[Bloquez l'empire!] [THURSDAY December 1st] PICKET in Solidarity with Palestinian Refugees facing Deportation....

[Mary Foster]

> >STATELESS & DEPORTED....
> >A Picket in Solidarity with Palestinian Refugees Facing Deportation
> >
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> >THURSDAY DECEMBER 1st, 11 am -> 1pm
> >Citizenship & Immigration Canada
> >715 Peel Street [corner of St. Antoine]
> >[metro Bonaventure]
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> >As dozens of Palestinian refugees in Canada continue to face imminent
> >deportation to the Occupied Territories, to the refugee camps in Lebanon,
> >and some to the United States, where they could end up in indefinite
> >detention, the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
> >calls on people to participate in a picket in front of Immigration Canada
> >to demand an end to the deportations and an immediate regularization of
> >all Palestinian refugees in Canada.
> >
> >During the past month - November 2005, three more Palestinians have been
> >deported from Montreal back to the Occupied Territories and to the
refugee
> >camps in Lebanon.
> >
> >Exactly a year ago, on November 30, 2004 Immigration Canada deported
Ahmad
> > Nafaa, a stateless Palestinian refugee from Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp
in
> > Southern Lebanon, from Montreal to the United States where he was
> >detained  and then released on a US$ 10,000 bond. Ahmad has since claimed
> >asylum in  the USA and is once again going through the entire process
> >under the fear  of being deported again, to the refugee camps in Lebanon.
> >
> >Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are systematically prevented from owning
> >property, working in over 70 professions, receiving proper health care,
> >and moving and traveling freely. The intensified mistreatment of
> >Palestinian refugees inside the camps has left their lives in real and
> >immediate peril.
> >
> >Those Palestinians who have escaped the dire situation in the Occupied
> >Territories, face daily terror at the hands of the Israeli state, which
> >continues to enforce a deadly and illegal military occupation.
Palestinian
> > refugees from the Occupied Territories have fled from the killings,
> >extra-judicial assassinations, house demolitions, illegal arrests, trials
> >without evidence, torture, land confiscation, and constant humiliations.
> >
> >We must stand united against the injustice faced by the Palestinian
> >refugees who are set to be deported from Canada in the coming months.
Your
> > support, solidarity and participation are needed....!
> >
> >In Solidarity.
> >the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
> >
> >Info: 514 859 9070 / refugees at riseup.net
> >
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> >
>
> Nathalie Cohen
> QPIRG Co-coordinator
>  office hours:
> Monday-Thursday 1200-1800
>
> QPIRG Concordia
> 1500 deMaisonneuve West,
> suite 204, Montreal,
> tel: (514) 848-7585
> fax: (514) 848-7584
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