Neighbours confront ICE as they check the immigration status of two men, Minneapolis on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026.
Saturday, 16 May at 10:30am
Centre culturel Georges Vanier, 2450 Workman St., room 2.100 (Lionel Groulx metro)
part of the Salon de livre anarchiste
From the spectacular violence of ICE to Canada’s insidious bureaucratic violence, migrants are a prime target of fascism in North America and around the world. This workshop will look at the colonial roots of border violence in North America and the mechanisms the state uses to monitor, imprison, deport, and/or criminalize migrants. Organizers from Minneapolis and from Montreal will talk about efforts to build resistance and models of mutual aid and solidarity in both cities and open a discussion on how to make Montreal a Solidarity City.
Kathleen Cole is an organiser in Minneapolis. She worked alongside her neighbors to build community defense systems for rapid response and mutual aid during the ICE occupation in Minneapolis. She works to build movement infrastructure at the scale necessary for fighting fascist consolidation and authoritarianism.
Aboubacar Kane is an organiser with Solidarity Across Borders, a migrant justice network in Montreal which brings together migrants and allies to fight against deportations and detentions, for status for all and to transform Montreal into a Solidarity City.
Amel Zaazaa is co-founder and director of l’Observatoire pour la justice migrante. In all her work, she strives to make knowledge produced at the margins visible and accessible. Amel previously worked for the City of Montreal as an advisor in charge of addressing the issue of non-status and precarious status migrants. More.