December 3, 1983, 100,000 people demonstrated in Paris, concluding a part of Marseille
march on October 15. Decided by a group of walkers from the cities of Lyon suburbs, this
March for equal rights and against racism marked the emergence of a new generation, the
children of immigrants. It was organized in response to hate crimes, police violence, and
a campaign marked by xenophobia and security ideology that lives, as Dreux, alliances with
the National Front. ---- It extended its way, the struggles in the previous decade by
migrant workers for equal rights. The "invisible" became full participants in the French
society. ---- Our march has not ended December 3, 1983. We never stopped walking and
fighting. Even if we won victories and got some progress, the situation of immigrants and
their descendants, many of whom are French, has continued to deteriorate.
Residents of neighborhoods today are facing tougher situations than in 1983.
Thirty years to get to this bitter fact : police violence as racist crimes have not ceased
and unpunished. Worse, racism is a state of laws, practices and nauseating speech has
spread from above Negrophobia and Islamophobia have developed, extending the anti-Arab
racism. The promise of the President of the Republic at the time, that the right to vote
to non-EU foreigners has never been held .
Today, after a decade in power right with all its excesses and populist demagoguery -
debates on national identity and the " positive role" of colonialism - the new government
is in line with all its predecessors restriction asylum, accent discrimination in all
sectors of society, relegating neighborhoods and their inhabitants, threats of loss of
grassroots organizations and local, facies controls, two-speed justice, hunting
undocumented Roma, multiplication evictions ... And during that time, Chibanis, our
elders, are reclusive and disenfranchised .
Thirty years have passed after the great hopes raised by the March of 1983. Our commitment
remains intact. We let go anything. The message of the March for equal rights and against
racism, even if it is not taught as it should be in school, is more than ever and we want
it again heard loud and clear .
This is why everywhere now, and from October 15 to 3 December 2013, we offer all those and
all those who recognize themselves in this call to set up general meetings and initiatives
at local, regional, national .
We do not limit ourselves to shout our anger against the injustices and inequalities.
We propose to all of society alternatives, those of equal rights to end the Republic of
contempt.
Already, we call two meetings : on 15 October, the date of departure of the March in
Marseille in 1983, and 18 and 19 October in Vaulx -en- Velin, a reminder that the suburbs
of Lyon was the cradle this movement . We will organize throughout France for fifteen
equal rights and justice for everyone from 25 November to 7 December. And we will on 3
December, a day of rallies and demonstrations .
Against racism and for equal rights
All running, here we come!
First signatories :
On behalf of the memory, Echo cities, Im'm?dia Agency, Social Forum Popular Neighborhoods
( FSQP ), Stolen Lives, Networks, Interventions, Reflection Popular Neighborhoods ( RIRQP
), United Front of Immigrations and Neighborhoods Popular ( FUIQP ) out of colonialism,
Women plural, AIDDA, Collective 3 C FASTI, CO. Space Time, Solidarity Association for
Information and Access Rights ( Asiad ), the Association Eyes Open, Tunisian Federation
for citizenship of the two Banks ( FTCR, ) UJFP ( French Jewish Union for Peace), the
Representative Council of Black Associations of France (CRAN ), Feyka (Federation of
Kurdish Associations in France ), the House of Tamil Eelam, AFAPREDESA (Association of
Families of Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeared ), the Orange Association (Nanterre),
collective Capagauche 07 (Hautes -Alpes), Northern Algerians for Change and Democracy (
NORAD ), Association of Moroccan minors Nord-Pas -de- Calais ( AMMN ), Manouchian
Collective, Collective African Tribe, Association Committee undocumented 59 Ch'faid
Association Etouchane Association, Association of Tunisians Northern France ( ATNF ),
Public Place Association, Committee for the respect of Freedoms and rights rights in
Tunisia ( CRLDHT ) Citizens Association for Participatory Democracy ( CAPD Tunis),
Tunisian Association of Support for Minorities, the Tunisian Association of Defense Of Job
seekers Kasserine .
Political Organizations support the text :
Libertarian alternative NPA Federation for Social and Ecological Alternative ( FASE ),
GA54 - FASE, Left Cactus
Website initiative https://marcheegalite.wordpress.com
published 25 August 2013 by the Commission of racism
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