An invitation from Solidarity Across Borders … Building a Solidarity City : A conference on access to services for non-status migrants Solidarity Across Borders is organizing a day-long conference to discuss and share strategies about access to services (health care, schooling, food banks, housing, etc) for non-status migrants. We’re inviting local community organizers and activists, health care workers, researchers and all people interested in this topic to participate in this conference in order to reinforce our links of solidarity and mutual aid. ——————- WHEN : Saturday, October 1st, 2011, from 9am-5pm WHERE : Hall Building at Concordia University, 7th floor 1455...

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Paola n’est pas seule ! Paola n’est pas la seule ! Montréal, le 27 septembre 2011 — Paola Ortiz s’est rendue vendredi matin au sinistre rendez-vous qui allait la séparer de ses deux jeunes enfants et de ses proches pour la conduire vers le Mexique et la violence sexiste qu’elle avait cherché à fuir il y a 5 ans. Par leur silence et leur refus d’intervenir pour éviter cette déportation, les autorités fédérales ont démontré un odieux manque d’humanité et une intransigeance criminelle. Si quelque chose devait arrivé à Paola Ortiz dans les semaines, les mois ou les années...

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THE POOR STORM THE BASTILLE ! Demo & action for housing rights and against gentrification! Sunday October 2nd, 2011 Meet at noon at Carré St-Louis – Leave for demo at 1 pm Ten years after the eviction of the Overdale and Préfontaine squats, gentrification ravages Montréal… and buildings are still empty! On July 27 2001, in the midst of a housing crisis, 700 people took the streets – anticapitalists, homeless, community workers and many other protesters – marching towards downtown Montréal to support the opening of a political squat. The occupation of the Overdale building lasted six days. The media showed...

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Manifestation pour les dix ans des squats Overdale et Préfontaine Solidarité sans frontières soutient la lutte des mal-logéEs Montréal, le 28 septembre 2011 — Solidarité sans frontières, un réseau de soutien, d’entraide et de lutte pour la justice et la dignité des migrants sans-statut, invite à participer à la manifestation du 2 octobre prochain afin de dénoncer le fait que, 10 ans après l’occupation de l’édifice Overdale et du centre Préfontaine, l’accès au logement continue de se dégrader pour les locataires montréalais. Le marché privé du logement, sur lequel les collectivités n’ont pas de prise, est un des lieux...

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- Paola n’est pas seule ! Paola n’est pas la seule ! (September 27) - Updated Media Compilation - Paola Ortiz given a new deportation date (September 23) - Vigil to stop the deportation of Paola Ortiz (September 22) - Media Advisory (September 21) - Keep up the pressure! (September 21) - Media Advisory (September 19) - Call to Action (September 19) - Stop the Deportation of Paula Ortiz (September 12)

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Montréal –September 20th 2011 Together against political repression We strongly condemn the most recent repressive offensive by the Montreal police (SPVM) whose aim is to criminalize, intimidate and isolate several political organizations. We also condemn the formation of a political police squad (entitled “GAMMA”) which is a unit of the SPVM’s organized crime division. We are not preoccupied about whether the formation of GAMMA (Guet des activités et des mouvements marginaux et anarchistes) was planned long in advance, or whether it’s just another police blunder. We know very well that political profiling did not begin with the GAMMA squad,...

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VIGIL to stop the deportation of Paola Ortiz THURSDAY, September 22 from 6:00 pm until the morning 200 Réné-levesque 0, metro Place-des-arts We invite you to come to a night-long vigil in front of the IRB located at 200 Rene- Levesque O (Guy Favreau Complex) on September 22 starting at 6:00 pm. Bring candles, food, banners and your voice. Please continue writing and calling Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, Minister of Public Security Vic Toews, and your MP and speak out against the deportation of Paola Ortiz. WHY ? Judge Boivin announced that Mrs. Paola Ortiz was to leave for...

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