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International Migrants Day: None of us is free until all of us are free

Tamil children incarcerated at the detention centre in Burnaby, B.C., wave at the noisy protest. Photo: Isaac Oommen, Vancouver Media Co-op

Nenje nenje, nee engai, naanum angai 

(Soul, wherever you are, I am there too.)

- Lyrics from one of the Tamil songs played every week in front of the Burnaby detention centre.

For the last three months, No One Is Illegal Vancouver has organized weekly demonstrations outside the Burnaby Youth Detention Centre where approximately 75 mothers and children who arrived aboard the MV Sun Sea last summer are still being detained. They were amongst the 492 Tamil refugees who made the three-month journey from Sri Lanka to B.C., only upon their arrival to be forced into three detention centres across the Lower Mainland amidst a national hysteria about "illegals" and "criminals."

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Video: Opposition to reality TV show 'Border Security' grows, along with spoofs

The opposition to the reality TV show 'Border Security' continues to grow, in the wake of raids against construction sites in Vancouver earlier this year recorded by television crews. Migrant justice advocates like No One Is Illegal, and a wide range of allies including many cultural workers from film and television, continue to campaign for the program's cancellation. 

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Krystalline Kraus

Activist Communique: May Day rolls into Toronto again for Sanctuary City

By
Krystalline Kraus
| April 24, 2013

That’s right! Spring has sprung and it's time to get ready for the annual May Day celebration.

 

I remember last May Day, I was covering the demonstration and the Occupy Toronto 24 hour occupation of Simcoe Park in downtown Toronto.

Last year, May Day was linked to the Occupy movement -- Occupy Canada officially launched across Canada on October 15, 2011, with 34 cities declaring their participation one month after the Occupy Wall Street movement took off in the U.S.

A little background on Occupy: The Occupation on Wall Street began on September 17, 2011 which was Constitution Day in the United States.

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Krystalline Kraus

Activist Communique: No One Is Illegal and the dishonourable Jason Kenney

By
Krystalline Kraus
| November 7, 2012

About 400 protesters gathered outside the Royal York Hotel on Sunday November 4, 2012, in an attempt to block Immigration and Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney from receiving an honorary degree from Haifa Universitylocated in Israel.

Jason Kenney was awarded the honorary degree by Israel's Haifa University for Kenney’s and the Conservative government’s support of Israel at the gala supported by Stephen Harper, Ezra Levant, Peter Munk, Stockwell Day among other right wing officials.

Part of Sunday’s event was a fundraiser meant to establish the “Jason Kenney Holocaust Education Fund”.

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Refugee and Immigrant Rights groups shut down Conservative MP offices for second time

By
No One Is Illegal
| May 16, 2012

Breaking News: Refugee and Immigrant Rights groups shut down

Conservative MP offices for a second time, carry out further actions to scrap Bill C-31

No One Is Illegal - London is carrying out a sit-in at MP Susan Truppe’s office at 546 King Street, London while Occupy Toronto has joined No One Is Illegal - Toronto in shutting down MP Joe Oliver’s office at 511 Lawrence Avenue West to demand that the Refugee Exclusion Act, Bill C-31, be discarded. A banner was also dropped in Ottawa as part of this escalating, coordinated campaign against Bill C-31.

Banner Drop Pictures at www.twitter.com/NoOneIsIllegal

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Aw@l

Smash the State Report: Indigenous resistance and Quebec student strike

May 7, 2012
| This Smash the State Report starts off with the re-opening of the abortion debate in Canada, then jumps into the Quebec student strike, the Yinka-Dene Freedom Train and much more!
Length: 1:02:05
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May Day: Immigrant rights are workers' rights

To fight back against a globalized austerity drive, labour and migrant justice movements will need to unite, recovering the spirit of Haymarket and the Winnipeg General Strike. This is the second in a two-part series previewing International Workers Day, May 1. Part I, tracing the roots of May Day, can be read here.

Immigration policy as austerity

While racialized workers with less precarious immigration status are the last hired, first fired, while many of us remain in temporary non-unionized jobs and without services, a new slew of immigration policies have emerged to make immigrant workers of colour even more precarious.

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Smash the State Report: Extradition news, G20 court theatrics, Quebec student strike

April 27, 2012
| The Smash the State Report features updates on Nyki Kish's struggle for justice, extradition news from No One is Illegal, G20 court theatrics, the Quebec student strike and the Trayvon Martin case.
Length: 32:35
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Aw@l

Bill C-31 and the federal budget's migrant worker commodification

April 25, 2012
| Two pieces from No One is Illegal --- one on Bill C-31 and one on the impact of the federal budget on migrant workers.
Length: 31:12
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Fighting racism across Turtle Island

April 6, 2012
| Fighting Boneheads in London and Edmonton and Walking for Peace in Vancouver and Caledonia. Cons attack NOII, and Musquem block Condos.
Length: 58:35
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