C A L E N D A R
- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30
- 12.00
Meeting with everybody coming from abroad or from other part of France in the
International Center of Popular Culture (CICP) : 21 ter, rue Voltaire, 75011 PARIS.
Please,
be careful and do not take Boulevard Voltaire, but rue Voltaire. Métro "rue
des Boulets-rue de Montreuil".
- 13.00
Meeting Place de la République (Metro "République") for
the demonstration.
- 14.00
Start of the demonstration
- 20.30
Back to CICP for dinner and evening
- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1st
- 10.30
Plenary forum with presentation of participants, contributions, and of the three
workshops.
- 12.30
Lunch
- 15.00-17.00
Workshops
- 17.00-19.00
Plenary, reports of the workshops and common perspectives
W O R K S H O P S
1) INTEGRATION, ASSIMILATION, CITIZENSHIP WICH ALTERNATIVE ?
Differences and confrontation between the different models we
can see in some european countries :
- France and the model of integration by republican values
- English model of communautarism
- Germany and Jus Sanguinis, etc...
What are our options of common life in breaking with the capitalist
system? How to conciliate the right for each culture to exist in the same time we
are fighting against all form of exploitation and domination ?
How to answer the question of identity, question of communautarian
and nationalist turning-back ?
Can we propose an active citizenship in reply of political visions
from the "social-democrats" and from the liberal-democrats ?
We will speak in this workshop about :
- The ten last years struggles in France (march for equality in 1983, Convergence
84, etc...)
- Struggles of Immigrants Houses ("Nouvelle France" in Montreuil...)
- Denying of peoples living in France (Euzkadi, Brittany, Occitans,...) relied
to the building of French State.
2) NORTH/SOUTH RELATIONS : SEPARATED DEVLOPMENT AND SOCIAL APARTHEID
By their struggle, the "Sans Papiers" made clear their
will to live where they want. In a world where goods and money are going more freely
than men and women, the problematic concerns less the existence of immigration than
the inequal exchanges in an international level. To be more clear, between the developped
countries and the rest of the world.
Since the sixties, development has been the alibi of all the policies
made in the third world countries. "Poor countries" were supposed to arrive
at the same level than the "rich countries" by industrialisation and model
just copied on the occidental way.
Development was the background of colonisation. Will economic
mondialisation be the background of global development ?
Separated development is part of an ideological conception of
relations between societies, that means a hierarchisation of cultures and societies.
Does social apartheid, if it exists in an international level,
exist also inside the occidental countries ? Does the struggle of the "Sans
Papiers" express this apartheid which is concerning so far the "migrant"
and the non-guaranteed worker and the jobless ?
3) STRUGGLES OF THE "SANS PAPIERS" AND EUROPEAN RESISTANCES
AGAINST DISCRIMINATION LAWS
Since months in France, the struggle of the "Sans Papiers"
have made actual the old global fight for equality and the migrants' will to leave
clear and free. This struggle changed during those 8 last months.
What have been the different steps? Which links with the people?
What have been the difficulties? Why this movement is no more an isolated one and
why is it a real social movement, able to attack the theorical basis of the capitalist
system?
In regard of european laws, we can perceive that there is an urgent
need to construct an european solidarity: today, with Schengen and Dublin treaties,
the same laws are attacking all the migrants communities living in Europe.
Quotas of foreigners by countries and by economic sectors seems
to be a will of some of europeans capitalists.
Capitalism never had any problem to organize through the borders.
The goal of the Bourgeoisie is to break all the different struggles ("Sans-Papiers",
workers, joblesses...) to control them and organize repression. How can we make
an unity of all struggles of all exploited against the common enemy and organize
in an international level?
Delegations of the "Sans Papiers" de Saint-Bernard,
of the 3rd parisian collective, of residents from immigrants' house "Nouvelle
France", of Movement from Immigration and Suburbs (MIB), and maybe of collectif
of "Sans Papiers" from Nantes, Lille, Nimes... will be present.
P R A C T I C A L T H I N G S
- For accomodations and lunches, comrades from abroad are asked to make us know
how many persons will be present.
- Travels cannot be reimbursed.
- Participating or interested groups are invited to sign an international leaflet
- All written contribution is welcome (and its translation, please). We will make
a packet (multilingual if we can!!!) which will be given to all participants.
- Many WWW sites are containing informations about the struggle of the "Sans
Papiers", in different languages (Italian, Wolof, French...) :
Manifestazione europea a Parigi : http://www.ecn.org/sans
Site "Des papiers pour tous" : http://www.anet.fr/~aris/dppt.html
Site "Les Africains sans-papiers de St Ambroise" : http://bok.net/pajol/
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