[Sanctuarycity_hamilton] Updates about No 4 and 4 campaign and op ed - please respond asap

Wed Feb 25 19:16:23 PST 2015

Hi everyone,

I won't be able to make it to the meeting tomorrow (Thursday), due to a
medical appointment. So sorry! I'm still able to make it for leafleting on
Saturday. I'm available at either time, but would prefer 11-1.

Caitlin and Blake, the op-ed is great :)

I've attached the leaflet with a few edits, if they haven't been printed
out already. My apologies for not sending them sooner...starting a new job
has me all out of sorts!

Just let me know what time you decide on for Saturday, and if there are any
notes for approaching people, etc.

Thanks!

Trudi

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Caitlin Craven <caitlin.e.craven at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I just wanted to pass this call out along (below) to keep everyone posted
> on how the campaign against the four and four rule is coming together.  If
> you have any comments, let me know so I can pass them along.  Otherwise,
> I'll start sending this out to supporting organizations tomorrow from the
> Sanctuary City email.
>
> Also, just wanted to check in about numbers for leafleting on Saturday. Is
> everyone able to come out? I was thinking between 10-12 or 11-1 would make
> the most sense.  We could meet at the MacNab terminal to get the flyers and
> petitions divided up.
>
> Finally, Blake and I have a draft of an op ed to send to the Hamilton Spec
> attached here.  Please feel free to comment, change, correct, etc.  If you
> could please get back to me by 3pm tomorrow that would be great as we
> should try and get this to the editors as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks all!!
>
> Caitlin
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Syed Hussan (MWAC) <coordinator at migrantworkersalliance.org>
> Date: 2015-02-23 10:50 GMT-05:00
> Subject: Please fwd to appropriate contacts: Join the Campaign Against the
> 4 Year Limit on Migrant Workers!
> To: Omar Chu <omarc at shaw.ca>
> Cc: Jesson Reyes <reyes.jesson at gmail.com>, chris ramsaroop <
> ramsaroopchris at gmail.com>, Caitlin Craven <caitlin.e.craven at gmail.com>,
> Sharmeen Khan <colonized.mutant at gmail.com>, Levi Gahman <ivelrah at gmail.com>,
> Mina Ramos <moominamur at gmail.com>, Liza Draman <lizadraman at yahoo.com>,
> Marco Luciano <mluciano2 at gmail.com>, blake mccall <bwmccall at hotmail.com>
>
>
> Join the Campaign Against the 4 Year Limit on Migrant Workers!
>
> Starting February 28th, migrants and supporters across the country are
> escalating the Cross - Canada Campaign Against the 4 Year Limit on Migrant
> Workers! campaign to call on the Federal Government to reverse the four and
> four rule.
>
> When this rule comes into effect on April 1st, 2015, all low-waged
> migrant workers employed under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program and
> Live-In Caregiver / Caregiver Program who have worked in Canada for more
> than four years will be banned from continuing to work in Canada and forced
> to leave. They will also be barred from returning to Canada as workers for
> a further four years.  Those that choose to stay will become undocumented.
>
> These changes are effectively a mass deportation. These rules will tear
> apart families, friends and communities across the country. Migrant
> workers pay tens of thousands of dollars to come to Canada and work at
> minimum wage jobs to provide an opportunity for their family; so that their
> children can go to school; and to have a better life. The 4 & 4 rule strips
> away migrant workers’ dignity, forces workers already in precarity into
> further uncertainty, and imposes discriminatory and arbitrary barriers on
> how long workers can stay here.
>
> Working in Canada for four years proves that the workers are needed, and
> that their work is permanent. These friends and community members deserve
> permanent residence, not deportation. This 4 and 4 rule entrenches a
> revolving door immigration policy, employers can simply replace current
> with new workers.
>
> We are writing to you today to join the Campaign! There are two ways to
> get involved:
>
>    1.
>
>    Become a Campaign Organizer: This is for groups working directly with
>    migrants across Canada that support the demands below and want to do public
>    education, worker education and mass actions against the 4 & 4 rule. Please
>    email back the person who sent you this letter and no4and4 at gmail.com
>    to join the Campaign so you can be invited to our organizing conference
>    calls.
>    2.
>
>    Endorse the Campaign! Unions, community, faith based and other allied
>    organizations that support the demands below: Help us get the word out, get
>    petition signatures, and mobilize your members to come to mass actions.
>    Please email back the person who sent you this letter and
>    no4and4 at gmail.com by February 27th to be listed as an endorser on the
>    first round of materials.
>
> DEMANDS
>
>    1.
>
>    An end to the 4 & 4 rule so migrant workers can continue to work here.
>    2.
>
>    Grant migrant workers in Canada permanent residency.
>    3.
>
>    Ensure migrant worker access to all social benefits and entitlements
>    4.
>
>    Enact legislation to grant permanent residency for all migrants upon
>    arrival.
>
> INITIAL ACTIONS: Pickets, rallies creative actions are planned in
> Edmonton, Guelph, Hamilton, Toronto and Vancouver between Feb 28 and March
> 4th. Join the campaign if you can organize an action in your city.
>
> These actions will culminate in mass rallies across the country between
> March 29th and April 01, 2015. Details to be announced.
>
> Campaign Against the 4 Year Limit on Migrant Workers is comprised of
> migrant worker groups and community organizations across Canada. Members as
> of February 21, 2015 include Fuerza Puwersa (Guelph), Migrant Workers
> Alliance for Change*, Migrante Alberta, No One Is Illegal - Vancouver,
> Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture (Okanagan Valley) and Sanctuary
> City Hamilton.
>
> *Migrant Workers Alliance for Change includes Alliance of South Asian Aid
> Prevention (Toronto), Asian Community Aids Services (Ontario), Caregivers
> Action Centre (Ontario), Industrial Accident Victims’ Group of Ontario,
> Justicia for Migrant Workers (Ontario), KAIROS Canada, Legal Assistance of
> Windsor, Migrante Ontario, No One Is Illegal – Toronto, Parkdale Community
> Legal Services, Social Planning Toronto, UNIFOR (Canada), United Food and
> Commercial Workers (Canada), Workers United and the Workers’ Action Centre
> (Toronto)
>
>
>
>
>
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