[news] CKUT Radio: Palestinian Refugee Camps Are No One's Home

[Stefan Christoff]

CKUT Radio: Palestinian Refugee Camps Are No One's Home

Listen to a report about the ongoing struggle of 100 Palestinian refugees
in Montreal fighting deportation from Canada. This report features an
interview with a refugee from Bourj el Barajneh refugee camp near Beirut
Lebanon, who describes the terrible conditions which Palestinian refugees
live everyday in the camps of Lebanon. In Lebanon Palestinian refugees are
forbidden from owning property, working in over 78 professions, receiving
proper health care, and moving & traveling freely.

This report also features interviews with Ehab Yousef a Palestinian
refugee from the Occupied Territories who is facing deportation from
Canada and Leila Mouammar a Palestinian activist from Montreal about a
recent delegation organized by the Coalition Against the Deportation of
Palestinian refugees to the riding office of Immigration Minister Denis
Coderre in Montreal North. The delegation was organized to demand a
meeting with the Immigration Minister regarding the pending deportations
of the Palestinian Refugees and to put forward the two central demands of
the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees: 1)
Immediately stop all deportations of Palestinian refugees & 2) Accept
Palestinian refugee claims, thus giving them the title of Landed Status in
Canada.

-> To listen to the report on the Coalition Against the Deportation of
Palestinian Refugees visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=7738

-> Below are the details about Refugee Camps Are No One's Home! a
demonstration on September 27th in Montreal to support of the 100
Palestinian refugees facing deportation from Canada:


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:02:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: refugees at riseup.net


REFUGEE CAMPS ARE NO ONE'S HOME!
Solidarity March with Montreal's
Palestinian Refugees Facing Deportation from Canada

As Part of the International Days of Action Against Occupation and Empire!
Stop the Deportations!

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27th @ 1:00 PM
Gather at Norman Bethune Statue
corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve
(metro Guy-Concordia)
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Within the context of the international days of action against occupation
and empire a demonstration has been called in Montreal by the Coalition
Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees. This march will take to
the streets of Montreal to express solidarity with over 100 Palestinian
refugees who are facing deportation from Canada in the coming weeks and
months. Most of the refugees facing deportation are from the refugee camps
of Lebanon and from Occupied Palestine. They have claimed refugee status
in Canada over the last couple of years. Systematically Palestinian
refugee claims are being rejected by Immigration Canada post September
11th.

This march will put forward two demands to Citizenship & Immigration
Canada: 1) Immediately stop all deportations of Palestinian refugees & 2)
Accept Palestinian refugee claims, thus giving them the title of Landed
Status in Canada.

This march is being called as part of a growing political campaign in
Montreal to fight against these deportations. At this point hundreds of
calls, faxes, emails and letters have been sent to Coderre's offices in
Montreal and Ottawa in support of the Coalition's demands which have to
this point been endorsed by over 100 groups and organizations throughout
Quebec, Canada & the world. This last July a solidarity march in support
of the Campaign to Stop the Deportation of Montreal's Palestinian Refugees
brought hundreds of people to the streets of Montreal.

This march is being organized as part of a worldwide movement of immigrant
and refugee communities who are fighting back against the countless
injustices perpetuated against them by the Canadian State. Montreal's
Palestinian Refugees need your support to fight against Citizenship and
Immigration Canada's attempt to deport them to the illegal and deadly
Israeli military occupation which plagues everyday life throughout
Occupied Palestine and to the violence, poverty and persecution which
defines life in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon.

STOP THE DEPORTATIONS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!

Organized by the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian
Refugees, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), the No One is
Illegal Campaign.

For more information:
By Phone: 514.591.3171
By Email: refugees at riseup.net

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