PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
(Know your rights during workplace raids attached)
TORONTO EMERGENCY ACTION
11am, Sunday, 5 April
385 Rexdale Boulevard
Buses leave 9:30 am (St. George and Bloor)
Actions are urged in other cities!
Yesterday and today, Immigration enforcement raided a number of workplaces in Southern Ontario, arresting and detaining workers with precarious immigration status on their way to and from work.Hundreds of workers are now languishing in detention centres.Hundreds of families and friends are wondering why their loved ones did not return from work.
The hundreds of thousands of non-status people across Canada have woken up to a horrible day in Stephen Harper's Canada.Mass arrests do nothing but create fear, harassment and intimidation, and force all people with precarious status further in to the grey and black market - unable to work good jobs.In these times of economic crisis when a regularization program would ensure much needed cash inflow in to the EI program, the Tory government would rather spend money and energy on arresting people, piling them in to centers and buying their plane tickets.Instead of regularizing the millions of dollars of contributions to Canada's economy by non-status people, the Tory government would rather use the Bush doctrine of fear, intimidation and racism against the migrant poor.
Following from the large workplace raids in June 2008, these coordinated attacks and arrests show Harper and Kenney's intention to terrorize those they consider the weakest - Sri Lankan, Vietnamese, Laotian, Thai, Phillipino and Chinese workers trying to work and earn money.Detention Reviews are taking place in Toronto at various locations including the Heritage Detention Centre on Saturday and Sunday. Hundreds of us will be outside the Heritage Inn on Sunday at 11am to show our disgust and anger - we are not disposable cloths to be used and tossed away at Harper's whims. We refuse to be brutalized and silenced! Condemn
Harper and CBSA that migrant communities will not tolerate these attacks!
JOIN US!
Buses depart at 9:30 am from Bloor and St. George Street.Allies across GTA are urged to get on cars, buses and trains and meet us at the Heritage Inn (385 Rexdale Boulevard)Further details will be released as we learn more.
These raids are continuing right now.Also, please note: If you have any information about any immigration raid across 'Canada', please email nooneisillegal@riseup.net so that we are able to get a sense of what we think is a national attack. Please find attached a Know Your Rights document.
No One Is Illegal-Toronto
Migrante ON
Justicia for Migrant Workers
PCLS Workers Rights Division
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