[antiwar-van] [Fwd: Two upcoming events]
Harsha W.
harsha at resist.ca
Sun Jun 24 19:34:51 PDT 2012
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Subject: [Noii-announce] Two important upcoming events
From: "No One is Illegal-Vancouver" <noii-van at resist.ca>
Date: Sun, June 24, 2012 3:34 pm
To: noii-l at lists.resist.ca
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1) Breakfast Rally Against Kenney in Surrey (Tues June 26th morning).
Transport from Vancouver available, join us!
2) Updated with speakers list for Roundtable on Wed June 27 with Health
workers for Refugee Healthcare
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Emancipation not Exploitation!
Please join No One Is Illegal and the Latin American Coalition for the
Rights of Migrants for a Breakfast Rally to show your opposition to the
Minister of Cenorship and Deportation, Jason Kenney.
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Rally Against Jason Kenney's disposable labour agenda
Tuesday, June 26th @ 7am (bright and early!)
Eaglequest Golf Course (7778-152 Street, Surrey BC)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/453870514630976/
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TRANSPORTATION:
Meet at Safeway Parking lot next to Commercial/Broadway at 6:00 am, the
rides will leave by 6:15 am sharp!
Please email acmah2 at yahoo.ca or call 604.715.6990 if you want a ride or
are able to drive.
For Transit and Driving directions from Vancouver, see bottom of email.
The Surrey Board of Trade is hosting a $35 per plate Breakfast with
Jason Kenney, on Tuesday, June 26 from 7:30am to 9:30am at Eaglequest
Golf Course (7778-152 Street). At this event, the Minister will be making
a speech entitled: "Moving Towards a targeted, fast and
efficient immigration system focusing on Jobs, Growth and Prosperity".
Info: http://www.businessinsurrey.com
Kenney and the Tories have increasingly pushed immigration policy
towards a labour exploitation policy to serve business and corporate
needs. Let Jason Kenney know that his business-friendly and racist
anti-migrant and war-mongering policies are not welcome on the West Coast!
-Over the past three years, Kenney has been confronted by people across
the country, check out photos and videos
here: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=4139
-Last year hundreds of us disrupted war criminal Dick Cheney's
event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkN_Ryitg0g Thistime let's make sure
we interrupt Jason Kenney's Breakfast schmooze with Surrey's
business community!
BACKGROUND:
Since re-election, Kenney and the Tories have ramped up their
fight against marginalized communities, (im)migrants and refugees in the
name of creating a welcoming environment for the world's richest 1%, while
pushing everyone else toward more precarious and exploitative work. Each
year, Canada continues to bring in more and more people on temporary
work permits while the number of people obtaining permanent
residency especially as refugees and sponsored family members continues to
drop. This ensures that businesses have a larger pool of cheap labour who
do not have to be paid minimum wage, have no labour protections, and are
under constant threat of deportation.
- In November 2011, Ottawa completely stopped accepting applications
for immigration sponsorships of parents and grandparents until
2014: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4574
- In April 2012, the Tories pushed through a policy letting employers
pay temporary high-skilled foreign workers up to 15 per cent less (5 per
cent for low-skilled workers) than the prevailing local
wage: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1185032--wage-cuts-for-foreign-workers-in-canada-discriminatory-critics-say
- Just this week, the Tories have passed Bill C-31 through the House.
This Refugee Exclusion Act is an omnibus bill that will result in
the arbitrary detention, intimidation, failure to protect, and
ultimate re-victimization of highly vulnerable people who seek asylum in
Canada including women and children. The bill creates a discriminatory
two-tier asylum system based on nationality and mandatory incarceration
for many refugees: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4717
- June 26th is the International Day Against Torture. Stand up against
Kenney and the Tories to let them know that you will not stand by while he
pushes for policies that will lead to more people being deported back to
torture!
- As of June 30, 2012, refugees in Canada who are in need of
medical assistance, including children, the elderly, and pregnant women,
will no longer be able to access critical health care
services: http://www.doctorsforrefugeecare.ca
****************************************************************** Public
Transit: Take Expo-line Skytrain to King George Station. Board #345 White
Rock Centre, and get off at 76 th Avenue Stop, walk Northbound towards
rally location.
Driving Directions: (from Vancouver): Follow Grandview Hwy Eastbound to
Hwy #1. Take Exit # 48, and merge onto 152nd Street Southbound. Golf
course will be on your Left hand side, after 81st Ave, before 76th Ave.
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Emancipacion no explotacion!
Unase a nadie es ilegal y la coalicion lationamericana por los derechos de
los migrantes en un desayuno demonstracion para demonstrar nuestra
opocicion al ministro de censura y deportacion Jason Kenney.
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Demostracion en contra de Jason Kenney
Martes, 26 de Junio a las 7am
Eaglequest Golf Course (7779-152 Street, Surrey BC)
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Transportacion:
encuentrenos en el estacionamiento de Safeway and Commercial con Broadway
a las 6am – salimos a las 6:15 en punto!
