Join the CAIA contingent on March 8th, International Women's Day!
Migrant women, women of colour and our allies march together in the International Women's Day march in Toronto!
On Saturday, March 8, Migrante Ontario*, Justicia for Migrant Workers, No One is Illegal, the Workers Action Centre, the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and other groups will march together in the International Women's Day march, a yearly event highlighting the achievements and continuing struggles of women.
This year, Migrante Ontario has taken the initiative of coming together with other migrant worker groups and allies to organize a more visible migrant women's and anti-imperialist contingent at this year's International Women's Day events. As migrant workers, we are faced in particular with racism, insecurity in our work and precarious temporary status in Canada as many of the members of our organization work as live-in caregivers. On March 8th we take to the streets to protest racialized gender-based violence experienced through poverty, deportations and detentions, precarious work status, police brutality, racial profiling, racist and sexist immigration policies, war and occupation.
On International Women's Day, we march in solidarity with people's movements resisting the expansion of global capitalism, war and occupation – the root causes of people's migration and displacement around the world. In this spirit, we march in solidarity with resistance movements in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Palestine and around the world, with people struggling against colonialism, patriarchy, racism and imperialism abroad and here on occupied indigenous land.
We will assemble in front of Tim Horton's at the corner of Bloor Street West and Bedford Rd. (St. George subway station has an exit on Bedford Rd.) at 12:30 p.m. Please join us with your banners! We will then march with the larger group to Ryerson University, where the International Women's Day fair is being held. We will have a display table with informational materials.