[opirgyork] Weekly Digest October 14th 2010

[aruna at opirgyork.ca]

Greetings all!

Hope everyone has had a great reading week!
Please check out some of the exciting events happening in the city that
will finish and start off your week just right!

Also - please join us next Wednesday October 20th from 2pm to 330pm in Rm.
313 in the student centre for our volunteer/member orientation!

Check out the info below for more details

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1) Volunteer/Member Orientation
2) Radical Info Fair and Letter Writing to Political Prisoners!
3) *Victory is Bittersweet: La Lucha Sigue!*
4) Rap for Freedom
5) Vivek Shraya at Asian Arts Freedom School
6) Wear Purple Campaign
7) RALLY FOR G20 ACCOUNTABILITY, UOFT COMMUNITY DEMANDS "COPS OFF CAMPUS"!
8) Oct. 22: Join No One Is Illegal & Shelter|Sanctuary|Status at Take Back
the Night!
9) The Trans Inclusion Group hosts a FREE screening of: “LA DANY”
10) Letter Writing night with Addameer - Palestinian political prisoners
11) Fair Trade Fair (York University)
12) Naomi Klein and Hawksley Workman G20 Legal Defence Fundraiser
13) Not By Our Tears: Play by Asylum theatre group
14) Migrant Workers March in Historic Pilgrimage to Freedom

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1) Excited about possibilites of action on campus?
Want to get involved in an exciting organization?
Have a burning issue that you want to see addressed?
Looking to connect with other activists/like minded peoples?
Hoping to find a community that challenges and questions the status quo?
Want to take action? Do social justice research? Engage others in thinking
critically?

Join OPIRG! There is SO much to do on the York campus, and lots of
exciting event and organizing opportunities!!

We are having our first volunteer/member orientation meeting for the year,
where you can learn about the different initiatives taking place, and sign
up to get involved and ask questions you may have about the organization.

Please join us on Wednesday October 20th from 2pm to 3:30pm in RM. 313 of
the student centre!

If you aren't able to attend, but would like to get involved with OPIRG,
email aruna at opirgyork.ca to set up an alternative date to go over info.

There will be snacks and refreshments provided.
Bring friends who may be interested!

See you then!

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2) Radical Info Fair and Letter Writing to Political Prisoners!
Friday Oct 15th 4-6:30PM
UofT Grad Students' Union
16 Bancroft Ave. Toronto

Write a letter to a political prisoner with the Toronto Anarchist Black
Cross,
check out some great literature from local infoshops,learn about some
community
organizations and more!

Donations will be collected for the G20 Legal Defence Fund

For more information:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=134236499958975

This event will be followed by Rap for Freedom:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120755454648381&ref=ts

If your organization would like to table at the info fair, please send an
email to sterling at peaceculture.org

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3) *Victory is Bittersweet: La Lucha Sigue!*

*Eleven years after fleeing to Canada, former Mexican Guerrilla Rogelio
Cuevas Fuentes is granted Permanent Resident Status*

Reception!
Live Music!
DJs!

Date: Friday, October 15th
Time: Doors open at 7PM
Location: Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave (down a short alley, just South of
Richmond)
Cover: $5 door suggested donation to OCAP legal defense

Feat. Musical Guests:
LAL
DJs No Capitalista, Leila P., LeatherDATA
and more!

Long-time anti-poverty and migrant rights activist Rogelio Cuevas Fuentes
has been granted Permanent Resident status in Canada, after an 11-year-long
struggle.  Come join us in celebrating the end of Rogelio’s long battle to
stay in Canada.

Rogelio left Mexico 11 years ago after being brutally tortured and
imprisoned for fifteen months by the Mexican state because of his political
involvement. Upon arrival in Canada, he encountered a whole new battle. He
was labeled a security threat and was blocked from accessing the refugee
claim process for many years. Consequently, he lived in Canada with no
status until he won the right to make a refugee claim at the federal court
level. He was eventually granted convention refugee status, following which
new barriers pertaining to security emerged. Now, after a long and difficult
fight to win his right to stay, Rogelio has finally been granted Permanent
Resident status by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

We would like to join Rogelio in celebrating the fact that his ordeal has
ended. Without doubt, this is a bittersweet victory, one that highlights the
racist and repressive Canadian immigration regime and its use as a mechanism
of political and social control. Rogelio’s strength and conviction must
serve to remind us of the need to continue challenging repressive policies
that divide families across borders and leave people in limbo for years.

