[mobglob-discuss] NOII-Van is catching up with social media – Find us!]

[Harsha W.]

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Subject: [noiinetwork] NOII-Van is catching up with social media – Find
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*No One Is Illegal Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories is catching up with
social media!*

If you believe in our organizing and agree with our basic principles of
anti-colonial migrant justice and the "right to stay, freedom to move, and
right to return", then help us spread the message!

- Subscribe to our NEW Youtube channel for an inspiring video collection,
including over 50 videos on Indigenous Self-Determination:
http://www.youtube.com/NoOneIsIllegalVan

- "Like" our NEW Facebook Page and our Group to receive daily news and
video links:
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6252584281

- Follow our NEW Twitter for breaking updates on migrant justice
organizing and local, national, and global campaigns:
https://twitter.com/noii_vancouver

- Join our low-traffic email list for announcements:
https://lists.resist.ca/mailman/listinfo/noii-l

- Check our Website for regular articles and events:
http://vancouver.nooneisillegal.org
http://noii-van.resist.ca

- Check our our Flickr photo gallery for actions and events:
http://www.flickr.com/nooneisillegal/


* ABOUT US *

No One is Illegal-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories is a grassroots
anti-colonial migrant justice group with leadership from members of
migrant and/or racialized backgrounds.

As a movement for self-determination that challenges the ideology of
immigration controls, we are in full confrontation with Canadian border
policies; denouncing and taking action to combat racial profiling,
detention and deportation, the national security apparatus, law
enforcement brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants.

We seek an end to detentions and deportations and the violence of all
forms of control. The popular conception is that undesirables are being
expelled because they have failed the appropriate legal channels. However,
an increasing number of migrants are being deported because of structural
flaws in the system. Most migrants are prisoners of passage, criminalized
simply for being poor and trying to migrate. Canadian immigration policies
serve to consolidate the development of Fortress North America, using free
trade to open borders to capital, while exploiting the people- mostly
women- whose free movement it regulates through displacement, deportation,
and the creation of hyper-exploitable labour on which the economy of the
North is built upon.

We demand the abolition of exploitative temporary worker programs and
status for all those who have been deemed illegals. The number of people
admitted each year on temporary worker visas is now greater than the
number admitted as  permanent residents. The number of undocumented
migrants is also ballooning, as hundreds of thousands are forced
underground and endure extreme poverty, inadequate access to health care
and education,  low wages, dangerous working conditions, and the constant
fear of deportation. The threat of deportation is inherent to what makes
migrant workers and non-status people extremely vulnerable to abuse.
Border imperialism serves Canadian industries that depend on exploitable
and indentured labour in order to reap high profits while driving down the
wages of all workers.

We aspire to workers control over their own production, not corporate
wage-slave conditions that commodify human beings, especially women. Women
of colour are particularly over-represented in work characterized by low
wages, irregular hours, and lack of unionization and instability, such as
garment work, domestic work, home support work, cooking, and dishwashing.

People are not simply worth their value in capital or labour. Such ideas
of worthiness are based on domination that has justified the
dehumanization and genocide of peoples across the world. Canada and its
economy are built on the theft of Indigenous lands; exploitation of labour
especially slave, migrant, and reproductive labour; and the global
appropriation of natural resources.

Government and corporate involvement in military occupations, most
recently through the War on Terror and land takeovers facilitated by free
trade agreements such as NAFTA continue to be a prime reason for the
repression, destitution, and migration of millions of people. Locally,
colonial policies from the Indian Act to residential schools, and
anti-immigrant measures from the Japanese internment to Security
Certificates, have reinforced racism and cast entire communities as racial
outsiders.

In light of this reality, we assert that people have the right to remain
in their homes in the face of global displacement due to land theft,
occupation, environmental degradation, and other capitalist and
imperialist forces. In light of the unfettered freedom afforded to capital
and armies across otherwise fortified borders, people should be free to
move whether due to persecution, poverty, or simply in order to flourish
with dignity. People also have the inherent right to return to the lands
of which they have been unjustly dispossessed.

The ongoing apartheid reality instituted through reserves and sweatshops
is one that must be fundamentally uprooted and transformed. We place
ourselves within the broader movement for global justice struggling
against
capitalism, homophobia, imperialism, occupation, patriarchy, poverty,
racism and other forms of domination because we recognize that these are
interconnected systems. We envision and actively strive for a humanity
where everyone has the right to sustenance and the ability to provide it,
where we are free of oppression, misery, and exploitation, and are able to
live meaningfully in relationship to one another and in reverence for
Mother Earth that sustains us.


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No One is Illegal-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories is a grassroots
anti-colonial migrant justice group with leadership from members of
migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. We strive and struggle for the
right to remain, the freedom to move, and the right to return. As a
movement for self-determination that challenges the ideology of
immigration controls, we take action to combat racial profiling, detention
and deportation, the national security apparatus, law enforcement
brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants. The ongoing
apartheid reality instituted through reserves and sweatshops is one that
must be fundamentally uprooted and transformed. We envision a humanity
where everyone has the right to sustenance and the ability to provide it,
where we are free of oppression, misery, and exploitation, and are able to
live meaningfully in relationship to one another and in reverence for
Mother Earth that sustains us.

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