Status for All ! - Demonstration in Toronto - January 21, 2006.

-- STATUS FOR ALL!
-- SOCIAL JUSTICE DOESN'T FIT INTO A BALLOT BOX
-- PICKET IMMIGRATION MINISTER JOE VOLPE

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21st, 2pm
Joe Volpe's Toronto Election Office
Avenue Road and Lawrence Avenue
(from Lawrence subway, take the 52 bus westbound;
from Lawrence West subway, take the 52 bus eastbound.)
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A child-friendly demonstration and picket.
Bring your noisemakers, banners and placards.

Together, Solidarity Across Borders of Montreal joins with No One Is Illegal,
Justice for Migrant Workers, the Campaign to Stop the Secret Trials, Toronto
Action for Social Change and many others to demand:

A full and inclusive regularization program for all non-status people in
Canada; an end to the deportation and detention of migrants; the abolition of
security certificates and secret trials; and the implementation of the Refugee
Appeal Division at the Immigration and Refugee Board.

We demand justice and dignity for all immigrants and refugees!

Info: sansfrontieres@resist.ca OR nooneisillegal@riseup.net
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[A Message from the members of Solidarity Across Borders to our Toronto allies
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Dear Toronto Friends and Allies --

This coming SATURDAY, January 21, at 2pm, about 50 members of Solidarity Across
Borders, based in Montreal, will be in Toronto. Many of us who are making the
trip are directly-affected migrants, who have actively fought deportations and
detentions, who have gone through Canada's immigration and refugee system, and
who are also threatened with removal from Canada. We are part of a struggle for
self-determination as migrants, immigrants and refugees, supported by our
allies.

Over the past several years, like those of you tirelessly working on these
issues in Toronto, we have seen our friends, colleagues and family members
deported, or forced into lives of anxiety and exploitation, because of
Canada's fundamentally unjust and racist immigration and refugee system.

We are coming to Toronto to contribute tangibly to the weekly pickets
against Immigration Minister Joe Volpe that have been taking place
throughout January.

But, we are also coming to Toronto to continue an effort we began last
summer. Between June 18-25, 2005, Solidarity Across Borders organized the
No One Is Illegal March On Ottawa. Our march was the idea of Shamim Akhtar
and her family, refugees from Pakistan. Shamim was deported in 2004, but
her idea lived on.

For an entire week, we marched, step-by-step, from the immigrant
neighborhoods of Montreal to Parliament Hill in Ottawa, via the highways,
ferries and streets of Quebec and Ontario. Despite our efforts, our
demands were ignored by the government, most particularly by Citizenship
and Immigration Minister Joe Volpe.

But, this coming Saturday, January 21, 2006, in Toronto -- more than six
months after we left downtown Montreal on a collective journey to the
decision-makers in Ottawa -- our march continues.

We ask you to join us in large numbers this Saturday, as we continue to
struggle collectively for STATUS FOR ALL! There will undoubtedly be many
more challenges after the election, no matter who claims to hold power
over our lives; but this Saturday, two days before the elections, we will
hold Joe Volpe accountable for his ignorance of the reality of non-status
persons in Canada. Our actions are never taken in vain, but they are the
result of our lived reality as immigrants and refugees; Joe Volpe must be
made to understand that.

We look forward to seeing you outside Joe Volpe's election offices this
Saturday, as we continue to build links for the struggle ahead.

Solidairement,
Solidarity Across Borders
http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org
sansfrontieres@resist.ca
514-859-9023