France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Courant Alternatif, CA #237 - The missed appointment and backstage by ocl-lyon (fr)

It might be necessary to pay more attention to the March ... ---- Thirty years have passed 
since the "March of the Beurs" from Marseille to Paris as already referred journalists to 
the chagrin of key stakeholders ... ---- Principals who had, themselves, called "March for 
Equality", as evidenced by the tract of the initiator call 1 August 1983 signed by 4 young 
French of North African origin SOS Avenir Minguettes which Toumi Djaidja (all just 
recovered from the shot in the stomach by a policeman while trying to defend a young fangs 
of a police dog) and 4 members of the CIMADE Lyon whose Christian Delorme and Jean Costil 
priest, pastor, with support MAN (Movement for a non-violent alternative). Who still 
remembered before the curious quasi official commemoration momentum in recent weeks, 
except "those who still work?"

Indifference to the reputation ...

While walkers, who shortly before were still relegated to their cities, suburbs, were 
triumphantly received 100 000 November 30, 1983 in Paris, after 1200 km traveled on foot. 
Parties on 1 October, they had at first painfully progressed into a general indifference 
to a reversal of opinion generated by indignation at the defenestration, November 14, a 
young Algerian tourist Habib Grimzi, balanced by a train 3 apprentices legionaries near 
Castelsarrasin. In the wake of their arrival in Paris, they are received by Fran?ois 
Mitterrand, the same night at the Elys?e. But it must be said that in the last days, the 
politician recovery was in full swing with fellow ministers walk (Cheysson, Lang ...) and 
Logistics Department of Immigration on arrival. Walkers get the implementation of the 
"residence permit for ten years," significant step forward for immigrant workers, but 
without direct consequences for youth "immigrant" or "second generation immigrant" as they 
are denominated in time against a full-meaning as in general born on French territory they 
were authentic French youth. That was all!

Indifference ... and Punishment

And nothing in what concerns the legal arsenal against racist murders (so common at the 
time that we frequently find ourselves in "white marches" with the families of young 
people, even children, murdered), controls facies , social development in neighborhoods, 
gender French-immigrant wages, etc.. or the right of foreigners to vote in local elections 
- yet stakeholder proposals candidate Mitterrand before 1981 and still not acquired more 
than thirty years later!

Then, when the following days after the limelight, it's back to square one, in stairwells, 
entrance and cellars of their city halls HLM (perhaps clich?, but strict reality)! 
initiators Walk seeing even refuse local associations as mere "thugs" they would not have 
ceased to be! And in the following months, Toumi takes jail time so much for a dark car 
theft committed in 1982, but rather to punish him for his role as initiator and leader in 
the Marche, he who was the first idea in his hospital bed after seeing the film Gandhi. 
What a mess!

"Training together a united nation bound by brotherhood" ...

Social worker in Seine-Saint-Denis, the "9-3", from 1981 to 1985, I was at the time closer 
to the young, both invested in my professional activities but also in the International 
Civil Service and youth commission FASTI (Federation of solidarity with immigrant 
workers). I can attest to how these young people want to participate in "together form a 
united nation bound by brotherhood" through France "to find all those and all those who 
want equal rights and opportunities outweighs the segregation, that friendship is because 
of racism, and social peace to silence the .22 "(see call text).

So, in neighborhoods, rabies is a measure of the feeling of being cheated, manipulated, 
and many are those for whom walking was their first outing in the light and do not want to 
hear anything and retreated to their cities, bands, communities, and often under the 
influence of fundamentalist preachers landed in 1982 in the suburbs, their religion 
regarding youth of North African origin.

A thousand miles from the claim of religious affirmation

Because it is important to recall here that the religious dimension was, at the time, 
almost totally absent from the concerns of these young girls and boys; attachment to 
Muslim culture is often reduced to the prohibition of pork consumption and respect Ramadan 
especially in his community and festive look, but nothing regarding the prohibitions of 
tobacco and alcohol, and almost no practice of any prayer. Similarly immigrants OS Talbot 
who had lead a very hard struggle as the "big brothers" activists around the newspaper 
Without Borders concert Rock Against Racism and Rock Against Police, then the agency 
IM'm?dia around Mogniss Abdallah were a thousand miles from any claim of religious 
affirmation, while respecting a secular approach practices of their elders.

Then some young and old, from the Parisian collective support walking 1983, decided to 
accept the challenge, led by filmmaker and writer Farida Belghoul of Algerian origin. This 
militated time to the PC, then left shortly before the affair of the "bulldozer Vitry" the 
end of 1980 *. A group formed around city youth in the Paris region as Nordine Iznasni and 
his friends Tarek Farid and the Gutenberg Association Nanterre (trio always on the go 
today, co-organizers and those who still walk events of 7 and 8 December last to Paris) as 
Messaouda, Adjera Francs-Moisins, young North and East as Boubeker Ahmed, the youth 
commission FASTI Jos? Vieira, his permanent at that time, and other young people of 
Portuguese origin as Candida, Nelson, and Maria Gloria, youth of African descent as 
Mamadou and Souleyman as Liemke or Asian or of young and old "French origin" as Jerome, 
Jos?e, Bernadette and Eric, soon joined by some "old timers" old anti-eviction committees, 
as Olga, Julien and Pascal (now attorney Black Thursday), and struggles in the wake of May 
68 and by a group of facilitators and social workers of all origins including Marie-Laure 
Mah? (former Walker 1983 start to finish, just write the novel Running, Sokrys Editions).

