[antiwar-van] Sun Nov 14: Weekly Noise Demo to Release Tamil Refugees]

[Harsha W.]

Weekly Noise Demos:
Release Detained Tamil Refugees: Let Them Free, Let Them Stay!

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Sunday Nov 14 at 1:30 pm
Sunday Nov 21 at 1:30pm
Shuttles Leaving Edmonds station starting at 12:45 until 1:15

Burnaby Youth Custody Services Centre where mothers and children who
arrived aboard MV Sun Sea are being detained.

LOCATION: 7900 Fraser Park Dr, Burnaby

If you can, please make a small donation so we can continue to rent the
equipment needed to make this happen!

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For the past eight weeks we have gathered in front of the Burnaby
Youth Custody prison where approximately 90 Tamil refugee mothers and
children are being incarcerated. Supporters bang on pots and pans and blew
whistles and horns to the beats of Tamil music. A large Tamil banner
reading "We welcome you, we support you" is held towards the two detention
units where children can be seen waving and smiling, peering through
prison bars. (For photos, see here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nooneisillegal/)

Join No One is Illegal-Vancouver at the Burnaby detention facility to
continue to express our love, support, and solidarity with those still
being held inside and to call for the immediate release of detained Tamil
asylum seekers.

* Bring noise! We want to be visible and be heard from inside so
please bring pots, pans, horns, drums, noisemakers (please be aware of
noises which may be triggering or traumatizing)

* TRANSPORT:

Meet at Edmonds station for rides at 12:45. Last shuttle leaves at 1:15pm.
If you have a vehicle and can offer carpool, please contact us at noii-van
at resist.ca or 778 885 0040.
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Surviving a dangerous journey, 492 Tamil refugees, including women and
children, arrived in BC after fleeing war and persecution in Sri
Lanka. When the ship first neared Esquimault, territories of the
Songhees First Nation, it was immediately boarded by the Armed Forces,
Border Services, and RCMP. The refugees are now in jails, facing
endless hearings that have revealed the clear incompetency, deliberate
negligence, and racism of the system.

In the context of the never-ending "War on Terror" refugees, migrants, and
racialized people are increasingly being racially targeted,
dehumanized as security threats, and criminalized through
unprecedented police and state powers. Despite its rhetoric of
'liberating' and 'protecting' women globally and locally, the Canadian
state is detaining an increasing numbers of women and children that cross
these borders. In light of increasing repression and
exclusionary policies and ideologies, we demand Justice, Freedom, and
Status for All!