[This post is mirrored from JHImmigrationSolidarity.Org, where it was originally published on August 7, 2021.] Dear friends, Warm greetings in late summer to all our generous readers. We begin with two pieces of good news. On July 29, the City Council finally passed legislation that protects over 300,000 domestic workers …
Harsha Walia a Vancouver-activist with No One Is Illegal and other groups, had the following opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun: From the Komagata Maru carrying 376 Punjabi passengers and the SS St. Louis travelling with 900 Jewish asylum seekers, to the boats with 600 people from China’s Fujian province …
BEIJING â The government calls it âsealed management.â Chinaâs capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control. Itâs Beijingâs latest effort to reduce rising crime often blamed …
An important public service announcement regarding police invasions of women’s shelters in canada, from the fine folks at No One Is Illegal Toronto: OUT OF OUR SHELTERS! OUT OF OUR LIVES! was the message delivered to the Canada Border Services Agency on March 8th, International Women’sDay, by the 120 plus …
What follows is a rough version of a talk i gave at Montreal’s Native Friendship Center, at the Anti-Colonial Thanksgiving organized by Frigo Vert last night. Many of the articles and documents referenced here are also referenced on the new Kersplebedeb H1N1 page. Iâm here to say just a few …
From pals at No One Is Illegal-Montreal: Jason Kenney confronted and disrupted in Montreal October 23, 2009 — Migrant justice activists and organizers, with their McGill allies, confronted and disrupted Jason Kenney — Canadaâs Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism — before and during a closed function with Conservative McGill. …
Here is an excellent statement on the racist “reasonable accommodation” hearings in Quebec, from Montreal’s Immigrant Workers Centre: Whose Reasonable Accommodation ? The debate raised in Quebec on âreasonable accommodationâ is built on a number of false assumptions about the relationship between majority groups (âweâ) and minorities (âtheyâ) and what …
Julie Cox, holding her 4-year-old daughter Kheisha at a news conferenceyesterday, was arrested with her son Lynwald (right) after beingviolently abused by Montreal police last week Police officer’s from Montreal’s Station 25 harassed, beat and pepper sprayed a Black motorist and his mother last week, on June 13th. Here is …
Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of âa Few Bad Applesâby Carol Tator and Frances Henry. Published by University of Toronto Press, 2006 In their book Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of âa Few Bad Applesâ, authors Carol Tator and Frances Henry â and contributors Charles C. …
Another fucking crime of capitalism. It is completely understandable that a kid spoon-fed lies about “Canadian citizenship” and thrown into prison at the age of nine because his parents are of the wrong nationality might write to Stephen “Kill the Poor” Harper, hoping for some help. This kind of racist …