Contacte a acmah2 at yahoo.caor o llame al 604.715.6990 si necesita
transporte o si es capaz de manejar.
El Surrey Board of Trade ha organizado este desayuno para Jason Kenney el
Martes 26 de Junio de 7:30am a 9:30am en Eaglequest Golfcourse (7778-152
Street). En este evento, el Ministro dara una charla titulada:
“moviendonos hacia un sistema de inmigracion rapido y eficiente con
prioridad los trabajos, el crecimiento economico la prosperidad” Para mas
informacion: http://www.businessinsurrey.com
Kenney y el gobierno conservador estan cambiando la politica de
inmigracion a una politica de explotacion que beneficia a las
corporaciones. Digale a Jason Kenney que su politica anti inmigrante y
racista no es bienvenida en la costa oeste!
Durante los ultimos tres anos, Kenney ha sido confrontado por personas a
traves del pais, vea photos y videos aqui:
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=4139
el ano pasado miles de personas manifestaron en contra del criminal de
guerra Dick Cheney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkN_Ryitg0g
esta vez detuvamos el desayuno de Jason Kenney!
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Roundtable: Health workers for Refugee Healthcare
Where: YWCA, 733 Beatty street, right next to Stadium Skytrain Station.
(Note: there are several Y’s, please make note of the address).
When: 6.30PM, Wed, June 27
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/291338344296097/
Where: YWCA, 733 Beatty street, right next to Stadium Skytrain Station.
(Note: there are several Y’s, please make note of the address).
When: 6.30PM, Wed, June 27
Fathima Cader: Fathima is a law graduate active in community-based
feminist and anti-racist organising. She ...is a member of No One is
Illegal and is interning for the summer at Pivot Legal Society. She will
discuss the anti-refugee trends in public policy that have paved the way
for the IFH cuts, with specific attention to recent changes in immigration
and criminal law.
Byron Cruz: Byron is with the Latin American Coalition for the Rights of
Migrants and is health care worker with the Vancouver Coastal Health
street nurse program. He has been the President of the BC Multicultural
Health Society, member of a task group to support undocumented pregnant
women, and involved in planning the mobile clinic for migrant workers.
Agnes K: Agnes and her family are being impacted by the Interim Federal
Health cuts to refugee health care. She will be speaking about her
personal experience and the impact of the upcoming cuts on her family.
Martha Roberts: Martha is a registered midwife who has recently launched
the Strathcona Midwifery Collective. At an international level, she was a
rural midwife with Community Health Workers in the Philippines. Her
current community work includes popular education workshops for low-income
communities through the Alliance for People’s Health.
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As of June 30, 2012, refugees in Canada who are in need of medical
assistance, including children, the elderly, and pregnant women, will no
longer be able to access critical health care services. Among the services
to be cut for some or all refugees are: prenatal care for... pregnant
women; access to mental health care; coverage for necessary medications,
including insulin. Unless their condition is deemed a threat to public
health or safety, some refugee claimants will also be denied access to
physicians -- even if they are suffering from illnesses like cancer or
cardiovascular diseases, even if they are having heart attacks.
Health workers have warned that people will die because of these cuts. On
May 11, doctors staged a protest on Parliament Hill, while another group
of 90 physicians occupied Minister Joe Oliver’s office in Toronto. On June
18, in a coordinated “National Day of Action,” health workers in
Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa,
Montreal and St. John’s will be staging events across the country. The
cuts have also been condemned at the institutional level, with numerous
national health organizations issuing statements: the College of Family
Physicians of Canada, Canadian Association of Optometrists, Canadian
Association of Social Workers, Canadian Dental Association, Canadian
Medical Association, Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Association of
Community Health Centres, Canadian Association of Midwives, and Canadian
Doctors for Medicare. For more information:
http://www.doctorsforrefugeecare.ca/index.html
These cuts to health care for refugees come at the same time as the
passing of Bill C-31, the draconian Refugee Exclusion Act that, in
supposed efforts to crack down on human smuggling, mandates the immediate
certain detention of refugee claimants, including minors.
Please join us on Wednesday, June 27 as health workers explain what health
services are being cut, what community and health care resources exist for
people who have limited access to health care, what resources need to be
created, and how we can ensure adequate and accessible health for all.
Speaker list to be announced.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Child-friendly event with childcare on-site.
This venue is wheelchair accessible including washrooms.
This event is free of charge. Donations are welcome to assist with cost of
room rental.
For more information, email noii-van at resist.ca or call 604 787 4109.
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anti-colonial migrant justice group with leadership from members of
migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. We strive and struggle for the
right to remain, the freedom to move, and the right to return. As a
movement for self-determination that challenges the ideology of
immigration controls, we take action to combat racial profiling, detention
and deportation, the national security apparatus, law enforcement
brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants. The ongoing
apartheid reality instituted through reserves and sweatshops is one that
must be fundamentally uprooted and transformed. We envision a humanity
where everyone has the right to sustenance and the ability to provide it,
where we are free of oppression, misery, and exploitation, and are able to
live meaningfully in relationship to one another and in reverence for
Mother Earth that sustains us.
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