African Immigrants: Profit Society

Employment Assistance Dept: Paul Mulangu, founder of the Centre of Integration for African Immigrants, came to its 811 Carnarvon St. location on Sept. 22 and found the locks changed and a notice of termination of his lease in the window, according to Vancouver Sun. The centre had been operating in New Westminster since 2006 when Mulangu moved it from Vancouver. The centre offers a number of services including language training and employment assistance and a New Westminster activist is preparing to spend 10 days outside without food to protest what he says is an unfair eviction and government abandonment of a valuable non-profit society. "I'm going to chain myself to the door and start a hunger strike," Mulangu said Tuesday, the eve before his protest, adding that he is not concerned for his personal safety. "I'm not worried. I'm already dead. I can't worry about that. Life needs to change. If I don't say anything, life will be like that, and the injustice is going to continue." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.