{"id":8399,"date":"2020-03-07T13:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2020-03-07T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:19:06","slug":"spring-of-action-launched-with-disruption-of-lemay-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/spring-of-action-launched-with-disruption-of-lemay-offices","title":{"rendered":"Spring of Action launched with Disruption of Lemay Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Friday, community members entered the offices of Lemay, architects of the new prison for migrants in Laval. Chanting slogans, distributing flyers, and carrying silhouettes of friends and neighbours who had been detained and deported, they disrupted business as usual. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"752\" height=\"423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B1erhax2tq4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new prison, located at 400 Mont\u00e9e Saint-Fran\u00e7ois in Laval, will replace the current one. Like all prisons in Canada, it will be filled with poor, brown, Black, and Indigenous people colonized by European powers. This prison is an essential part of Canada\u2019s border strategy, keeping poor people from the global south out and wealth in the hands of a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tisseur, a construction firm located in Val-David, has worked through the winter with the result that the new migrant prison is beginning to take shape despite widespread, concerted community opposition (to see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1O13FKcx7RCgjQ3VEHGzbVaBicDWptfvr\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">photo from last month, click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nThis is a call to <\/span><b>stop any further construction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of this prison. Take action! Work with others, thoughtfully, strategically, in love and determination. This prison must not be built!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Contact<\/strong> (<em>for coordination, flyers, media points, petition, information, toolkit, backgrounders, etc<\/em>.): <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">solidaritesansfrontieres [at] gmail [dot] com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more about<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/background-immigration-detention-in-canada-and-the-new-refugee-prison-in-laval\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">immigration detention in Canada and the new migrant prison, click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/stopponslaprison.info\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more about the companies involved in constructing the new Laval migrant prison, click her<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stopponslaprison.info\/\">e<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>To<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/no-to-a-new-prison-for-refugees-and-migrants-in-laval\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sign our statement against the prison, click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, community members entered the offices of Lemay, architects of the new prison for migrants in Laval. Chanting slogans, distributing flyers, and carrying silhouettes of friends and neighbours who had been detained and deported, they disrupted business as usual.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/spring-of-action-launched-with-disruption-of-lemay-offices\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-of-action.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8403,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions\/8403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}