'Europe: Communities of Resistance' @ Ramparts Thursday 12th July

Europe: Communities of Resistance
7:30 pm 12th July @ Rampart

A night of debate and movies about the National Social Forum of the Banlieues with invited participants from London No Borders.

Between the 22, 23 and 24 june 2007 in St.Denis, Paris, there was a National Social Forum of the Banlieues. The event was attended by lots of different local grassroot movements. Among the participants were Ahmad Rahman member of the Black Panthers of Detroit and Cilius Victor member of a Police watchdog in London against racial abuse.

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Films showing:

DOUCE FRANCE, LA SAGA DU MOUVEMENT "BEUR"
A movie of Mogniss H. Abdallah, 87 mn - 1993.
IM'média (Fr)/Migrant Media (GB)

The French part of a collaboration with Ken Faro Migrant Media. This is the history of the movement in a broader historical perspective.

The full collection // Europe: communities of resistance // includes :

"Britain's Black Legacy"
"Germany, the Other Story"
"Le Syndrôme de Hoyerswerda"

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MIB/CHRONIQUE 2001-2002
A film of Reynald Bertrand - 51 mn - 2002

The story of the Movement of Immigration and the Banlieues and the riots in the suburbs between 2001 & 2002.

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Version francaise ici.

CALL for the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES 22nd to 24th June, 2007, Paris

Our estates have become an easy target for media-hungry politicians and their sound-bite slurs: the 'lost territories of the Republic' are 'no-go areas' populated by 'irresponsible parents' and people drifting into 'Mafia-like' or 'radical Islamic' activities. The most stigmatised are the youth. They have become scapegoats for society's ills. It costs little to mouth civic values while violently exposing the 'scum' and the 'savages' to public condemnation.

The suburbs have been made into a special law and order issue, in the hands of the police and courts. And yet in all the revolts we have seen, from the Minguettes (1981) to Vaulx-en-Velin (1990), from Mantes-la-Jolie (1991) to Sartrouville (1991), from Dammarie-les-Lys (1997) to Toulouse (1998), from Lille (2000) to Clichy sous Bois (2005), the message has been clear:

We've had enough of unpunished police murders and brutality, of police checks based merely on skin colour, enough of 'sink' schools, of unsanitary housing, of systematic unemployment and underemployment, enough of prisons, of humiliation and oppression! We have become almost immune to the silence of millions of men and women suffering daily from acts of social violence, much more devastating than a burning car.

It is our right to revolt against the social order.
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