[Sust-mar] Sept. 14 Stop the Deportation of Kim Rivera & Sept. 19 Let Them Stay Rally for US War Resisters

[Tamara Lorincz]

Two events to support US War Resisters in Canada this Friday and next
Wednesday.  Please join us!

(1)
STOP THE DEPORTATION: Outdoor Phone-In for US War Resister Kim Rivera

Friday, September 14

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Halifax Public Library

5381 Spring Garden Road, Halifax

Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition

Members of the Halifax Peace Coalition will be calling  Minister of
Immigration Jason Kenney to ask that U.S. war resister Kimberly Rivera and
her family be allowed to stay in Canada. In 2007, Kim became the first
female war resister who served in Iraq to take refuge in Canada. Last month,
Immigration Canada issued an order to Kim to leave Canada by September 20th
or face forcible removal. Kim is married with four children and is faced
with a court martial and imprisonment if deported to the U.S. This Friday,
the peace group will be urging the public to call Minister Kenny and sign
petitions outside the Halifax library. The outdoor phone-in is part of a
national day of action with events also taking place in Toronto and
Vancouver. For more information about the War Resisters Support Campaign,
please visit: www.resisters.ca 

*Come to the library, please bring your cell phone and call Minister Kenny
to stop the deportation of the first female US war resister, a young mother,
in Canada! We need your help with calls and the petitions. 

If you can't make it down to the library, please call the Office of the
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and urge others to do so:
613.954.1064 

Please also sign the petition Minister Kenney: Stop the deportation of Iraq
War resister Kimberly Rivera:
http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/minister-kenney-stop-the-deportation-o
f-iraq-war-resister-kimberly-rivera 


(2)
LET THEM STAY: Rally for U.S. War Resisters in Canada 

Wednesday, September 19

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Citizenship & Immigration Canada Office

1741 Brunswick Street, Halifax

Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition

Members of the Halifax Peace Coalition will be holding a rally in support of
US war resister Kim Rivera outside the local office of Citizenship &
Immigration Canada. In 2007, Kim became the first female war resister who
served in Iraq to take refuge in Canada. Last month, Immigration Canada
issued an order to Kim to leave Canada by September 20th or face forcible
removal. Kim is married with four children living in Toronto and is faced
with a court martial and imprisonment if deported to the U.S. The peace
group is also calling attention to the plight of Rodney Watson, a black US
war resister, who is also faced with deportation and has been in sanctuary
in the basement of a church in Vancouver for three years. The "LET THEM
STAY" rally will be held in solidarity with other rallies take place across
the country that day. For more information about the War Resisters Support
Campaign, please visit: www.resisters.ca 

*Please bring a banner to the downtown office and come to show your support
for US war resisters in Canada!


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"We do hope that Canada will be a refuge from militarism" Pierre Trudeau,
Prime Minister, 1970 

In solidarity for peace, earth & justice,

Tamara

Tamara Lorincz
55 Willowbend Court
Halifax, NS CANADA B3M 3L3
Phone: (902) 443-2423
Cell: (902) 478-1379
tlorincz at dal.ca
ECJ: http://www.ecojustice.ca
GN: http://www.space4peace.org/
HPC: http://www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca/
NSEN: http://www.nsen.ca
"A better world is possible"

"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary
spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility
to poverty, racism, and militarism." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

"Without a doubt, military spending represents the single most significant
perversion of worldwide priorities known today." Former President of Costa
Rica and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Oscar Arias, 1999