Come join us at Cinecycle from 7 PM for a mix of politics and celebration.

All money raised will go to the legal defense fund for the 9 OCAP activists
arrested and detained on July 21st, 2010 for protesting the Liberal
Government’s cuts to welfare and ODSP.

Please come out and celebrate Rogelio’s long overdue and much deserved
victory and help raise money for the fight against the cuts to social
assistance!!

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4) Rap for Freedom 
Friday Oct 15th 2010 7pm
University of Toronto Grad Students' Union
16 Bancroft Ave, Toronto

This is a chance to show your outrage at police brutality and the
systems of oppression that it backs up, a chance to show solidarity
for the fight against these oppressions, and a chance to hear
empowering spoken and musical truths in the company of others who
care. An all ages event with a 19+ section.

Tickets: PWYC, Suggested Donation $10-15

Featuring:
Broadcast Zero:
http://www.myspace.com/broadcastzero
Brutal Youth:
http://www.myspace.com/pattyolantern
Abstract Random:
http://www.myspace.com/abstractrandom3
Testament:
http://www.myspace.com/testtheirlogik

***New t-shirts, patches and buttons will be on sale***
All proceeds donated to the G20 Legal Defense Fund
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120755454648381&ref=ts

More information about Donations to the G20 Legal Defense
Fund: http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org/node/509

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5) Vivek Shraya at Asian Arts Freedom School
Tuesday October 19th
6pm to 830pm
Kapisanan Centre (Basement)
167 Augusta Avenue

You don’t want to miss this special writing workshop facilitated by Vivek
Shraya focusing on creative and editing processes and techniques derived
from working on his collection of short stories, God Loves Hair.

God Loves Hair is a collection of 20 short stories following a tender,
intellectual, and curious child as he navigates complex realms of
sexuality, gender, racial politics, religion, and belonging.
Told with the poignant insight and honesty that only the voice of a young
mind can convey, the stories are accompanied by the award-winning
illustrations of Toronto artist Juliana Neufeld.

http://godloveshair.tumblr.com/

Vivek Shraya is a transplanted prairie boy living in Toronto. Active in
the local queer community, he’s also a musician who has toured North
America, showcased at NXNE and CMW, and appeared with Tegan and Sara,
Dragonette, and Melissa Ferrick. Shraya has released five records,
including 2009’s Keys & Machines, and was recently featured on Degrassi
and Private Practice. God Loves Hair is his first book.

Please register for this workshop by contacting shaunga.tagore at gmail.com

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6) Wear Purple Campaign
Wednesday October 20th from 12am to 1130pm
Everywhere

On Wednesday October 20, 2010, the York Federation of Students urges you
to wear purple in memorial of the LGBTQ youth who have committed suicide
in the recent weeks and months due to homophobic abuse in their homes and
schools.

Purple represents Spirit on the Pride flag. Hate crimes have no place in
our community and by wearing purple on this day is just one of the ways
that you support the LGBTQ community, and that you are against homophobia.

Please join the York Federation of Students in wearing purple on Wednesday
October 20, 2010.

We will be doing video submissions to Dan Savage's online "It Gets Better"
campaign in Vari Hall if you would like to drop by October 12 through the
15 and then October 18 through 20, 2010.

If you cannot make those times to do a video, please email Steven Broadley
at vpoperations at yfs.ca to set up an alternative time.

RIP:

Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Justin Aaberg, Raymond Chase, Asher Brown,
Cody J. Barker, Harrison Chase Brown, Caleb Nolt, Billy Lucas, Jeanine
Blanchette, and Chantal Dube.

For those that forget to wear purple, we will be in Vari Hall with purple
fabric you can tie around your arm in support.

Spread the Message.

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7) RALLY FOR G20 ACCOUNTABILITY, UOFT COMMUNITY DEMANDS "COPS OFF CAMPUS"!

