[van-announce] NOII: TRAINING WORKSHOP (MAY 22)

[noii-van at resist.ca]

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL !!!
TRAINING WORKSHOP ON POLITICALLY-MINDED LEGAL ADVOCACY

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SAT MAY 22 @ 2:30-5:30 PM
1874 KINGSWAY
PALESTINE CENTER (CORNER VICTORIA)
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This workshop will have limited space and if necessary additional ones
will be scheduled. This is not an informational NOII event, it is a fairly
comprehensive training for those interested in direct support work.

While NOII is not an advocacy or service-based organization, we realize the
neccessity of engaging in political-conscious legal advocacy work in order
to offer tangible support for directly affected families and individuals
that we work with as part of a larger political movement for dignity and
justice for immigrants and refugees.

In the current political context of increasing repression, the legal aid
cuts, and the quasi-lawyer strike, while we cannot and do not completely
replace the work of lawyers and advocates, as a community we do have the
tools and resources to offer basic information and support through the
process.

This workshop is for all those interested in doing direct support work
with communities facing deportation and for others working in womyn
centers, anti-poverty struggles, labour organizing, in the health/
education sectors which intersects with the realities and struggles of
immigrant/refugee communities.

This workshop will have three components:

1) Legislative changes in the post 911 climate
2) Overview of Refugee determination system: process and procedure
3) Political organizing in individual/ collective context: models of
organizing in Montreal.

* Facilitated by Harsha Walia (No One is Illegal)

You must RSVP at noii-van at resist.ca or call 778-552-2099 so we can prepare
and plan accordingly. Thanks.