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Syed Hussan is an organizer and writer in Toronto working with undocumented and migrant people, in defense of Indigenous sovereignty, and against counter intuitive programs like war and capitalism. He enjoys apocalyptic sci-fi novels, low maintenance plants, not knowing how to drive and reading your comments.
Those that fight it are called terrorists, and those that survive it are called criminals.
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Syed Hussan
| April 1, 2015

Edited text of my speech from C-51 can't stop us forum in Toronto. Videos of the other, far more amazing, talks from the forum will be up shortly. 

The purpose of C-51 and all of these others laws, they say, is to defend Canada.

But what is Canada? Is it the lush land that feeds us and our families? The water that quenches our thirst? The air that watches over us or the stories that keep us together? Is it the communities of people that hold on to each other, hold on tight, and continue?

For if that is Canada, than I love Canada. You love Canada. A love that forces us to ask questions, make amends. To find new places of realization and truths, to re-build new worlds, better worlds, worlds that fit all of our broken selves.

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A few more words about Bill C-51 – a discussion blog for organizers and activists
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Syed Hussan
| March 13, 2015

This blog doesn’t detail what’s wrong with Bill C-51, for that read this, and this. 

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Coverage of Amanda Lang-RBC fails to acknowledge worker abuse

Photo: flickr/Kurt Bauschardt
The coverage of the Amanda Lang-RBC sage is missing a big component: temporary foreign worker abuse or outsourcing practices.

Related rabble.ca story:

What's missing from the coverage of the Amanda Lang-RBC saga?
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What's missing from the coverage of the Amanda Lang-RBC saga?
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Syed Hussan
| January 13, 2015

News of CBC anchor Amanda Lang trying to "kill" a CBC story on RBC hiring of foreign workers back in 2013 has hit the airwaves. Initially revealed on Jesse Brown's Canadaland, the story is now being covered in many mainstream media outlets.

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Four reasons why shutting down TFWP is no solution

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At a time when all provinces are cutting resources from departments responsible for keeping corporations in check, it's not about abolishing the TFWP, it's about ensuring labour protection for all.

Related rabble.ca story:

Four reasons why shutting down TFWP is no solution to migrant worker abuse
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Four reasons why shutting down TFWP is no solution to migrant worker abuse
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Syed Hussan
| April 29, 2014

(Blog post by the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change)

There has been massive media attention on the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) in the last few weeks. Mainstream and social media is full of analysis and solutions. Some critics and commentators insist that the only appropriate way forward is shutting down the low-skilled temporary foreign worker program. They are wrong.

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I got my permanent residency, and it's complicated.
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Syed Hussan
| February 24, 2014

This is a bit longer than a tweet, and more personal than I intended it to be. I am writing it as an update to everyone that has supported me in a million different ways in the last seven years, and more importantly in the hopes that in asking personal questions, we can come up with collective answers. I’d appreciate not receiving a wave of congratulations, though if this strikes you as meaningful, please share with others, and join me at this rally against immigration enforcement on Friday, February 28, 2014.

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Life and Death: Waljis, Migrant Strike and Political Will
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Syed Hussan
| November 19, 2013

Mohamed, Shyroz and Qyzra Walji are dead. The police call it a homicide-suicide. Their friends and families know different. At a vigil held for the family, Qyzra Walji’s teacher for five years, Nichole Wardyce insisted “I have no doubt that if Qyzra and her family had been granted their Canadian citizenship, they would still be here, and Qyzra would have continued being a leader and a voice for others with disabilities." 

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Life and Death. Wajis, Migrant Strike and Political Will
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Syed Hussan
| November 19, 2013

Original article at http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/hussan/2013/11/life-and-death-waljis-migrant-strike-and-political-will

Quebec bans symbols but all of Canada bans migrants
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Syed Hussan
| September 18, 2013

Thousands are outraged at the Parti Quebecois charter of values -- a charter that proposes to prohibit the wearing of religious symbols by public employees.

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