[van-announce] No One Is Illegal Vancouver Conference

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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:59:22 -0800
From: No One Is Illegal - Van <noii_van at hotmail.com>

No One Is Illegal Vancouver Conference

SFU Harbour Centre - 515 West Hastings, room 1700
March 16, 12:30-5:30pm

No One Is Illegal -Vancouver is a coalition of groups and individuals
committed to fighting for the rights of immigrants and refugees.

The Vancouver conference will include speakers, discussion and a report back
from the National No One Is Illegal Conference in Montreal.

Phone: 604-682-3269 box 7051
noii_van at hotmail.com

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver
Demands

* Stop the racist war on immigrants
* Stop the policy of deportations now!
* General amnesty for all detained immigrants in Canadian prisons!
* Open the borders for detained immigrants in US prisons!

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver
Basis of Unity

1. Canadian immigration policies serve to consolidate the development of
Fortress North America, using free trade to open borders to capital, while
promoting the economic exploitation of the people whose free movement it
regulates and limits. Therefore, we believe that a campaign for the
regularization of non-status people must do so in confrontation to the
Canadian state, and its racist and colonial policies against immigrants,
refugees and indigenous peoples.

2. Struggles for justice and the right to self-determination for immigrants,
refugees and indigenous peoples are led by those communities and individuals
and are carried out on a daily basis. Those of us who participate in these
struggles as allies do so with this understanding.

3. We acknowledge that the Canadian state is built on the displacement,
dispossession and genocide of indigenous peoples, and that our campaign must
recognize this fact and be carried out accordingly, in solidarity with the
struggles for self-determination and justice of indigenous communities.

4. We recognize that capitalism, patriarchy and racism are interconnected
systems of oppression and domination that reflect and reinforce each other.
These systems must be eradicated. We aim to work together in a way that is
consistent with this analysis. As such, we commit to working and debating in
ways that are respectful of the right to dignity, autonomy and
self-determination of each person and of the communities of which they are a
part.

5. We struggle for a world in which everyone can move freely, live and
flourish in justice and dignity.