MAY DAY RALLY!
Migrante & BAYAN delegation - wear red.
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL! May Day of Action
Rally and March
Saturday, May 2, 2009
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Allan Gardens
Sherbourne and Carlton
Toronto, ON
Email: nooneisillegal@riseup.net
No One Is Illegal!
May Day of Action
Rally and March
2 May, 1pm
Meet: Sherbourne and Carlton
On April 2nd and 3rd, over 100 temporary and undocumented workers were attacked by armed border guards, dragged in to detention and are now being forcibly deported. On 2 May, thousands of us will say Enough!
Migrants, poor and working people; undocumented people and people of colour live in constant crisis in Canada, attacked daily. A crisis has always existed in Teesdale, in Regent Park, in farm fields, on factory
floors and in hotel service areas.
Corporate and political elites are using the current 'Economic Crisis' as an excuse to attack poor, working-class and racialized communities by increasing immigration enforcement; stealing public funds; wrecking social services; taking away people's jobs rather than cutting profits and targeting those they perceive as the weakest - indigenous people; the homeless; refugee claimants; women in shelters; queer and trans migrants, caregivers; factory workers and temporary workers.
We say there are no illegal human beings, only unjust laws and governments. No one, poor or undocumented, is illegal. The struggle of workers - waged and unwaged, with or without immigration status - is against powerful elites and systems of oppression. Citizenship, jobs and houses - granted to some and denied to others - are tools to divide us.
We will not be divided.
On May 2, join thousands of us as we take to the streets and demand an end to corporate and state attacks on our communities. We demand an end to detentions and deportations. 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 status for all!
We did not create this crisis, and we will not pay for it. On May 2nd, create power. Resist.
The May 2nd rally and march will be preceded by a May Day Festival, on May 1st at 6pm, at 25 Cecil Street.
coorganized by: No One Is Illegal-Toronto | Mujeres al Frente | SAWRO | Migrante Ontario | Canadian HART | Casa Salvador Allende | Basics Newsletter | OCAP | Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty | Sikh Activist Network | Toronto New Socialists |Barrio Nuevo | the Stop Community Food Centre | BAYAN Toronto | PCLS | OPIRG Toronto | CAIA | GGAPSS
Endorsed by:
Anarchist Black Cross - Calgary
Association of Part Time Undergraduate Students
Barrio Nuevo
Basics Community Newsletter
Canadian Arab Federation
Caribbean Studies Students Union (CARSSU)
CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice Research
Central Neighbourhood House
Centre for Social Justice
Chilean Canadian Cultural Society - Casa Salvador Allende
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Common Cause - Toronto Branch
Community Action Resource Centre
Continuing Education Students Association of Ryerson
Council of Agencies Serving South Asians
CUPE 3902
CUPE 3907
CUPE 3908
Decolonization and Anti-Racism Committee
Drishtipat Canada
Drop the Fee Campaign
Education Not Deportation
Educators for Peace and Justice
Elementary Teachers of Toronto
FMLN-Toronto
Graduate Geography & Planning Student Society
Health Providers Against Poverty
Health Studies Students Union at UofT
Interim Place
International Federation of Iranian Refugees
International Workers of The World - Toronto Branch
Jane Finch Action Against Poverty
Lal
Lost Lyrics
Mata Danze
Migrante Ontario
Mujeres el Frente
Nellie's
New Socialist Group - Toronto
No One Is Illegal - York University
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
OPRIG - York
OSSTF-District 12 Human Rights Committee
Parkdale Community Legal Services
Peter Nyers - McMaster University
Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty
Regent Park Community Health Cenre
Ryerson Department of Policy and Political Sciences
Sikh Activist Network
Sistering
South Asian Women's Rights Organization
Stolen From Africa
Students Against Israeli Aparthied - University of Toronto
Students for Medicare
Students Support for Migrant Workers - Guelph
Tamil Hart
The Marxist Leninist Party of Canada
The People's Front
The Stop
Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office of Toronto For Social & Multicultural Development
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Toronto Committee in Support of Workers in Iran
Toronto Haiti Action Committee
Toronto Immigration Legal Committee
Toronto Rape Crisis Centre
Toronto Women's Bookstore
University of Toronto Student Union
Venezuela We are With You Coalition
Women's Coordianating Committee Chile-Canada
York Federation of Students
York University Graduate Students Association
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL! May Day of Action
Rally and March
Saturday, May 2, 2009
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Allan Gardens
Sherbourne and Carlton
Toronto, ON
Email: nooneisillegal@riseup.net
No One Is Illegal!
