[antiwar-van] Two Months Too Many! Release Detained Tamil Refugees: Let Them Free, Let Them Stay!

[Harsha W.]

TWO MONTHS TOO MANY!

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

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Saturday Oct 16 at 1:30 pm
Saturday Oct 23 at 1:30 pm
Shuttles Leaving Edmonds station starting at 12:45 until 1:15

Mark the Date! Saturday Oct 30th: Caravan Noise Demo - info coming
soon!!!! Cars needed - if you have access to car Oct. 30 contact us at
noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 885 0040.

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

LOCATION: 7900 Fraser Park Dr, Burnaby

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For the past six 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

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!"