[Wamvan] NOII-Van is catching up with social media – Find us!

[Harsha W.]

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Subject: [noiinetwork] NOII-Van is catching up with social media – Find us!
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*No One Is Illegal Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories is catching up with
social media!*

If you believe in our organizing and agree with our basic principles of
anti-colonial migrant justice and the "right to stay, freedom to move, and
right to return", then help us spread the message!

- Subscribe to our NEW Youtube channel for an inspiring video collection,
including over 50 videos on Indigenous Self-Determination:
http://www.youtube.com/NoOneIsIllegalVan

- "Like" our NEW Facebook Page and our Group to receive daily news and video
links:
https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6252584281

- Follow our NEW Twitter for breaking updates on migrant justice organizing
and local, national, and global campaigns:
https://twitter.com/noii_vancouver

- Join our low-traffic email list for announcements:
https://lists.resist.ca/mailman/listinfo/noii-l

- Check our Website for regular articles and events:
http://vancouver.nooneisillegal.org
http://noii-van.resist.ca

- Check our our Flickr photo gallery for actions and events:
http://www.flickr.com/nooneisillegal/


* ABOUT US *

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.

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 seek an end to detentions and deportations and the violence of all forms
of control. The popular conception is that undesirables are being expelled
because they have failed the appropriate legal channels. However, an
increasing number of migrants are being deported because of structural flaws
in the system. Most migrants are prisoners of passage, criminalized simply
for being poor and trying to migrate. Canadian immigration policies serve to
consolidate the development of Fortress North America, using free trade to
open borders to capital, while exploiting the people- mostly women- whose
free movement it regulates through displacement, deportation, and the
creation of hyper-exploitable labour on which the economy of the North is
built upon.

We demand the abolition of exploitative temporary worker programs and status
for all those who have been deemed illegals. The number of people admitted
each year on temporary worker visas is now greater than the number admitted
as  permanent residents. The number of undocumented migrants is also
ballooning, as hundreds of thousands are forced underground and endure
extreme poverty, inadequate access to health care and education,  low wages,
dangerous working conditions, and the constant fear of deportation. The
threat of deportation is inherent to what makes migrant workers and
non-status people extremely vulnerable to abuse. Border imperialism serves
Canadian industries that depend on exploitable and indentured labour in
order to reap high profits while driving down the wages of all workers.

We aspire to workers control over their own production, not corporate
wage-slave conditions that commodify human beings, especially women. Women
of colour are particularly over-represented in work characterized by low
wages, irregular hours, and lack of unionization and instability, such as
garment work, domestic work, home support work, cooking, and dishwashing.

People are not simply worth their value in capital or labour. Such ideas of
worthiness are based on domination that has justified the dehumanization and
genocide of peoples across the world. Canada and its economy are built on
the theft of Indigenous lands; exploitation of labour especially slave,
migrant, and reproductive labour; and the global appropriation of natural
resources.

Government and corporate involvement in military occupations, most recently
through the War on Terror and land takeovers facilitated by free trade
agreements such as NAFTA continue to be a prime reason for the repression,
destitution, and migration of millions of people. Locally, colonial policies
from the Indian Act to residential schools, and anti-immigrant measures from
the Japanese internment to Security Certificates, have reinforced racism and
cast entire communities as racial outsiders.

In light of this reality, we assert that people have the right to remain in
their homes in the face of global displacement due to land theft,
occupation, environmental degradation, and other capitalist and imperialist
forces. In light of the unfettered freedom afforded to capital and armies
across otherwise fortified borders, people should be free to move whether
due to persecution, poverty, or simply in order to flourish with dignity.
People also have the inherent right to return to the lands of which they
have been unjustly dispossessed.

The ongoing apartheid reality instituted through reserves and sweatshops is
one that must be fundamentally uprooted and transformed. We place ourselves
within the broader movement for global justice struggling against
capitalism, homophobia, imperialism, occupation, patriarchy, poverty, racism
and other forms of domination because we recognize that these are
interconnected systems. We envision and actively strive for 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 live
meaningfully in relationship to one another and in reverence for Mother
Earth that sustains us.


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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 live meaningfully in relationship
to one another and in reverence for Mother Earth that sustains us.

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