<div class="event-nodeapi">
<div class="event-start dtstart" title="2012-05-01T21:00:00Z"><label>Start: </label>May/01/2012 - 4:00 pm</div></div>
<div class="event-nodeapi">
<div class="event-start dtstart" title="2012-05-01T21:00:00Z"><label>Start: </label>May/01/2012 - 4:00 pm</div></div>
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/Untitled.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="212" height="639" /></span>Paid or unpaid, documented or undocumented, we are workers. We are families. We are im/migrants. And on May 1, 2012, we take to the streets. </p>
<p>Corporations, governments, the 1%, carry out war, throw us in prisons, make us poor, destroy public services, try to deport us, attack unions, and poison the environment. They deny us freedom and dignity. </p>
<p>Since 2006, No One Is Illegal - Toronto has coordinated a mass anti-capitalist, anti-colonial demonstration for migrant justice. This year, we are working with M1M and (de)Occupy Toronto to coordinate May Day. On May 1, 2012, international workers' day, join us at 4pm at City Hall for a rally and march to respect Indigenous sovereignty, insist that no one is illegal, for international workers solidarity, to defend and expand public services, to stop prison expansion and corporate bail outs, to end imperialist wars and aggression, to build people’s power, and to move beyond capitalism.</p>
<p>Canada is on a racist, anti-migrant war path. Grandparents and parents can’t re-unite with loved ones. Asylum seekers can’t get refugee status and if the Refugee Exclusion Act (Bill C-31) passes the lucky few who did get refugee status could risk losing it. Migrant workers keep slaving in the country, dying by the dozens in car crashes like the ones in Hampstead while more and more people become precarious. Racist security certificate legislation is still on the books. Ableist and discriminatory laws means that citizenship rejections have doubled. New immigrants see their limited services cut as austerity measures are imposed. Homelessness and unemployment haunt people of color and indigenous communities. </p>
<p>Our children are dropping out of school. Our families are being locked up as Bill C-11 gets passed. Toronto police has a file on every black youth in some neighbourhoods. Many indigenous communities don’t have clean drinking water or decent schools and are facing a housing crisis. Mining, logging, and fishing companies are forcing themselves on to sovereign Indigenous territories in digging up the earth, polluting the air and water, and laying down pipelines.</p>
<div class="image-clear"></div><p><a href="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/May1TO" target="_blank">read more</a></p>