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PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY<BR><BR><B>Jason Kenney is Coming to Toronto …<BR>Confront!
Oppose! Speak Out! Organize!<BR></B><BR><B><FONT size=4>Honouring our
Communities: March Against Racism</FONT><BR>November 4, 2012 – 4 pm<BR>Rally at
David Pecaut Square (King & John) March to Fairmont Royal York Hotel (100
Front)<BR></B><BR><B>NO HONOUR IN DEPORTATIONS | NO HONOUR IN APARTHEID | NO
HONOUR IN CORPORATE PROFIT</B><BR><BR><B><I><A
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/233309536798501"
target=_blank>https://www.facebook.com/events/233309536798501</A> <BR>#confrontkenney
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<DIV><BR>Jason Kenney is being awarded an ‘honorary’ degree by Israel's Haifa
University at a fundraiser supported by Stephen Harper, Ezra Levant, Peter Munk,
Stockwell Day and others. This event is a celebration of war, racism, corporate
profit, displacement, apartheid and anti-migrant xenophobia – all intensified by
the Conservative Party of Canada’s agenda. There is nothing honorable about this
gathering.<BR><BR>We call on our communities to gather in/to honour of our
strength and resilience, in opposition to this award and gathering, and against
the dishonorable acts of Kenney, Harper and their allies<BR><BR>Join us on
November 4th! <BR><BR>Childcare and ASL will be available.
<BR><BR>Organized by: Afghans for Peace, Caregiver's Action Centre, Centre for
Social Justice, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Educators for Peace
and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Health for All, Independent Jewish
Voices - Canada, Independent Jewish Voices – Toronto Chapter, Indigenous
Sovereignty and Solidarity Network, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
(IJAN) Canada, International Socialists, Justice for Migrant Workers, Mining
Injustice Solidarity Network, Munk OUT of UofT, New Socialist Group (NSG), No
One Is Illegal – Toronto, Not In Our Name (NION): Jews Opposing Zionism, Ontario
Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), Protest Barrick, The Public Health Social
Justice Collective, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), Queers for Social
Justice (QFSJ), Roma Community Centre, Social Justice Committee of the United
Jewish People’s Order (SJC-UJPO), Socialist Project, Toronto Haiti Action
Committee, Toronto Immigration Legal Committee, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre,
Women in Solidarity with Palestine<BR><BR>For further questions on
accessibility, to endorse, or to join the organizing please email <A
href="mailto:honouringourcommunities@gmail.com">honouringourcommunities@gmail.com</A><BR><BR><B>BACKGROUND</B><BR><BR>Why
is a major Israeli academic institution honouring Canada’s most infamous and
despised Minister, Jason Kenney? And why are people like Stephen Harper, Peter
Munk and Ezra Levant supporting this? <BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>It is well-known across Canada that Jason Kenney - Minister of Censorship
and Deportation - is a key player in advancing the Harper government’s austerity
and policing agenda. Their agenda is transparent and their racist,
xenophobic, neoliberal policy agenda is clear. It includes:<BR><BR>**
Giving unhindered access to corporations while cutting public services,
attacking workers, and forcing communities into deeper poverty and greater
precarity<BR><BR>** Unquestioned support for wars and colonization in Turtle
Island, and globally from Palestine to Iraq to Afghanistan<BR><BR>** Unequivocal
support for the Israeli apartheid state and its internationally condemned war
crimes and human rights violations against Palestinians and all refugees in
Israel<BR><BR>** Expanding an already exclusionary and racist immigration system
by increasing temporary work programs, citizenship rejections, detentions and
deportations while cutting off refugee status, family reunification and access
to full services for migrants, in particular undocumented residents.<BR><BR>**
Defunding, criminalizing and censoring dissent and organizing for queer rights,
gender justice, Palestinian liberation, migrant justice and beyond<BR><BR>This
fundraiser is also meant to establish the “Jason Kenney Holocaust Education
Fund”. At the same time that Kenny receives this 'honour', the Roma community in
Canada is facing intensified discrimination as a direct result of Kenney's
brutal immigration policies. This is a horrifying insult to the memory of the
Roma people who were also targets of Nazi genocide. Indeed, Kenney has
shown great disregard for the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. At a
2009 event, Kenney praised WWII-era fascist collaborator Cardinal Alozije
Stepinac, who was convicted for his role in collaborating with the fascist
Ustasha regime in Croatia. This regime was responsible for the deaths of
between 250,000 to 750,000 Jews, Roma, Serbs, and anti-fascist Croats. And
yet, in Kenney's words: "[Stepinac] was a kind of martyr for Croatia and the
faith, and he for me is one of the great heroes of the 20th
century".<BR><BR>This is the agenda that Kenney represents, and these are just
some reasons why he and Harper should not be honoured. Join us on November
4th to honour our communities, and to oppose this
agenda.<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>