Migration

Groundwire April 8th

GroundWire Production — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 22:28:27 +0000

Winnipeg Meth Crisis, A Deeper Look at Bill 21, Read-In at Millenium Library

GroundWire | October 9, 2017

GroundWire Production — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 01:42:23 +0000

Wild Salmon Protectors demonstration, Rally in Quebec welcomes Refugees, and Racism in Winnipeg

This episode of GroundWire is hosted by participants attending the Grassroots Radio Confere

GroundWire | Feb 27

GroundWire Production — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:37:24 +0000

Sanctuary City, Workers in Halifax Commemorate Strike, Indigenous Writing and Literacy

This episode of GroundWire was produced on Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe traditional territory in Kingston by CFRC.

Headlines:

Have a Heart Day - a child and youth-led reconciliation event | Doug Farquhar, CFRC

Food service workers strike at the University of Toronto’s satellite campus in Scarborough | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, GW

GroundWire November 21

GroundWire Production — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 06:40:29 +0000

Kurdish Community protest, Barriere Lake Algonquins protect, and demonstrations in the wake of U.S. elections

This episode of GroundWire was produced on Anishinaabe Territory, Part of the Robinson Superior Treaty, Home of the Fort William First Nation, in Thunder Bay by Carly Forbes

Headlines:

Canada’s Kurdish Community rallies against Turkey’s treatment of Kurdish community | GroundWire

Trump's Election: The Choice of the March Towards Generalized War. Only the Revolutionary Proletariat Can Oppose It.

Steve — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:58:40 +0000

Shock. Stupor. “The unthinkable has finally happened”, the editorialists proclaim this morning. Trump's election, which is just confirmed at the time we are writing, provokes the same reactions in the bourgeois classes of the whole world as those which had followed the Brexit victory, the vote of last June in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.

MIGRANT DREAMS - Toronto Screening with Harvesting Freedom Caravan

cinemapolitica — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:51:26 +0000

Subhead:

This Sunday, attend a special afternoon screening of Min Sook Lee's Migrant Dreams; a powerfully compassionate film that exposes the exploitations inherent to Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers program

Sun Sep 25

city:

Toronto

Venue:

Ryerson University, Room Lib 72

Address:

350 Victoria Street

Cost:

Suggested donation ($2-$10)

organizer contact:

info@cinemapolitica.org

Space Accessibiity:

Wheelchair accessible

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Link:

facebook.com/events/169765676793264/

Join us for the Toronto screening of Min Sook Lee's latest documentary

Harvesting Freedom Caravan headed to Ottawa

UnusualSources — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:46:41 +0000

Event in Hamilton on September 23rd

Unusual Sources continues our coverage of the poor conditions faced by Ontario's thousands of foreign migrant workers.

Tent City Vancouver, #JusticeforAbdiRahman, CRTC dismissal of Commissioner Shoan

GroundWire Production — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:33:10 +0000

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#MigrantStrike – Week 1 Reportback

David Gray-Donald — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 17:19:44 +0000

Hunger strike continues in immigration detention centres in Lindsay and Scarborough

Originally posted on July 18, 2016, at endimmigrationdetention.com and re-posted with permission.

CALL / EMAIL / TWEET at MINISTER RALPH GOODALE.

PEGIDA shutdown in Toronto

Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:23:10 +0000

Antifascists protest poorly attended Paul Weston speech hosted by JDL

Last night the Toronto Zionist Centre and JDL Canada hosted Paul Weston, leader of PEGIDA UK and Lars Hedegaard, a Danish Islamophobic author. The title of the evenings talks was "The Threat of Radical Islamic Immigration and the Erosion of our Freedoms".

Eyewitness From Paris: Terrorism, Refugees and War

Acidique — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:03:19 +0000

Subhead:

Discussion on the impact of the terror attacks in Paris, the refugee crisis in Europe and the role of imperialism and war in fanning the flames of these crises

Wed Feb 10

city:

Toronto

Venue:

Ryerson University in the Oakham House (Layton room on the 2nd floor)

Address:

63 Gould Street

Cost:

FREE!

organizer contact:

Jessica @ 647-378-1385 or fightback@marxist.ca

Map link:

https://goo.gl/AjAniF

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Link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/570551576454770/

GroundWire | December 21, 2015

GroundWire Production — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:32:13 +0000

Focus on Gendered Based Violence

This episode of GroundWire was produced by volunteers at Kootenay Co-op Radio, CJLY on Sinixt traditional territory in Nelson BC

Headlines

December 17 marked the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers | Carly Forbes, GroundWire

GroundWire | December 7, 2015

GroundWire Production — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 04:08:56 +0000

Community Radio News from Coast to Coast to Coast

This episode of GroundWire was produced on traditional Mi’kmaq territory in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hosted by Mat Wilush

New group forms to help migrant workers

UnusualSources — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:13:33 +0000

Newly launched Canadian Migrant Workers Rights Coalition (CMWRC), calls on new government to end discrimination against migrant workers.

Doug interviews Stan Raper of UFCW and the Agricultural Workers Alliance, (AWA), about the unfair treatment of migrant farm workers here in southern Ontario and across Canada. Stan will discuss the formation of a new organization.

GroundWire November 9, 2015

GroundWire Production — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:54:31 +0000

Vigil for Native women, World Kobane day, Montreal dumps sewage into St. Lawrence

This episode of GroundWire was produced on traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the New Credit by the GroundWire National Coordination Team in Toronto. Hosted by Carly Forbes and Jayal Chung at CILU in Thunder Bay.

Headlines

Ontario banning of police racist carding practices | Omme-Salm