[antiwar-van] [Fwd: Wed April 25- Shut Down Citizenship and Immigration Canada]

[Harsha]

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Subject: [Noii-announce] Wed April 25- Shut Down Citizenship and
Immigration Canada


FOR EVERY MOMENT WITHOUT STATUS, FOR EVERY MINUTE IN DETENTION, FOR EVERY
INHUMANE DEPORTATION:

ON APRIL 25TH - SHUT DOWN CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION CANADA!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25TH
1 P.M.
GATHER: Front Entrance, C.I.C. - 300 West Georgia
(corner Hamilton)

How many of us have seen our friends and families go through the fear and
humiliation of detention hearings, reporting proceedings, and deportations
at 300 West Georgia? Borne the pain of the separation of our families and
communities? Witnessed the punishment and criminalization of our loved
ones for having made the courageous decision to migrate?

On April 25th we will be rallying to shut down the offices of Citizenship
& Immigration Canada (CIC) and the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA)
in Vancouver - the institutions which daily take away the dignity and
security of our communities through the detention and deportation regime.

We will be shutting down CIC in response to every policy that is shutting
the border tighter - forcing up to 500,000 individuals to live without
status across the country, about 13 000 people to be deported annually;
thousands to be detained; thousands to never make it across the border due
to agreements signed by the US and Canada including the Safe Third Country
Agreement and the highly secretive Security Prosperity Partnership
Agreement; and tens of thousands of others to be forced into choosing
exploitative guest worker and temporary foreign worker programs.

As immigrants, migrants, refugees and their allies get ready to once again
take to the streets in the thousands across North America on May 1st to
demand an end to deportations and detentions and full and inclusive
regularization programs we will be rallying to join this movement for true
dignity and justice.

Immigrants, migrants and undocumented peoples have always formed the
backbone of the Canadian economy - but if our sweat and blood are good
enough for this country, so too should be our families, our well-being,
and our rights and dignity as human beings.

Join us on APRIL 25TH! Don't get silent - get in the streets!

For more information, contact:
778-840-2009
noii-van at resist.ca



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No One is Illegal-Vancouver is a grassroots anti-colonial
immigrant/refugee rights community collective with leadership from members
of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. As a movement for
self-determination that challenges the ideology of immigration controls,
we are in full confrontation with Canadian border policies; denouncing and
taking action to combat racial profiling, detention and deportation, the
national security apparatus, law enforcement brutality, and exploitative
working conditions of migrants.

We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their
livelihoods and resist war, occupation, and displacement; while supporting
indigenous sisters and brothers fighting theft of land and colonization.
We also place ourselves within the broader movement for global social
justice that struggles against capitalism, militarism, oppression,
poverty, imperialism, and other systems of domination and exploitation.




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