[antiwar-van] Reminder Sep 11: Release Detained Tamil Refugees: Let Them Free, Let Them Stay!]]

[Harsha W.]

- please read below for transport information to the detention centre,
thank you! -


Release Detained Tamil Refugees:
Let Them Free, Let Them Stay!

For almost one month now, 492 Tamil refugees have been detained by
Canadian authorities. Families have been seperated, and women and children
- including young children - are being incarcerated in Burnaby. Join No
One is Illegal-Vancouver at the Burnaby detention facility to express our
love, support, and solidarity to those being held inside and to call for
the immediate release of detained Tamil asylum seekers.

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Saturday Sept 11 at 1:30 pm
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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* 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:

1) Commercial and Broadway Safeway Parking Lot at 1 pm. Rides provided. If
you have a vehicle and can offer carpool, please please please do contact
us at noii-van at resist.ca or 778 885 0040.

2) Public transit is not very accessible, but if you are taking it, then
take the #116 from Edmonds station.

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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 idelogies, we demand
"Justice, Freedom, and Status for All!"

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self-determination that challenges the ideology of immigration controls,
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taking action to combat racial profiling, detention and deportation, the
national security apparatus, law enforcement brutality, and exploitative
working conditions of migrants.

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livelihoods and resist war, occupation, and displacement; while supporting
indigenous sisters and brothers fighting theft of land and colonization.
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justice that struggles against capitalism, militarism, oppression,
poverty, imperialism, and other systems of domination and exploitation.