[van-announce] No One Is Illegal Vancouver Conference

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Date: Sun, March 2, 2003 8:48 pm
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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.