[Sanctuarycity_hamilton] Friday Rally

[Caitlin Craven]

Hi,

I have a contact from Ian Sloan (from the United Church) that I can email.
I think invites to speak make sense, though how many are we looking for? (3
+us seems like the max to me...)

Caitlin

2015-10-04 20:46 GMT-04:00 Ajit Bir Singh <ajitvir.s at gmail.com>:

> Hey, I can send invitations to OPIRG and MMPJ. Do you have contact info
> for United Church?
>
> Also, are we just inviting them to attend and forward the event in their
> networks, or are we also inquiring about whether they want to
> collaborate/participate/speak?
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Sanctuary City Hamilton <
> sanctuaryhamilton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> Here is the Link to fb event page.
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/140525676301332/140525742967992/
>>
>> Lets start promoting it.
>> Who do we want to approach to speak at it. I am thinking the Palestian
>> Association who came to the last event. It might also be worth it to
>> approach Mirna again. With the tenants organizing in Downtown Hamilton many
>> are Somalian Would it be worth it to approach some there to speak or trying
>> to contact someone freom the news report you said.
>>
>> Also who is going to be media contact?
>>
>> I am also going to send invite emails to Muslim Association of Hamilton,
>> as well as a few union in the city. Can someone hit up OPIRG, MMPJ, United
>> Church.
>>
>> I'm sure I am forgetting lots of folks, but want to make sure we get
>> started contacting people asap.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> B
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, October 3, 2015, Caitlin Craven <caitlin.e.craven at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I'm also available Tuesday night to talk (7:30 work for others?).  I
>>> like the idea of a rally to fit in with the general call for 10 days of
>>> action from Refugees Welcome (Oct 9-19). I agree that doing something on
>>> the 9th (the night of artcrawl) will make the most impact. After doing
>>> this, it would be good to check in and see where this momentum is going to
>>> take us as a group (in terms of focus, projects, etc).
>>>
>>> I also like the idea of linking to broader Islamophobia and to specific
>>> struggles going on in Hamilton.  I know I've been really neglectful in
>>> sending out minutes from the last meeting, but here is an article on the
>>> case with the Somali woman facing deportation/detention we were talking
>>> about in the last meeting.
>>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/hamilton-somali-community-shows-up-to-support-anisa-ibrahim-1.3207375
>>>
>>> I will try and follow up with a couple people about the case and see
>>> where things are at (maybe someone will be able to speak to it at this
>>> rally.
>>>
>>> talk soon,
>>> Caitlin
>>>
>>> 2015-10-03 16:07 GMT-04:00 Ajit Bir Singh <ajitvir.s at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> Great idea on No to Islamophobia. I'm on board for October 9th and I
>>>> can skype on Tues night.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 11:28 AM, blake mccall <bwmccall at hotmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> So after the Die in on Thursday. We talked briefly about next steps.
>>>>>
>>>>> On this coming Friday Oct 9th we will hold a Rally, depending on
>>>>> Numbers and who shows up at the rally we also talked about doing a mock
>>>>> border crossing down James St.
>>>>>
>>>>> This might derail us but would we also be interested in making it a
>>>>> Refugees Welcome and No to Islamophobia rally? Myself I am really angry by
>>>>> the racist debates around the niquab, and how this gets folded into fear
>>>>> against refugees. It would be nice to articulate this in a rally.
>>>>>
>>>>> So my proposal (if folks can respond by end of night Saturday so
>>>>> Sunday we can get the fb event up and emails out). We hold a rally Starting
>>>>> at 7:00 in Gore Park, and march up James St. to the Immigrant Statue in
>>>>> front of Liuna Hall.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If possible can folks skype on Tuesday Night? And we can keep our
>>>>> meeting on Thursday to hammer out the details.
>>>>>
>>>>> The proposal for doing a border crossing we can talk about on Tuesday.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Blake
>>>>>
>>>>>
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