[van-announce] [Fwd: Join us on Saturday May 27- National Day of Action for Immigrant Rights and Status for All!]

[Harsha]

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Subject: [Noii-announce] Join us on Saturday May 27- National Day of
Action for Immigrant Rights and Status for All!
From:    "No One is Illegal-Vancouver" <noii-van at resist.ca>
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Dear friends,

This is a final reminder about the May 27th National Day of Action for
Immigrant/ Refugee Rights and Status for All! There will be marches across
eight cities and we hope you will join us here in Vancouver as our diverse
communities come together to celebrate our historical and current
victories and continue to assert our rights to a life of dignity and justice.

The march is organized by the STATUS Coalition in Vancouver, a coalition
of (im)migrant/refugee groups, and is supported by a wide-range of
community organizations, unions, women’s centres, and student groups.

We hope to see you on Saturday May 27th at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 2 pm!

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For our poster (available in Spanish, Punjabi, Chinese, English, Arabic,
Farsi) and more information: www.solidarityacrossborders.org

* pls post widely *

Stop the Deportations! STATUS FOR ALL!
Dignity and Justice for Immigrant Communities!

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Fredericton, Peterborough,
and more...

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Gather at 2pm
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)
In solidarity with marches in the US, please wear white.

==> Family-friendly march
==> Free charter buses will be at 12:30 pm at Kwantlen College, Surrey and
1 pm at parking lot corner Fraser and Southeast Marine Drive, Vancouver.
Return 5 pm.

With historic marches with hundreds of thousands of immigrants taking to
the streets in the US, grassroots immigrant groups are mobilizing for a
National Day of Action this coming May 27, 2006, with demonstrations
planned in several cities.

Across Canada, migrants, refugees and their allies will demonstrate
against the deportation and detention of migrants and refugees, for a
full, inclusive, unconditional and ongoing regularization program, and for
full rights and dignity for immigrant communities against racism, poverty,
and criminalization.

We are demonstrating because hundreds of thousands of people live without
status, without sufficient access to health care or education, and in
great fear of being detained or deported, all the while being the most
exploited in the workplace. For decades immigrants have been scapegoated,
and now since 9/11, the false link between immigrants and terrorism has
developed with the racist use of Anti-Terrorism legislation and Security
Certificates. Thousands of migrants, especially immigrant women, are
forced to live in poverty; while thousands of temporary workers perform
hard and dangerous labour, yet are denied their basic rights.

Join us on May 27 as we refuse to be silenced and as we refuse to live in
fear. Celebrate our communities courage as we stand together to demand
status for all and dignity for our friends, families, and communities!

For more information, contact us at saic at resist.ca or call 778-885-0040.

==> Organized by the STATUS Coalition, a coalition of Middle Eastern,
Latino, South Asian, African, Iranian, Chinese, and South East Asian
immigrant community-based organizations.

==> Supported and endorsed by a wide range of community groups, unions,
women's centres, and student organizations. For a full list of our
supporters please visit http://solidarityacrossborders.org/en/node/157

==> COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING:  From Monday May 22nd to Saturday May 27th,
CO-OP Radio will bring daily reports leading up to May 27th National Day
for Immigrant Justice and Status for All! Tune in daily (May 22nd to May
25th) to the Brown Bagger lunch show noon to 1pm for reports from across
Canada and Wake up with Co-op (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:30-9 am)
for reports from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Also tune into Bulland
Awaaz (Monday May 22nd 5-6 pm), The Rational  (Monday May 23rd 6-7 pm),
Y57 Youth Show (Monday May 22nd 7-8 pm), Voices of Palestine (Tuesday May
23 8-9 pm), Collective Perspectives (Wednesday May 24th 6-7 pm), and
Americana Latina Al Dia (Saturday May 27 noon-1:30 pm) for programming on
(im)migrant justice! In Vancouver, also check out community programming
leading upto the march on Latino Soy, Radio India, Radio Punjab, and Arab
Media Channel.

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