(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #234 - Undocumented: Hope comes from students (fr, pt)

Two expulsions of educated youth in October were down massively high school and high 
school girls in the street. The mobilization has been breathless, but opens up new 
perspectives in antiracist mobilizations of National Education and beyond. ---- October 9, 
Leonarda Dibrani is arrested during a school trip and deported to Kosovo. On October 12, 
it was the turn of Khatchik Khachatryan to be deported to Armenia. Both were educated 
yet-es in college and vocational school. Two evictions led to a rapid mobilization 
schoolgirl. ---- On Thursday, October 17, thousands of students and schoolgirls 
demonstrate in Paris for the return of Khatchik and Leonarda and more broadly against the 
evictions. The next day, the eve of school holidays we go again: entire schools are 
blocked or strike and Student protests are organized also in several cities in the 
regions. The initial reaction of the power are converted to a left state racism between 
uninhibited Valls "assumes," hesitations of Holland and ridiculous Peillon who drools over 
the sanctuary of the school even though... Khatchik was arrested outside school hours.

Media: the quarry

The media level, the kill. Rather than talk about all cases of educated youth expelled or 
threatened es-es to be (a simple visit the website RESF was uplifting), TV, radio and 
newspapers summarize the mobilization alone "Leonarda case" and are struggling to present 
Dibrani family as the most awful, dirty and nasty that is. Le Parisien is to publish a 
foul survey where two thirds of surveyed es are hostile to the return of the young Roma. 
However, the PS is not quite at ease and especially feared a return mobilizations 
schoolgirls in September. Ally in Europe Ecology-Greens, despite government solidarity 
oft-noted attempts to ride the mobilization to distinguish the PS. In this confusing 
climate, Holland made a televised speech Surreal Saturday, October 19 offering Leonarda 
Dibrani back... but alone!

A struggle to build

Towards trade unions and voluntary organizations, the initiative RESF, a front emerges in 
support of emerging schoolgirls mobilizations. The first news comes on Nov. 2 (the back is 
doing 4). Signed by unions including pupils and students (UNL Fidl, UNEF and Responsible 
Student es) of education unions (CGT, FSU, South), it calls to support the two dates 
mobilization 5 and 7 November announced during the holidays. November 5, while in the role 
of prison guard, Peillon calls for calm, the student-created down to the streets again, 
but fewer. Trying to give opportunities to boost mobilization, a second unitary text calls 
for demonstrations Saturday, November 16. But the action slows down. For some time, 
Solidarity and South Education wear the idea of a national event for the regularization of 
undocumented migrants. Such an initiative would probably struggle to unite on this front.

Theo Rival (AL Orleans)