[mobglob-discuss] APRIL 1: FILMS/ SPEAKERS ON MIGRANT STRUGGLES

[harsha at riseup.net]

*  please post widely *

                         REELS OF RESISTANCE:
             NON STATUS AND MIGRANT WORKERS STRUGGLES


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                        FRIDAY APRIL 1 @ 6 PM
                     SFU HARBOUR CENTER Room 2270
                By donation 5-10$. no one turned away.
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For more information No One is Illegal Vancouver
web: noii-van.resist.ca/ email: noii-van at resist.ca


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 WITH SPEAKERS FROM FARMWORKERS UNION
AND REFUGEES AGAINST RACIAL PROFILING
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* A TIME TO RISE- BY ANAND PATWARDHAN
Winner of Silver Dove, Germany, The Tyne Award,  U.K.

This film documents the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant
workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the Canadian
Farmworkers Union, and the response of  growers and labor contractors to
the threat of unionization. Made over a period of two years, the film is
eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers' movement from the first
stirrings of  militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.

"A stirring documentary that left me fascinated by the dignity and passion
with which farm labourers are facing down fear and violence to form a
union "- Toronto Star


* THE STRUGGLE OF NON STATUS ALGERIANS
OCCUPATION OF IMMIGRATION OFFICE WITH RECENTLY RELEASED POLICE FOOTAGE

The Action Committee for Non-Status Algerians has been organizing in
Montreal against the deportation of 1000 Algerians for over four years. In
October 2002, their dynamic struggle won a  major victory with
regularization of over 90% of the non-status Algerians. However, numerous
individuals are excluded from that regularization procedure and on May
29th 2003, 10 Algerians and 2 supporters from No One Is Illegal Montreal
entered the waiting room of the Immigration Minister’s office. The police
response to the action was brutal- the police beat and tasered many of the
men on their necks, backs, arms, torsos and gentials. Amnesty
International, along with Action Committee for Non-Status Algerians, No
One Is Illegal, and the Ligue des droits et libertes, have demanded an
independent public inquiry.

The trials of the 12 individuals arrested are currently going on. Mohamed
Cherfi, outspoken human rights defenders and involved in the May 29
occupation, has since been deported from Canada after being dragged out of
sanctuary.