[Fdu] Toronto, Sep 4, 7pm: EMERGENCY RALLY - REFUGEES WELCOME!

[Cynthia Wright]

please forward widely!!

Sep 4: Refugees welcome! 

Aylan, Galip and Rehan should be here.
We want safety and welcome for all.
Freedom to move, stay and return.

TORONTO
Friday, September 4th, 7pm
Yonge-Dundas Square.

Sep 4- 7:A cross-country weekend of mobilization.
Actions taking place across the country, find one near you or organize your own: www.facebook.com/events/1703064886579884/

Let us know by emailing refugeeswelcomeCA at gmail.com so we can help promote it. 

This is a last minute call-out, and we need your help to spread the word. Use the hashtag #refugeeswelcome #freedomtomove to share http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/TORefugeesWelcome on Twitter and Facebook.

BACKGROUND

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. 

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 www.neverhome.ca 

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. 

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.

Read more:
On the Syrian crisis: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/05/ticking-time-bomb-syrian-refugees-150509062906684.html
On the migrant crisis:  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/refugee-crisis-mediterranean-europe-syria-libya/
On the role of Canadian corporations in displacement: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/bad-neighbours
On the links between climate change and displacement: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anika-rahman/climateinduced-migration-_b_6497652.html
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