[IPSM] Thursday April 8th: Day of Action in Solidarity with Palestinian Refugees

[Stefan Christoff]

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 03:28:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: No One is Illegal Montreal <noii-montreal at resist.ca>


NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH
PALESTINIAN REFUGEES FACING DEPORTATION FROM CANADA
Thursday April 8th, 2003

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In Montreal - Thursday April 8th, 4:00-6:00 PM
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
1010 St-Antoine West, (metro Bonaventure)
Organized by: The Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
Information: / Email: refugees at riseup.net / Tel: 514 591 3171
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In Vancouver - Thursday April 8th, 12:00 Noon
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
300 West Georgia
Organized by: No One is Illegal Vancouver
Information: / Email: noii-van at resist.ca
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In Toronto - Thursday April 8th, 12:30 PM
Immigration & Refugee Board
74 VICTORIA AVE. (Victoria ave. 1 block east of younge st.)
Organized by: No One Is Illegal, Al-Awda, ISM, Arab Student Collective,
Coalition Against War and Racism, Up Against the Wall, OCAP & Sumoud.
Information: / Email : nooneisillegal at riseup.net
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THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW!

A national day of action will bring the struggle of around 100 Palestinian
refugees facing deportation from Canada to the streets of major Canadian
cities. Several deportations of stateless Palestinian refugees are set to
be executed in the coming days, including the deportation of two
Palestinian refugees from the towns of Nablus and Jenin in Occupied
Palestine. With your participation and collective support we can halt
these deportations.

This day of action will also highlight the case of Khalil Ayoub, 67 Nabih
Ayoub, 69 and Therese Boulos Haddad, 62, three Palestinian refugees from
the refugee camp of Ein El-Helweh in Lebanon who have taken sanctuary in
the Notre-Dame-de-Grace Church since the 30th of January 2004, in order to
escape deportation.

We will unite in solidarity against the inhumane policy of deportation,
which was clearly exposed in the case of Ahmed Abdel-Majeed, a Palestinian
from Ein El Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon, who was one of the leading
organizers of the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian
Refugees. In November 2003, after spending more than 3 years in Canada,
Ahmed was forcibly detained and deported by Citizenship & Immigration
Canada to a United States County Jail from which he was released under a
$10,000 bond. In January 2004, he was deported back to the refugee camp of
Ein El Helweh.

The stateless Palestinian refugees - who have self-organized as the
Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees - will continue
their struggle against Citizenship & Immigration Canada's attempt to
deport them to the illegal and deadly Israeli military occupation which
plagues daily life throughout Occupied Palestine and to the violence,
poverty and persecution, which defines daily life in the Palestinian
refugee camps throughout Lebanon.

The Palestinian refugees are calling on you to join this action in
solidarity with their struggle for justice and dignity.

We will be demanding from Citizenship & Immigration Canada:

1. To stop the deportations of the Palestinian refugees from Canada,
2. To regularize the status of the Palestinian refugees in Canada.

THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE CONTINUES!
JUSTICE FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES!

In Solidarity,
The Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
Information: / Email: refugees at riseup.net / Tel: 514 591 3171

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