[news] Stop the deportation of Wendy Maxwell

[Resist!ca]

"On Saturday, March 5, at the end of a diverse and lively International Women's Day march, Toronto police came on to the Ryerson University campus and arrested Wendy Maxwell, a well-respected feminist and queer activist. At the time Wendy was selling cookies at the IWD fair to raise funds for CKLN, a local community radio station. She is currently being held at the Vanier Women's detention centre.Wendy has been fighting the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration for status in Canada since she arrived from Costa Rica in July, 1997. Her application for refugee status was turned down in early 2004 and she has been living underground ever since. Despite the risks, Wendy never stopped her activism on behalf of others."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/5430/18978