A Demonstration in solidarity with
1000 Algerians facing deportation
by the Canadian government

FRIDAY, JULY 26th at 5:30 PM
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
1010 St-Antoine west (corner of Peel, metro Bonaventure)

Organized by : le Comité d'action des sans-statut algérien-ne-s

FRIDAY, JULY 26th at 5:30 PM
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
1010 St-Antoine west (corner of Peel, metro Bonaventure)

Organized by : le Comité d'action des sans-statut algérien-ne-s

With the support of : la Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes/The
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) * Illegal Nation * Association des
étudiant-E-s musulman de Montréal/United Muslim Students' Association of
Montreal * Rebel Desis * Solidarité pour les Droits Humains des
Palestiniens (SDHP)/Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) *
Alliance juive contre l'occupation/Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation
* Canadian Arab Federation (Toronto) * Organisation populaire pour les
droits sociaux (OPDS) * Centre communautaire des femmes
sud-asiatiques/South Asian Womens' Centre * Concordia Womens' Centre *
Centre de travailleuses et travailleurs immigrantEs/Immigrant Workers'
Centre * CERAS - South Asia Centre/Centre sur l'asie du sud * Collectif
Opposé à la Brutalité Policière (COBP) * Association vers un Ideal Social
(AVIS) * Comité des sans-emploi * Association des aides familiales du
Québec (AAFQ) * Fire Women of Colour Collective * Groupe de recherche
d'intérêt public du Québec/Quebec Public Interest Research Group
(Concordia) * Groupe de recherche d'intérêt public du Québec/Quebec Public
Interest Research Group (McGill) * GrassRoots Association for Student
Power (GRASP) McGill * and others ...

===> WHY:
On April 5th, Denis Coderre, the Minister of Immigration Canada lifted the
moratorium on the deportations of Algerians. The moratorium protected
Algerians who were not recognized as refugees by Canada, permitting them
to remain on Canadian soil due to the extreme violence in Algeria that
has taken the lives of 150,000 people, and where more than 8,000 others
have disappeared.

Minister Coderre's decision aims to defend and promote the economic
interests of a political and economic elite who want open borders for
business. In the same week that the Algerian moratorium was lifted, Prime
Minister Chretien was visiting Algeria and shortly after, the Canadian
company, SNC Lavalin, obtained a contract with Algeria for the amount of
141 million dollars.

===> WE MUST ACT NOW! Once individuals receive their deportation notice,
they have 30 days before it comes into effect. Many Algerian families in
Canada face imminent deportation to a country where demonstrators are
assassinated, children are disemboweled, and the authorities torture with
impunity. Some have been in Canada for up to 8 years, contributing to the
economy and paying taxes. They are documented, but have no status. Their
rights are restricted -- No right to health insurance, a minimum $150
expense for the annual work permit renewal, no right to study with work
permit, children have no right to family benefits even when born in Canada
and no right to loans or scholarships, and the list goes on.

===> CANADA SEALS ITS BORDERS:
On June 28th, a new immigration legislation came into effect, further
entrenching the injustices of a racist system, which will increase the
devastating impact on the lives of those fleeing situations of poverty and
persecution.

Amongst other things the new Immigration changes will:

- Greatly expand powers of detention.
- Bar people on welfare from sponsoring their children or spouses.
- See the Liberal government abandon its promise to an appeal for Refugees
on the merits of their cases.
- Pare down the number of people making life-or-death decisions on refugee
claims to a single judge.
- See the U.S. declared a "safe third country", a country that is known
for its high detention rate and refugee rights violations. This agreement
will effectively stop an estimated 40% of refugees from ever reaching
Canadian soil.

STOP THE DEPORTATIONS OF ALGERIANS!
JUSTICE FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES!

For more info:
call: 514.848.7585
email: alge...@yahoo.com

---> HOW YOU CAN HELP

We need your help for the coming demonstration "Stop the Deportations"
organized to raise awareness and to build resistance to the pending
deportation of 1000 Algerians living here in Montreal. On April 5th
Immigration Canada lifted the moratorium on deportations to Algeria, which
put the 1000 non-status Algerians living here in Montreal at a high risk
of being deported back to Algeria.

The moratorium protected Algerians who were not recognized as refugees by
Canada, permitting them to remain on Canadian soil due to the extreme
violence in Algeria that has taken the lives of 150,000 people, and where
more than 8,000 others have disappeared. Minister Coderre's decision aims
to defend and promote the economic interests of a political and economic
elite who want open borders for
business.

There are many tasks that need to be done to make this demonstration a
success. This demonstration is a step in the larger campaign to fight
against the Algerian deportations and is also in ways inspired by the
spirit and ideas which fueled the No One is Illegal! demonstration which
took place during the anti-G8 mobilization Take the Capital! in Ottawa on
June 27th.

====> If your group or organization would like to endorse and/or mobilize
for the coming demonstration, please send an email with the name of your
group or organization to: c...@tao.ca or call 514.409.2049

====> We are asking people that they bring their flags of resistance to
the demonstration, to make this action as colorful and as powerful as
possible. Bring your flags, banners, placards etc.

====> We need peoples help with getting the word out, passing out flyers
and putting up posters around the city. You will be able to pick up
posters for the demonstration this week @ CKUT Radio which is located 3647
University Street just below Pine Avenue (metro McGill)

====> We need your help with chants & slogans. If you have chants in
French or English that highlight the resistance to the "war at home &
the war abroad" please email them to:
alge...@yahoo.com or call 514.409.2049

STOP THE DEPORTATIONS OF ALGERIANS!
JUSTICE FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES!

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La Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes (CLAC)
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence
La Convergencia de las luchas anti-capitalistas
A Convergencia das lutas anti-capitalistas
c...@tao.ca -- 514-409-2049
http://tao.ca/~clac
MONTREAL
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