Comrade Marcel
12th March 2004, 15:04
WARNING: RACIST IMMIGRATION JAIL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
DEMONSTRATION: BRING IT DOWN
Saturday, March 27th, 2004
Immigration Canada to open
New and expanded detention centre this spring:
Heritage Inn
385 Rexdale Boulvard
Downtown:
Meet at Dufferin Grove Park (north end)
(Dufferin just south of Bloor)
11 am
Transportation and meal provided
Rexdale:
Meet at the Heritage Inn
2pm
Rexdale Blvd between Hwy 27 and Martingrove Road
Immigration Canada's infamous Toronto detention centre, the Celebrity Inn, is closing down. In its place, a larger jail is set to open on April 1st. The Heritage Inn, a former hotel on Rexdale Boulevard in the city's north-west end, will hold even more (im)migrants and refugees - people imprisoned because they do not have landed status, because Immigration Canada does not believe their identities or their stories of flight and persecution, because the authorities need only have 'suspicion' in order to throw people inside.
On Saturday, March 27th, we are calling on people to converge on the new prison before it opens. We are living in a time where Immigration authorities are moving faster and harder to arrest, jail and deport (im)migrants and refugees - peoples' lives, their homes, their families are being destroyed. People are hunted down in their apartments, at their workplaces, stopped in cars and on the streets by cops and enforcement authorities who work together to carry out policies that try to ensure many people are denied the chance to get landed status in this country.
The Canadian state has imposed laws designed to welcome select people with wealth and priviledge and deny many others the right to secure homes, income, health care, or education.
The Heritage Inn, with higher walls and taller fences, epitomizes a shift by Immigration Canada to jail people first and ask questions later, decent access to lawyers or translators, to set bonds for peoples' release from detention in the thousands of dollars, to deny jailed children and parents access to fresh air, schooling or healthy food - and for many people, to rip them from live built in Canada without fair hearings, appeals processes, or any just opportunity to have safe and secure futures in our communities.
In light of the recent retribution dealt by the Canadian state against a courageous and tireless non-status Alergian organizer, Mohamed Cherfi, targeted for risking his own status by refusing to back down against Immigration policy that would have resulted in the deportation of a huge community of Algerians to a country wracked with civil war, the call to resist rings even louder. Mohamed and members of the Action Committee of Non-Status Algerians organized relentlessly, taking repeated action and winning a major concession that saw hundreds of people win landed status.
In the spirit of this victory and all people fighting for status both in this country and around the world, we must act.
Fight back against this attack. Resist the racist and inhumane detention and deportation machine, operating under the guise of 'security' and the untruth that all people coming to Canada have equal and easy access to applying for papers that would allow them to stay. In a world where power and greed has tilted the balance of resources and standard of living so heavily in favour of so few, people should have the freedom to move, the freedom to choose a safe and decent life for themselves and their families.
Join us on March 27th at Immigration Canada's newest racist jail, The Heritage Inn. All participation welcome.
No Detention.
No Deportations.
No Prisons.
No one is Illegal.
To book a free seat on the bus, to make a donation or for more
information, contact OCAP.
Downtown:
Meet at Dufferin Grove Park (north end)
(Dufferin just south of Bloor)
11 am
Transportation and meal provided
Rexdale:
Meet at the Heritage Inn
2pm
Rexdale Blvd between Hwy 27 and Martingrove Road
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
10 Britain St. Toronto, ON M5A 1R6
416-925-6939 [email protected]
http://www.ocap.ca
DEMONSTRATION: BRING IT DOWN
Saturday, March 27th, 2004
Immigration Canada to open
New and expanded detention centre this spring:
Heritage Inn
385 Rexdale Boulvard
Downtown:
Meet at Dufferin Grove Park (north end)
(Dufferin just south of Bloor)
11 am
Transportation and meal provided
Rexdale:
Meet at the Heritage Inn
2pm
Rexdale Blvd between Hwy 27 and Martingrove Road
Immigration Canada's infamous Toronto detention centre, the Celebrity Inn, is closing down. In its place, a larger jail is set to open on April 1st. The Heritage Inn, a former hotel on Rexdale Boulevard in the city's north-west end, will hold even more (im)migrants and refugees - people imprisoned because they do not have landed status, because Immigration Canada does not believe their identities or their stories of flight and persecution, because the authorities need only have 'suspicion' in order to throw people inside.
On Saturday, March 27th, we are calling on people to converge on the new prison before it opens. We are living in a time where Immigration authorities are moving faster and harder to arrest, jail and deport (im)migrants and refugees - peoples' lives, their homes, their families are being destroyed. People are hunted down in their apartments, at their workplaces, stopped in cars and on the streets by cops and enforcement authorities who work together to carry out policies that try to ensure many people are denied the chance to get landed status in this country.
The Canadian state has imposed laws designed to welcome select people with wealth and priviledge and deny many others the right to secure homes, income, health care, or education.
The Heritage Inn, with higher walls and taller fences, epitomizes a shift by Immigration Canada to jail people first and ask questions later, decent access to lawyers or translators, to set bonds for peoples' release from detention in the thousands of dollars, to deny jailed children and parents access to fresh air, schooling or healthy food - and for many people, to rip them from live built in Canada without fair hearings, appeals processes, or any just opportunity to have safe and secure futures in our communities.
In light of the recent retribution dealt by the Canadian state against a courageous and tireless non-status Alergian organizer, Mohamed Cherfi, targeted for risking his own status by refusing to back down against Immigration policy that would have resulted in the deportation of a huge community of Algerians to a country wracked with civil war, the call to resist rings even louder. Mohamed and members of the Action Committee of Non-Status Algerians organized relentlessly, taking repeated action and winning a major concession that saw hundreds of people win landed status.
In the spirit of this victory and all people fighting for status both in this country and around the world, we must act.
Fight back against this attack. Resist the racist and inhumane detention and deportation machine, operating under the guise of 'security' and the untruth that all people coming to Canada have equal and easy access to applying for papers that would allow them to stay. In a world where power and greed has tilted the balance of resources and standard of living so heavily in favour of so few, people should have the freedom to move, the freedom to choose a safe and decent life for themselves and their families.
Join us on March 27th at Immigration Canada's newest racist jail, The Heritage Inn. All participation welcome.
No Detention.
No Deportations.
No Prisons.
No one is Illegal.
To book a free seat on the bus, to make a donation or for more
information, contact OCAP.
Downtown:
Meet at Dufferin Grove Park (north end)
(Dufferin just south of Bloor)
11 am
Transportation and meal provided
Rexdale:
Meet at the Heritage Inn
2pm
Rexdale Blvd between Hwy 27 and Martingrove Road
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
10 Britain St. Toronto, ON M5A 1R6
416-925-6939 [email protected]
http://www.ocap.ca