France, Alternative Libertaire AL antiracism, Antiracism:
Let the initiative on 9 May in Gennevilliers (fr, it, pt)
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Call for a national campaign (posters, videos, discussions, public initiatives,
mobilization actions, etc.) against the commoditization of discriminatory practices
affecting Roma people as the heirs of post-colonial immigration or Islam. ---- APPEAL
AGAINST THE POLICIES RACIALIZATION ---- We are currently witnessing an ideological
regression: anti-racism is too often reduced to a fight against racism in the individual
the opportunity to "slippage" that actually increase. This is to minimize the systemic
racism reality is to say, beyond racist, discrimination in everyday life, but also obscure
the role of institutional racism: the State and municipal treatment of Rroma come from
Romania or Bulgaria, member countries of the European Union, is the most brutal illustration.
In France, for ten years, Roma families have suffered fifteen expulsions that reject more
and more in the most extreme misery. The dismantling repeatedly slums continue under
François Hollande as under Nicolas Sarkozy, at the request of municipalities in the
government majority yesterday as it is today. It is only the most visible part of not only
scandalous practices, but also illegal, which is commonplace, refusal to debit the CCAS
here barriers to the schooling of children there, not garbage collection here and there,
etc. . This is a massive process of marginalization, exclusion and stigmatization of a
population.
Forum Continuing the initiative
Saturday, May 9 at 9:30
's ballroom of the Town Hall
177, Gabriel Peri avenue in Gennevilliers
The Metro Agnettes
To justify these inhuman acts, like Manuel Valls, officials sometimes claim that they are
acting for the good of destroying a Roma slums, now that they "do not wish to integrate
into our country for cultural reasons ". In fact, as we saw during the municipal
elections, politicians do not hesitate to campaign promising a real hunt for Roma.
We are in the presence of a "politics of race": the Roma are assigned to a supposedly
cultural difference in return to justify the discriminatory treatment of. This persecution
is taking place amid general indifference, even with an almost consensual approval:
indeed, successive majorities seem to have managed to politicize the "Roma issue", giving
the impression that politicians, both local and national, do that deal with a problem -
and not pursue a policy that could oppose another policy.
If the treatment of the Roma is an extreme example, racialization of political similarly
apply to other categories of the population. It's long been the case with the integration
of injunction addressed not only to immigrants, but also to their children and even their
grandchildren, as if some French were ever to demonstrate their "national identity".
This is also the case with the outburst of Islamophobia which allows secularism to cast
suspicion on a priori Muslims as a whole, while rejecting the very term Islamophobia. And
while racial discrimination along racist ideologies have the effect referred to otherwise
produce an opposition between "them" and "us", denial will sometimes take up to attacks
from the extreme right against a supposed "anti-white racism" in the name of a
universalist rhetoric invisibilise racial domination.
We affirm that the policy of the race that is the Roma is a telling political
racialization that affect large segments of French society: it amplifies the logic that
unfolds for all population groups of postcolonial immigration - and echoing a history of
slavery, colonialism and Nazism. But this past meets the news of France and a neoliberal
Europe where class inequality is increasing; the stigma policies thus serve to distract.
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It is not enough to denounce racist or even racist parties. We must attack the
racialization policies. We refuse to accept the unacceptable and to be accomplices or even
the witnesses of the political organization of widespread competition among victims of the
same unequal system. The signatories call for a resumption of collective initiative,
respect for the diversity of opinions and political analysis within antiracist movements -
provided to end up in the realization that we do here.
We will conduct a national campaign (posters, videos, discussions, public initiatives,
mobilization actions, etc.) against the commoditization of discriminatory practices
affecting Roma people as the heirs of post-colonial immigration or Islam. We will organize
in spring 2015 a broad forum for discussion and policy analysis in order to contribute to
the renewal of a political antiracism. Finally, we are committed to support the
initiatives of self-organization of those that aim racialization these policies precisely
because these policies make it more difficult for such initiatives.
There is still time, but it is already high time.
See the signatories (more than 1800 to 1 May 2015)
All information on the site Reprenons.info
http://alternativelibertaire.org/?Antiracisme-Reprenons-l-initiative
