Last month's edition of No one is illegal radio carried important interviews with two people at the forefront of the continuing campaign to abolish security certificates:

• Latifa Charkaoui, mother of Adil Charkaoui, speaking at the International Women's Day Conference in Montreal;

• Adil Charkaoui, one of five persons under a "security certificate", speaking at length about the "new" security certificate law.

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by Justin Podur, January 05, 2008, ZMAG

The phrase "defend the border" wasn't always a metaphor. And it isn't just a metaphor in many parts of the world, even today: some states do have to worry about overland military invasions.

Open letter published in Vancouver by a dozen community organizations

Bill C-3: Undemocratic and unjust

In 2002, a public campaign against immigration security certificates (ss. 33 and 77-85 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act – IRPA) and in solidarity with security certificate detainees began to gather speed. Although security certificates have been around since the 1970’s in some form or other, in the context of the so-called war on terror, they have become the object of a debate of national importance which has spread from targeted communities and their allies to the broader public, media, NGOs, the legal and academic communities, and politicians.

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by Markus Euskirchen, Henrik Lebuhn, and Gene Ray, Monthly Review, November 2007

All along the European border, the year 2006 set new records: Spanish authorities reported 6,000 refugees dead, drowned in the Atlantic Ocean while trying to reach the Canary Islands, off West Africa.1

Fuse Magazine, October 22, 2007

Over the past several years, groups and movements have coalesced around themes like "No One is Illegal," "Solidarity Across Borders," and "Open the Borders." In their day-to-day work of organizing with and for migrants, such groups are working against increasingly restrictive immigration policies, the heightened detention and deportation of migrants and the repressive national security apparatus that discriminates against racialized migrants, for example through the use of Security Certificates.

    by Sherene H. Razack, Professor, OISE, University of Toronto.
 
Abstract

    Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui, 21 September 2006