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widely!!</STRONG></SPAN></EM></SPAN></DIV>
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4: Refugees welcome!</STRONG> </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Aylan, Galip and Rehan
should be here.</STRONG></SPAN><BR><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We want safety and welcome for
all.</SPAN></STRONG></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Freedom to move, stay and
return.</SPAN></STRONG><BR><BR><SPAN
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September 4th, 7pm</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #800000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>Yonge-Dundas
Square.</STRONG></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sep 4- 7:<SPAN>A cross-country
weekend of mobilization.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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class=pre><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Actions taking
place across the country, find one near you or organize your own: <A
href="http://www.facebook.com/events/1703064886579884/" rel=noreferrer
target=_blank>www.facebook.com/events/1703064886579884/</A></SPAN></DIV>
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class=pre><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Let us know by
emailing <A
href="mailto:refugeeswelcomeCA@gmail.com">refugeeswelcomeCA@gmail.com</A> so we
can help promote it. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This is a last minute
call-out, and we need your help to spread the word. Use the hashtag
#refugeeswelcome #freedomtomove to share <A
href="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/TORefugeesWelcome">http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/TORefugeesWelcome</A>
on Twitter and Facebook.</SPAN><BR><BR><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">BACKGROUND</SPAN></EM></DIV>
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class=pre><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">With images
and stories in the media on the migrant crisis from Syria and the surrounding
areas, the deaths of the Aylan, Galip and Rehan Kurdi has shone a light on the
complicity of the Canadian governments, its corporations and allies in this
crisis. Thousands of Eritrean, Somali, Syrian, Yemeni, and Balkan refugees are
dying on the shores of Fortress Europe; as Latin Americans have died enroute to
the United States of America. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Due to discriminatory
restrictions implemented by the federal government, the number of refugee claims
in Canada decreased by 50 percent and the number of accepted refugees dropped by
30 percent between 2006 and 2012. These laws and policies have caused untold
misery and death. In Canada today, citizenship is harder to get, and easier to
lose. Most racialized and poor migrants can only come here as short-term migrant
workers, easily deported. Thousands of migrant workers and undocumented people
have died after being denied services in Canada or been deported or repatriated
after being injured to their death. Read more about Canadian immigraton policies
at <A href="http://www.neverhome.ca" rel=noreferrer
target=_blank>www.neverhome.ca</A> </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Canadian government in
alliance with resource-extractive corporations along with their European and
American partners have been profiting from the wars, environmental collapse and
economic depressions of many countries in the South resulting in over 52 million
displaced people around the globe. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">At the same time, communities
are rising up across the globe. In Germany and Iceland, tens of thousands of
people have forced open the borders, and opened their homes to refugees. It’s
time for us to do the same.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Read more:</SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On the Syrian crisis: <A
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/05/ticking-time-bomb-syrian-refugees-150509062906684.html"
rel=noreferrer
target=_blank>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/05/ticking-time-bomb-syrian-refugees-150509062906684.html</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On the migrant crisis:
<A
href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/refugee-crisis-mediterranean-europe-syria-libya/"
rel=noreferrer
target=_blank>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/refugee-crisis-mediterranean-europe-syria-libya/</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On the role of Canadian
corporations in displacement: <A
href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/bad-neighbours" rel=noreferrer
target=_blank>https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/bad-neighbours</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On the links between climate
change and displacement: <A
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anika-rahman/climateinduced-migration-_b_6497652.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anika-rahman/climateinduced-migration-_b_6497652.html</A></SPAN></DIV>
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