[bru-info] Join us! May 27- National Day for Immigrant rights and Status for All

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> For our poster (available in Spanish, Punjabi, Chinese, English, Arabic,
> Farsi) and more information: www.solidarityacrossborders.org
>
> * pls post widely *
>
> Stop the Deportations! STATUS FOR ALL!
> Dignity and Justice for Immigrant Communities!
>
> NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
> Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Fredericton, Peterborough,
> and more...
>
> Saturday, May 27, 2006
> Gather at 2pm
> Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)
> In solidarity with marches in the US, please wear white.
>
> ==> Family-friendly march
> ==> Free charter buses will be at 12:30 pm at Kwantlen College, Surrey and
> 1 pm at parking lot corner Fraser and Southeast Marine Drive, Vancouver.
> Return 5 pm.
>
> With historic marches with hundreds of thousands of immigrants taking to
> the streets in the US, grassroots immigrant groups are mobilizing for a
> National Day of Action this coming May 27, 2006, with demonstrations
> planned in several cities.
>
> Across Canada, migrants, refugees and their allies will demonstrate
> against the deportation and detention of migrants and refugees, for a
> full, inclusive, unconditional and ongoing regularization program, and for
> full rights and dignity for immigrant communities against racism, poverty,
> and criminalization.
>
> We are demonstrating because hundreds of thousands of people live without
> status, without sufficient access to health care or education, and in
> great fear of being detained or deported, all the while being the most
> exploited in the workplace. For decades immigrants have been scapegoated,
> and now since 9/11, the false link between immigrants and terrorism has
> developed with the racist use of Anti-Terrorism legislation and Security
> Certificates. Thousands of migrants, especially immigrant women, are
> forced to live in poverty; while thousands of temporary workers perform
> hard and dangerous labour, yet are denied their basic rights.
>
> Join us on May 27 as we refuse to be silenced and as we refuse to live in
> fear. Celebrate our communities courage as we stand together to demand
> status for all and dignity for our friends, families, and communities!
>
> For more information, contact us at saic at resist.ca or call 778-885-0040.
>
> Organized by the STATUS Coalition, a coalition of Middle Eastern, Latino,
> South Asian, African, Iranian, Chinese, and South East Asian immigrant
> community-based organizations.
>
> * Supported and endorsed by a wide range of community groups, unions,
> women's centres, and student organizations. For a full list of our
> supporters please visit http://solidarityacrossborders.org/en/node/157
>
> ==> COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING:  From Monday May 22nd to Saturday May 27th,
> CO-OP Radio will bring daily reports leading up to May 27th National Day
> for Immigrant Justice and Status for All! Tune in daily (May 22nd to May
> 25th) to the Brown Bagger lunch show noon to 1pm for reports from across
> Canada and Wake up with Co-op (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:30-9 am)
> for reports from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Also tune into Bulland
> Awaaz (Monday May 22nd 5-6 pm), The Rational  (Monday May 23rd 6-7 pm),
> Y57 Youth Show (Monday May 22nd 7-8 pm), Voices of Palestine (Tuesday May
> 23 8-9 pm), Collective Perspectives (Wednesday May 24th 6-7 pm), and
> Americana Latina Al Dia (Saturday May 27 noon-1:30 pm) for programming on
> (im)migrant justice! In Vancouver, also check out community programming
> leading upto the march on Latino Soy, Radio India, Radio Punjab, and Arab
> Media Channel.
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