[Wamvan] (Thursday) Press conference to support Karla in fight against deportation

[Natalie Hill]

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From: Manola Valle <manola.valle at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Subject: [ws-centre] (Thursday) Press conference to support Karla in fight
against deportation
To: ws-centre at interchange.ubc.ca, liu-scholars at interchange.ubc.ca,
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* Globe and Mail article about Karla "Mexican journalist launches
last-ditch bid to fight deportation"
http://www.theglobeandmail.**com/news/national/british-**
columbia/mexican-journalist-**launches-last-ditch-bid-to-**
fight-deportation/**article2304725/<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/mexican-journalist-launches-last-ditch-bid-to-fight-deportation/article2304725/>

*No One Is Illegal (English and espanol) backgrounder:
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=**4620 <http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4620>


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ATTENTION: ALL NEWS EDITORS

MEDIA ADVISORY –

WHAT: Press Conference with Karla Ramirez aka Karla Lottini, her lawyer
Lobat Sadrehashemi, UBC Liu Scholar Manuela Valle, and others. Hosted by No
One Is Illegal
WHEN: Thursday January 19, 2012 at 10 am
WHERE: YWCA (733 Beatty Street)

January 17 2012, VANCOUVER Coast Salish Territories- Award-winning Mexican
journalist and now whistleblower Karla Berenice García Ramírez, who writes
under the penname Karla Lottini, fears for the safety of herself and her
family as she awaits deportation orders.

In Mexico she worked for a government ministry, the National Council for
Culture and Arts (Conaculta), and won awards including Cultural Journalist
of the State (Quintana Roo, 2000). While employed at Conaculta, she
uncovered severe corruption within the government ministry. As a result,
Karla and her family members were subjected to verbal and physical
intimidation including repeated death threats. Karla fled to Canada as an
asylum seeker in 2008. Her and her husband have two Canadian-born children
including a 1 year old as well as a newborn baby. As is the case for 90% of
Mexican asylum seekers in Canada, Karla has been refused refugee status but
has an active application to remain in Canada on humanitarian and
compassionate grounds and is also seeking a judicial review of her
Pre-Removal Risk Assessment.

While in Canada, Karla launched her book The Talent of Charlatans, an
exposé of the severe corruption within the cultural agencies of the Mexican
Government, at SFU and UBC. According to Manuela Valle, a UBC Liu Scholar,
"Karla Lottini is an amazingly brave woman, journalist, and mother who is
facing deportation back to Mexico. She has been denied political asylum
despite the death threats she has received after the publication of her
book. The support from Canadians to her case is absolutely critical to
protect her and her family from an increasingly violent and deadly climate
of censorship in Mexico."

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Manuela Valle
Magíster in Social Psychology, Universidad Arcis (Chile)
Master of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies, University of British
Columbia
PhD Candidate, Women's and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia
Liu Scholar, Liu Institute for Global Issues

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