wake up with Co-op (Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday at 7:30-9 am) for reports from Vancouver, Toronto
and Montreal. Also tune into Bulland Awaaz (Monday May 22nd 5-6 pm), The
Rational  (Monday May 23rd 6-7 pm), Y57 Youth Show (Monday May 22nd 7-8
pm), Voices of Palestine (Tuesday May 23 8-9 pm), Collective Perspectives
(Wednesday May 24th 6-7 pm), and Americana Latina Al Dia (Saturday May 27
noon-1:30 pm) for programming on (im)migrant justice! In Vancouver, also
check out community programming leading upto the march on Latino Soy,
Radio India, Radio Punjab, and Arab Media Channel.

* pls post widely *

Stop the Deportations! STATUS FOR ALL!
Dignity and Justice for Immigrant Communities!

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Fredericton, Peterborough,
and more...

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Gather at 2pm
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)
In solidarity with marches in the US, please wear white.

==> Family-friendly march
==> Free charter buses will be at 12:30 pm at Kwantlen College, Surrey and
1 pm at parking lot corner Fraser and Southeast Marine Drive, Vancouver.
Return 5 pm.

With historic marches with hundreds of thousands of immigrants taking to
the streets in the US, grassroots immigrant groups are mobilizing for a
National Day of Action this coming May 27, 2006, with demonstrations
planned in several cities.

Across Canada, migrants, refugees and their allies will demonstrate
against the deportation and detention of migrants and refugees, for a
full, inclusive, unconditional and ongoing regularization program, and for
full rights and dignity for immigrant communities against racism, poverty,
and criminalization.

We are demonstrating because hundreds of thousands of people live without
status, without sufficient access to health care or education, and in
great fear of being detained or deported, all the while being the most
exploited in the workplace. For decades immigrants have been scapegoated,
and now since 9/11, the false link between immigrants and terrorism has
developed with the racist use of Anti-Terrorism legislation and Security
Certificates. Thousands of migrants, especially immigrant women, are
forced to live in poverty; while thousands of temporary workers perform
hard and dangerous labour, yet are denied their basic rights.

Join us on May 27 as we refuse to be silenced and as we refuse to live in
fear. Celebrate our communities courage as we stand together to demand
status for all and dignity for our friends, families, and communities!

For more information, contact us at saic at resist.ca or call 778-885-0040.
Organized by the STATUS Coalition, a coalition of Middle Eastern, Latino,
South Asian, African, Iranian, Chinese, and South East Asian immigrant
community-based organizations.