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Sunday May 20: Mayworks Celebration

By immigrantworkerscentre, on May 13th, 2012

MayWorks! Celebrating migrant worker struggles through the arts

Sunday May 20, 2012
5:30 pm- 9:30 pm
Centre William Hingston
419 St. Roch
Metro Parc, or bus 80

The Immigrant Workers Centre will be hosting its’ 6th annual MayWorks! event, a family-friendly festival celebrating working class movements in theater, music, words, and song. MayWorks! is held on the occasion of May Day- the real Labour Day- which commemorates the  struggle of working people around the world.

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May 26: March for Status for all!

By immigrantworkerscentre, on May 13th, 2012

STATUS FOR ALL!
March for justice and dignity for all migrants and refugees

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012
Gathering at NOON
Jean Talon & Boyer, just east of métro Jean-Talon
MONTREAL

We live here! We work here! We’re staying here!
We march together to demand an end to deportations and detentions, and in opposition to the double punishment of migrants with criminal records. We demand Status for All, and organize for a “Solidarity City” for all residents of Montreal.
A child-friendly march. Bring your kids!
Get in touch about any accessibility needs.

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Migrant Voices: Justice for Noé Arteaga

By immigrantworkerscentre, on May 11th, 2012

On May 11 2012, Noé Arteaga faces labour arbitration with his former employer, Les Serres du St-Laurent Inc, the company that produces SAVOURA tomatoes.

Noé came to Canada as a temporary foreign worker, but he was fired and deported to Guatemala after he helped organize a work-stoppage to get medical attention for a fellow worker. He is now seeking refugee status in Canada and is demanding justice from his former employer.

In this interview, Noé tells his story.

This is part of the Migrant Voices series, produced by the Immigrant Workers Centre of Montreal.

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Other recent coverage of Noé’s case:

CKUT’s News Collective reports from downtown Montreal at the demo of support for Noé Arteaga. Broadcast on Off The Hour, May 11 2012.

Le Devoir, A9, May 12-13 2012

Le Devoir, A9, May 12-13 2012

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Media Advisory: Rally in support of migrant farm worker

By immigrantworkerscentre, on May 10th, 2012


Friday May 11, 8:00 am
Holiday Inn, 99 Viger Avenue West (Metro Place d’Armes), Montreal
A rally in support of Noé Arteaga and temporary migrant farm workers seeking justice and dignity in Quebec.

Les Serres du St-Laurent Inc, a Quebec company which produces Savoura tomatoes, summarily fired and deported Arteaga Santos to Guatemala after he and other workers participated in a work stoppage to draw attention to the plight of a fellow worker, who was not receiving the medical treatment he needed.

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May 1st: The Immigrant Workers Centre will Join two demonstrations

By immigrantworkerscentre, on April 30th, 2012
*This May Day we are inviting immigrant and migrant workers and our allies to join us in an im/migrant worker contingent.
***The Immigrant Workers Centre will be joining two demonstrations for May Day:

1 – Anti-capitalist May Day
assembly at 4:15pm
Corner St-Antoine and Gosford
metro Champ-de-Mars
2 – Union march for May Day
assembly time 6pm
Corner Louis Hebert and Beaubien
metro D’Iberville

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Gathering at 4:30pm at Champ-de-Mars
corner Saint-Antoine & Gosford
Métro Champ-de-Mars
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- DISTRIBUTE WIDELY -

Join us for the ANTI-CAPITALIST MAYDAY DEMONSTRATION, MAY 1, 2012, IN MONTRÉAL
(See below for more calls issued by our allies!)

This is a call to all workers, unemployed, and precariously employed.
This is a call to the poor, the outcasts, the marginalized and the oppressed.
This is a call to the students who are struggling.
To women, and radical feminists, who have always struggled on the side of the disenfranchised. This is a call to those who are fed up, and who cannot take any more of this shit. To the anti-capitalists, the anarchists, the communists, the rebels, the insurgents, and revolutionaries. This is a call for the expression of a justifiable rage!

THIS IS A CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE ON MAY 1!
We call for a general strike for May 1, and we call for an unlimited general strike, because we do not want to be the oil that drives the gears of capitalism!
We will be the iron bar that will derail it! We call for the general strike to put an end to capitalism, because without us, the capitalists are nothing!

Together, we are everything, we can do anything!!

Join CLAC-Montreal (Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles) on MAY 1st!
* We are inviting you to bring your banners, flags and placards, megaphones and noisemakers. And come masked! We also suggest that you form affinity groups!

* We are also inviting groups to support this call for an anti-capitalist May 1 demonstration, to put together your own block for the demonstration, to circulate this call-out in your networks, and to help with mobilization.*

If you are interested, contact us at: info @ clac-montreal.net

Join Us!
For a MAY 1 that is clearly anti-capitalist, and in the spirit of the pioneers of working-class emancipation, this is a call to retake the streets, to break the established order, and to occupy EVERYTHING!

To read CLAC’s newspaper, MayDay Special Issue:
http://www.clac-montreal.net/coup_pour_coup

For more information visit:
http://clac-montreal.net
info @ clac-montréal.net
https://www.facebook.com/events/324635217571613/

The following groups have endorsed this call:
Comité des sans-emploi Montréal-Centre (CSE)
Dignidad Migrante
Filipino workers support group
Immigrant Workers Centre (CTTI-IWC)
La Mitrailleuse
No One is Illegal – Montréal
People’s Commission Network (PCN)
PINAY
Projet accompagnement solidarité Colombie (PASC)
Queer-McGill Political Action Working Group
RASH-Montréal
Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)
Solidarity Across Borders (SSAB)
Les Sorcières

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