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No One Is Illegal-Halifax at the G8/G20 Mobilizations in Toronto
No Fences, No Borders! No One Is Illegal, Canada Is Illegal!
Joint Statement of No One Is Illegal Toronto, No One Is Illegal Vancouver,
No One Is Illegal Halifax, No One Is Illegal Montreal, No One Is Illegal
Ottawa
As most of you have heard, from June 25th to 27th the world’s richest
countries (the G8 and G20) will send their poli-trickers and banking
elite, along with heads of the EU, IMF and World Bank, to meet in
Huntsville and then in Toronto. They will be talking bailouts, corporate
green-washing, and how to further deepen their own and their friends’
pockets. The G8 and G20 countries and their corporations make most of the
weapons on the planet, profit from war, subsidize oil corporations and
massive industrial projects, and are responsible for pushing millions out
of their homes each year. Migrants arriving in G20 countries are treated
as exploitable labour - fenced in to precarious work - and often living in
fear of detention and deportation.
This week, thousands will converge in Toronto to expose and challenge the
deadly policies of the G8 and the G20. No One Is Illegal, a grassroots
anti-colonial migrant justice group across Kanada with members primarily
of racialized/immigrant backgrounds, will be there! We will fight to
create a world free of the many fences and borders that divide us, and to
create communities that can live with justice and dignity. We invite our
friends and allies to join us and particularly for those who are
vulnerable (as people of colour, trans folks, non status etc) we encourage
you to form affinity groups to support each other and to stay safe.
On June 22nd, we will join our allies in the gender justice and queer
liberation movements in their fierce and creative actions grounded in the
daily lived experiences of women, queer, and trans folks to overcome
marginalization. As part of the Access without Fear campaign, we will be
demanding the right to Shelter, to Sanctuary, and to Status for all
migrant women and trans people. On June 23rd, we will gather with
environmental justice activists who are exposing institutions and
corporations responsible for the environmental and social impacts of
Canada's extractive industries at home and abroad.
On June 24th, we will stand alongside Indigenous defenders who struggle
across Turtle Island against centuries of colonial and genocidal policies
that have caused impoverishment, forced assimilation of distinct cultures,
and theft of land and resources. As non-native multiracial supporters, we
strongly believe that our movement must always be in active solidarity
with Indigenous communities.
On June 25th, we will march alongside community groups who organize daily
against the indignities and dehumanization of poverty, discrimination,
lack of inclusive services, wage-slave working conditions, repressive
immigration policies, gentrification, environmental degradation, and
police brutality. Joining struggles against homelessness and displacement,
we will march towards the fence and will build a Tent City that will
showcase the just communities we wish to live in.
On June 26th, we will rally alongside anti war activists demanding an end
to Canadian complicity in imperialist occupations from Afghanistan to
Haiti. We will be alongside working people to oppose patriarchy, racism,
privatization, cuts to services, and exploitation of (im)migrant workers;
to demand living wages, workers control, and status for all; and to make
clear that the violence of capitalism cannot be reformed.
On June 26, we will also rise alongside anti-capitalists and radical
labour activists who are continuing towards the fence to confront the
police state and the billion dollar security apparatus that the G20
finance ministers and corporations hide behind. Just as resistance against
the border walls from Palestine to Mexico cannot be contained, our love
and rage for liberation cannot be contained. We assert: the militarized
fence - another physical and ideological symbol of global apartheid,
corporate greed, and a way to keep the elite separate from the people -
should come down.
On the evening of June 26th, we will party alongside those reclaiming the
streets, while on June 27th we will join prison abolitionists highlighting
the growing insecurity and repression of the prison and surveillance
industrial complex.
In the coming week, we encourage all our allies to join us on the streets
and unite for justice. For a world with self-determination for all
Indigenous communities; environmental justice; income equity and community
control over resources; migrant justice; gender, queer, disability, and
reproductive rights; and freedom for all oppressed peoples. Rise in
struggle till all the walls and fences fall!
“Walls turned on their sides, are bridges.”
- Graffiti on US/Mexico border wall
* For further details on these events and information on Accessibility,
Legal, Medics, Schedule, and more:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
* For G20 and G8 People's Convergence Breaking Updates:
http://2010.mediacoop.ca/
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with #g20report.
* Independent media:
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/
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http://g20.torontomobilize.org/altmedia
* Toronto Community Mobilization Network Solidarity and Respect Statement:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/SolidarityRespect
Topics: Direct ActionEnvironmentGenderHousingIdeasIndigenousLabourMigrationPeace/WarPolice/PrisonsPovertySolidarity
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