Toronto: actividades solidarias en apoyo a los trabajadores indocumentados

Toronto. Canada. Undocumented workers and their allies are busy mobilizing to protest recent deportations and demand access to legal status and rights. Please support the following activities in solidarity with undocumented workers.

1. April 21: Wetback: Film Screening and Discussion
2. April 22: Support, Don't Deport Rally and March
3. May 6: Borderless: Film Launch and Activist Panel


April 21:

Film and discussion
Wetback - The Undocumented Documentary

WETBACK is a feature length, award-winning documentary that follows several immigrants from Central America and Mexico on an extraordinary and extremely dangerous journey to North America.

The film screening will be followed by a discussion led by speakers including Arturo Perez Torres and Francisco Rico-Martinez (FCJ Refugee Centre)

April 21, 7-9pm
OISE at U of T, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 2-214

This event is organized by Justicia for Migrant Workers and No One is Illegal. Co-sponsors include: Mosaico 21, The Transformative Learning Centre-OISE U/T, OLAS, Canada-El Salvador Action Network, KAIROS, Guatemala Community Network (GCN)

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April 22

Rally and March: Support, Don't Deport
A day of action in support of undocumented immigrants

You are invited to join in this solidarity action in support of undocumented immigrants living in Canada. The action, organized by a coalition led by the Canadian Hispanic Congress, seeks to promote the following:

* A moratorium on deportations while new immigration policy is put in place.

* A work permit program offered to law-abiding workers and their families, leading to the opportunity to apply for status.

* A long-term solution for a fair program that permits skilled workers to immigrate into jobs in the construction and service sectors.

Saturday April 22, 2006

Meet at 11:00 am at Queen's Park and march to City Hall for a rally at noon.

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May 6

Film Launch and Activist Panel
BORDERLESS: a docu-poem about the lives of undocumented workers
Canada, 2006, Min Sook Lee, 25 min
Saturday May 6, 3 pm, $5 - $10 sliding scale
Ryerson University: Rogers Communication Centre
80 Gould Street , Room 204

Borderless is a twenty-five minute documentary poem about migrants living and working without status in Canada .

Told in their own voices, the stories of Geraldo, an undocumented Costa Rican construction worker, and Angela, a second-generation Caribbean domestic worker, bring to life problems of labour exploitation and family separation caused by restrictive immigration policy.

Viewers are introduced to an invisible workforce and invited to reflect on the hidden costs of sustaining our first world economy. Directed by Gemini nominated filmmaker Min Sook Lee, written by poet Dionne Brand and narrated by dub poet d'bi young .

Borderless is a production of KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, featuring Avvy Go, STATUS Campaign, Carlos Pimentel , Carpenters Union, Juan Sierra, Laborer's International Union of North America, Yolyn Valenzuela, Siklab-Ontario and Sima Sahar Zerehi, No One Is Illegal.

Moderated by Tanya Chute Molina,
Program Coordinator, Refugees and Migration, KAIROS.
Filmmaker Min Sook Lee will be present.

Co-presented and co-sponsored by Mayworks and KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives.