An avalanche of rhetoric and provocative ad hit for several days on our country. To the highest state level, we hear about hitherto the preserve of the extreme right.
The president himself points to communities and entire social groups, stigmatized Roma, Travellers, foreigners, the French who are not "native", the parents of delinquent children, etc.. In doing so, he does not fight against crime, which is reprehensible for anyone regardless of nationality or origin: he deliberately puts in question the principles that underpin the republican equality, then that already have a social and economic crisis of extreme gravity threatens the cohesion of society as a whole.
Within days, the highest state authorities increased the exploitation of prejudice against Travellers in the link, now proclaimed, between immigration and crime, then the questioning of French nationality in terms not seen since 1945. What is at work in this process part of a logic of social disintegration carries serious dangers.
It is no longer debate legitimate in a democracy on how to ensure the safety republican, but a desire to designate as dangerous a priori millions of people because of their origin or their social situation. Whatever the legitimacy conferred by election, no politician has been given a mandate to violate the most basic principles on which the Republic was built.
Because we crossed the threshold and concerned for the future of all of us, membership organizations, trade unions and political backgrounds but have in common the commitment to fundamental principles Republic of the secular, democratic and social emphatically recall that Article 1 of the Constitution "guarantees equality before the law for all citizens without distinction of origin, race or religion" and that all proposals disregard this rule founder of democracy constitute a breach of civil peace.
will be accepted under any circumstances the need to respect public order is used to create distinctions between the inhabitants of this country and finding scapegoats.
We therefore call on all citizens of this country to publicly express their opposition to the strategies of stigma and discrimination and logic of "war" that threatens the life together. To this end, we propose in the coming days, the signature line, "Call citizen" rejecting any politics of fear or hate. And we call for a rally citizens to mark the 140th anniversary of the Republic, Saturday, September 4, Place de la Republique in Paris, at 14 hours, and throughout France, to say all our attachment to freedom, to equality and fraternity, who are and will remain our common good.
S ignataires: AC! Acting together against unemployment, alternators, love the bench, Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Morocco (Asdhom) Association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS), Association of Moroccans in France (AMF), National Association Travellers Catholics (ANGVC), Republican Veterans Association (Arac), Attac, Otherland, CEDETIM, French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), General Confederation Labour (CGT), the Confederation Paysanne, Cimade, CRAN, Right to Housing (DAL), Emmaus France, Europe Ecology, Federation for an alternative social and ecological (Fase), Federation of Associations of Solidarity with Migrant Workers ( Fasti), National Federation of reception and reintegration (Fnars) SOUTH education federation, Federation of Association Unit (FSU), Federation of Tunisian citizenship for both sides (FTCR) Fnasat-Travellers, Copernicus Foundation , France Terre d'Asile, United Left, Group Information and support immigrants (GIST), the Young Greens, League of Human Rights (LDH), League of Education, European market, Doctors of the World, The Peace Movement, Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), the French Communist Party (PCF), the Left Party, the Socialist Party (PS), Network of alert and response for Human Rights ( raidh), Network Education Without Borders (RESF) Snesup-FSU, SOS Racism, Lawyers' Union of France (SAF), Union of Magistrates (DM), Trade Union Solidarity, the Greens.
assembly points in each city for the event on September 4
Here is the list of public gathering places throughout France, for the vast national mobilization of September 4 against the xenophobic policy of the government.
Events of Saturday, September 4, 2010
face of xenophobia and the politics of the pillory: freedom, equality, fraternity!
Auch : Saturday, September 4, place de la Liberation, at 10:30.
Agen : Saturday, September 4, Boulevard de la Republique / Jasmin place at 10:00 am.
Aix-en-Provence : Saturday, September 4, place de la Rotonde, at 11:00.
Ajaccio : Saturday, September 4, before the County of Corsica, at 17:00.
Ales : Saturday, September 4, before the theater at 17:00.
Angers : Saturday, September 4, place du General Leclerc in front of the courthouse, at 10:30.
Avignon : Saturday, September 4, boulevard Limbert front of the prefecture, 10:30.
Bayonne: Saturday, September 4, Freedom Square, at 11:00.
Beauvais : Saturday, September 4, Place Jeanne d'Arc, at 14:00.
Bordeaux: Saturday, September 4, Republic Square or in front of Human Rights, before the Courthouse at 10:30.
Bourg-en-Bresse : Saturday, September 4, at the intersection of Charles Robin, Foch, and the Boulevard de Brou, 14.00.
Bourges : Saturday, September 4, instead of May 8, at 11:00.
