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Resisting deportation of women fleeing violence

A rally in Toronto on Canada Day, 2008, in support of migrant justice. Photo: No One Is Illegal -- Toronto

On this day in 1989, 25-year-old Marc Lepine, screaming "I hate feminists!" shot and killed Anne-Marie Edward, Anne-Marie Lemay, Annie St. Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Daigneault, Barbara Marie Klucznik, Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Maryse LeClaire, Maryse Leganiere, Maud Haviernier, Michele Richard, Nathalie Croteau and Sonia Pelletier.

Dozens of vigils, memorials and public events will take place across Canada today remembering these 14 women. We will gather to speak about the ongoing violence perpetuated by men against women and trans people that forms the basis of our rape-culture.

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Columnists

Harkening back to Champlain's immigration policy

Americans gripped by immigration and ethnicity issues should glance for perspective at the large print on the base of the Statue of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor ... Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me ... Canadians with similar anxieties about immigrants and refugees -- categories that were often historically identical -- should think about Samuel de Champlain, who founded our country in the early 1600s.

John Bonnar

Alvaro Orozco granted residency status

| June 1, 2011
Migrant Matters

Mayday panel: Speaking from the forefront of the struggle for (im)migrant justice and workers' rights (2 of 2)

May 1, 2011
| The abuses inherent in (forced) migration with a spotlight on Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program. The importance of working in solidarity with racialized working-class (im)migrant communities here.

49:36 minutes (68.12 MB)

International Migrants Day

Dec 18 2010 - 3:00pm
Dec 18 2010 - 7:00pm

Location

George Brown College, St. James Campus
290 Adelaide Street East Room 303 - Theatre
Toronto
Canada
43° 39' 6.8508" N, 79° 22' 11.2944" W

Join us in celebrating International Migrants Day, organized by a network of various migrant workers' groups and allies. Highlights of the celebration include cultural performances through popular theatre, dance, music, mural painting and photo exhibits.

We will celebrate victories won, affirm the right of migrant workers to
self-organize, and strengthen the bonds of solidarity with all workers.
There will be a report back, through video, by delegates from the
recently-concluded International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees held in
Mexico City, as well as photo exhibits of the Pilgrimage to Freedom last
November.

Refreshments will be provided.

 

Columnists

Arizona's new law an open invitation for racial profiling and arbitrary detention

Arizona was the only territory west of Texas to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the Civil War. A century later, it fought recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. This week, an anti-immigrant bill was signed into law by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Arizona Senate Bill 1070 empowers state and local law enforcement to stop, question and arrest whoever they suspect may not be in the state legally. The law is an open invitation to sweeping racial profiling and arbitrary detention.

Redeye

What's wrong with the refugee determination system

June 2, 2009
| A new documentary says that Stephen Harper's government broke the refugee system so they that could say they had to fix it.

15:42 minutes (14.38 MB)
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