[IPSM] AUDIO from the launch of the "People's Commission into Immigration "Security" Measures" (NO ONE IS ILLEGAL RADIO)

[No One Is Illegal Montreal]

No One Is Illegal-Montreal Radio (March 2007)
part of CKUT's Open Conspiracy for Social Change

This special uploaded edition of No One Is Illegal Radio is a
compilation of audio from the launch of the final report of the
"People's Commission into Immigration "Security" Measures." The public
launch of the report took place on February 1, 2007 at the Centre
Communautaire Musulman de Montreal.

--> LISTEN to this special People's Commission edition of No One Is
Illegal Radio at: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=22700

Audio excerpts from the People's Commission launch include:
* FETYA AHMED, SARWAT VIQUAR & JARED WILL, commissioners: presenting
the findings of the People's Commission;
* SARITA AHOOJA, member of No One Is Illegal-Montreal and a
commissioner: speaking on the Land Reclamation at Six Nations;
* KHADIJA BENNIS, spokesperson of the Justice for Anas Campaign:
speaking about the killing of her brother by Montreal police;
* MARY FOSTER, member of the Justice Coalition for Adil Charkaoui and
an organizer of the People's Commission: speaking about the Kingston
Immigration Holding Center ("Guantanamo North") and the Secret Trial
Five;
* TATIANA GOMEZ, member of Solidarity Across Borders and an organizer
of the People's Commission: speaking about the case of Amparo Torres,
a Colombian refugee facing deportation based on secret evidence;
* HICHAM HALLAL, member of the Al Hidaya Association: speaking about
Islamophobia and the racial and religious profiling of Arab and Muslim
communities;
* MARIE-EVE LAMY, member of the Justice Coalition for Adil Charkaoui
and an organizer of the People's Commission: speaking about the case
of Suleyman Goven, a Kurdish refugee to Canada who was denied status
for 15 years due to CSIS harassment and intimidation;
* LEILA POURTAVAF, member of No One Is Illegal-Montreal and a
researcher for the People's Commission: speaking on the current
immigration regime in Canada;
* LAURA SCHEVCHENKO, organizer with the Sogi Bachan Singh Support
Committee: providing an update about the deportation to possible
torture of Sogi Singh, based on secret evidence.

-- Produced by Leila Pourtavaf and Jaggi Singh of No One Is Illegal-Montreal.

For three days in April 2006, the People's Commission on Immigration
Security Measures held Public Hearings at a community centre in
Montreal's Little Burgundy neighbourhood. The first popular commission
of inquiry on immigration issues to take place in Quebec, its purpose
was to investigate the implications of security-related measures
currently imposed on international migrants in the name of national
security. The Commission, though based in Montreal, drew on support
from Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Sherbrooke, Halifax and
elsewhere in Canada. The Commission investigated and reported on the
actions of Canadian government bodies in relation to Immigration and
Refugee Protection Act security measures (IRPA), examining the
equality of treatment of non-citizens, security certificates and
similar procedures, detention and deportation (including deportation
to torture). Based on its findings, the Commission has made
recommendations for appropriate legal or popular action against those
responsible for abuses and for changes to the current legal and
procedural framework. The public launch of the People's Commission
Final Report took place on February 1, 2007 at the Centre
Communautaire Musulman de Montreal.

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

--> For more info about the People's Commission, including the Full
Report, visit: http://www.peoplescommission.ath.cx

--> A photo-report from the People's Commission is linked at:
http://gallery.cmaq.net/peoplescommission

--> LISTEN to speakers from the launch of the Final Report of the
People's Commission (February 1, 2007) at:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=22700

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