(Im)Migration Struggles / Lutte des migrant·e·s

En ce moment-même, des migrantEs sont en prison juste à côté de nous dans une prison à Laval. Plutôt que de se poser la question s’il est normal d’enfermer des migrantEs, le gouvernement canadien travaille plutôt à leur construire des murs neufs. Une nouvelle prison, dédiée pour enfermer des familles, parents et enfants.

As part of the new National Immigration Detention Framework, the government set aside $5 million to implement what it calls “alternatives to detention”. After years of hunger strikes by migrants being held in provincial jails in Ontario and a massive support campaign by the End Immigration Detention Network, this new Framework seems to be the government’s response. Migrants were mainly demanding an end to indefinite detention.

Starting points:

  • Entrance of McGill University (corner of Sherbrooke and McGill College, McGill metro station)
  • Square Phillips (corner of Ste-Catherine and Union, McGill metro station)

THIS YEAR AGAIN, THIS IS A CALL FOR ECONOMIC DISTURBANCE IN DOWNTOWN MONTREAL, NAMED BY THE BOURGEOIS THEMSELVES AS THE NEW "GOLDEN SQUARE MILE", ESPECIALLY THE PERIMETER FORMED BY THE SHERBROOKE, RENÉ-LÉVESQUE, PEEL AND UNION STREETS.

Capitalist globalization has wrecked the lives of the overwhelming majority of the Earth’s population. Neo-liberal policies over the past 30 years have only accelerated this misery, leading to the crisis in 2008. On a global scale, neo-liberal policies and trade agreements have led to the creation of export processing zones in the global south and entrenched privatization and the destruction of labour laws have seen manufacturing jobs shift from the global north to the global south. This shift in the name of seeking greater profits is ruining domestic economies and forcing millions to migrate to the global north in search of a better future.

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