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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:48:37 +0200
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Subject: (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Policy -- 1983-2013:
Always antiracist! Demonstration in Paris on December 7 (fr, pt)
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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
Go to the event on 7 December
Website initiative https://marcheegalite.wordpress.com
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