[van-announce] Sept 25, Oct. 3 & 9: Release Detained Tamil Refugees: Let Them Free, Let Them Stay!]

[Harsha W.]

Release Detained Tamil Refugees:
Let Them Free, Let Them Stay!

Saturday Sept 25 at 1:30 pm
Sunday Oct 3 at1:30 pm
Saturday Oct 9 at 1:30 pm
Shuttles Leaving Edmonds station starting at 12:45 until 1:15

For the past 2 weeks we have gathered in front of the Burnaby Youth Custody
prison where approximately 90 Tamil refugee mothers and children are being
incarcerated. Supporters banged on pots and pans and blew whistles and horns
to the beats of Tamil music. A large Tamil banner reading "We welcome you,
we support you" was held towards the two detention units where children
could be seen waving and smiling, peering through prison bars.

Join No One is Illegal-Vancouver over the next 3 weeks at the Burnaby
detention facility to continue to express our love, support, and solidarity
with those still being held inside and to call for the immediate release of
detained Tamil asylum seekers.

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Saturday Sept 25 at 1:30 pm
Sunday Oct 3 at1:30 pm
Saturday Oct 9 at 1:30 pm
Shuttles Leaving Edmonds station starting at 12:45 until 1:15

Burnaby Youth Custody Services Centre where mothers and children who
arrived aboard MV Sun Sea are being detained.

LOCATION: 7900 Fraser Park Dr, Burnaby

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* Bring noise! We want to be visible and be heard from inside so please
bring pots, pans, horns, drums, noisemakers (please be aware of noises which
may be triggering or traumatizing)

* TRANSPORT:

Meet at Edmonds station for rides at 12:45. Last shuttle leaves at 1:15pm.
If you have a vehicle and can offer carpool, please contact us at noii-van
at resist.ca or 778 885 0040.
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Surviving a dangerous journey, 492 Tamil refugees, including women and
children, arrived in BC after fleeing war and persecution in Sri Lanka. When
the ship first neared Esquimault, territories of the Songhees First Nation,
it was immediately boarded by the Armed Forces, Border Services, and RCMP.
The refugees are now in jails, facing endless hearings that have revealed
the clear incompetency, deliberate negligence, and racism of the system.

In the context of the never-ending "War on Terror" refugees, migrants, and
racialized people are increasingly being racially targeted, dehumanized as
security threats, and criminalized through unprecedented police and state
powers. Despite its rhetoric of 'liberating' and 'protecting' women globally
and locally, the Canadian state is detaining an increasing numbers of women
and children that cross these borders. In light of increasing repression and
exclusionary policies and ideologies, we demand "Justice, Freedom, and
Status for All!"