Re-Launch of Bi-Weekly Pickets, in Solidarity with Palestinian Refugees
Facing Deportation
THURSDAY MARCH 1st, 4 pm -> 6 pm
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
715 Peel Street [corner of St. Antoine]
[metro Bonaventure]
REFUGEE CAMPS ARE NO ONE'S HOME!
STOP THE DEPORTATIONS OF STATELESS PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
After more than FIVE YEARS of organizing and fighting back, hundreds of
Palestinian refugees in Montreal and across Canada continue to face imminent
deportation to the Occupied Territories and to the refugee camps of Lebanon.
Based on this continued and urgent situation, the Coalition Against the
Deportation of Palestinian Refugees calls on supporters to participate in
the re-launch of bi-weekly solidarity pickets, in front of Immigration
Canada, to demand:
- An END TO THE DEPORTATIONS, and
- An IMMEDIATE REGULARIZATION of all Palestinian refugees in Canada.
Over the past few months, integral members of the Coalition Against the
Deportation of Palestinian Refugees have received final rejections of
their cases and await deportation dates back to the Occupied Territories and
to the refugee camps in Lebanon.
An elderly Palestinian couple are also fighting against their deportation
back to the refugee camp of Sabra in Lebanon, where Farouk Za'atar has
lived since he was forced to flee Palestine as a child in 1948. The elderly
couple will be forcibly separated from their three children and five
grandchildren in Montreal, all of whom are Canadian citizens or permanent
residents. Once again, the Coalition is faced with fighting a situation
where some family members refugee claims have been accepted, while other's
have been refused. The Za'atar's son was granted refugee status in Montreal
years ago, while the parents, though based on the same sequence of events,
were later rejected by a different refugee board member.
Conditions for Palestinians in both the Occupied Territories and in Lebanon
are horrific and are worsening daily.
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are systematically prevented from owning
property, working in over 70 professions, receiving proper health care, and
moving and traveling freely. The intensified mistreatment of Palestinian
refugees inside the camps has left their lives in real and immediate peril.
If deported, those Palestinians who had escaped the dire situation in the
Occupied Territories, would face daily terror at the hands of the Israeli
state which continues to enforce a deadly and illegal military occupation.
Palestinian refugees from the Occupied Territories have fled from the
killings, extra-judicial assassinations, house demolitions, illegal arrests,
trials without evidence, torture, land confiscation, and constant
humiliations.
We must stand united, in support of the long and courageous fight against
deportations waged by the Palestinian refugees in Montreal.
Your support, solidarity and participation are needed....!
REFUGEE CAMPS ARE NO ONE'S HOME!
STOP THE DEPORTATIONS OF STATELESS PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
In Solidarity.
the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
refugees.resist.ca / refugees@riseup.net
715 Peel Street [corner of St. Antoine]
[metro Bonaventure]
REFUGEE CAMPS ARE NO ONE'S HOME!
STOP THE DEPORTATIONS OF STATELESS PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
After more than FIVE YEARS of organizing and fighting back, hundreds of
Palestinian refugees in Montreal and across Canada continue to face imminent
deportation to the Occupied Territories and to the refugee camps of Lebanon.
Based on this continued and urgent situation, the Coalition Against the
Deportation of Palestinian Refugees calls on supporters to participate in
the re-launch of bi-weekly solidarity pickets, in front of Immigration
Canada, to demand:
- An END TO THE DEPORTATIONS, and
- An IMMEDIATE REGULARIZATION of all Palestinian refugees in Canada.
Over the past few months, integral members of the Coalition Against the
Deportation of Palestinian Refugees have received final rejections of
their cases and await deportation dates back to the Occupied Territories and
to the refugee camps in Lebanon.
An elderly Palestinian couple are also fighting against their deportation
back to the refugee camp of Sabra in Lebanon, where Farouk Za'atar has
lived since he was forced to flee Palestine as a child in 1948. The elderly
couple will be forcibly separated from their three children and five
grandchildren in Montreal, all of whom are Canadian citizens or permanent
residents. Once again, the Coalition is faced with fighting a situation
where some family members refugee claims have been accepted, while other's
have been refused. The Za'atar's son was granted refugee status in Montreal
years ago, while the parents, though based on the same sequence of events,
were later rejected by a different refugee board member.
Conditions for Palestinians in both the Occupied Territories and in Lebanon
are horrific and are worsening daily.
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are systematically prevented from owning
property, working in over 70 professions, receiving proper health care, and
moving and traveling freely. The intensified mistreatment of Palestinian
refugees inside the camps has left their lives in real and immediate peril.
If deported, those Palestinians who had escaped the dire situation in the
Occupied Territories, would face daily terror at the hands of the Israeli
state which continues to enforce a deadly and illegal military occupation.
Palestinian refugees from the Occupied Territories have fled from the
killings, extra-judicial assassinations, house demolitions, illegal arrests,
trials without evidence, torture, land confiscation, and constant
humiliations.
We must stand united, in support of the long and courageous fight against
deportations waged by the Palestinian refugees in Montreal.
Your support, solidarity and participation are needed....!
REFUGEE CAMPS ARE NO ONE'S HOME!
STOP THE DEPORTATIONS OF STATELESS PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
In Solidarity.
the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
refugees.resist.ca / refugees@riseup.net
