{"id":8503,"date":"2020-04-01T23:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T03:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/?p=8503"},"modified":"2020-04-02T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T01:34:31","slug":"letters-of-support-from-coast-to-coast-for-detainees-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/letters-of-support-from-coast-to-coast-for-detainees-hunger-strike","title":{"rendered":"Letters of Support from Coast to Coast for Detainees&#8217; Hunger Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCCLA-768x644-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The eight day long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/solidarity-with-migrant-detainees-on-hunger-strike\">hunger strike<\/a> by the migrant detainees at the Laval Immigration Holding Center gathered coast to coast support. Here we publish the open letters by various civil society actors over a period of four days between 29th of March and 1st of April.<\/p>\n<p>Other messages of solidarity via images shared through various social media can be viewed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/gallery-of-support-for-detainees-hunger-strike\">gallery of images.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Letters of Support:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AnsleySimpsonletterof-support-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ansley Simpson,<\/a> Anishinaabekwe, Member of Alderville First Nation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/From-the-Burnside-prison-strikers-to-the-Laval-hunger-strikers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burnside prison solidarity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Desmondcole.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Desmond Cole<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glen-Coulthard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glen Coulthard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCCLA_Harsha-Walia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harsha Walia<\/a>, BC Civil Liberties Association<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Indigiqueer-and-Trans-Indigenous-Solidarity-with-HungerStrikeLaval.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indigiqueer and Trans Indigenous Solidarity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joint-Effort-Support-for-Prisoners-in-Laval-20200401.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joint Effort<\/a>, Unceded Coast Salish Territories<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ChildrensPeaceTheatre.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen Emerson<\/a>, Artistic Director Children\u2019s Peace Theatre<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kik\u00e9lola-Roach-Unifor_HungerStrikeLaval.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kik\u00e9lola Roach<\/a>, Unifor Chair in Social Justice &amp; Democracy at Ryerson University<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/simpson.openletter.laval_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<\/a>, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Keleta-Mae-university-of-waterloo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Naila Keleta-Mae<\/a>, University of Waterloo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dryden_OpenLetterHungerStrike.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden<\/a>, Dalhousie University<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Souheil-Benslimane_Justin-Pich\u00e9_PCEPpressreslesepiche.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Souheil Benslimane &amp; Justin Pich\u00e9, PhD<\/a>, respectively, Lead Coordinator, Jail Accountability &amp; Information Line, &amp; \u00a0Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WomensWellnesWithin-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women\u2019s Wellness Within<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eight day long hunger strike by the migrant detainees at the Laval Immigration Holding Center gathered coast to coast support. Here we publish the open letters by various civil society actors over a period of four days between 29th&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/letters-of-support-from-coast-to-coast-for-detainees-hunger-strike\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503"}],"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=8503"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8558,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions\/8558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}