[van-announce] No One Is Illegal - Vancouver Action Plan Strategy meeting

[No One Is Illegal - Van]

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver
Action Plan Strategy meeting
Saturday, September 20th, 1:00pm
692 E Hastings
On the South/East corner of Hastings at Heatly

Come to a meeting to discuss and plan No One Is Illegal - Vancouver's action 
strategy. We invite everyone interested in furthering the struggle of 
immigrants and refugees to attend this meeting and bring their input and 
ideas forward. No One Is Illegal intends to act in solidarity with the 
struggles of indigenous people, and all people living in poverty, in an 
effort to unify the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist movement.

Discuss:
1. Introduction to No One Is Illegal.
2. Current social-political situation in B.C.
3. Proposals for action.
4. Upcoming events and mobilizations.

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver is an organization that is committed to 
fighting for the rights of immigrants and refugees.

* 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!
* Abolish Bill C-18!

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.

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