Statements

Canadian Immigration: Family Reunification for the Rich and the Lucky

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Tue, 2013-05-21

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/indestructible.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom " width="251" height="167" /></span>No One Is Illegal – Toronto responds to the May 2013 changes to the Parent and Grandparent Program for Sponsorship</p>

Canada's new immigration paradigm: Detention, Deportation and Abuse

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Thu, 2012-12-13

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/fredomtomove.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom " width="192" height="150" /></span>On December 15, the Refugee Exclusion Act (Bill C-31, formally the "Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act") will be fully implemented.</p>

No One Is Illegal - Toronto statement on Detentions & Security Designations

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Wed, 2012-11-21

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/detentioncentre.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom " width="251" height="188" /></span>** Total persons detained since Harper came to power: Over 72,000<br />
** Total persons detained (2010-2011): 8,838

Fill out the NOII-Toronto Supporters Survey!

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Mon, 2012-11-05

<p><span class="inline inline-right"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/statusforall.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom " width="250" height="167" /></span>]We are looking for feedback.

Kenney gala disrupted, communities honoured, relationships strengthened

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Mon, 2012-11-05

<p><span class="inline inline-right"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/Nov4Rptback1.img_assist_custom.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom " width="300" height="171" /></span><strong>Pictures &amp; Videos at: <a href="http://honouringourcommunities.tumblr.com/" title="http://honouringourcommunities.tumblr.com/">http://honouringourcommuniti

Community allies photobomb Canada Day events to demand justice for refugees

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Tue, 2012-07-03

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/nohomeforrefs.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom " width="300" height="200" /></span>On July 1st, immigrant and refugee allies interrupted Canada Day events at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, holding up massive foam letters that spelled out “Oh Canada

Freedom to Move, Return, Stay

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Thu, 2012-05-03

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Conservatives using No One Is Illegal to distract from anti-immigrant record, Refugee Exclusion Act (Bill C-31)

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Tue, 2012-03-27

<p>Canada, Turtle Island - Immigrant and refugee rights groups from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver were brought up in Parliament yesterday [1] and targetted in a press release by Minister of Deportation Jason Kenney [2]. The Tories have charged that No One Is Illegal is "not simply another noisy activist group but hard-line anti-Canadian extremists".</p>

Response to Jason Kenney’s Staged Citizenship Ceremony

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Tue, 2012-02-07

<p>No One Is Illegal Toronto and No One Is Illegal Vancouver Coast Salish Territories Respond to Jason Kenney’s Staged Citizenship Ceremony</p>
<p>Watch our video response Citizenship Canada Bureaucratic Oath:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95IUTA6o6Mk" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95IUTA6o6Mk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95IUTA6o6Mk</a> </p>

URGENT: STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND JUSTICE IN KITCHENUHMAYKOOSIB INNINUWUG (KI)

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Wed, 2011-12-07

<p><strong>No One Is Illegal-Toronto Statement, December 2011</strong></p>
<p>As early as this month, God's Lake Inc. a mining company based in Toronto, will attempt to begin exploration on sacred burial grounds in traditional KI territory, about 20 hours north of Toronto.</p>

No One Is Illegal - Toronto Statement on G20 Conspiracy Plea Resolution

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Mon, 2011-11-28

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/9_2010-balloons-tilt.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom " width="300" height="464" /></span>On Tuesday, November 22nd 2011, 17 community organizers – including No One Is Illegal - Toronto’s own Syed Hussan – charged with G20 related “conspiracy” charge

No One Is Illegal - Toronto Statement on Sexual Assault & Community Accountability

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Fri, 2011-11-04

<p>Toronto, November, 2011 - As organizers for migrant justice, as people that wish and struggle for freedom of movement, for freedom to stay and for freedom to return, we know all too well that patriarchy and rape culture often pushes women, queer and trans people out of their homes, forcing them to migrate.

No One Is Illegal - Toronto needs your support

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Tue, 2011-11-01

<p>Dear friends, allies and fellow organizers, </p>
<p>No One Is Illegal - Toronto has recently been forced out from our storage space in the building we shared with LIFT (Low Income Families Together). The building was repossessed by the city and many community groups have lost their space as well. We are writing today with an urgent call for space and financial support. </p>

No One Is Illegal - Toronto Statement on 25 years of Maggie's Sex Workers Action Project

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Sat, 2011-10-29

<p>As Maggie’s Sex Workers Action Project celebrates 25 years of existence, we at No One Is Illegal - Toronto would like to take a moment to commend your organization on a quarter century of creating substantive change in the lives of sex workers.</p>

Are Ford’s cuts racist? Yes! And this is why!

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Toronto on Wed, 2011-08-31

<p>Colonialism, imperialism and neoliberal economic policies keep pushing us out and displacing us! The Indigenous people of this land have been displaced by centuries of ongoing colonial policies and practices, pushed away from the regions settlers wanted to occupy and pushed away from the areas mining and logging companies wanted to exploit.