[IPSM] News, Events and Analysis (February 26-March 11, 2007)

Thu Mar 8 11:54:13 PST 2007

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NO ONE IS ILLEGAL
News, Events and Analysis
February 26-March 11, 2007
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CONTENTS (scroll below for weblinks to articles):

1) Mohawk grandmother remains in hiding, defying arrest warrant
2) An appeal for your support and solidarity: Katenies defies the
colonial US-Canada border

3) Reclaiming the Roots of Feminist Resistance: Women of Diverse
Origins (March 10)
4) International Day Against Police Brutality (March 15)
5) Poster Campaign: Justice for Anas! Killed by the Montreal Police

6) Bush out of Baghdad, Canada out of Kandahar! Join the
Anti-Imperialist Contingent (March 17, NOON)
7) Solidarity Across Borders Community Dinner and Benefit Show (March
17, 6:30pm)
8) Immigrant Rights are Workers Rights: Status for All! (May 5, 2007)

9) Article Compilation: 9-year boy and family detained in Texas
detention facility
10) Democracy Now: Human Rights Groups Call for Closure of Texas Jail
Holding Undocumented Immigrants
11) AP: Groups seek to close immigrant detention center in Texas

12) Boston Globe: Up to 350 in custody after New Bedford immigration raid
13) AP: Children stranded after immigration raid
14) Boston Mayday Coalition: New Bedford Workers are not the enemy

15) Globe & Mail: More Mexican labour needed in Canadian oil patch,
executives say
16) New York Times: Prison Inmates Will Replace Migrants in Colorado Fields
17) BBC: China's migrant underclass; "the world's largest ever
peacetime migration"
18) Briefing Note for North American Migrants Rights Activists on
Recent African Migration Experiences, European Union Repression, and
Activist Responses
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Mohawk grandmother remains in hiding, defying arrest warrant

A Mohawk woman from the Akwesasne Community remains in hiding, defying
an arrest warrant from the Superior Court of Ontario in Cornwall.
"Katenies" (whose Mohawk name means "she changes things around")
refused to appear in court on customs and border violations this past
January 18, 2007. Instead, she served her own "Motion to Dismiss,"
questioning the jurisdiction of the courts and border officials over
sovereign Mohawk peoples and their land.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/mohawk-grandmother-remains-in-hiding.html

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An appeal for your support and solidarity: Katenies defies the
colonial US-Canada border

Katenies has questioned the authority of the Canadian courts, or any
colonial courts and border officials, over Onkwehonwe (indigenous
peoples) of Turtle Island. She is currently wanted on an arrest
warrant, from the Superior Court of Justice in Cornwall, Ontario, for
refusing to appear on phony customs and border violations. She remains
out of sight of the authorities, somewhere on Turtle Island, but
always under threat of being arrested and detained.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/background-katenies-defies-colonial-us.html

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Reclaiming the Roots of Feminist Resistance: Women of Diverse Origins (March 10)

On March 10th 2007, for the sixth year in a row, the March 8th
Coordination and Action Committee of Women of Diverse Origins will be
hosting a public forum to celebrate International Women's Day. Our
theme, "Reclaiming the Roots of Feminist Resistance: remembering the
past, looking to the future" addresses the rising tide of
anti-feminist sentiment, here and around the world. There is an
assumption that gender equality has been achieved. The lives of First
Nations, refugees and immigrants, workers squeezed by globalizing
economies, victims of police brutality, human rights violations and of
violence against women and children, reveal a different picture. We
urgently need to remember and draw lessons from feminist struggles,
past and present, which have demonstrated the interconnectedness
between gender, social and economic inequalities.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/02/reclaiming-roots-of-feminist-resistance.html

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11th International Day Against Police Brutality (March 15)

--> Demonstration Against Police Brutality: Thursday March 15th, 2007,
at 5PM at SNOWDON metro.

Like the past eleven years, the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality
(COBP, in its French acronym) is calling for participation in the
International Day against Police Brutality held in the city of
Montreal, in addition to holding local activities in your own regions.
In 2006, demonstrations were held in Montréal, Toronto, Winnipeg and
Vancouver, as well as several cities in Mexico. Join the struggle
against police brutality and impunity, a movement that has no borders
for dignity, justice and freedom! We must defend our rights; no one
else will do this for us.

READ MORE: http://www.cmaq.net/en/node/26718

Poster for Montreal's International Day Against Police Brutality
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_21.html

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Poster Campaign: Justice for Anas! Killed by the Montreal Police

The Justice for Anas Coalition, of which No One Is Illegal-Montreal is
a member, has begun a Montreal-area street postering campaign to raise
awareness about the police killing of Anas Bennis more than one year
ago. The four posters provide an overview of the questions we are
posing, and the answers we are demanding:

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/02/poster-campaign-justice-for-anas-killed.html

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Bush out of Baghdad, Canada out of Kandahar! Join the Anti-Imperialist
Contingent (March 17, Montreal)

March 2007 marks the fourth anniversary of the brutal invasion and
occupation of Iraq. George Bush is increasing -- despite worldwide
opposition and outrage -- the number of American troops in Iraq,
meaning more death and devastation for Iraqi civilians. The so-called
"War on Terror" expands, with the recent bombardment and occupation of
Somalia, and continued torture and abuse at American-run concentration
camps at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and at secret prisons all over
the world.

Meanwhile the Canadian government continues to support US-led
imperialism in the Middle East with thousands of troops in
Afghanistan, and Stephen Harper describing the deaths of civilians in
Lebanon and Palestine as "measured and justified."

