[Wamvan] Video & Photos - Flashmob for Intl Migrants Day

[Harsha W.]

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On December 18th, International Migrants Day, No One Is Illegal Vancouver
Coast Salish Territories, Justicia for Migrant Workers, and Philippine
Women Centre organized a flash mob. Forty of our friends and allies sung
'12 Days of Deportation Minister Kenney' to our reworked lyrics in
shopping malls and streets and public transit throughout the evening.

* Watch and circulate the video (including lyrics):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y97cAnJ42jU

* View photos (pages 2 and 3):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nooneisillegal/


Anti-immigrant Minister Kenney is no Santa!

Under Kenney, Harper, and the Conservatives:
- Family class immigration has dropped by 15%.
- Quotas for spouses and children have been reduced by 4,000 per year. -
There is currently a moratorium on sponsorships of parents and
grandparents.
- The number of refugees granted permanent residence has dropped by 25%. -
Skilled worker visas have been decreased by 20%.
- The quota for live-in caregivers to become permanent residents has been
slashed by 50%.

So who are all the migrants coming into Canada? The number of temporary
foreign workers is up 30%. Temporary workers have no rights of residency
and are recruited primarily as temporary indentured labour for big
business. Kenney’s model is one of Permanent Impermanence. We cannot allow
divisive stereotypes of migrants ‘stealing our jobs and resources’ to let
the Harper government off the hook for putting profit over the people and
the planet. On International Migrants Day, stand with us for migrant
dignity and human rights and justice for all.




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No One is Illegal-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories is a grassroots
anti-colonial migrant justice group with leadership from members of
migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. We strive and struggle for the
right to remain, the freedom to move, and the right to return. As a
movement for self-determination that challenges the ideology of
immigration controls, we take action to combat racial profiling, detention
and deportation, the national security apparatus, law enforcement
brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants. The ongoing
apartheid reality instituted through reserves and sweatshops is one that
must be fundamentally uprooted and transformed. We envision a humanity
where everyone has the right to sustenance and the ability to provide it,
where we are free of oppression, misery, and exploitation, and are able to
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Harsha Walia

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-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group