Celebrate Black History Month by Keeping Gary Freeman in Canada! Stop an Unjust Extradition to the United States!

[From http://www.freemandrum.org]
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TORONTO, FEBRUARY, 2006 -- It seems that Black History Month is an appropriate time to reflect on the case of one Douglas Gary Freeman (the former Joseph Coleman Pannell, Jr.), a 56-year-old African American man who has sitting in a Canadian jail for almost two years as he fights extradition to the United States.

[From http://www.freemandrum.org]
(Details on how you can help at the end.)

Is it necessary to deny people their most elemental human rights to "guarantee" national security?

Detained for years without charge, held on secret evidence that the accused does not have access to, threatened with deportation and torture, this is the situation for five men from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Within the next month, four of these five men will be transferred, far from their families, to an isolated wing of the Milhaven maximum security prison, just outside of Kingston, Ontario. This recent addition to the prison has been built specifically to house those detained under the controversial security certificates.

PUBLIC CONSULTATION
Thursday, 16 March, 7 pm
Atwater Library
1200 Atwater (corner Ste. Catherine; Atwater metro)

The PEOPLE'S COMMISSION is being launched to provide a means for our communities to examine the issue of "security certificates" and other immigration security policies in depth and identify ways to address the problem. A series of Public Consultations is taking place across Quebec and Canada in order to explain the project, seek public feedback, and encourage broad participation in the Commission. Come out and join in!

Consultation publique
Jeudi le 16 mars 2006, 19h00
Bibliothèque Atwater
1200, rue Atwater (coin Ste.-Catherine, métro Atwater)

La COMMISSION POPULAIRE est mise de l'avant afin d'offrir à nos communautés un moyen d'examiner la question des «certificats de sécurité» ainsi que les autres enjeux liés aux politiques de «sécurité » en Immigration et d'identifier des moyens de résoudre les problèmes qui en découlent.

13 February 2006. A World to Win News Service. The worldwide upsurge of anger sparked by the anti-Islamic cartoons was the main item on the agenda for the meeting of Nato defence ministers at the weekend. This reveals how much all the imperialist powers feel that their strategic interests are at stake. It is impossible to understand the fury surrounding these caricatures first published in Denmark without looking at the material interests and political and economic factors involved. It is also important to examine the relationship between those interests and the propagation of certain ideas, and the complex interaction between those two spheres.

McGill students and others were taught the ropes of a complex network the Feds use to process refugee claimants.

DES MIGRANTS DEMANDENT À EVO MORALES QU´ILS LES SOUTIENNENT EN VUE D´UNE VIE DIGNE ET QU´ILS FREINENT UNE DIASPORA CHAOTIQUE

Madrid 4 janvier 06, Edwin Perez Uberhuaga ( CEM )

::: A CALL FOR SUPPORT, SOLIDARITY AND ACTION:::

::: ABDELKADER BELAOUNI TAKES SANCTUARY INSIDE A MONTREAL CHURCH :::

4 January 2006

Abdelkader Belaouni ­ who is an active member of Solidarity Across Borders & the Action Committee of Non-Status Algerians, and was one of over 100 people who marched to Ottawa this summer to demand the regularization of all non-status persons in Canada ­ has taken sanctuary at St. Gabriel¹s church in Montreal. Abdelkader¹s deportation date is set for tomorrow, January 5th, but he has decided to continue to fight against this injustice, and has sought sanctuary in order to avoid deportation.

Your support is urgently needed to ensure that Abdelkader remains safely in sanctuary until his status in Canada is regularized!

SOLIDARITÉ AVEC UN RÉFUGIÉ ALGÉRIEN EN SANCTUAIRE!

Abdelkader Belaouni, qui a trouvé sanctuaire à l’Église Saint-Gabriel à Montréal, sommera le Ministre fédéral de l’Immigration Joseph Volpe d’intervenir afin qu’il puisse demeurer au Canada. M. Belaouni est un homme aveugle originairement d’Algérie qui vit à Montréal depuis près de trois ans.

Qu'est-ce que le MIB, ses objectifs et son fonctionnement ?

Tout a commencé en France en 1983 aprés la mort de Toufik et la marche de convergence des Beurs. Le MIB est un mouvement qui a été créé par des gens qui ont vécu la double peine (prison + expulsion) et depuis 1991, nous combattons les violences policières. C'est vrai qu'en France, il existe des associations comme SOS Racisme ou le MRAP qui sont financées par le PS.