[Sanctuarycity_hamilton] meeting updates

[A.E. Chenier]

Hi everyone,
I can make it to this Monday's meeting.
Also, I'm really sorry: I owe you a set of minutes from the previous
meeting. I'll send them out tomorrow.
Ani

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:47 AM, blake mccall <bwmccall at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Folks,
>
> I hope everyone is feeling better. Only Caitlin, Trudi and Myself were
> able to meet yesterday. I'll sketch out the updates below, as well as the
> proposal for action for the group. As the proposal is time sensitive we
> thought it best to call a meeting for me Monday Feb, 9 at 5:30. Please
> let me know if you can make it.
>
> Updates on Toronto Meeting: Text updates from Maria and Ani, Good
> attendance, though mostly people from Toronto, networking, no decisions
> were made at that time
>
> Colonlialism 101: Caitlin contacted the Indigenous Solidarity Working
> group and they seemed like they would be able to do a work shop for us.
> Looking at a weekend in Late march April, about 3 hours. Would invite
> Danielle Be to participate, but not ask her to do all the work. Will follow
> up with ISWG, and send out doodle poll about weekend that works.
>
> Feb 18 Meeting. Kitchener is doing work to be a Sanctuary City would like
> our advice on how we did it. Maria is going to drive, Caitlin will go as
> well. Trudi is interested in coming to learn more about what we did as well.
>
> City Accountability: Maria and Tessa to meet and compile list of
> departments and contacts in those departments
>
> Important Proposal Below
> April 1 now March 1st event: April is the 4 year anniversary of the change
> to the TFW law that allows workers to stay in Canada for 4 year, but that
> have to leave for a min of 4 years. Meaning a large number of workers could
> become undocumented this year.
>
> Hussan from Migrant Workers Alliance for Change is asking people to hold
> and event/rally/action on March 1st, to put pressure to change this law
> before its implementation.
>
> Our discussion was that 3 weeks is not enough lead time to pull off a
> rally in Hamilton, put desire is to still to do a rally on April 1st but
> use March 1 as promotion.
>
> Caitlin's Proposal: Do a rally outside of Federal Building or other target
> on April 1st. On March 1st, 6-10 people to leaflet (ideally, somewhere in
> east Hamilton, Limeridge, and Jackson) for the rally and get petitions
> (done through MWAC) signed. Try to write an op-ed to the spec for March
> 1st. After this Network with organizations to try to get a turn out for the
> April 1 Rally.
>
> So that is what happened, yesterday. If folks can let me know about
> meeting on Monday that would be great.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
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