CANADIAN POLITICS MONTRÉAL:

SOLIDARITY WITHOUT BORDERS OPEN MEETING:

The following notice of an open meeting with Solidarity Without Borders next Monday in Montréal comes from No One Is Illegal/Personne n'est pas illégal Montréal.

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Solidarité sans frontières: Réunion Ouverte/Open Meeting/Encuentro Abierto
Time

Monday, November 8 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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Location

1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
Montreal, QC

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Created By No One Is Illegal Personne n'est illégal MONTRÉAL

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More Info

Solidarité sans frontières - Réunion Ouverte
Solidarity Across Borders - Open Meeting
Solidaridad sin Fronteras – Encuentro Abierto

[English below / español abajo]
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Lundi 8 novembre 2010
18h30 à 20h30
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Vous êtes invitées à venir découvrir Solidarité Sans Frontières et comment vous impliquer dans les luttes en faveur de la justice pour les immigrantes à Montréal

-> Léger goûter et rafraichissements seront servis
-> Service de garde disponible (S.V.P., confirmer 24 heures d'avance)
-> Traduction vers le français et l'espagnol offerte
-> Accessible aux fauteuils roulants

Depuis 2004, Solidarité Sans Frontières lutte pour la justice et la dignité des immigrantes arrivant et vivant au Canada. Nous revendiquons activement la fin des déportations, l'arrêt des détentions, et la régularisation de toutes et tous les immigrantes sans-papiers. Venez découvrir et participer aux différentes campagnes et autres projets qui nous unissent :

* Cité Sans Frontières (une campagne pour assurer un accès sécuritaire à tous les services publics, incluant le système de santé, l'éducation et la possibilité de gagner sa vie en dignité, pour tous et toutes les sans statut)
* Travail de soutien individuel pour personnes sans statut
* Actions exigeant un «Statut pour Toutes et Tous» couronnées par la marche annuelle de Solidarité Sans Frontières en mai 2011
* Les luttes que nous supportons, en autre, la lutte contre la brutalité policière, la lutte contre le profilage racial, la lutte contre les certificats de sécurités et mesures de « sécurité » en matière d'immigration.

Si vous avez des questions ou désirez plus d'information, S.V.P. contacter : 514-848-7583 or solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

À propos de Solidarité Sans Frontières:
Solidarité Sans Frontières est un réseau et un collectif montréalais luttant pour la justice et la dignité des immigrantes et des réfugiées. Nous sommes des émigrantes, immigrantes, réfugiées et alliées combattant sans cese les lois discriminatoires et inhumaines des gouvernments pour exiger: un Statut pour Toutes et Tous!, la fin des déportation et l'arrêt des détentions. Certaines d'entre nous portent enocre les cicatrices de ce système d'immigration raciste; d'autres encore sont issuEs de familles d'immigrantes. Nous luttons collectivement pour la justice et la dignité. Pour nous, il n'y a pas de personnes « illégales », seulement des lois injustes et des gouvernements illégitimes. Nous n'organisons pas cela par charité ou par pitié, mais pour l'entraide mutuelle et la solidarité.

Solidarité sans frontières est un groupe de travail du GRIPQ à Concordia.
www.solidaritesansfrontieres.org


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Solidarity Across Borders - Open Meeting
Monday, November 8th 2010
6:30-8:30pm
1500 de Maisonneuve ouest, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Come find out about Solidarity Across Borders and how to get involved in migrant justice organizing in Montreal

-> Light food and beverages provided
-> Childcare available (Please confirm 24 hours in advance)
-> Translation available in French and Spanish
-> Wheelchair accessible

Since 2004, Solidarity Across Borders has been organizing for justice and dignity for migrant people living in Canada. Our main demands are: An end to deportations and detentions, and status for all undocumented migrants. Come find out about the campaigns and work we do, including:

* Solidarity City (A campaign to ensure safe access for non-status people to work, education, and services, while building networks of mutual aid and solidarity)
* Individual support work for non-status people
* Status for All actions in May 2011
* Struggles that we support, such as issues around police brutality, racial profiling, security certificates, and "immigration security" measures

For questions and other information, please get in touch:
514-848-7583 or solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

About Solidarity Across Borders:
Solidarity Across Borders is a Montreal-based network engaged in the struggle for justice and dignity of immigrants and refugees. We are comprised of migrants, immigrants, refugees and allies, and come together in support of our main demands: the regularization of all non-status people (Status for All!), an end to deportations and detentions. Some of us have direct experiences with the immigration and refugee system; some of us come from immigrant backgrounds; all of us organize as part of a collective struggle for justice and dignity. For us, there is no such thing as “illegal” human beings, only unjust laws and illegitimate governments. We organize not on the basis of pity or charity, but rather solidarity and mutual aid.

Solidarity Across Borders is a working group of QPIRG Concordia.
www.solidarityacrossborders.org


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Solidaridad sin Fronteras – Encuentro Abierto
Lunes, el 8 de Noviembre 2010
De 6:30 a 8:30 de la tarde
1500 de Maisonneuve oeste, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Estan invitadas a un encuentro abierto de Solidaridad sin Fronteras, aquí podrán enterarse sobre cómo involucarse en la lucha por la justicia de las migrantes montrealenses.

