Up Against the Temp Shop: May Day Assembly on Immigrant Rights
April 4, 2011
6:30 p.m.
72 Lib, 350 Victoria Street
Ryerson University
March
22, 2011
Come join the people's assembly on
immigrant rights, undocumented, temporary and precarious work and the fight
for status in Toronto and beyond!
Migrant Justice organizers in Toronto and
across Turtle Island have fought to create workplace protections and
benefits, access to services, and full status for undocumented and
precarious status workers. In the face of cutbacks, privatization, and
forced displacement around the globe, and anti-immigrant policies in Canada,
this assembly is a space to build a community-labour vision for immigrant
rights and justice, and ensure that the rights of the most vulnerable and
precarious parts of the working class continue to be fore-fronted during May
Day, and within all struggles for justice.
AI-JEN POO
has been organizing immigrant women workers in New York since 1996. She was
the Lead Organizer for Domestic Workers United (DWU), an organization of
nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York organizing for
power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end
oppression for all. In July 2010 Domestic Workers United won the Domestic
Workers Bill of Rights that guarantees basic work standards and protections
for nannies, caregivers, and housekeepers. DWU helped to organize the first
national meeting of domestic workers organizations at the US Social Forum in
2007, which resulted in the formation of the National Domestic Workers
Alliance of which Ai-Jen is now National Co-Chair. Ai-jen also serves on the
Board of New York Jobs with Justice, Social Justice Leadership, the Labor
Advisory Board at Cornell ILR School and the Coordinating Committee of
Grassroots Global Justice.
DAVID MCNALLY
teaches political science at York University Toronto and actively supports
numerous social justice movements in that city. David is the author of six
books: Political Economy and the Rise of Capitalism (1988); Against the
Market: Political Economy Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique (1993);
Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor and Liberation (2001); Another
World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism (2002; second revised
edition 2006); Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and
Resistance (2010) and Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global
Capitalism(forthcoming 2011). David’s research interests include the theory
and practice of democracy, Marxism and anti-racism, socialist-feminism,
classical and Marxian political economy, Hegel and dialectical social
theory, and the history of anti-capitalist movements.
FARRAH MIRANDA
is an immigrant rights and feminist organizer in Toronto who has
organized against regressive immigration and security policies since 2002.
Prior to joining No One Is Illegal - Toronto, Farrah organized high-school
walkouts against Mike Harris's policies in 1999 and was part of Project
Threadbare, a grassroots coalition of activists formed after the August 2003
arrests of 19 Pakistani men arrested on National Security grounds. Farrah
has been part of No One Is Illegal - Toronto's successful campaigns to push
immigration enforcement out of Toronto district schools and organized and
won the removal of immigration enforcement from GTA anti-violence against
women agencies. Though this policy was eventually reneged, Farrah continues
to be part of No One Is Illegal - Toronto campaigns to build a sanctuary
city with full social services for all people irrespective of immigration
status and the fight for permanent status on landing for immigrant workers
and full regularization for undocumented people in the country.
Supported by: Migrant Workers Alliance
for Change, OPSEU Workers of Color, CAW Sam Gindin Chair for Social Justice,
OPIRG UT, Greater Toronto Workers Assembly, Socialist Project, New Socialist
Group, Justice for Migrant Workers, Latin American Trade Union Coalition,
Good Jobs for All.
