[Sanctuarycity_hamilton] Friday Rally

Tue Oct 6 10:10:18 PDT 2015

Invites have been sent to MMPJ (+invite to speak) and OPIRG.

8 PM works for me!

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Caitlin Craven <caitlin.e.craven at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I like that idea. Also, would 8pm work tonight to talk? I'm assuming it's
> just me and Ajit who are available tonight...
>
> Article was published yesterday in the spec about the die in and friday's
> rally fyi
> http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5946100-sanctuary-hamilton-focuses-spotlight-on-syrian-refugees/
>
>
> cheers, caitlin
>
>
> El lunes, 5 de octubre de 2015, Ajit Bir Singh <ajitvir.s at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> 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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