What: Rally against the Toronto Association of Police and Private Security
(TAPPS) "G20 De-Briefing"
Why: To demand accountability and justice for all those arrested during
the G20, and to keep 'Cops off Campus!'
Where: Rally begins at Graduate Students' Union, 16 Bancroft Avenue, and
will end at the University of Toronto Faculty Club, 45 Willcocks Street.
When: 10:30am, Wednesday, October 20th

*** PLEASE WEAR PINK OR BLACK CLOTHES IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND ***

This is a call to friends and allies to rally on the University of Toronto
campus at
10:30am on Wednesday, October 20th, to  send a clear message to the Toronto
Association of Police and Private Security (TAPPS) that their "G20
De-Briefing" 
is not welcome on our campus. Students, faculty, staff and community members
are calling for accountability and justice for all those arrested during
the G20
Summit in Toronto - the largest instance of mass arbitrary detention in
Canadian
history - and are demanding that TAPPS and private security firms be kept
off campus!

What is TAPPS? Why should I protest it?

TAPPS is an organization created in the mid-1990s to provide greater
coordination
between the Toronto police and private security companies. The influence of
private security companies has increased drastically in recent years, from
their
expanding role in major conflicts (think of Blackwater in Afghanistan and
Iraq) to
their steady encroachment on public spaces. Some of the private security
companies
active in war-zones, such as G4S and Securitas, are also active on our
streets and campuses. 

With the increasing trend towards privatizing and contracting-out public
services,
the realm of policing has come to depend on 'public private partnerships'
or the
full-out privatization of policing services - fueling a multi-billion
dollar 'security
industry' that relies on fear to sustain profits.The outcome is simple and
dangerous:
the public has minimal or no oversight and control over the activities of
organizations
that allegedly protect us.

During the G20 Summit, TAPPS revealed the dangers posed when policing forces
and private security companies collaborate: massive and unaccountable
repression
of civil rights. According to 'Security Management' magazine: "Four months
before
the G20, TAPPS helped bring organizations—including the Royal Canadian
Mounted
Police, Toronto Police, NYPD Shield and other specialized units—together
to develop
plans and share intelligence on known terrorist and extremist threats,
including the
Black and Pink Bloc anarchists. The information gathered was then fed into
the
TAPPS secure portal (www.tapps.org) to build an intelligence database that
police
and private security could draw from during the summit weekend. TAPPS members
could discuss the intelligence on message boards within the secure Web
site...
Security and police professionals now hope to build on the lessons learned
[from the G20]
 and realize an even greater collaboration between police and security in
the future." 

What is happening on campus on Oct 20 and why should I care?

On Wednesday, October 20th, TAPPS is holding a 'G20 Debriefing' training
seminar
on the UofT campus. This session is co-hosted by the University of Toronto
Campus
Community Police Service and Reilly Security (one of the companies that
holds a
security contract with the UofT administration). In this closed session,
speakers will
assess police and private security cooperation during "Canada's largest
domestic
security operation" and examine "challenges and provide perspective from many
of the key players involved from both police and private security circles."

In short, similar rounds of repression are being planned on our campus,
behind closed doors. 

The UofT community is already familiar with the consequences of 'police
and private
security' cooperation. During the G20 Summit, 75 people from Quebec, who
were staying
as guests at the GSU Gym, were arrested as a result of a tip provided by a
Reilly Security
guard working on campus. The security guard noted the presence of
'black-clad individuals'
getting off a bus and immediately contacted the UofT 'Incident Command
Center' and
TAPPS to secure their arrest. The 75 people arrested have since been
cleared of all
charges, underscoring the arbitrary nature of these arrests. These arrests
are part of a
broader trend at UofT in which campus activists and their community allies
have experienced
increased harassment at the hands of private security guards and campus
police.

What kind of campus are we asking for?

We are calling on the University of Toronto Administration and the
provincial government
to honour the University's Purpose to commit to "vigilant protection of
individual human
rights," including the "human right to radical, critical teaching and
research." We call on
university administrators to respect the campus as a protected space
to "raise deeply
disturbing questions and provocative challenges to the cherished beliefs
of society at
large and of the university itself." We reject and will actively oppose
all administrative
sanction of an oppressive security agenda that undermines these commitments.

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8) Oct. 22: Join No One Is Illegal & Shelter|Sanctuary|Status at Take Back
the Night!

