Workers Urge Air France Chiefs to Stop Expelling Immigrants July 12, 2007 - The Associated Press
PARIS: Airline unions urged Air France on Thursday to stop expelling illegal immigrants on its flights, saying the practice upsets flight attendants and passengers and may hurt business at France's flagship carrier. Workers for five unions were presenting their demands at the Air France-KLM annual shareholders' meeting in Paris. For years unions have urged the airline to halt the expulsions, but the demand attracted extra attention this year because of President Nicolas Sarkozy's determination to step up expulsions as part of his tougher policies on immigration. Every year, thousands of illegal immigrants are put aboard Air France flights and sent to their homelands, sometimes handcuffed and escorted by police. On occasions, they resist and must be forcibly restrained. Air France unions CGT, CFDT, SUD, ALTER and SPAF voted Tuesday to ask the company to refuse to transport expelled immigrants.
Click here to read more
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Vancouver - Occupied Coast Salish Territories noii-van@resist.ca / 604-682-3269 ext.7149 www.nooneisillegal.org
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(422)
-
▼
July
(16)
- Australian Anti Terror Detentions
- Bush Administration Threatens Military Interventio...
- Workers urge airlines to Stop Deportations
- Overcoming the conspiracy against Palestine
- Harper’s foreign policy of American convenience.
- Tale Of Two Genocides:Congo And Darfur
- SPP- Militarization And Annexation Of North America
- Israeli Apartheid
- Fencing the US- Mexico Border: Boeing's High-Tech ...
- The “Canadian Ministers” of Hamid Karzai’s Afghan ...
- U.S. Border Fence Protrudes Into Mexico
- SANE: An Islamophobic group attempts to banish Isl...
- Commencement Message to Indigenous Law Grads: "Pic...
- Latin America: Black Women on the Bottom Rung
- Vancouver: Mexicans Denied Entry to Canada for 'Lo...
- 62 migrant deaths in US detention since 2004
-
▼
July
(16)
Labels
- Afghanistan (21)
- Africa (25)
- Anti-Oppression (15)
- Australia (8)
- Canada (105)
- Corporate Globalization (45)
- East Asia (9)
- Environment and Health (26)
- Europe (25)
- Gender (42)
- GLBTQ (7)
- Haiti (9)
- Immigrant/Refugee/Nonstatus (154)
- Imperialism (51)
- Incarceration (63)
- Indigenous (57)
- Iraq (54)
- Labour (34)
- Latin America (41)
- Media (3)
- Middle East (28)
- Palestine (42)
- Police Brutality (4)
- Poverty (17)
- Racism (58)
- Security (67)
- Somalia (7)
- South Asia (25)
- SPP (2)
- US Abroad (91)
- US Home (160)
About Us
No One is Illegal-Vancouver is a grassroots anti-colonial immigrant/refugee rights community collective with leadership from members of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds.
As a movement for self-determination that challenges the ideology of immigration controls, we are in full confrontation with Canadian border policies; denouncing and taking action to combat racial profiling, detention and deportation, the national security apparatus, law enforcement brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants. We stand in solidarity with indigenous struggles against colonization across Turtle Island and also place ourselves within the broader movement for global justice struggling against capitalism, homophobia, occupation, patriarchy, poverty, war, and other systems of oppression and exploitation.
No One Is Illegal - Vancouver
Our educational work involves furthering an anti-imperialist, anti-war, and anticapitalist analysis that links the "War on Terror" abroad to the racist "Fortress North America" at home. We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their livelihoods and resist war, occupation, and displacement, while building alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers fighting theft of land and displacement.
Our work is carried out through various strategies including public awareness events, direct support work with refugees and undocumented migrants, multilingual community political/legal forums, fighting back through rallies and direct actions, and ongoing campaigns and projects.