Paul Fromm and two racist supporters were confronted in Ottawa today as they tried to hold a (tiny) protest against rights for the Tamils of the MV Sun Sea. They were shouted down and promptly scampered away before a larger crowd of anti-racists had time to arrive at the scene of their (tiny) protest. Their [...]

* For PHOTOS from across the country (courtesy NOII groups, VMC, AW@L): http://www.flickr.com/photos/nooneisillegal/ On Saturday August 21st, close to 250 people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Coast Salish Territories as part of a National Day of Action to demand the release of detained Tamil asylum seekers and an end to racist and restrictive [...]

By Seth Klein | August 23, 2010, Rabble.ca If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on B.C.’s shores are “queue-jumpers,” then I guess my parents were too. See, they came as Vietnam War draft dodgers from the U.S. in 1967. Like a couple of the Tamil women just arrived, my mom was pregnant [...]

Populist politicians have seized on the Sun Sea Tamil refugees to ramp up anti-immigrant rhetoric, reneging on human rights. Guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 August 2010 Earlier this month, a boat carrying 492 Tamils claiming to be refugees from Sri Lanka’s recently ended 26-year civil war arrived in Canada on the MV Sun Sea, having set sail [...]

Why this mean-spirited furore over a few Tamils? Perhaps it’s because they aren’t white By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun August 21, 2010 Another refugee ship arrives on Canada’s shores — carrying Tamil refugees fleeing a country scarred by decades of grisly atrocities, on both sides of a protracted civil war — and once again there erupts [...]

By No One Is Illegal-Vancouver | August 20, 2010, rabble.ca Surviving a dangerous three-month ocean journey, 492 Tamil refugees — including around 60 women and 55 children — arrived in B.C. after fleeing war and persecution in Sri Lanka. When the ship the MV Sun Sea first neared Esquimault on Vancouver Island, the territories of the [...]

CANADIAN TAMIL CONGRESS DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT RECENT CANADIAN GOVERNMENT RHETORIC The Canadian Tamil Congress is deeply concerned about the Canadian government’s recent and ongoing rhetoric on the migrants aboard the MV Sun Sea which is inciting distrust and anger towards them. It is inappropriate for the government to speculate or draw conclusions on the innocence [...]

By Rachel Avery and Dan Kellar – August 18, 2010 Once again, the approach of a ship carrying refugees has been met by racist hostility and unfounded accusations of terrorism. The arrival of the MV Sun Sea to the shores of Vancouver Island has seen an outpouring of explicitly racist, anti-immigrant discourse throughout Canada. In a [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANTI RACIST ACTIVISTS DENOUNCE NEO-NAZI PAUL FROMM August 16, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories – Anti neo-Nazi and anti racist activists are horrified at the public platform and brazen public organizing of well-known white supremacists and neo-Nazis such as Paul Fromm in recent weeks in response to the Tamil asylum seekers landing on BC’s [...]

Joseph Brean, National Post · Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 Paul Fromm’s efforts to rouse public opinion against the Tamil migrant ship began last month from his home in Ontario, with impassioned messages posted to Stormfront.org, the Florida-based neo-Nazi website of which he is a “sustaining member” and radio host. It continued last week in Calgary, when [...]