Organized by our friends and allies at the Toronto Rape Crisis
Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape
 
The theme of this year's march is '30 years of Struggle, Resistance, and
Liberation'

March with No One Is Illegal-Toronto's migrant justice contingent as we
remember the past 30 years of migrant justice struggle, and strengthen our
resolve for the next 30 years to come.

Friday Oct. 22
Yonge-Dundas Square
4pm-8pm: Community Fair/Town Cry/Rally
8pm-9:30pm: March

We march because we remember much more than 30 years of struggle.
Over 30 years of women and trans people of colour fighting for gender
equity and rights in this city.
Over 30 years of migrant women fighting for the right to live, work and
move with justice and dignity.
Over 30 years of our indigenous sisters fighting for sovereignty and the
right to self determination. 
 
And we remember the struggles of women of colour, migrant
women, indigenous women who have spear-
headed the movement for justice for all women.   
 
We remember the struggle of Kimberly Lizanno Sossa, who organized to open
up schooling and education for undocumented students across the GTA. We
remember the struggles of Cecilia and Isabel, who fought to open up
anti-VAW shelter doors across the city for non-status women surviving
violence.
 
We are inspired by the struggles of Mikeda Silvera, Sely Vilasin, Joy
Sioson, Dora Nipp and Pura Velasco, who have fought for the rights of
working migrant women with precarious status, live in care givers,
temporary workers, and refugee women, denied status because of a racist
and colonial immigration system.
 
We are inspired by the struggles of Doreen Silversmith, Harriet Nahanee,
and Ellen Gabriel, who have fought for justice for our missing, and
murdered indigenous sisters, and fought against the ongoing theft and rape
of the land here on Turtle Island.
 
We march because we remember the struggles of the countless other
migrant women, indigenous women, and trans people of
colour from displaced communities who have inspired us in the struggle for
anti-racism and feminism, in the struggle against colonialism and
patriarchy. 
 
But most of all, we march because for more than 30 years, we
have fought, resisted, and organized ourselves. To fight. To win.  

For over 30 years and many years to come, migrant women of colour will
continue to organize to take back the night, every night, every street,
every city and every part of the world where we fight for liberation.
Because as women of colour, as migrants, as survivors of rape and
violence, as allies, and as creative resistors, we are taking back power,
reclaiming the city, creating alternative ways of living, building, and
fighting to win a SANCTUARY CITY.
 
So march with us!  Build with us. Here's to the 30 years before us, and
the 30 years and more that is to come. 
 
PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE POSTER AND SPREAD THE
WORD: http://tbtn30.weebly.com/poster.html 
For more info on the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre: http://www.trccmwar.ca/ 

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9) The Trans Inclusion Group hosts a FREE screening of: “LA DANY”

Everyone welcome. Allies welcome.

► LA DANY: is an intimate doc-portrait of the odd and extraordinary
Dany Castaño Quintero, a transvestite street performer from Medellín,
Colombia. For over 20 years, Dany has entertained the crowds that gather
in Bolívar Park every Sunday following mass. Her improvised show, with its
over-the-top depictions of kidnappings, rapes, murders and infidelities,
is pure entertainment, high on audience participation and low on good
taste. Dany endears the poor and dispossessed. With her theatrics and
heart she’s become an icon for the city’s gay community. Dany is adored
for her humour, spirit and generosity. But away from her adoring public,
life is a struggle. Barely able to read or write, Dany forges a day-to-day
existence to stay safe, sane and alive.

Dany makes weirdness work. By playing with found objects, absurdity and
her own identity, Dany ultimately plays with the constructions of joy,
violence, imagination, reality, innocence, vulgarity, community, conflict,
show and life, and gender and self. LA DANY celebrates art as activism and
makes spectacle political. But what will you see in LA DANY? Come be her
audience


dir.: Julie and Jim Giles
rated: unrated (2010)
produced by: Julie and Jim Giles for Brother & Sister Productions
music by: Alex Cuba, Ron Davis, Rubén “Beny” Esguerra, Diego
Marulanda
language: Spanish with English subtitles
<film running time 80 min>
website:http://ladany.com/

DATE AND TIME:
Monday October 25, 2010
6pm-8pm
FREE
LOCATION:
The Centre for Women and Trans People
563 Spadina Ave. rm.100
wheelchair accessible through Bancroft Avenue
seating may be limited

womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca
womens.centre at utoronto.ca
416-978-8201

Vegan & nut-free meal/snacks (ingredient list available)
Open discussion afterwards.

