France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, State of
Emergency: The union and associative movement alarm (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Unions, women's groups, associations of unemployed, precarious, antiracist, community,
humanitarian, anti-colonial, secular ... all have answered the call of the League of Human
Rights to worry publicly about the draconian devoted arsenal the name of the "war on
terror". Alternative Libertaire reproduced below their joint statement. ---- Those that
did to Paris and St. Denis a moment of absolute inhumanity will not make us give in.
Nothing can justify these murders. Each victim lives in us because we belong to the same
humanity. Our solidarity with them and against their family is complete. This crime is
immense but we refuse it becomes an excuse to change our lives. ---- We are not naive: we
know that these acts of terrorism call for a response commensurate with the threat they
represent. As we know that the role of law enforcement and justice is essential to protect
our freedoms.
This does not justify the direction taken by the president and the government.
It is democracy that no longer works in appearance when Parliament is called to deliberate
from one day to the other under the pressure of emotion and the assaults of demagogy of
politicians who cultivate fear.
Since 1986, legislation granting more powers to the security forces, organizing an
exceptional justice and restricting our freedoms under the pretext of fighting against
terrorism, pile. The adoption of other legislative instruments, including constitutional,
requires the question of their effectiveness and additional impairment of the freedoms
they are. Before changing the law and to give the state greater powers, it is necessary
that he wonders about what has not prevented such an abomination. Tomorrow, suddenly
permanent emergency measures become, we will all be monitored and suspects and the
omnipotent state and without control. The process initiated by the President of the
Republic as a martial response, it is a reality: the restriction of our freedoms without
ensuring more security.
Wanting to deprive of their nationality to the individuals born in France, is again
delivering the message of a divided France. The silence of the President of the Republic,
at the meeting of Parliament on the essential state commitment to equal rights, social
justice, and against all forms of discrimination against all manifestations of racism
increases dramatically the feeling of exclusion experienced by a large part of our people.
It thus gives a little more body to the growing stigma exerted jeopardizing our will to
live together.
We want these dramatic events are, instead, an opportunity to build a different path than
the one before us. A path that refuses to scapegoats and refuses that France is at war
against itself. A path that gives peace and equal rights for all its place and is
committed in favor of France solidarity, open to the other, friendly, free and fraternal.
We will not give in to fear in which we want to live those who make death their reason for
living. We will not give to those who promise us a society with limited freedoms and
fraternity. We call women and men of this country to remain united and to fight against
all forms of racism. We also call for the defense of freedoms because we will prevail in
all circumstances our freedom of expression, demonstration and assembly. Our organizations
will build throughout France these places that will allow us to discuss and we will
exercise constant vigilance to ensure that our freedoms are preserved and that no one is
discriminated against.
The signatory organizations: AC, ACDA, Acort, Actit, AFD International, Loving the public
ban, Association for the recognition of rights and freedoms to Muslim women - North,
CEDETIM, CGT, Cimade, CIPG, Cnafal, Collective of Muslims of France! , Feminist Collective
for Equality, CRLDHT, Right to housing, Emmaus International Faldi, Fasti, National
Federation of the Free Thought, Fiacat, FIDH, FSU, FTCR, Genepi, Gisti, Moms all equal,
MRAP, Organisation for Women Equality , Ozez feminism!, Family planning, RESPAIX Muslim
conscience, SNJ-CGT, SNPES-PJJ / FSU, Solidaires, Survival, lawyers' union in France, UTIT
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