[OPIRG-EVENTS] "No One Is Illegal": The case of Canada's non-status Algerians

[David Brons <brons@cyberus.ca>]

"No One Is Illegal": The case of Canada's non-status Algerians

3:30 - 5:00pm
Saturday, December 7, 2002
Room 101, Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Elgin Street
wheelchair accessible
Presented as part the ACA Free Skool running Dec 7 and 8. See below
for a complete schedule of workshops.


Over 1000 non-status Algerians -- who have lived in Canada for an
average of four years -- are facing deportation from Canada in the
upcoming
months as a result of abrupt changes to immigration policy. As part of
their struggle for regularization, the Action Committee of Non-Status
Algerians, based in Montreal, has undertaken an active "Stop the
Deportations" campaign that has forced the governments of Canada and
Quebec to react. One non-status family recently defied a deportation
order and took refuge for 11 days in a Montreal church.

Come learn about the situation facing non-status Algerians, and the
potential links in immigrant and refugee rights struggles across Canada.

Speakers include:

Soumya Boussouf -- An active member of the Action Committee of
Non-Status Algerians, and the Algerian Non-Status Women's Committee.
Soumya is from Algiers, and has resided in Montreal for over three
years.

Mohamed Cherfi -- An active member of the Action Committee of
Non-Status Algerians in Montreal, Mohamed has lived in Canada for over
four years. He was a French teacher in Algiers before fleeing as a
refugee.

AND a member of the No One Is Illegal Campaign of Montreal, that has
been actively working with the Action Committee of Non-Status Algerians
as allies.

For more info about Canada's non-status Algerians, please consult:
http://www.tao.ca/~sans-statut

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ACA Free Skool

Saturday, Dec 7   10am-5pm
Room 101, Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Elgin Street
10am-12pm       Winter biking
12pm-1pm        LUNCH
1pm-2:30pm      Class Monopoly
2:30pm-3:30pm   autonomist thought and practice
3:30-5:00pm     "No One Is Illegal": The case of Canada's non-status
Algerians

Sunday, Dec 8   10am-5pm
Bethel Field House, 166 Frank Street (in St Luke’s Park)
10am-11:30am    street medic training/street tactics
11:30am-12:30pm Copwatch
12:30-1:00pm    LUNCH
1-2pm           drag
2-3:30pm        unionize your workplace
3:30-4:30pm     anti-oppression
4:30-5:00       concensus decision making
lunch served * child friendly * wheelchair accessible
Traduction de l’anglais au français disponible

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