Bressuire : Saturday, September 4, 2010, Place Notre Dame Bressuire 10:30.
Brest : Saturday, September 4, Freedom Square, at 10.30am.
Brive : Saturday, September 4, before the sub-prefecture, at 10.30am.
Cannes : Saturday, September 4, before the war memorial and the town hall at 14:30.
Carcassonne Porte des Jacobins, 10h 30. 11am start to Place Carnot, Gambetta Square and Prefecture.
Carcassonne Porte des Jacobins, 10h 30. 11am start to Place Carnot, Gambetta Square and Prefecture.
Chalon-sur-Saone : Saturday, September 4, place de l'Hotel de Ville 14:00.
Chambery : Saturday, September 4, Caffe place at 15:00.
Chateauroux : Saturday, September 4, Republic Square, at 17:00.
Clermont-Ferrand: Saturday, September 4, Place Delille, at 14:00.
Colmar : Saturday, September 4, avenue de la République, at the entrance of the administrative prefecture of Haut-Rhin, at 14:30.
Dijon : Saturday, September 4, place Darcy, at 14:00.
Grenoble : Saturday September 4, an event with two starting points: the station of Grenoble (14:30) and the market square of Villeneuve (14:00), the junction of two processions on the Place Andre Malraux.
Hénin-Beaumont : Saturday, September 4, 2010, before the Hotel de Ville, at 16:30.
Le Havre : Friday, September 3, before the Sub Prefecture of Havre + departure by bus to go demonstrate in Paris on September 4.
Lille : Friday, September 3, on the Plaza of Human Rights, at 18:00.
Limoges : Saturday, September 4, Republic Square, at 14:00.
Lorient : Saturday, September 4, place Aristide Briand, at 11:00.
Lyon : Saturday, September 4, Place Gabriel Peri and the place of Soils, at 14:00.
Mantes-la-Jolie : Saturday, September 4, before the Courthouse at 11:00.
Marseille : Saturday, September 4, the Old Port, at 14:30.
Montpellier : Saturday, September 4, place de la Comédie, 10:00.
Metz : Saturday, September 4, Republic Square, overlooking the street Winston Churchill, 14.30.
Mont-de-Marsan : Saturday, September 4, place Saint Roch, at 11:00.
Mulhouse : Saturday, September 4, place de la Reunion, at 14:00.
Nancy : Saturday, September 4, Stanislas square in front of the prefecture, at 14:00.
Nantes : Saturday, September 4, place du Commerce, at 15:00.
Nevers : Saturday, September 4, place de la Resistance to the prefecture, 15:00.
Nice : Saturday, September 4, Place Garibaldi, at 14:00.
Nimes : Saturday, September 4, before the media / House Square, at 14:00.
Orleans: Saturday, September 4, Place d'Arc, 15.00.
Paris: Saturday, September 4, Republic Square, at 14:00.
Pau : Saturday, September 4, place de l'Hotel de Ville at 11:00
Périgueux : Saturday, September 4, before the tree Liberty (Post Office), 11:00.
Poitiers : Saturday, September 4, before the Courthouse, at 14:00.
Privas : Saturday, September 4, before the County, 10.30.
Reims : Saturday, September 4, Erlon up in front of the fountain of Solidarity, at 14:00.
Rennes : Saturday, September 4, Town Hall Square at 14:00.
Roanne : Saturday, September 4, before the sub-prefecture, at 10:00.
Rodez : Saturday September 4, before the County at 10:00.
Rouen : Saturday, September 4, at Saint-Sever, at 14:00.
Saint-Brieuc : Saturday, September 4, start of the event at the top of the Rue Saint-Guillaume, near the armory, at 11:00.
Saint-Denis, Reunion : Saturday, September 4, Place of Human Rights Champ Fleuri, at 14:00.
Saint-Nazaire : Saturday, September 4, Plaza of Human Rights, Republic Center, at 15:00.
Holy : Saturday, September 4, Bassompierre place at 11:00.
Salon-de-Provence : Saturday, September 4, in front of City Hall at 10:00.
Strasbourg : Saturday, September 4, Place Kleber, at 16:00.
Toulon : Saturday, September 4, 2010, Liberty Square, at 10:00.
Toulouse : Saturday, September 4, Plaza of Human Rights, Place du Salin, at 10:30.
Tourcoing : Saturday, September 4, 2010, before the forecourt of the Hotel de Ville, 11:00.
Tours: Saturday, September 4, place Jean Jaures, at 15:00.
Tulle : Saturday, September 4, to the prefecture, at 15:30.