CLOSE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS

On Friday July 12th, in collaboration with an amazing coalition of anti-racist, Indigenous, & migrant justice groups, including: No More Silence, No One Is Illegal | Personne n'est illégal | Nadie es ilegal, IfNotNow Toronto, Syria Solidarity Collective and Climate Justice Toronto rallied outside Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland’s office to say #CloseTheCamps across Turtle Island! End immigration detention! No person is illegal on stolen land! And left a list of demands with Minister Freeland’s office.

We demand that the Canadian government:

1. Condemn Trump’s separation of families and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers, and publicly call for the closure of the concentration camps on the US’s southern border.
2. Scrap the Safe Third Country Agreement which refuses refugee claimants who enter Canada via the US, and allow people who have made an asylum claim in the US to make a refugee claim here.
3. End the unjust practice of immigration detention.

We couldn’t be prouder of the partners we worked closely with, or prouder of everyone who made it out last Friday.

Image 1: "Protect the Sacred" Bag
Image 2: "Which side are you on?" Sign
Image 3: "Education not Incarceration" Shirt
Image 4: "Kids don’t belong in jail" Mural
Image 5: "No One is Illegal" sign
Image 6: "Freedom" Shirt
Image 7: "No one is illegal on stolen land" Sign
Image 8: "Showing Up for Racial Justice" Sign
Image 9: "Corns Beans & Squash Patriarchy" Shirt
Image 10: "No borders on stolen land" Sign, "Deport Racists" Shirt
Image 11: "Let them in, let them stay" Sign
Image 12: "Close the camps" Sign
Image 13: "End Immigration Detention" Sign
Image 14: "The fetus in my belly should not have more rights than living children" Sign
Image 15: A photo of Speaker
Image 16: A photo of Speaker
Image 17: A photo of Speaker
Image 18: A photo of Speaker
Image 19: "Never Again is Now" Sign
Image 20: "No Borders on Stolen Land" Mural