migration, anti-colonialism and resistance.
walking, asking questions with @MWACCanada @MigrantRightsCA @freegrassy
Nov 5, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Ford is using the classic right-wing-in-gov playbook. Greenbelt attacked; tenant protections stripped; strikes criminalized. They expect us to scramble, become issue-centric, be shocked. It's early enough that voters may forget.
There is ONE strategic response that can work:
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We win against these tactics by UNITING at the point-of-resistance.
Right now, education workers are fighting back. So environmentalists, housing activists, others must join in. Show up with signs linking struggles.
Turn many different issues into a single political crisis.
Dec 12, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Immigration enforcement in Canada is the wild west. Absolute impunity and total disregard for migrant life.
Dale Lewis, who has wrecked many lives, is now finally being exposed for using FAKE documents from Gambia to deport Ebrahim Toure.
But there's so much more!
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Migrants are beaten when placed onto planes for deportation by Canadian borders guards. If they don't comply, flights are chartered to remove them.
This is what they did to 'Omar' on December 18, 2018.
As countries around the world consider giving immigration status to some migrants as 'reward' for their 'service' during #COVID19 - it is crucial to interrogate rights to citizenship status as a privilege or a gift.
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For most people, citizenship status (or landed status or stable status) is not about staying in a country. These programs are for migrants already living and working here rather it is about access to services conferred by citizenship. Crucially..
