#FreeHaitianDetainees #LetThemStay
For those of you who have been watching we are at the US-Canada border crossing at Lacolle, QC, where Haitian migrants are being detained in unprecedented numbers (about 16000 arrests) and private security from Commissionaires are preventing them from accessing their legal rights -- a right supposedly enshrined in the Charter.
Increasingly, families needing help at the border are also of Nicaraguan, El Salvadoran, Guatemalan descent. These are all linked to policies by Trump and Trudeau.
We tried to even simply provide written legal information to Red Cross workers who were whisked away by borders security agents and told they were not permitted to accept the documents or they would "escalate".
This is the welcoming Canada that Justin Trudeau promised to those facing deportation from the United States.
Want to help?
Tweet at the Red Cross and ask them why they will not take this information from our legal team: @CroixRouge_Qc
Help bring this issue to the attention of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, the Ahmed Hussen.
Please call, email, send a letter via fax or mail.
Information for them is in the comments section below.
Demands include:
1) Suspension of the Safe Third Country Act
2) Canada Border Service Agency needs to stop blocking media and legal counsel from supporting families seeking asylum.
ALSO HELP By:
Placing a call or message to any and all civil society organizations to increase observing/participation at LaColle.
We will be organizing future delegations. Please let us know if you want to join us. This type of injustice cannot continue.
Six years! Six years of struggle, of community, of love, of wins, of life in this city. So much has happened since we began that cold November day 6 years ago- campaigns, rallies, marches, occupations, demands, artworks, the city changing. Today we continue our fight for all Black lives to matter- to be considered inherently valuable. We deserve freedom, justice, and to live. We will never stop fighting until we are all free. Black! Lives! Matter!
Check out this conversation with Skylar and folks at 1492 LandBack Lane. The team there is prepping for winter and ongoing threats of violence from the state.
Indigenous resurgence now and always. There will never be justice for Black people on occupied land. Justice and power to the land defenders, today and always!
Black trans, non binary and gender non-conforming people, we love you. This is a love letter from us to us, with some words from those fighting alongside us to ensure the all #BlackTransLivesMatter . Thank you to Ayo Tsalithaba this incredible video creation. Thank you to LAL for the use of the song “Close”. TURN ON CAPTIONS as needed!
Join us to create a #NewNarrative for our community. ...