May Day of Action
Rally and March
2 May, 1pm
Meet: Sherbourne and Carlton
On April 2nd and 3rd, over 100 temporary and undocumented workers were attacked by armed border guards, dragged in to detention and are now being forcibly deported. On 2 May, thousands of us will say Enough!
Migrants, poor and working people; undocumented people and people of colour live in constant crisis in Canada, attacked daily. A crisis has always existed in Teesdale, in Regent Park, in farm fields, on factory
floors and in hotel service areas.
Corporate and political elites are using the current 'Economic Crisis' as an excuse to attack poor, working-class and racialized communities by increasing immigration enforcement; stealing public funds; wrecking social services; taking away people's jobs rather than cutting profits and targeting those they perceive as the weakest - indigenous people; the homeless; refugee claimants; women in shelters; queer and trans migrants, caregivers; factory workers and temporary workers.
We say there are no illegal human beings, only unjust laws and governments. No one, poor or undocumented, is illegal. The struggle of workers - waged and unwaged, with or without immigration status - is against powerful elites and systems of oppression. Citizenship, jobs and houses - granted to some and denied to others - are tools to divide us.
We will not be divided.
On May 2, join thousands of us as we take to the streets and demand an end to corporate and state attacks on our communities. We demand an end to detentions and deportations. 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 status for all!
We did not create this crisis, and we will not pay for it. On May 2nd, create power. Resist.
The May 2nd rally and march will be preceded by a May Day Festival, on May 1st at 6pm, at 25 Cecil Street.
coorganized by: No One Is Illegal-Toronto | Mujeres al Frente | SAWRO | Migrante Ontario | Canadian HART | Casa Salvador Allende | Basics Newsletter | OCAP | Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty | Sikh Activist Network | Toronto New Socialists |Barrio Nuevo | the Stop Community Food Centre | BAYAN Toronto | PCLS | OPIRG Toronto | CAIA | GGAPSS
Endorsed by:
Anarchist Black Cross - Calgary
Association of Part Time Undergraduate Students
Barrio Nuevo
Basics Community Newsletter
Canadian Arab Federation
Caribbean Studies Students Union (CARSSU)
CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice Research
Central Neighbourhood House
Centre for Social Justice
Chilean Canadian Cultural Society - Casa Salvador Allende
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Common Cause - Toronto Branch
Community Action Resource Centre
Continuing Education Students Association of Ryerson
Council of Agencies Serving South Asians
CUPE 3902
CUPE 3907
CUPE 3908
Decolonization and Anti-Racism Committee
Drishtipat Canada
Drop the Fee Campaign
Education Not Deportation
Educators for Peace and Justice
Elementary Teachers of Toronto
FMLN-Toronto
Graduate Geography & Planning Student Society
Health Providers Against Poverty
Health Studies Students Union at UofT
Interim Place
International Federation of Iranian Refugees
International Workers of The World - Toronto Branch
Jane Finch Action Against Poverty
Lal
Lost Lyrics
Mata Danze
Migrante Ontario
Mujeres el Frente
Nellie's
New Socialist Group - Toronto
No One Is Illegal - York University
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
OPRIG - York
OSSTF-District 12 Human Rights Committee
Parkdale Community Legal Services
Peter Nyers - McMaster University
Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty
Regent Park Community Health Cenre
Ryerson Department of Policy and Political Sciences
Sikh Activist Network
Sistering
South Asian Women's Rights Organization
Stolen From Africa
Students Against Israeli Aparthied - University of Toronto
Students for Medicare
Students Support for Migrant Workers - Guelph
Tamil Hart
The Marxist Leninist Party of Canada
The People's Front
The Stop
Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office of Toronto For Social & Multicultural Development
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Toronto Committee in Support of Workers in Iran
Toronto Haiti Action Committee
Toronto Immigration Legal Committee
Toronto Rape Crisis Centre
Toronto Women's Bookstore
University of Toronto Student Union
Venezuela We are With You Coalition
Women's Coordianating Committee Chile-Canada
York Federation of Students
York University Graduate Students Association