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By Lesley Ciarula Taylor - June 30, 2009

Almost half the husbands and wives in southern China and western Africa who want to join their spouses in Canada are refused, government documents show...That's in sharp contrast to other places, such as Taiwan, where just 3 per cent of spouses who apply to be reunited with their partners in Canada are rejected..."If you fall in love with someone in an African country, God help you."

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by SOA Watch July 2nd, 2009 The School of the Americas graduate-led military overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Zelaya is in its fifth day and the resistance by the Honduran social movements continues to stand strong despite the increasing repression. Yesterday, the Honduran Congress announced a suspension of citizens’ rights in Honduras for [...]

By Uzma Shakir - June 27, 2009

Coordinated raids throughout southern Ontario since May have already led to the arrest and deportation of at least 100 undocumented workers originating from places such as Thailand, Mexico, China, the Philippines and the Caribbean. Many more currently await their fate while in detention, according to No One Is Illegal, an immigrant rights organization monitoring the emerging situation.

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Si los líderes del golpe desesperadamente decidieron deponer por la fuerza al presidente electo, en este momento se encuentran más desesperados aún. El golpe se ha tornado más violento luego de ser despojado de su pretensión de legalidad por el repudio universal y ante el levantamiento popular.

In the midst of the international isolation faced by the new government named by the Honduran Congress to replace President...

En una época en la que los servicios financieros están globalizados, cualquier movilización para derrocar a los Señores del Crédito ha de trascender fronteras si quiere salir triunfante.

The Honduran social movements, who are courageously resisting the military take-over through protests, occupations and strikes, are calling on the...

Este informe, recoge los casos más importantes de amenazas a la biodiversidad y resistencia desde la base.

Worldwide condemnation has followed the coup that unseated President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras on Sunday, June 28. Nation-wide mobilizations and...

The Presidential residence is surrounded; the president is kidnapped and flown out of the country. Thousands take to the streets,...

On June 28th, the Honduran military ousted the democratically elected government of Honduras, detaining and then exiling President Manuel Zelaya and shooting Cesar Ham, presidential candidate and head of Honduras' only registered leftist political party. At an emergency session of the OAS, the Honduran representative compared the coup to Chile in 1973, noted that Zelaya has not requested asylum in Costa Rica as reported by some press, and called for immediate condemnation of the coup. The head of the Honduran Joint Chiefs of Staff, Romeo Orlando Vasquez Velasquez, along with other military leaders in the country, graduated from the United States' infamous School of the Americas (SOA). On Monday, June 29, an emergency rally and press conference to denounce the coup in Honduras will take place at the Honduran Consulate, 870 Market St. in San Francisco (In front of the Powell BART).

"They told me that because of my affiliation with the [FMLN], they wouldn't let me into the country...I told them that the war in El Salvador ended 17 years ago and the FMLN is now the governing party in El Salvador, but they told me that was the information they had available."

--Eugenio Chicas, Salvadoran Judge and member of El Salvador's main electoral institution, after being detained at Toronto's Pearson Airport on his way to a meeting hosted by Elections Canada and the Organization of American States. Chicas said he was personally invited by the Canadian government to attend.

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A group of at least 100 soldiers surrounded the residence of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya early Sunday morning, hauled him out of...

Troops have arrested President Manuel Zelaya this morning, the day that Hondurans were to vote in a referendum to change the constitution...

A LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN A LOS ORGANISMOS INDEPENDIENTES, DEFENSORES DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS A LA OPINIÓN PÚBLICA Oaxaca vive una de las crisis sociales, políticas y económicas más graves de todos los tiempos. Así como crece la inconformidad en diferentes regiones de nuestro estado por los planes autoritarios de los desgobernantes en turno; así como se padece [...]

By Alice Cannet - Friday, 26, June 2009

French riot police made 47 arrests yesterday following clashes with activists trying to lead Calais asylum seekers through the channel tunnel to Britain...As the camp prepared for marches on Saturday, where several hundreds were expected to turn up, activists chained themselves to a detention centre for UK-bound migrants.

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Start: 2009-07-04 11:00 End: 2009-07-04 17:00 Timezone: Canada/Pacific

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL MOVIE MARATHON MADNESS!

Decolonize your mind and join NOII for films screenings exploring the realities of the "Canadian" experience.

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Saturday July 4th
11 am to 5 pm
Room 700, SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings
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Reasons to attend an indoor film screening on a beautiful summer day:

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SchNEWS - Friday 26th June 2009 | Issue 681

The No Borders Camp in Calais is now in full swing despite scare-scaremongering from both the press and the authorities who the camp have condemned for attempting to “paint the camp participants as violent criminals and (refusing) to engage in the real issues we campaign on”. Sam Davis, a UK No Borders activist commented that “The only violence we see is the daily and constant attacks on individuals by the French police. The rest comes from the vivid imagination of journalists keen to silence any debate on these issues.”

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Urlaub ja - Abschiebung nein! Zeigen auch Sie der Abschiebe- Fluglinie 'Air Berlin' die kalte Schulter!

Evo Morales Ayma, Präsident der Republik Bolivien wendet sich in einem Brief an die Öffentlichkeit, denn die Abschieberichtlinie der Europäischen Union bedroht die Menschenrechte und die internationale Zusammenarbeit.