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<DIV><STRONG>Jason Kenney is Coming to Toronto …</STRONG>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><STRONG>Confront! Oppose! Speak Out! Organize!</STRONG>
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class=gmail_quote></BLOCKQUOTE><B><FONT size=4>Honouring our Communities: March
Against Racism</FONT></B></DIV>
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class=gmail_quote></BLOCKQUOTE><B>November 4, 2012 – 4 pm</B><BR>
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class=gmail_quote></BLOCKQUOTE><B>Rally at David Pecaut Square (King & John)
March to Fairmont Royal York Hotel (100 Front)</B>
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class=gmail_quote></BLOCKQUOTE><B>NO HONOUR IN DEPORTATIONS | NO HONOUR IN
APARTHEID | NO HONOUR IN CORPORATE PROFIT</B><BR>
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class=gmail_quote></BLOCKQUOTE><B><I>#confrontkenney
#nohonour</I></B><BR><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 honour of our strength and resilience, in opposition to this award and
gathering, and against the dishonorable acts of Kenney, Harper and their allies.
Bring signs and banners with names and pictures of communities we need to
commemorate and honour. <BR><BR>Join us on November 4th! <BR><BR>Childcare and
ASL will be available. </DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR>Organized by: Afghans
for Peace, Caregiver's Action Centre, Centre for Social Justice, Coalition
Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto, Educators for Peace and
Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Gay West Community Network Inc, 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
Mahjoub Network, Justice for Migrant Workers, Maggie's: The Toronto Sex Workers
Action Project, 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, The Women's Coordinating Committee for
a Free Wallmapu, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), Queers for Social
Justice (QFSJ), 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</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>For further questions on accessibility, to endorse, or to
join the organizing please email <A
href="mailto:honouringourcommunities@gmail.com"
target=_blank>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>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, sex
workers, 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.</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>