Together for Status for All!
Saturday, 18 March at 7:30 pm to Sunday, 19 March at 9am
Complexe Guy-Favreau, 200 René-Lévesque Blvd West (Place-d’Armes Metro)
Come spend an hour or two with us to show your solidarity, especially Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 9am.
- Testimonies by undocumented migrants
- Music, lights and projections
- Kids’ activities
This is part of a panCanadian day of action for a fully inclusive, comprehensive regularization programme and for permanent residence for all migrants, organized by Migrant Rights Network.
For weeks now, the media has not stopped talking about Roxham Road in a distorted way providing fertile ground for racist and xenophobic discourses blaming migrants for all social problems. In this way, anti-migrant groups and politicians are pushing back against efforts to win a regularization programme for undocumented migrants and permanent residence for all migrants. This is how the wealthy are attempting to distract attention from questions of justice and equality, making migrants into scapegoats, and creating divisions among those excluded from wealth and privilege.
While those who profit from these populist discourses stay warm in their big houses, undocumented migrants are left in the dark and cold of an exclusion that kills without mercy: on the borders, on the streets, slowly over years of exploitation and hard physical work, through lack of healthcare, and in the constant stress of precarity, family separation and fear of being arrested, detained and deported.
We don’t leave our countries for the pleasure of migrating to Canada. We come to Canada seeking refuge from diverse problems. We also don’t become undocumented for the fun of it. The unjust immigration system makes us vulnerable.
We demand a regularisation programme without exception or exclusion. We have waited for a regularisation programme for more than 14 months, when Trudeau mandated the federal Immigration Minister, Sean Fraser, to regularize undocumented migrants. We also demand permanent residence for all migrants.
We make these demands in solidarity with unhoused communities, with all who face racially profiling, with exploited workers from all backgrounds, with indigenous people whose lands have been stolen … and AGAINST the people who seek to divide, exploit and use us for their own political and financial ends.
Wake up and act fast! Now is the time to make this programme concrete and ensure permanent residence for all!
STATUS FOR ALLAll Night Camp for Status
Let us in from the cold and dark, stop excluding us!
We need a fully inclusive regularization programme, with no one left behind NOW
Together for Status for All!
Refugees Welcome!
Saturday, 18 March at 7:30 pm to Sunday, 19 March at 9am
In front of federal government and immigration and refugee board offices
Complexe Guy-Favreau, 200 René-Lévesque Blvd West (Place-d’Armes Metro)
- Come spend an hour or two with us to show your solidarity, especially Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 8am.
- Testimonies and projections by undocumented migrants
- Dinner for all, with the unhoused community particularly invited to come warm up and eat together
- Music and lights
- Kids’ activities
- Bring your candles!
This is part of a panCanadian day of action for a fully inclusive, comprehensive regularization programme and for permanent residence for all migrants, organized by Migrant Rights Network.
For weeks now, the media has not stopped talking about Roxham Road in a distorted way providing fertile ground for racist and xenophobic discourses blaming migrants for all social problems. In this way, anti-migrant groups and politicians are pushing back against efforts to win a regularization programme for undocumented migrants and permanent residence for all migrants. This is how the wealthy are attempting to distract attention from questions of justice and equality, making migrants into scapegoats, and creating divisions among those excluded from wealth and privilege.
While those who profit from these populist discourses stay warm in their big houses, undocumented migrants are left in the dark and cold of an exclusion that kills without mercy: on the borders, on the streets, slowly over years of exploitation and hard physical work, through lack of healthcare, and in the constant stress of precarity, family separation and fear of being arrested, detained and deported.
We don’t leave our countries for the pleasure of migrating to Canada. We come to Canada seeking refuge from diverse problems. We also don’t become undocumented for the fun of it. The unjust immigration system makes us vulnerable.
Nous revendiquons un programme de régularisation sans exception ni exclusion. Nous avons attendu un tel programme de régularisation depuis plus de 14 mois maintenant; depuis que Trudeau a mandaté le Ministre de l’Immigration Fraser de régulariser les personnes sans-papiers. Nous revendiquons aussi la résidence permanente pour toute personne migrante.
We demand a regularisation programme without exception or exclusion. We have waited for a regularisation programme for more than 14 months, when Trudeau mandated the federal Immigration Minister, Sean Fraser, to regularize undocumented migrants.
We make these demands in solidarity with unhoused communities, with all who face racially profiling, with exploited workers from all backgrounds, with indigenous people whose lands have been stolen, etc. and AGAINST the people who seek to divide, exploit and use us for their own political and financial ends.
Wake up and act fast! Now is the time to make this programme concrete and ensure permanent residence for all!
STATUS FOR ALL