[OPIRG-EVENTS] RIGHT NOW! OCCUPATION OF CODERRE'S OFFICE IN OTTAWA

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UPDATE !  UP0DATE !  UPDATE !  UPDATE !

ACTION IN PROGRESS !!  Thursday May 29, 2003.  3:15pm.

The Committee for Non-Status Algerians are in Ottawa and they are currently 
occupying the office of Citizenship and Immigration (CIC) Minister Denis 
Coderre.

There are about 20 Algerians and supporters from Montreal at Laurier and 
Kent, Jean Edmonds Towers, the home of CIC.  Approximately 10 people have 
make it up to the office and are NOT MOVING!!

The Non-Status Algerian community in Canada is facing deportation en masse, 
due to the lifting of a moratorium on removals to Algeria.  They are in 
Ottawa today to demand a return to the moratorium and a halt to all 
deportations!

Direct Action Casework Ottawa supports this action and encourages all who 
can to go down and show support.  The police presence is growing.
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