For accessibility accommodations contact: tig.action.toronto at gmail.com

** Thank you to the filmmakers for their work and generous donation **
** And thank you for your support of the Trans Film Screening Series

Post-event a DVD copy of LA DANY will be available through The Dr. Chun
Resource Library (a social justice library and joint project with OPIRG
Toronto located at The Centre for Women and Trans People)
http://library.opirguoft.org/

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10) Letter Writing night with Addameer - Palestinian political prisoners
Tuesday October 26th
630pm to 9pm
Beit Zatoun (@  Bathurst Station)
612 Markham St.

Join us for a very special letter writing night with Addameer Prisoners’
Support and Human Rights Association, based in Palestine
(http://addameer.info/).

We will learn about the cases of recent Palestinian political prisoners
and write letters of solidarity to the prisoners and their families.

We'll provide everything you need to get started - including a delicious
vegetarian dinner courtesy of Food Not Bombs. Please RSVP so that we can
be sure to have enough food.

Hope to see you soon!
Toronto ABC

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association is a Palestinian
non-governmental, civil institution that focuses on human rights issues.
Established in 1992 by a group of activists interested in human rights,
the center offers support to Palestinian prisoners and detainees,
advocates for the rights of political prisoners, and works to end torture
through monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns. Addameer
Association is currently planning a speaking tour in five different
Canadian cities, including Toronto, Montreal, London, Ottawa and
Vancouver.

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11) Fair Trade Fair (York University)
Friday October 29th
10am to 5pm
Vari Hall, Ross Link and Central Square

The Fair Trade Coalition’s Fair Trade Fair is taking place on October 29th
from 10am to 5pm. Join us in Vari Hall, the Ross link, and Central Square.
Fair Trade products will range from chocolate and coffee to clothing and
jewellery. Come out and support our vendors, and learn about the Fair
Trade system. The products at the event are all purchased fairly, which
means that the labourers were paid a living wage and the product was
produced in an environmentally sustainable way.

Every year we invite a variety of vendors that carry fair trade goods to
not only sell their products, but to talk to students about what fair
trade is. This year we would like to focus on the partnerships between
producers and consumers. We encourage open dialogue regarding the history
of the products and the stories behind them.

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12) Naomi Klein and Hawksley Workman G20 Legal Defence Fundraiser

Join Naomi Klein, Hawksley Workman and friends...
For an evening of song, speech and art to defend the G20 arrestees

Date: Thursday November 11th
Time: 7:00pm - Pre-event / 8:00pm - Main event
Location: The Great Hall 1087 Queen St. W (Map: http://goo.gl/maps/pNxK)

During the G20 summit in June this year, the residents of Toronto bore
witness to the largest mass arrest in Canadian history as approximately
1200 people were assaulted, harassed, beaten and arrested by the police.
More than 250 were charged and six remain in jail. Others are out on bail
under extraordinarily restrictive conditions, continuing to face police
harassment and re-arrest. Legal costs are mounting.

Despite this repression, more than 40,000 people marched on the streets of
Toronto to resist the destructive, exploitative and exclusionary agenda of
the G20. As we continue to organize against the G20 agenda, we must now
also raise money to defend all those who are forced to go through
expensive legal proceedings.

Please join us for a evening of song and speech to defend the G20
arrestees and raise money for the defense fund.

7:00pm
Pre-event with Naomi Klein
Food and drinks provided
Tickets: $100 available (includes pre-event and main event) ONLINE at
GalleryAC (http://www.galleryac.com/)

8:00pm
Naomi Klein & Hawksley Workman
Tickets: $50 in advance / $60 at the door
Tickets available ONLINE at GalleryAC (http://www.galleryac.com/)

Tickets also available at:

Another Story (http://www.anotherstory.ca/)
315 Roncesvalles Ave
416-462-1104
(IN STORE)

Rotate This (http://www.rotate.com/tickets.php)
801 Queen Street W.
416-504-8447
(IN STORE)

Soundscapes (http://www.soundscapesmusic.com/tickets-for-sale/)
572 College Street
416-537-1620
(IN STORE)

Toronto Women’s Bookstore (http://www.womensbookstore.com/)
73 Harbord St
416-922-8744
(IN STORE)

Please contact nov11fundraiser at gmail.com for any inquiries.

