[IPSM] Challenge racism and insecurity: Participate in Montreal's People's Commission! (Public Hearings April 21-23)

[No One Is Illegal Montreal]

[Please post and forward widely ...]

For three days in April, at a community center in Montreal's
southwest, a diverse group of activists, organizers, academics, legal
scholars and community members will gather for the Public Hearings of
the People's Commission into immigration "security" measures ...

Challenge racism and insecurity.
PARTICIPATE in Montreal's People's Commission this April 21-23.
JOIN US!


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THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSION
into immigration "security" measures

PUBLIC HEARINGS

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 10am-6pm
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 10am-6pm
(followed by a Community Dinner)
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 10am-6pm

At the CEDA (2515 Delisle, near metro Lionel-Groulx)

[All events are free - Childcare on-site - Wheelchair accessible --
Simultaneous translation (English-French) -- Whisper translation
available for Arabic and Spanish.]
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TESTIMONY BY: Tekarontake, Wolf Clan (Mohawk elder); Hind Charkaoui;
Adil Charkaoui; Sophie Harkat; testimonies from Jaballah and Mahjoub
families; Alex Neve (Amnesty International); Halima Mautbur (Canadian
Council on American-Islamic Relations); Sherene Rezack (Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education); Sharryn Aiken (Queen's University
School of Law); Denis Barette (la Ligue des Droits et Libertés); Evert
Hoogers (Canadian Union of Postal Workers); Johanne Doyon (immigration
lawyer); Warren Allmand (former Canadian Solicitor-General); Gary
Kinsman (Laurentian University); Janet Dench (Canadian Council for
Refugees); Marie-Jo Ouimet (MD with ASILE); John Norris (criminal
lawyer); as well as members of the Campaign to Stop the Secret Trials;
the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality, No One Is Illegal-Montreal
and others.

The Commission will also include personal testimonies from other
people directly affected by immigration "security" measures including
Dieter Misgeld, partner of Amparo Torres, facing deportation to
Colombia (TBC), Victor Regalada (a Salvadoran refugee who was arrested
under a certificate in 1982) and Suleyman Goven, who has spent 12
years in legal limbo after having been accepted as a refugee.

Witnesses will be open to questions from the Commissioners and the
public after giving their testimony.


In the face of Canadian government policies which detain people for
years without trial, under secret evidence, with the ongoing threat of
deportation to torture, the People's Commission is an alternative
forum to consider these issues, as they affect us, from our own
historical and contemporary experiences, as indigenous people,
racialized minorities, women, the poor and other sectors of society.


--> SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 21
Testimonies from 10am to 6pm.

SATURDAY, APRIL 22
Testimonies from 10am to 6pm.
***Followed by a Community Dinner (with DJ Leila P and a short play on
deportations)***

SUNDAY, APRIL 23
Testimonies from 10am to 6pm.
Closing ceremony at 6pm.

Updated schedule available at: http://www.peoplescommission.ath.cx/


--> The People's Commission is a project of the Coalition for Justice
for Adil Charkaoui (www.adilinfo.org), QPIRG-Concordia, and Solidarity
Across Border (www.solidarityacrossborders.org).

The People's Commission has been endorsed or sponsored by:
l'Association pour la défense des droits sociaux (ADDS), Black
Coalition of Québec, CAIR-CAN, Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in
Canada, Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), Canadian Council for Refugees
(CCR), Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Centre justice et foi,
Comité chrétien pour les droits humains en Amérique latine (CCDHAL),
Comité des sans-emploi Montréal-Centre, CKUT 90.3 FM, Communauté
Catholique Congolaise de Montréal, Concordia Student Union (CSU),
Council of Canadians, Downtown Legal Services (DLS) Toronto,
Fédération autonome du collégial (FAC), Immigrant Workers' Centre
(IWC), Institute in Management and Community Development (part of the
Centre for Continuing Education at Concordia University), Inter Pares,
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG), Jesuit Refugee
Service, The Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee, Moog Audio, Muslim
Council of Montreal (MCM), No One Is Illegal -Montreal, No One Is
Illegal -Vancouver, No One Is Illegal -Toronto, Nova Scotia Public
Interest Research Group (NSPIRG), Ontario Coalition against Poverty
(OCAP), Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie (PASC), People's
Potato, Soeurs Auxiliatrices, South Asian Women's Community Centre
(SAWCC), Table de concertation des organismes au service des personnes
réfugiées et immigrantes (TCRI), Toronto Action for Social Change
(TASC), United Muslim Students Association (UMSA).

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INFO: abolissons at gmail.com; 514-859-9023;
www.peoplescommission.ath.cx

People's Commission c/o QPIRG Concordia
1500 de Maisonneuve W., ste. 204
Montreal QC H3G 1N1