[Wamvan] NOII reportback from March Against Racism

Harsha W. harsha at resist.ca
Thu Mar 22 22:38:50 PDT 2012 


NOII Reportback: Hundreds March Against Racism

Report linked here: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4741

Thank you to the 600+ people who participated and supported the March
Against Racism. No One Is Illegal is honoured to be part of such a vibrant
and powerful community of resistance. Included below are some videos,
photos, and articles from the rally that we encourage you to please email,
post, and share in your networks.

Building forward from the march against racism, we would like to invite
you to a community supper and discussion on Monday April 2 on
"Strengthening Anti-Racist Movements". More details can be found here:
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4735


VIDEO COVERAGE

* NOII video by Steph:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQii7Z9-yAw

* CBC Video (3500+ views) Hundreds March Against Racism In Vancouver:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fRVRIGHU3Y

* Devin's HD video:
http://youtu.be/j_UM4nj_iyU

* Kenan's 3-part video documenting most of the speakers & performers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNYrBTkjy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpTgyEzJQcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay_mnt_XOUQ

* Juno-nominated gospel choir Sojourners singing at the March:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zZ1mWuxSs


PHOTOS:

* View NOII flickr set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nooneisillegal/

* Also these sets:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/photo/march-against-racism-2012/10268
http://www.flickr.com/photos/verbalizze/sets/72157629624869985/


ARTICLES

* News 1130 - Hundreds crowd Vancouver street calling for an end to racism
http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/342213--hundreds-crowd-vancouver-street-calling-for-an-end-to-racism

* Metro News - Hundreds march to end racism:
(Most read online story through the week)
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/local/article/1127982--hundreds-march-to-end-racism

* "We Need to Fight Back": March Against Racism takes to Vancouver streets
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/photo/we-need-fight-back-community-march-against-racism-takes-vancouver-streets/10273

* Speech by Richard Marquez:

Big ups to No One Is Illegal and to the groups that organized this march.
And a huge shout out and much love to First Nations brothers and sisters
who continue to lead the resistance against empire building in Canada and
throughout the Americas.

Back home in the US, the belly of the beast, a 50% growth in hate groups
is booming as fascist fervor sweeps the country, blaming immigrants for
the depressed economy. Here, racist predators from Ottawa to Commercial
Drive assault the civil rights of communities of colour, exploit immigrant
labour, and promote repressive, anti-refugee legislation like Omnibus Bill
C-31, which will deport thousands of immigrants, children and families.

This fight has no borders; this fight demands a new sanctuary movement to
stop immigrant deportations. Aqui estamos y nos vamos!  (We are here and
we’re not leaving!) Some believe if progressives are elected, they’ll stop
this madness. But we got to build a racial justice movement from the
ground up. We can’t rely on the cops, courts and the legislatures.

With that said, please join me in pledging the following : “I pledge. To
fight. All racist and anti-immigrant attacks in Vancouver and Canada. And
I will do so. By any means necessary!”

Today we march but Nazi vigilantees are out of jail. Why did the Crown
grant bail? It took nearly 3 damn years under a veil of secrecy, usually
reserved for diplomats, to indict them. From the start, in fact, the BC
Hate Crime Team, which includes the VPD, the RCMP and the Crown
Prosecutor, treated this matter like it was “malicious mischief” -- not
crimes motivated by racist hate. We must defend those brothers and sisters
that were brutally attacked.

In 2007, Mexican-American teenager David Ritcheson was the victim of a
brutal racist beating in Houston, Texas by white attackers who broke his
jaw, burnt cigarettes on his face, and attempted to carve a swastika on
his chest, and then they sodomized him with an umbrella. If not for the
Chicano people’s outrage, those vigilantes would have gone free and not
been sentenced to life. Three years ago, David committed suicide.

Many say Vancouver is different; the greenest city of all. Bike lanes and
liberal tolerance. But its one of the meanest cities to live in if you’re
poor and of colour; or an SRO tenant fighting gentrification on East
Hastings and Main.

And what about the BC’s “poverty-to-prison pipeline” and the
criminalization of an entire generation of young people?  Hell, last month
a young homeless man at Pigeon Park was detained for vending without a
licence.

We must rely on the people’s strength to defeat white supremacy, to stop
all racist and anti-immigrant attacks. We must come together like five
fingers on a fist and hold court in the streets!



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