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Gathering for a Sanctuary City

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Just before next class, a gathering is organized by the Non Status Women's Collective of Montreal to address the issue of Montreal being a Sanctuary City. Since this issue is highly and concretely related to many questions discussed during the class, I thought it might be relevant to share it here:

"Coderre, Coderre, so where's your sanctuary city??!!"
Rally with the Non-Status Women's Collective

Thursday, 19 October at 11:30am
Montreal City Hall, 275 Notre Dame Est (métro Champ-de-Mars).

You are invited to participate in an action in front of City Hall to demand a real sanctuary city from Mayor Denis Coderre. In January 2017, he declared that Montreal was a sanctuary city, but it was not true.

Nine months after Coderre's statement, people without status still don't have access to over-the-table work or public services like health care, housing, education, etc.

Non-status people are still being arrested because of their immigration status and turned over to the CBSA by the SPVM (which reports directly to Coderre!), imprisoned and deported.

Join us in the struggle for a life of dignity.

We are counting on you to be there.

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Collectif des femmes sans statuts de Montréal
Colectivo de Mujeres sin estatus de Montreal
Non Status Women's Collective of Montreal

https://www.facebook.com/events/1494125997291904 

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