{"id":3619,"date":"2014-01-27T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T20:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2014-08-02T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:44:36","slug":"community-statement-%e2%80%9censemble-contre-la-charte-xenophobe%e2%80%9d-together-against-the-xenophobic-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/community-statement-%e2%80%9censemble-contre-la-charte-xenophobe%e2%80%9d-together-against-the-xenophobic-charter","title":{"rendered":"Community Statement: \u201cEnsemble contre la Charte x\u00e9nophobe\u201d (“Together Against the Xenophobic Charter”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Community Statement: \u201cEnsemble contre la Charte x\u00e9nophobe\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>
\n(“Together Against the Xenophobic Charter”)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[This community statement is endorsed and supported by Solidarity Across Borders.]<\/p>\n

We are opposed to the proposed Quebec Charter of Values (now known as Bill 60).<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the outset, the proposed Charter and related debate fails to recognize that Quebec and Canada are built on stolen Indigenous land, and constituted through the dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples. We assert our solidarity and support with Indigenous struggles for self-determination and cultural integrity.<\/p>\n

We are for equality between all genders but we also assert our support for struggles against patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism and all forms of oppression.<\/p>\n

We oppose those aspects of the Charter that attack the personal dignity and self-determination of our fellow Quebec residents, including their ability to work and survive in major sectors of the economy.<\/p>\n

We assert that the introduction of the Charter of Values is both hypocritical and xenophobic. It is hypocritical because ostentatious symbols of one religion will remain untouched (specifically the Duplessis crucifix in the National Assembly as well as the cross on Mont-Royal). It is xenophobic because Charter supporters are appealing to sensationalized and false fears of other cultures and traditions, as part of an electoral calculation to win the votes of bigots.<\/p>\n

We reject the monolithic portrayal of our communities and we assert the diversity of our cultures and traditions as well as our multiple identities.<\/p>\n

We also reject the Charter as sexist as it is based on stereotypes of women who choose to wear the hijab. We reject the notion that women of faith need to be saved, and instead we support the women who are on the frontlines of their own struggles for liberation, as subjects, not objects or victims, of their own transformation.<\/p>\n

We support struggles against poverty, precarity, social exclusion, assimilation, borders, racial profiling, sexism and gender violence. We unite to build across differences and struggle against all forms of oppression, whatever their source.
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This community statement is endorsed by:<\/p>\n

– \u00c0 Deux Mains \/ Head and Hands<\/em>
\n– Artivistic<\/em>
\n– Assembl\u00e9e populaire autonome de Villeray (APAQ Villeray)<\/em>
\n– Association facultaire \u00e9tudiante des sciences humaines (AFESH-UQ\u00c0M)<\/em>
\n– Centre communautaire des femmes sud-asiatiques \/ South Asian Women’s Community Center (SAWCC)<\/em>
\n– Centre de lutte contre l\u2019oppression des genres \/ Centre for Gender Advocacy<\/em>
\n– Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble \/ L’Ensemble de l’insurrection chaotique<\/em>
\n– Collectif anarchiste Emma Goldman (Saguenay)<\/em>
\n– Collectif \u00e9ducation sans fronti\u00e8res (CESF)<\/em>
\n– Collectif oppose \u00e0 la brutalit\u00e9 polici\u00e8re (COBP)<\/em>
\n– Collectif Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois – Musulmans Contre Int\u00e9grismes et Islamophobie<\/em>
\n– Comit\u00e9 des Femmes de diverses origines \/ Women of Diverse Origins<\/em>
\n– Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC)<\/em>
\n– Geograds (Geography, Planning and Environment Graduates Association at Concordia)<\/em>
\n– Groupe de recherche d’int\u00e9r\u00eat public \u00e0 Concordia \/ QPIRG Concordia<\/em>
\n– Groupe de recherche d’int\u00e9r\u00eat public \u00e0 McGill \/ QPIRG McGill<\/em>
\n– Immigrant Workers Center \/ Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrantEs (CTI)<\/em>
\n– Montr\u00e9al Nord R\u00e9publik<\/em>
\n– Montreal Serai<\/em>
\n– No One Is Illegal \/ Personne n’est ill\u00e9gal-Montr\u00e9al<\/em>
\n– Palestiniens et juifs Unis (PAJU)<\/em>
\n– People\u2019s Potato<\/em>
\n– Queer Between the Covers<\/em>
\n– R\u00e9seau de la Commission Populaire de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>
\n– Solidarit\u00e9 sans fronti\u00e8res \/ Solidarity Across Borders<\/em>
\n– Tadamon<\/em>
\n– Voix juives ind\u00e9pendantes \/ Independent Jewish Voices<\/em>
\n[To endorse this statement as an organization, please contact\u00a0nooneisillegal@gmail.com]<\/p>\n

– Report-back: Demonstration against the xenophobic Charter (October 20, 2013), with photos, videos and articles
\nhttp:\/\/nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.ca\/2013\/10\/report-back-demonstration-against.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Community Statement: \u201cEnsemble contre la Charte x\u00e9nophobe\u201d\u00a0 (“Together Against the Xenophobic Charter”) [This community statement is endorsed and supported by Solidarity Across Borders.] We are opposed to the proposed Quebec Charter of Values (now known as Bill 60). From the…<\/p>\n

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