This is a 19+ event. Limited capacity: Please book your ticket as early as
possible to ensure availability.

Unfortunately, this venue is not an accessible venue. We sincerely apologize.

More Info: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/nov11

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13) Not By Our Tears: Play by Asylum theatre group

Asylum Theatre Group will present the play Not By Our Tears at the Robert
Gill Theatre in Toronto on 13 November 2010 in two shows at 4:30PM and
8:00PM.
Written by Toronto based poet and playwright R. Cheran, directed by Dushy
Gnanapragasam,
and designed by Eugine Vincent, the play was originally produced in
November 2009
and had its premiere in Toronto. After spending a year touring various
North American
cities, the play is returning to its original venue.

Thirty years of war in Sri Lanka had an enormous impact on Tamil
literature and theatre.
The war came to an end in May 2009. The last phase of the war - described
as a "War
without Witnesses"- cost more than 40,000 Tamil civilian lives and the
internment of more
than 300,000 Tamils in various military-run camps in the Northern Sri
Lanka. Not By Our
Tears is the voice of thousands of voiceless people that were interned.
While chronicling
the story of internment, loss and trauma, the play skillfully articulates
a poetic vision of
mourning and hope.
 
Not by our Tears belongs to a special genre in the tradition of Tamil
drama, commonly
known as “verse play” (paa naadakam) or “play in poetry”. The objective of
such performances
is to offer a visual and oral representation of poetry. Traditionally,
some of the most important
plays in Tamil have been verse plays. In more recent years, this tradition
of theatre merged
with the practice of performing poetry orally for groups of interested
listeners. The confluence
of the two has given to this genre a particular resonance. A verse play is
both contemporary
and ancient; it combines the immediacy of oral poetry with the aesthetic
distance of theatrical
performance. Based on the English translation of contemporary Tamil
resistance poetry by
three major Tamil poets, namely, R. Cheran, V.I.S. Jayapalan and Puthuvai
Ratnathurai,
Not by our Tears skillfully weaves memory, history and narrative to evoke
a haunting and
heart-wrenching image of internment, loss, nostalgia, and resistance. 
 
Event: R. Cheran’s verse play Not By Our Tears
Date:   Saturday 13 November 2010; 4:30PM and 8:00PM
Venue:Robert Gill Theatre (inside University of Toronto’s Koffler Centre,
3rd floor)
            214 College Street at St George Street (enter through St.
George Street)
Tickets: $20 @ Box office: 416-978-7986
                           Suj: 647 836 6858
 
Info:       Asylum Theatre Group: www.asylumtheatre.ca
             Robert Gill Theatre:
http://www.graddrama.utoronto.ca/theatres.html
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14) Migrant Workers March in Historic Pilgrimage to Freedom

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/nooneisillegal#p/u/0/tsC1Bt-eSJg

On Sunday October 10, 2010 migrant agriculture workers, accompanied by
allies from across Ontario participated in a grueling 50 km walk, from
Leamington to Windsor Ontario. Organized by Justicia for Migrant Workers,
the march was a grassroots effort led by migrant workers. 

Beginning at 7am, the exuberant and historic "Pilgrimage to Freedom"
demanded immigration status for all, an end to exorbitant recruitment
fees, better housing, safe working conditions and an end to racism and
sexism in the workplace.

Making stops at local politicians offices and the Canadian Border Services
Agency, the march ended nearly over 12 hours later at the Underground
Railroad Memorial in Windsor to mark, honor and be inspired by the
resilience of migrant and indentured workers that have slaved in
exploitative conditions over the centuries, yet have still fought back,
and have still survived.

For pictures and videos, visit: http://j4mw.tumblr.com
For a Toronto Star Op-Ed by Justicia organizers,
read: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/872459--no-thanksgiving-for-migrant-workers