In opposition to war, occupation and imperialism, this coming
Saturday, March 17, 2007 we take to the streets to demand: BUSH OUT OF
BAGHDAD! CANADA OUT OF KANDAHAR!

READ MORE: http://blocktheempire.blogspot.com/2007/02/march-17-bush-out-of-baghdad-canada-out.html

En español: http://blocktheempire.blogspot.com/2007/02/17-de-marzo-de-iraq-afganistn-no-hay.html

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Solidarity Across Borders Community Dinner and Benefit Show

Join members of Solidarity Across Borders for an evening of food and
music at our next community dinner. Join us and continue the demand
for justice and dignity for all migrants and refugees!

The dinner will be followed by a benefit show with Toronto's LAL - a
group of musicians of the African and South Asian diaspora, with a
long commitment to issues of migration and social justice. LAL will be
in Montreal to lauch their multi-media show, 'Deportation', at the
Musee des Arts Interculturelles (the MAI).

READ MORE: http://solidarityacrossborders.blogspot.com/2007/03/march-17-community-dinner-and-benefit.html

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Immigrant Rights are Workers Rights: Status for All! (May 5, 2007)

Solidarity Across Borders -- a Montreal-based network engaged in the
struggle for justice and dignity of immigrants and refugees -- will be
part of another National STATUS FOR ALL Day of Action this coming
Saturday, May 5, 2007.

We will be marching along Jean-Talon Boulevard, both east and west, as
part of a community parade. Our demonstration will end with a festival
and picnic in the heart of Parc Extension.

READ MORE: http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org/en/node/216

En español: http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org/en/node/214

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Article Compilation: 9-year boy and family detained in Texas detention facility

A compilation of articles concerning the detention of Kevin, a 9-year
old boy who is detained in a Texas prison. The boy, who is a Canadian
citizen, is detained with his Iranian-born parents. They are demanding
status in Canada.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/article-compiliation-9-year-boy-and.html

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Democracy Now: Human Rights Groups Call for Closure of Texas Jail
Holding Undocumented Immigrants

Human rights groups are calling for the U.S. government to shut down a
jail in Texas where about 200 immigrant children, some only infants,
are being detained. The Hutto facility in Taylor, Texas is owned by
the private prison company, Corrections Corporations of America.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/democracy-now-human-rights-groups-call.html

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AP: Groups seek to close immigrant detention center in Texas

Advocacy groups for immigrant families and the Department of Homeland
Security are at odds over detention facilities in Texas and
Pennsylvania that critics argue are inhumanely housing adults and
young children in jail-like conditions.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/ap-groups-seek-to-close-immigrant.html

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Boston Globe: Up to 350 in custody after New Bedford immigration raid

An army of 300 federal immigration agents raided a New Bedford leather
manufacturer today and arrested the company's owner and three managers
on charges that they hired illegal workers to meet labor demands
fueled by millions of dollars in contracts with the US military.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/boston-globe-up-to-350-in-custody-after.html

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AP: Children stranded after immigration raid

Dozens of young children were stranded at schools and with baby
sitters after their parents were rounded up by federal authorities who
raided a leather goods maker suspected of hiring illegal immigrants,
authorities said Wednesday.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/ap-children-stranded-after-immigration.html

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Boston Mayday Coalition: New Bedford Workers are not the enemy

The terms "terrorism" and "illegal immigrants" are deliberately used
under the same breath by ICE officials to sow confusion in the minds
of the public. We need to ask them exactly what those 'terrorist acts'
are that these hard working New Bedford leather workers were accused
of in that horrific military operation this morning. Most of the
workers in the Michael Bianco Textile plant are women. Many in
desperation ran into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean. A Coast
Guard helicopter however hovered overhead to give information to land
troops about the location of the "enemy".

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/boston-mayday-coalition-new-bedford.html

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Globe & Mail: More Mexican labour needed in Canadian oil patch, executives say

Canada and Mexico should accelerate efforts to import temporary
Mexican energy workers to alleviate the skills shortage in Alberta and
other provinces as oil sands development ramps up, top North American
CEOs will recommend today.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/globe-mail-more-mexican-labour-needed.html

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New York Times: Prison Inmates Will Replace Migrants in Colorado Fields

As migrant laborers flee Colorado because of tough new immigration
restrictions, worried farmers are looking to prisoners to fill their
places in the fields. In a pilot program run by the state Corrections
Department, supervised teams of low-risk inmates beginning this month
will be available to harvest the swaths of sweet corn, peppers and
melons that sweep the southeastern portion of the state.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-york-times-prison-inmates-will.html

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BBC: China's migrant underclass; "the world's largest ever peacetime migration"

Tens of millions of migrant workers who are helping to fuel China's
booming economy are being treated as an urban underclass, Amnesty
International says. Despite some reforms, they are often denied rights
to adequate health and education services and are vulnerable to
exploitative working conditions. As many as 200 million people in
China have moved from the countryside to cities in the past two
decades.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/bbc-chinas-migrant-underclass-worlds.html

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Briefing Note for North American Migrants Rights Activists on Recent
African Migration Experiences, European Union Repression, and Activist
Responses

There is a striking similarity between North America and Europe
experiences in the recent upsurge in unauthorized migration from the
South, the militarization of borders, anti-immigrant legislation,
criminalization of undocumented migrants, government raids, and
expulsions. In response, migrants' rights activists in Europe, North
Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) and West Africa (Mali, Senegal,
Mauritania, Niger, Benin) are mobilizing communities, organizing
activist forums and networks, and conducting demonstrations at
national and international levels.

READ MORE: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/briefing-note-for-north-american.html

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