en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Policy -- 1983-2013: Always antiracist! Demonstration in Paris on December 7 (fr, pt)

On 3 December 1983, 100,000 people demonstrated in Paris, concluding a March of Marseille 
October 15. Decided by a group of walkers from the cities of Lyon suburbs, the Walk 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 an election 
campaign marked by xenophobia and security ideology that lives, as Dreux, alliances with 
the National Front. ---- It extended in its way, the struggles in the previous decade by 
migrant workers for equal rights. "Invisible" became full participants in the French 
society. ---- Our march has not ended 3 December 1983. We never stopped walking and 
fighting. Even if we won victories or obtained some progress, the situation of immigrants 
and their descendants, many of whom are French, has continued to deteriorate. Residents of 
poor 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 of right power with all its excesses and populist demagoguery - 
debates on national identity and the "positive role" of colonialism - the new government 
is in line with its predecessors restriction asylum, accent discrimination in all sectors 
of society, relegation Popular neighborhoods and their inhabitants, threats of extinction 
associations terrain and proximity controls facies, two-tier justice, hunting undocumented 
Roma, multiplication evictions ... Meanwhile, the 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 nothing. The message of the March for equal rights and against 
racism, even if it is not taught as it should be in school, more than ever and we want it 
again heard loud and clear.

This is why everywhere now, and from October 15 to December 3, 2013, we offer all those 
and all those who recognize themselves in this appeal to establish general meetings and 
initiatives at local, regional National.

We do not limit ourselves to shout our anger against injustice and inequality.

We propose that any society other solutions, those of equal rights to end the Republic of 
contempt.

Already, we call two meetings: October 15th, the date of departure of the March in 
Marseille in 1983, and on 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 do 3 December, 
a day of rallies and demonstrations.

Against racism and for equal rights

All running, here we come!

First signatories:

On behalf of memory, Echo cities, Im'm?dia Agency, Social Forum Popular Neighborhoods 
(FSQP), Stolen Lives, Networking, Advocacy, Reflection Neighborhoods Popular (RIRQP) 
United Front of Immigrations and Neighborhoods Popular ( FUIQP) out of colonialism, Women 
plural, AIDDA Collectif 3 C, FASTI, CO. Space Time, Solidarity Association for Information 
and Access Rights (Asiad), The Association Eyes Open, Tunisian Federation for citizenship 
both Rives (FTCR,) UJFP (French Jewish Union for Peace), the Representative Council of 
Black Associations of France (CRAN), Feyka (Federation of Associations Kurds in France), 
the House of Tamil Eelam, AFAPREDESA (Association of Families of Saharawi Prisoners and 
Disappeared), Association Orange (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 
Tunisian northern France (ATNF), Public Place Association, Committee for Respect of 
Freedoms and Human Rights rights in Tunisia (CRLDHT) Civic Association for Participatory 
Democracy (CAPD Tunis), Tunisian Association of Support For Minorities, the Tunisian 
Association of Defence of Job Applicants Kasserine.

Political organizations supporting the text:

Libertarian alternative NPA Federation for social and ecological Alternative (FASE), 
GA54-FASE, Left Cactus

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