Statements made by politicians worthy of the worst period of history, public policy
evictions catastrophic for the people: it is urgent that Roma organize collectively to
resist with the help of solidarity associations. ---- After Valls said that "these people
do not want to integrate" before a slum where a person died in the fire camp, this is a
centrist mayor regrets Hitler did not finish the job and UMP mayor that would support the
murder of a Roma by a fellow angry! Clearly Roma will be hostages of municipal elections
happen. Which obliges us to vigilance and greater solidarity. ---- During the summer
dozens of slums were crushed. The prefect of the 93 boasts of having expelled half of Roma
living in the department without specifying that they are still there, a few kilometers
away, in more difficult conditions, with families who have lost the solidarity networks
with children who have lost their schools, patients who have lost the continuity of care.
As with the associations involved in supporting Roma: anything with public money wasted in
legal fees, police and destruction, could immediately stabilize these families in
emergency facilities with the minimum necessary dignity.
A deportation policy doomed to failure
As with all waves of immigration, Roma eventually find a place in our country. Others have
known slums: Algerians, Moroccans, Italians, Portuguese. Africans experienced the stifling
over-occupied homes unhealthy. And all eventually find their place and install, including
those originally thought to remain only a few years before returning "home". Deportation
policy is doomed to failure and will only delay the integration policy that will one day
lead. Meanwhile, the policy of the French government of Sarkozy to Hollande consequences
as the explosion of birth of children with disabilities (not followed pregnancies), the
explosion of communicable diseases and serious diseases (unhealthy and lack of care
pathways) the explosion of illiteracy (enrollments in crumbs). The human and social costs
of this blindness is exponential!
After centuries of virtual slavery and decades of Stalinist repression, the Roma do not
have a strong political tradition. And slum regularly crushed leave little time to create
that solidarity and trusts essential to the emergence of collective struggles Roma
themselves. Yet this is what some associations work who refuse to be limited to the
charity. Ile-de-France, two events were held in Paris in the first half. In the second we
saw Roma capture the sound and an event code.
The solidarity essential for the emergence of autonomous struggles
Late August in Bobigny, families and their supporters resisted collectively to expulsion,
blocking the avenue at the entrance of the slum "egg cups" in a face to face with the
police noon. Then they crossed the police cordon to take refuge in the hall of the Town
Hall where they spent the night calling for a collective alternative accommodation. At the
end of next day, the mayor announced that the families could return to the field and
finally agreed to "recognize" this slum (an "official" field and an "insertion area"
already exist on the common). As punishment, the prefecture refuses to caravans confiscated.
This collective victory, aided by a history of several years of field and the total
enrollment of children on the site, leading to the establishment of delegates and positive
decisions on self-management of the site (cleaning, etc..). It also shows that it is
through the struggles going on the path of integration.
Jean-Yves (AL 93)
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