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Power to the brown people: Vancouver's Desis rage against the deportation machine--and it works.(FEATURE)
IT WAS AN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ORGANIZER'S dream come true.
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On December 10, 2007, with just a few hours notice, close to 2,000 South-Asian Canadian immigrants flooded Vancouver International Airport. They paralyzed the international departures section and surrounded a cab taking a severely disabled 48-year-old Sikh refugee, Laibar Singh, to his deportation flight. The crowd did what no other protest in North America had done before--using civil disobedience, it stopped a deportation proceeding in its tracks.
The protest prompted a tense, hours-long standoff at the airport. Officers of the Canadian Border Services Agency ...
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