MAY DAY OF ACTION: STATUS FOR ALL!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Christie Pits Park (at Christie subway station)
12 Noon
*This is a child-friendly demonstration.
Food and drinks will be available.
There will be vehicles on-hand for those with reduced mobility.*
WAYS TO SUPPORT:
1) Organize a loud contingent to come out on May 3rd.
2) Endorse the May Day of Action by emailing NOII a short statement of
support.
3) Financial and in-kind (photocopying, translation) donations.
4) Organize a NOII workshop/presentation at your school, union local,
agency, community centre or workplace.
5) Help out with postering and outreach
For more information about how you support the march or get involved:
Email: nooneisillegal@riseup.net
Website: www.nooneisillegal.org
Phone: 416 604-5765
IWW Toronto GMB resolution on May 3rd Day of Action for Status For All:
WHEREAS; Millions across North America have taken to the streets in the last two years demanding Status for All! In Toronto, workers, students, trade unionists, activists and community members have led passionate demonstrations calling for justice and dignity for immigrants and refugees.
WHEREAS; The last year has seen unprecedented targeting of refugees in
Sanctuary. Asylum seekers have been arrested from schools, workplaces
and even hospital beds. Families have been torn apart. Over 12,000
friends, family, and community members have been deported.
WHEREAS; On March 14th 2008, the Conservative government introduced a
series of amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA),
buried in Bill c-50, a 136-page "budget implementation bill". If passed,
the Minister will have the discretion to refuse applications even where
the applicants meet the elitist and racist criteria for permanent
residence, to refuse to even examine humanitarian applications filed from
abroad, and to arbitrarily set quotas on the "category" of person that can
enter Canada – including quotas based on country of origin.
WHEREAS; There are over 500,000 undocumented people living and working
across Canada, over 200,000 in Toronto alone. They are forced to live in
daily fear of jailing and deportation, without access to essential
services. Bill C-50 would create even more categories of "temporary
foreign workers" without full status and without rights. These workers
will be exploited as cheap labour, as mere commodities, used and then
removed.
BE IT RESOLVED; The Industrial Workers of the World - Toronto Branch
endorses the National Days of Action for Status for All and will take to
the streets. We demand an end to detentions and deportations. We demand
that bill C-50 never become law. We demand that all workers be allowed the
right to join unions and that anti-union legislation such as is in the
Agricultural Employees Protection Act be repealed and that migrant workers
be given the same legal protections and rights as all other workers. We
demand that the live-in-caregiver program, which ties domestic workers
immigration status to their employer, be abolished. We demand access
without fear to essential services. We demand an end to security
certificates and secret trials. We demand a full and inclusive
regularization program. We demand justice, dignity and respect!
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED; That the Toronto branch of the IWW will promote the event through all applicable IWW organs such as emails lists and websites.
