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Migrants & Refugees Welcome! Open the Borders! Oppose Racism!
Demonstration at the Quebec-US Border
Saturday, September 30, 9am - 5pm
At the Lacolle Border Crossing, south of Montreal
(map: https://goo.gl/maps/W8s3rTtGPC72)
Please consult www.solidarityacrossborders.org regularly for updates.
A call by the Anti-Racist/Anti-Fascist Response Committee of Solidarity Across Borders. We encourage organizations to endorse and share this callout, and to mobilize their communities and contacts. Get in touch if you can support this mobilization.
- Buses and cars leaving from Montreal at 8am sharp.
- We encourage the large-scale participation of all who support migrants and refugees and oppose racism.
- We encourage parents and caregivers to get in touch (solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com), so we can pass on info about this demonstration, and the involvement of families and kids.
- We will have food, drinks and snacks available throughout the day.
- To RESERVE a space on our buses, please e-mail
solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com (put "Bus to Border" in the subject line).
- To DONATE to this effort (via cheque, paypal or e-transfer) please visit
www.solidarityacrossborders.org/en/donate (indicate "Border Demo" when making a donation)
- If you can DRIVE or lend a car to get to the border, please get in touch:
solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com
- Help MOBILIZE for this demonstration! Contact us at
solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com so we can share with you our posters and flyers and other materials.
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Welcome Migrants and Refugees! Say no to racists!
This demonstration at the border will express support and solidarity with recent refugee arrivals, with the clear message: Welcome Migrants and Refugees! Say no to racists! We encourage the participation of all who support migrant justice and seek to oppose
the far right.
We also demonstrate to reject the racist discourse that contrasts migrants with the homeless and poor already living in Quebec. We call for a linking of the struggles of all oppressed, poor and working class people against the rich and privileged. Instead of
blaming migrants for exercising valid choices, we focus on opposing and resisting systems of oppression, specifically colonialism, patriarchy, racism, and capitalism.
We campaign to build a Solidarity City, the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for others confronting these same realities. We support open borders and the free
movement of people seeking justice and dignity, meaning freedom to move, freedom to return, and the freedom to stay.
Racists and Fascists: No Pasaran!
The Storm Alliance, a far-right, racist, anti-immigrant organization, has called a demonstration in the vicinity of the Lacolle border crossing on September 30. Far-right groups deserve no platform to promote their racist agenda. We call on anti-fascists and
anti-racists from all over Montreal and Quebec to mobilize to join us at the border, to send a clear message against racism and the far right, and to keep the racists far away from intimidating migrants who are staying temporarily at the refugee camp at the
Lacolle border crossing
-> For more information, including "Why are people crossing irregularly into Canada?", "Anti-colonial Statement" and "What is the Storm Alliance", visit:
www.solidarityacrossborders.org/en/background-border.
A call by the Anti-Racist/Anti-Fascist Response Committee of Solidarity Across Borders. We encourage organizations to endorse and share this callout, and to mobilize their communities and contacts. Get in touch if you can support this mobilization.