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We mobilize around these main demands: an end to deportations and detentions and the abolition of the double punishment of migrants with criminal records. We demand Status for All! and are building a “Solidarity City” campaign. We demand that:
- Everyone living here should have access to free health care in clinics, CLSCs and hospitals. Medical facilities should never ask for information on immigration status. Instead, they should work to provide appropriate and respectful care to all users. We want health care to be accessible to all and support efforts to defend the public health care system.
- Everyone living here should be able to attend school free of charge, regardless of their – or their parents – immigration status. We are in favor of universal education for all, from kindergarten to university, and defend accessible education at all levels and for all people.
- The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) should not have any right to enter and arrest migrants in hospitals, clinics, shelters, schools, or any space providing essential services; ultimately, the CBSA should not be welcome anywhere in our communities.
- Any person living here should have access to social housing, food banks, unemployment benefits and any other social welfare regardless of immigration status.
The “Solidarity City” campaign is an attempt to generalize and broaden some key organizing principles that have been applied in migrant justice work in Montreal.
In order to bring our vision of Solidarity City closer to reality, we are asking community organizations and centres, collectives, trade unions, healthcare providers, educational institutions, food banks, shelters, housing co-ops, and everyone else to commit to providing services equally to all, regardless of immigration status. As one important symbolic step, we ask these organizations and institutions to endorse the Solidarity City declaration (See link for full declaration).
If your organization would like to endorse this declaration, or needs more information (including a presentation about the Solidarity City campaign) get in touch: solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com
On this day, 5 October 2004, residents of Soweto, South Africa, defied police and blocked Johannesburg Water from installing prepaid water meters, which they could not afford.
Pictured: a water protest in South Africa around this time https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1227153090803172/?type=3
On this day, 18 October 1977, the Red Army Faction (aka the Baader-Meinhof group) killed Martin Schleyer, former Nazi war criminal and SS officer who was also head of the German Employers Association known for his tough opposition to unions and strikes. He had been kidnapped by the group demanding an exchange for 11 RAF prisoners. However when three of the prisoners were found dead, the RAF shot Schleyer. Schleyer had served time as a prisoner of war for his SS activities, but he got a shorter sentence by lying about his rank and pretending to be more junior than he was. While we are not supporters of the RAF, what do people think of this? Let us know in the comments. We have made available this extensive, two-volume documentary history of the group here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/red-army-faction https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1238261966358951/?type=3
