(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL dossier spécial sur
l'éducation populaire - Policies of the city must show their
credentials! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Since the late 1970s, what is now known as the "city policy" was to treat the symptoms of
Discrimination against neighborhoods, linking action on education, employment, security,
and urban renewal. --------- Since the late 1970s, what is now known as the "city policy"
was to treat the symptoms of Discrimination against neighborhoods, linking action on
education, employment, security, and urban renewal. ---- These multiple devices have
created a forest of acronyms (ZEP, DSQ, ZUS, ZRU, ZFU, GPV, ORU, SRU, ANRU, FSCA, VIC,
CUCS, cget ...) each designed to correct a symptom. ---- In substance, nothing has
changed. Worse, the indicators show a growing inequality. ---- Because it is driven from
the top, it is complex and makes them dependent associations of public subsidies - with
the patronage that this can lead - the policy of the city has much unstructured
solidarity, more or less groups informal, associative movements that existed in the
popular neighborhoods. The result is a decline in own cultural spaces in these
neighborhoods and atomization of inhabitants and residents.
But since its inception, the city policy advocates the "active participation of the
inhabitants," aims to "make people agents of change." But communities are suspected of
sectarianism, but the collective mobilizations are accused of defending special interests
... The "social mix" and "living together", vaunted, is mostly a "live like us": everyone
is invited to return individually in "the Republic", leaving the door survêt' his
sneakers-cap, his robe or his djellaba.
Adeline (AL northeast Paris)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Politiques-de-la-ville-faut
