[antiwar-van] (Updated) July 24: People's March Against Jason Kenney

[Harsha W.]

- mark the date. please forward widely -

P.E.O.P.L.E.S   M.A.R.C.H   A.G.A.I.N.S.T   J.A.S.O.N   K.E.N.N.E.Y

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Saturday July 24th at 2 pm
Central Park, right outside Patterson Skytrain Station, Burnaby
Snacks will be served. Bring your family, friends, and banners.

Endorsers list below, to endorse email noii-van at resist.ca
Leaflets & multilingual factsheets: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=2034
RSVP:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128201047199876
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“I plead guilty. I am a racist” - Jason Kenney, Montreal 2009.

Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney is
known as the Minister of Censorship and Deportation because of his record
as one of the most repressive immigration ministers in Canadian history.
Deportations have increased, while the number of people accepted as
refugees and sponsored family members have drastically dropped. Instead,
Kenney has increased the number of temporary workers who are constantly
exploited for their labour. His new refugee bill creates a racist two tier
system based on nationality, and he has called a wide range of migrants -
from Mexicans to the War Resisters “bogus”. Under his regime, an Eritrean
refugee committed suicide from fear of a pending deportation, and a young
woman was murdered upon her deportation to Mexico.

Kenney is also a staunch supporter of imperialism, stifling anti war
voices such as George Galloway and the Canadian Arab Federation. Kenney’s
neoconservative values are obvious in his comments and actions: pulling
Canada out of the Durban World Conference Against Racism; introducing a
citizenship guide that omits the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans
and queer (LGBTQ) communities; defending Quebec Bill C-94 that
discriminates against women who wear the niqab; and stating that
immigrants are not integrating well into (colonial) Canada.

Join the People's March Against Jason Kenney on July 24th to demand an END
to censorship of dissenting voices. An END to detentions and deportations.
An END to the exploitation of temporary migrant workers. An END to
military occupations from Afghanistan to Palestine. An END to
discrimination against women, LGBTQ communities, immigrants, and
racialized people.

We are rising out of schools, neighbourhoods, and workplaces to reject
Kenney's agenda; join this grassroots movement and rise up with us!

The People v. Kenney
Freedom to move
Right to stay, and to Return
We are many.

ENDORSED BY: Alliance for People’s Health, Anti-Poverty Committee,
Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society,
Battered Women's Support Services, Bolivia Solidarity Committee, Boycott
Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Building Bridges Human Rights- Vancouver,
Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights, Canadian Islamic Congress,
Check Your Head, Coalition of South Asian Women Against Violence, Comuna
of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca, East Van Abolitionists,
Friends of Women in the Middle East Society, Grassroots Women, Indigenous
Action Movement, Industrial Workers of the World, International Federation
of  Iranian Refugees, Iran Solidarity Vancouver, Justice for Girls,
Justice for Migrant Workers, Network of Sri Lankan Law Students, Next Up
Vancouver, Press Release Collective, Progressive Nepali Forum in Americas,
Purple Thistle, Rabble.ca, Radical Art In Nature, Rain Zine, Rhizome Cafe,
Salaam Vancouver, Seattle Vancouver Womyns Action Network, Sikh Activist
Network - BC, Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group, Siraat
Collective, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, Solidarity Notes
Choir, South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Stopwar.ca,
Streams of Justice, Submedia, TarSandsArt, The Purple Thistle Centre,
Trikone-Vancouver, UBC Centre for Race Autobiography Gender and Age, UBC
Law , Social Justice Action Network, Vancouver Action, Vancouver Catholic
Worker, Vancouver Community Mobilization Network, War Resisters Support
Campaign, Workers Communist Party of Iran, Workless Party.


* TAKE ACTION!

1) Participate in the People’s March Against Kenney by organizing a march
in your city on July 24 and always confront Kenney if he rolls into your
town.

2) Download leaflets and multilingual pamphlets from
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=2034 and spread the word.

3) Plan a community forum to raise awareness about the escalating attacks
by Jason Kenney.

4)  Comment on online news stories, send a letter to the Editor, or write
your local MP regarding Kenney. Keep it short: “Minister Kenney is a
racist, anti-immigrant, war-mongering Conservative. The Minister of
Censorship and Deportation has got to go!”

5) Write Kenney at kennej at parl.gc.ca and bmq at cic.gc.ca and tell him what
you think!

* Read more about the People v. Jason Kenney Campaign:
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=1027

* For more information, email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 885 0040