Hundreds of Iranian students in Canada are affected by deepening economic sanctions against Iran.
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Six more hire Abousfian Abdelrazik in defiance of UN Security Council
Media Advisory
June 1, 2010
The open rebellion against a UN Security Council "terrorist" list is growing in Canada. The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) are the latest labour organizations to announce that they will hire Abousfian Abdelrazik despite Canadian law saying that it is illegal to do so.
When the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the Canadian section of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), announced at a press conference on 18 May that they, together with the Windsor District Labour Council, were hiring Abousfian Abdelrazik, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon was forced to respond.
Sanctions-busting telethon for Abousfian Abdelrazik a success
Project Fly Home last week raised $6,000 in support of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Sudanese-Canadian man on the United Nations 1267 list.
Related rabble.ca story:
Economic sanctions against Iran affect students in Canada
Mohammed Shahsavari doesn't know how he is going to pay his tuition.
The second-year master's student at Carleton University is one of hundreds of Iranian students in Canada affected by deepening economic sanctions against Iran.
At the end of January, Canada followed the United States and the European Union in tightening its sanctions. This included prohibiting all financial transactions with Iran. Although Iranians in Canada can send less than $40,000 home, it's difficult to transfer funds from Iran to Canada.
Shahsavari says that students who depend on money from their parents have no way to access it.
A sanctions-busting fundraiser for Abousfian Abdelrazik
May 30 2011 - 7:00pm
May 30 2011 - 10:00pm
Location
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church
1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive)
Vancouver, BC Canada
49° 16' 10.6464" N, 123° 4' 10.5744" W
See map: Google Maps
Accessibility info: Grandview Calvary Baptist Church's kitchen's entrance
is at street level, which gives access to washrooms, kitchen and lower
hall. The women's washroom has a stall that can accommodate a wheelchair.
The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm.
Sanctions-busting telethon for Abousfian Abdelrazik a success
On Wednesday, April 28 Project Fly Home held a "sanctions-busting' telethon in support of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Sudanese-Canadian man on the United Nations 1267 list.
The event in Montreal was streamed live on rabbletv. Canadians called in to make financial contributions to Abdelrazik, which under federal law risks prosecution. The law states that no Canadian shall "provide or collect by any means, directly or indirectly, funds with the intention that the funds be used by someone on the 1267 list."
Despite the sanction, over 150 people participated in this nonviolent direct action (some called in, some donated in person at the event and some emailed in), raising almost $6000 in the span of two hours.
