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

[Angela Pinchero <pincherobehave@yahoo.ca>]

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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