[van-announce] [Fwd: Upcoming events: Jan 4th and Jan 12th]

[Harsha]

From:    "No One is Illegal-Vancouver" <noii-van at resist.ca>
Date:    Sun, December 31, 2006 7:08 pm
To:      "noiilist" <noii-l at lists.resist.ca>
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Dear friends and supporters, Happy Kwanzaa, Eid Mubarak, and Happy New
Year. We hope you will join us for these two events as we continue the
struggle for social justice and build our collective movements in the year
ahead. In solidarity, NOII-Van.

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This Thursday, January 4th will be an evening featuring the live
performances of two women musicians, Erica Mah, a singer and pianist, and
Kytami, an electric violinist. This is a joint fundraiser to support the
ongoing Six Nations Land Reclamation and Political Prisoner Trevor Miller
(all money collected from donations and cover charge), and for No One Is
Illegal's Refugee and Non status Support Fund (a portion of bar sales).

Date: Thursday January 4th
Location: The Main - 4210 Main Street (near 26th avenue)
Time:  Doors @ 9pm, Music at 9:30.
Cover: By donation.

==> For More Information on the Artists:

* Erica: I play piano and I write songs. Songs that resonate like
political anthems, whisper like bedtime lullabies, and flow like old folk
fables. Songs that document all of those great things and small things
that get caught in our memories. I currently reside in Toronto, where, new
demo album in hand, I am "emerging" as an artist. www.ericamah.com

* Kytami: Kytami started taking violin lessons at 3 years of age. She went
through an intense classical training at the Vancouver Academy of Music.
She wanted to combine the sound of her violin with punk, reggae, hip hop,
jungle and drum n bass. Kytami released her debut album in 2002,
"Conflation" with Kytami's electric violin driven by electronic beats. She
is a member of hip-hop/dancehall/drum n bass live act Third Eye Tribe,
epic punk/metal/rock band Lownote as well as acoustic folk-punk band
Blackie LeBlanc and the Kytami Revolution. www.myspace.com/kytami


==> For More Information on the recipients of fundraising:

* Six Nations: Since February 28th 2006 members of the Rotinoshon’non:we
people set up camp on the Haldimand Tract to protest development by Henco
Industries Ltd on Six Nations territory. This land has at no point been
surrendered to Canada, and was formally recognized by the Crown as Six
Nations territory as part of the 1784 Haldimand Deed. Cmmunity members
have maintained a land reclamation and negotiations on a nation-to-nation
basis are ongoing. Trevor Miller, 31, is a Six Nations Political Prisoner
who was has been jailed for over five months on charges relating to the
Six Nations Reclamation. In court apperances he has asserted that the
Ontario court has no jurisdiction over him. He has been denied bail and no
trial date has been set yet. He is from Six Nations of the Grand River
Territory, and is the father of three young children. For more info:
www.mohawknationnews.com; http://sisis.nativeweb.org/index.html;
www.honorsixnations.com; www.turtleisland.org/news/news-sixnations.htm;
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/2012

* NOII Supportwork: No One is Illegal-Vancouver is a grassroots immigrant
and refugee rights community collective. As a movement for
self-determination that challenges the ideology of immigration controls,
we are in full confrontation with Canada's colonial border policies. In
addition to ongoing campaigns, projects, and actions, NOII offers tangible
solidarity to refugee and nonstatus individuals and families to attain
practical victories for those who daily struggle against the detention and
deportation machine. This includes legal advocacy, raising defence funds,
and building community support. For more info: www.nooneisillegal.org or
http://noiivan.blogspot.com

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Close Guantanamo North and South
End Indefinite Detention and Deportation to Torture, from Canada to
U.S.-Occupied Cuba
Cross-Canada actions, January 11-15, 2007

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IN VANCOUVER
FRIDAY JAN 12TH AT 4-7 PM
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
Contact: noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 885 0040
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January 11, 2007 marks 5 years since the official opening of Guantanamo
Bay, a detention and torture centre run by the United States in Cuba that
has been a legal black hole for countless people swept up in the terror of
war. While many have been released (after spending upwards of four or more
years without being charged or given a trial), hundreds of others languish
under illegal detention, facing inhumane conditions without access to the
outside world.

Canada has its own Guantanamo Bay, located in Millhaven Penitentiary,
Kingston. Here, three "security certificate" detainees who have been held
upwards of seven years without charge on secret evidence, are fighting
deportation to torture. All are currently on hunger strike protesting
their conditions of detention, including denial of medical treatment. Two
other men, also held between two and four years, are currently "out" on
some of the most severe restrictions on human liberty ever imposed in a
Canadian bail release. These draconian restrictions also curtail the
freedoms of their entire families.

All five men were arrested under "Security Certificates," a measure of the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) that has been described by
Amnesty International as "fundamentally flawed and unfair". Security
certificates and secret evidence reverse the fundamental rule of innocent
until proven guilty. Neither the detainee nor his lawyer are informed of
the precise allegations or provided with the full information against him.
They are imprisoned indefinitely without charges on secret evidence and
face deportation to their countries of origin, even if there is a
substantial risk of torture or death.

We join in the call to shut down Guantanamo Bay, adding our own demand
along with the Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada, Justice for
Mohamed Harkat Committee, and Justice for Adil for the closure of
Guantanamo Bay North, right here in Canada. Join us to demand that the
Canadian government:

1. Immediately close Kingston Immigration Holding Centre (Guantanamo Bay
North)
2. Immediately release Canada's secret trial "security certificate"
detainees or provide them with a fair, transparent, open trial.
3. End all proceedings to deport the Secret Trial Five (Mahmoud Jaballah,
Mohammad Mahjoub, Hassan Almrei, Mohamed Harkat, Adil Charkaoui)
4. Abolish security certificates and end deportation to torture.
5. Immediately condemn the illegal Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.




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No One is Illegal-Vancouver is a grassroots anti-colonial
immigrant/refugee rights community collective with leadership from members
of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. As a movement for
self-determination that challenges the ideology of immigration controls,
we are in full confrontation with Canadian border policies; denouncing and
taking action to combat racial profiling, detention and deportation, the
national security apparatus, law enforcement brutality, and exploitative
working conditions of migrants.

We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their
livelihoods and resist war, occupation, and displacement; while supporting
indigenous sisters and brothers fighting theft of land and colonization.
We also place ourselves within the broader movement for global social
justice that struggles against capitalism, militarism, oppression,
poverty, imperialism, and other systems of domination and exploitation.




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