[IPSM] MAY 27: March for Immigrant Rights! STATUS FOR ALL! Join us! (Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Peterborough, Fredericton ...)

[No One Is Illegal Montreal]

[Please post and forward widely ...]

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March for Immigrant Rights!
STATUS FOR ALL!
Justice and dignity for all migrants and refugees.
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SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2006
Demo starts at NOON.
Phillips Square
(corner of Ste-Catherine and Union, near metro McGill)
MONTREAL

-> This is a child-friendly march.
-> Bring your banners, placards and noisemakers.
-> There will be food, water and snacks during the demo.
-> We are marching, rain or shine!

We will be marching through downtown, north through Mile End and
Little Italy to Parc Extension. In Parc Ex, we will have a community
lunch, and then continue our march into Cote-des-Neiges. We will be
ending at Kent Park (corner of Chemin Cote-des-Neiges and Appleton,
north of metro Cote-des-Neiges) at approximately 6pm for a Community
Festival (including, food, music, dance, and children's activities).
Rest vehicles will accompany the march.

To endorse, mobilize or get involved, please contact 514-848-7583 or
sansfrontieres at resist.ca ... We need your help!

http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org

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Across Canada, migrants, refugees and their allies will demonstrate
against the deportation and detention of migrants and refugees, and
for a full, inclusive, unconditional and ongoing regularization
program, meaning STATUS FOR ALL!

Building on ongoing organizing efforts led by migrant communities
across the Canadian state, we are demonstrating because hundreds of
thousands of people live without status, while hundreds of thousands
more are exploited by the arbitrary and racist policies of Immigration
Canada. Deportation agents continue to enter schools and workplaces,
creating fear in our communities, while detaining and removing our
neighbors, friends and families.

Thousands of migrants are forced to live in poverty, 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.

We are demonstrating as part of a struggle for self-determination as
migrants, immigrants and refugees, supported by our allies.

We refuse to be invisible; we refuse to live in fear. We demand STATUS FOR ALL!

INFO: http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org

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Join us on May 27, in Vancouver, Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa,
Montreal, Fredericton and elsewhere ...


::::: IN VANCOUVER :::::

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Gather at 2pm
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)
WEAR WHITE.

For more information, contact us at saic at resist.ca or call 778-885-0040

Organized by the STATUS Coalition, a coalition of community-based
organizations in the Vancouver area belonging to movements and
struggles of the people of the Global South (Asia, Africa, Central and
South America, Middle East, the Caribbean region) and the struggles of
such migrant communities in Canada.

Our current members are: Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality
and Solidarity Society, Bolivia Solidarity Committee, Canadian Network
for a Democratic Nepal, Consejo Indigena Popular de Oaxaca -Ricardo
Flores Magon - Vancouver, Committee for Solidarity with Colombia,
Iranian Federation of Refugees, Iranian Refugee B.C, La Surda Latin
American Collective, Justicia 4 Migrant Workers B.C, No One is
Illegal, Palestine Arab Women's Association, Palestine Community
Center, Salaam Vancouver, South Asian Network for Secularism and
Democracy, Vancouver Status of Women

Full information, including poster, at:
http://solidarityacrossborders.org/en/node/157


::::: IN TORONTO :::::

No One Is Illegal and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Campaign are
mobilizing towards a National Day of Action for Status for All on May
27th 2006. We are calling on all allies, entertainers, street
performers, immigrant and refugee communities to come together to
demand Status for All and a Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy in the City
of Toronto! If you would like to be involved please contact us at:
nooneisillegal at riseup.net or look out for our next organizing meeting.

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION STATUS FOR ALL! MARCH
MAY 27: Meet at O.I.S.E. 1pm (252 Bloor St. W)
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org


::::: IN OTTAWA :::::

The Status For All! event will begin at noon at the Human Rights
Monument on Elgin Street at 1pm. Event co-sponsored by the Justice for
Mohamed Harkat Committee and the International Solidarity Committee of
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

For more info: knastov at yahoo.com, jsquires at chebucto.ns.ca or 613-328-5831.


