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TAKE ACTION AGAINST BILL C-50
NO TO REPRESSIVE IMMIGRATION CONTROLS!

TUESDAY, MAY 13TH @ 5 P.M.
Meet outside BURRARD SKYTRAIN STATION
(corner Burrard and Dunsmuir)

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WHAT IS BILL C50?

Continued and brutal Israeli repression against Palestinians.

Today over 27 million children and adults are in slavery or bonded labor around the world—more than any other period in human history. As one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world, slavery remains largely hidden from the public eye and thrives on the rising global demand for inexpensive, unskilled labor and commercial sex.

Recently the Conservative government introduced a series of amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), buried in Bill c-50, a...“budget implementation bill”...This fundamentally undemocratic move sneaks in critical changes to Canada’s immigration policy without proposing any of those changes before Parliament...This series of amendments places more arbitrary power in the hands of the Immigration Minister[.]

by Fuad Zir - IMEMC News

At their annual national convention, delegates of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)representing 50,000 workers across Canada, voted overwhelmingly in favor of resolution 338/339. The resolution commits the union to support the Palestinian people's inalienable rights including the right of return. The resolution also joins the global campaign of "boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS)against Israeli Apartheid."

Imprisonment and torture of an innocent man.

Nine Swedish no-border activists face more than two years imprisonment in case they will be sentenced for trying to stop the deportation to Eritrea of an asylum seeker. The activists entered the runway of Bromma Airport, Stockholm, during Monday afternoon.

With a new highway completed that runs through Papun District and 60 new military encampments in the northern region of Karen State[,] [f]resh well equipped troops from Burma’s Military Operations Command Units 4 and 16 launched a March offensive against 8 Karen villages. Villagers ran for the safety of the jungle as mortars rained down on their huts, livestock and inhabitance. With orders to shoot, soldiers shot randomly while Karen villagers fled into the jungle.

Inadvertently the United Nations has qualified the criminal junta that has enslaved the nation of Burma. Liken to Nevil Chamberland and his association with Adolf Hitler, Gambari and the military junta have become bedfellows. This new so called “Constitution” is nothing more than criminality on paper and will one day be part an parcel evidence whence the criminals of “Crimes Against Humanity” come to trial.

Armed with nothing more than absolute faith, a robe and slippers Buddhist Monks have made their position known about the Constitutional Referendum. The stakes are very high. Knowing and surviving the consequences of September’s protest monks stand defiant and have gone on the offensive regardless of the risks.

So yea want to do something for the suffering of Burma. Like I said, the most powerful tool we have is the all mighty dollar. This is only a small list but as you soon will see, it has many strange bedfellows. List provided by Burma: On line News and Analysis. Comentaries by moi.

From the jungles of Burma to the concrete jungle of modern America has become a challenge for the new arrivals to say the very least. I spoke with a Karen refugee woman, through my interpretor, and I was saddened by what she told me. Though she survived the ethnic cleansing of the military junta in Burma and managed to survive 10 years of hardships in a refugee camp on the Thai border, she was hard pressed to survive in modern America.

What started out as a vacation from my journalistic pursuits became a journey into a world many people never see. Their struggle, their stories and their plight, truly a walk through hell. I have become privy to the secrets from the jungles of Burma and Thailand. With the help of Burmese, Kachin and Karen friends plus refugee officials and missionaries I have become a welcome guest within the teaming refugee community here in America.