[Sanctuarycity_hamilton] Friday Rally

[Ajit Bir Singh]

Should we invite MMPJ to speak?

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:26 PM, blake mccall <bwmccall at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think we should blanket ask people to speak I agree with Caitlin 3
> people plus us should be enough. But it would be great to get endorsements
> have them promote it within their groups.
>
> B
>
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> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:24:29 -0400
> From: caitlin.e.craven at gmail.com
> To: sanctuarycity_hamilton at lists.resist.ca
> Subject: Re: [Sanctuarycity_hamilton] Friday Rally
>
> 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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