::::: IN PETERBOROUGH :::::

Communities in Peterborough are mobilizing towards a National Day of
Action for Status for All on May 27th 2006. We are calling on all
allies, community and agency members, artists and performers,
activists and trade unionists, students and academics, immigrant and
refugee communities to come together to demand Status for All.

Friday, May 26th
7:00 - 9:00 at Cinema 379:  A film screening featuring segments of
topical films and panel discussion with members of No One Is Illegal
and Indigenous rights activists

9:00 at Cinema 379: DJs Helen and Jarrett provide a backdrop to
discussion and Banner Making.

Saturday May 27th
10:00 a.m. at Confederation Park, George St.: Local rally, public
banner hanging, community speakers

11:00 a.m. at Sadlier House, (George St., just North of Parkhill) :
Organized transportation to join 1 p.m. march in Toronto (returning
same day). Please contact Ziysah at nccpeterborough.ca or 743-0882 to
reserve a seat.

Sponsored By: Traveling World Community Film Festival; the Centre for
Theory, Culture and Politics; Kawartha Ploughshares; the Frost Centre
for Canadian Studies and Native Studies; Food not Bombs; Helen and
Jarret; Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty; Beats for Justice!;
OPIRG Peterborough.


::::: IN QUEBEC CITY :::::

Solidarity Across Borders allies in the Quebec City area are
mobilizing to attend the Montreal demonstration. If you would like to
get info about attending from Quebec, please contact
sansfrontieres at resist.ca or 514-848-7583.


::::: IN FREDERICTON :::::

Festive and informative march downtown and across the river, followed
by community potluck.

Saturday MAY 27th @ 1 PM in Queen's Square Park (the park just below
the campus).

Join us in solidarity, celebration and in delivering the multi-lingual
messages that NO ONE IS ILLEGAL and that everyone has the right to be
treated with dignity and enjoy the same rights. Look for the
multi-lingual banners!

And listen for the worldly music! Updates:
http://sjs.revolt.org/.

Proposed Route:
We'll be marching from the park at 1:30, traveling downtown on Church
St., left on Queen St., dropping leaflets and individual messages off
at the Legislature, then City Hall, then traveling across the river on
the Westmorland bridge towards St. Mary's First Nation, then back to
Queen's Square Park by approximately 3:00pm.

Community Potluck!
Between 3:00 and 3:30pm, there will be a worldly potluck at Queen's
square park, representative of the many diverse communities present.

What to Bring: As mentioned, please bring banners, placards and even
leaflets if you wish. ALSO bring drums and other noisemakers. Be
creative!

Fredericton contact:
Asaf Rashid: handsofnothing at yahoo.ca (Fredericton
contact for Solidarity Across Borders)


::::: IN MONTREAL :::::

March for Immigrant Rights!
STATUS FOR ALL!
Justice and dignity for all migrants and refugees.

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2006
Demo starts at NOON.
Phillips Square -- corner of Ste-Catherine and Union
(near metro McGill)
MONTREAL

We will be marching through downtown, north through Mile End and
Little Italy to Parc Extension. In Parc Ex, will will have a community
lunch, and then continue our march into Cote-des-Neiges. We will be
ending at Kent Park (corner of Chemin Cote-des-Neiges and Appleton,
north of metro Cote-des-Neiges) at approximately 6pm for a Community
Festival (including, food, music, dance, and children's activities).

This is a child-friendly march.
Bring your banners, placards and noisemakers.
There will be food, water and snacks during the demo.
We are marching: rain or shine!

To endorse, mobilize or get involved, please contact 514-848-7583 or
sansfrontieres at resist.ca ... We need your help!

http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org

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--> To endorse the STATUS FOR ALL National Day of Action (May 27,
2006), please e-mail: sansfrontieres at resist.ca

--> If you are organizing an action or demonstration in your local
community, please get in touch with details: sansfrontieres at resist.ca


NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS, STOP THE DEPORTATIONS!
JUSTICE AND DIGNITY FOR ALL MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES!
STATUS FOR ALL!