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

Thu Feb 26 05:10:52 PST 2015

Hello Everyone,

I unfortunately will also not be able to attend tonight's meeting. While
out of town last week I received a job offer that I have accepted and it
means moving out of Hamilton so I have been scrambling trying to find a
place to live in order to not have to commute. Due to the move, I will only
be able to be a supporter of the coalition and not an active member.

I really enjoyed working with you all and I apologize for the late email.
Life has been a little chaotic. Please let me know if there is anything I
can do to help.

Josee Oliphant

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Trudi Lorenz <lorenztrudi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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Josee Oliphant, M.A
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