-> Comida y bebidas para todas
-> Guardería disponible (por favor confirmar 24 horas antes)
-> Traducción disponible al francés, ingles y español.

Desde el 2004, Solidaridad sin Fronteras ha estado luchando por la justicia y dignidad de las personas migrantes que viven en Canadá. Nuestras demandas principales son: el fin a las deportaciones y las detenciones, y el estatus para todos los que están sin papeles. Vengan a entérese de las campañas y trabajo que hacemos, lo cual incluye:

* La Ciudad Solidaria (une campaña para asegurar el acceso a todos los servicios públicos incluyendo la salud, la educación, y el trabajo digno para todas las personas sin documentos).
* Trabajo de apoyo para las personas sin documentos.
* Acciones llamando el Papeles para Todas en mayo del 2011.
* El trabajo que apoyamos, como la lucha contra la violencia policiaca, el racismo, y las medidas de "seguridad de inmigración".

Por cualquier duda u otra información, comuníquese al :
514-848-7583 o solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

Acerca de Solidaridad sin Fronteras:
Solidaridad sin Fronteras es una red Montrealense que lucha por la justicia y la dignidad de las inmigrantes y las refugiadas. Somos un grupo de emigrantes, inmigrantes, refugiadas y aliadas que se reúnen bajo las demandas: la regularización de todas las personas sin papeles (¡Papeles para Todas!), y el fin a las deportaciones y las detenciones. Algunas de nosostras tenemos experiencias directas con el sistema de inmigración y refugio; algunas venimos de familias inmigrantes; todas organizamos la lucha colectiva para la justicia y la dignidad. Nosotras creemos que no hay seres humanos "ilegales", las leyes son injustas y los gobiernos ilegítimos. Nosotras organizamos por la solidaridad y el apoyo mutuo, y no por la compasión ni la caridad.


www.solidarityacrossborders.org
514-848-7583
solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

MATTERS BLOGISH:

Molly has seen a few items in the last little while that deserve her old title "Best of the Blogs". All of these can be accessed from her Links section to the left. These include Kevin Carson's latest offering at the Mutualist Blogspot ie 'Economic Calculation in the Cooperative Commonwealth', a rather heavy going study on an alternative form of economics, Larry Gambone's offering on the Porkupine Blog from anarchists who are more "pro-Chavez" than El Libertario (it should be noted that this site, in Spanish, has more than a few items from the struggle of indigenous people against Chavezista "progress" and these anarchists will be as likely to be crushed as the native peoples will be in the "socialist march to progress" of the developing Chavez dictatorship if the present trend continues. Molly has considerably less faith in South American populism than Larry does) and also a report on the anti-election campaign in Quebec from Shagya's Blog. this is a campaign carried out by the Quebec section of NEFAC and the Student Community Anarchist Network(SCAN) against next Monday's (March 26th) Quebec provincial election. Finally, from the Solidarity Across Borders site from Montreal is a news report about how the provincial government in Quebec is requiring Muslim women voters to "show their face" while voting in the election. More insulting than a fingerprint !

Molly has also added The Liberator Reloaded to her list of Blogs in her links section along with 'Agorist Class Theory' , by the same author, under the texts section. Not that I agree with everything he says, but the important point is that there are many alternatives to the "class analysis" taught in "Stalinism 101 for Dummies" by so many ageing New Left professors in so many universities in North America. May they all achieve retirement soon so new ideas can come in.

Finally, a little comment on blog layout. When Molly goes blog-surfing she often comes across blogs that are laid on with white writing on a black background. With rare excepts these are usually totally unreadable unless you highlight the text. Perhaps some people should consider the readability of what they present. It doesn't come up in other places like it does when you type it.

Molly

SANCTUARY VIOLATED:
The other night, Saturday, Feb 17th, Vancouver City Police entered the St. Michael's Anglican Church in Vancouver and arrested the Iranian refugee Amir Kazemian who had been living in that church in sanctuary for 2 years and 8 months. The Vancouver police laid no criminal charges and attended on an unrelated matter. They immediately turned Mr. Kazemian over to the Canada Border Services Agency, and he is is presently under their detention awaiting deportation to Iran where he was previously tortured and likely will be again- if not executed. There has been only one previous episode where Canadian police arrested a person within sanctuary, that of Mohammed Cherfi who was taken out of a church and deported to the USA in 2004. A year later Mr. Cherfi was granted asylum in that country.
To read more about this case go to the Solidarity Across Borders site(see also our links section). To ask how you can help Mr. Kazemian contact either his lawyer Naomi Minwalla at 604-689-8100 or write the Vancouver No One is Illegal group at noii-van@resist.ca
Molly

STILL MORE LINKS:

Molly has recently added three more links to her blog. All are Montreal based solidarity groups with a focus on immigration, racism and solidarity both domestic and international. Two are listed under the general Links section, No One is Illegal- Montreal and the website of the Solidarity Across Borders network. It should be noted that the SAB group has more or less abandoned their website in favour of a blog format which Molly has duly listed under her blog section as Solidarity Across Borders Blog. This blog and the site of the Montreal NOIL organization are a great source of both Canadian and international news and analysis around the sort of topics listed above. They are quite current, being updated almost daily. Have a look.

Molly