Rally To Take Place at Niagara Falls Convention Centre (along Stanley Avenue & Dunn Street) on Saturday, September 20 at 12 Noon
A Call-Out from the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, Niagara Palestine Coalition, and Seniors For Climate -Niagara and more
Posted September 19th, 2025th on Niagara At Large
Niagara Falls, Ontario – As Parliament resumes and Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to introduce his fall budget, tens of thousands will take to the streets from coast to coast on Saturday, September 20, demanding the government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction—or a just and safe future for all of us.
In Niagara Falls, Niagara residents will rally together across social movements to demonstrate our unity.
We will dance, shout, and learn about how to reject PM Carney’s agenda to prioritize corporate greed over our community’s health and safety. After Seniors for Climate leads participants in a line dance, rally goers will hear from speakers Patty Krawec on colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty, Niagara Palestine Coalition spokesperson Gabriel Gebriel, a migrant farm worker, and CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn.
This rally is organized by a local coordinating team, including organizers from Migrant Workers Alliance for Change and Niagara Palestine Coalition.
City: Niagara Falls
Location: Niagara Falls Convention Centre
Time: 12pm
Our rally is in coordination with groups in over 50 cities across Canada who are drawing the line. These mobilizations will be an unprecedented and historic coming together of climate justice, migrant justice, Indigenous justice, labour rights, anti-war, and Palestine solidarity groups, to reject the Carney agenda and to demand that the Canadian government prioritize our communities over billionaires.
WHY NOW
As Niagara residents face increasing levels of food and housing insecurity, politicians shift the blame to migrants in a concentrated effort to distract us from the real culprits of this crisis: corporate landlords and grocery store monopolies. The government’s scapegoating of migrants creates a breeding ground for white nationalist activity, as we recently saw at Queenston Heights over Labour Day weekend.
September 20 community mobilizations come days after Parliament returns to session, and ahead of the promised fall “austerity” budget.
While people are struggling to put food on the table and pay rent, and communities are facing heatwaves and climate collapse, Carney has:
- Rammed through Bill C-5 to fast-track destructive projects on Indigenous land without consent and appointed former Trans Mountain CEO to lead Major Projects Office
- Promised 15% spending cuts over three years, affecting up to 57,000 public sector workers while announcing over $9 billion in new military funding
- Proposed Bill C-2 to cancel immigration permits en masse, restrict asylum claims, and expand warrantless surveillance on all Canadians
- Slashed taxes for the wealthy while continuing subsidies for large corporations
- Declared Air Canada strike illegal within 24 hours
- Capitulated to Trump by shelving Digital Services Tax and reportedly considering joining his “Golden Dome” missile defense program
- Continued to support Israel’s genocide in Gaza by selling weapons to theIDF
The mobilizations are part of a global week of action, with people taking to the streets, while world leaders convene at the United Nations General Assembly.
Details of all the actions across Canada and beyond can be found here <https://drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&lang=en#map>.
The Draw the Line mobilizations in Canada are organized by Seniors for Climate, Migrant Rights Network, Indigenous Climate Action, Sacred Earth Solar, Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac), 350.org, World Beyond War Canada, For Our Kids, Leadnow, Climate Reality Project Canada, Climate Emergency Unit, Greenpeace Canada, and Music Declares Emergency, and endorsed by over 200 organizations representing millions of Canadians. The Niagara Falls Draw the Line mobilization was organized by Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, Niagara Palestine Coalition, and Seniors For Climate -Niagara.
For more information on the Migrant Rights Network, click on – Migrant Rights Network
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