Convergence equal to 84

The project is to organize, with convergence towards Paris 5 groups of 12 wheeler moped, 
French of all origins, left Brest on November 3, Roubaix, Strasbourg, Marseille and 
Toulouse, and creating the event step by step a "parade-carnival of all cultures, of all 
colors for equality 'arrival on 1 December 1984 in Paris (referring to the multiracial and 
multicultural annual Notting Hill Carnival in London), repeating the word nice slogan 
appeared at the arrival of March 1983 on a simple sign by a young "native French", "France 
is like a moped, it needs to advance the mixture."

The debates in the spring 1984 can refine reflection especially on the theme of "right to 
difference", dear to the traditional anti-racist left, but, in fact, open door on a 
segregated differentialist and design company whose most monstrous example was South 
Africa under apartheid. That is why the collective organizes wild occupancy UNESCO's Day 
International Day against Racism in March at the national conference organized by the MRAP 
around "Living together with our differences," way young remain mobilized independently 
and remember the good memories of well-meaning anti-racist.

The small group of preparation and organization of the "Convergence 84 for equality", Eric 
Favereau qualify in the columns of Liberation "amazing mixture", decided to use the French 
territory as a scene theater, takes advantage of the absolute independence, with the 
commitment pegged to the body leave no place for collectors of all kinds, in principle and 
as the only way for young people 1983 re-mobilize remaining autonomous way. Some 
"historical walkers" and youth Marseille (including Zineb and other "gazelles"), Roubaix, 
the Lorraine basin ... will join 84 Convergence and recognize in its motto "Living with 
our similarities equal regardless of our differences. "committees support multiply, 
traditional associations are mobilized, the great names of the intellectual world sign 
calls, a university group gathered around Etienne Balibar, Christian Dutertre and Albano 
Cordeiro serves. FASTI, Manuel Dias, Carlos Bravo, and the Maghreb and Portuguese as well 
as the League of Human Rights, CIMADE, CLAP and CCFD participate in support groups, but 
all on the basis of respect for the autonomy initiative to the chagrin of the usual 
institutional intermediaries and major leftist parties.

Success and stalemate ... amid recovery SOS-Racism

It is a success, arriving on 1 December brings together 30,000 people again, but this time 
without chaperones. In contrast, the discourse finishing place of the Republic delivered 
by Farida, like a cry of anger and despair, with the title "Open Letter to the people who 
believe" is the effect of a cold shower on yet sympathetic support and caring, amid strife 
in the "Staff" even Convergence. Speech, the fruit of lived and felt the riders in their 
steps, spreads to light the big misunderstanding between the humanist circles, anti-racist 
and right-thinking city centers, and youth areas that are relegation suburbs. The evening 
concert is at the height of the event, but the next day, how to proceed on this 
observation without appeal, on such radical bases, cut the usual support? Especially since 
we entred?chirons in discussions of post-convergence while "we were so loved," and some 
make their aprons.

Especially an unexpected event took place at the arrival of Convergence in Paris, and to 
our knowledge: the distribution by thousands of small yellow fatma hand with "Do not touch 
my friend," thinking like a real product marketing (recalling both the yellow star and 
infamous Muslim culture in the feminine) as the first public appearance of SOS Racisme, 
presented to the press on November 22 by President Harlem D?sir, surrounded by people who 
closely followed our meetings and discussions to bounce best in our stride at the premises 
of the League of Human Rights, totally in the back of Convergence.

When the Elysee neutralized by the alternative movement

Since we have been deaf to any form of recovery despite multiple attempts including 
ministerial, the ruling regime has concocted a parade in an alternative form. Under the 
gilding of the Elysee great minds are maneuvering (we learn fairly quickly but not know 
who the actors much later!) With Jean-Louis Bianco, as G?rard Col?, advisor communication 
Mitterrand (which will be thanked with the Presidency of Loto in 1989 and indicted in 1994 
in connection with the scandal of French games), controlled covertly by Jacques Pilhan, 
true guru degree in communications, buff situationism alumnus S?gu?la team, inventor of 
the "quiet strength" and boss of the new advertising agency public time whose mission was 
"the management of the image of the President and also institutions and enterprises" (we 
find again a communications advisor to Chirac in 1995). Beautiful baby will SOS Racisme 
with generous donors like Pierre Berg?, the mobilization of UEJF (Union of Jewish Students 
of France) about a Ghebali Eric, with a heartfelt Harlem D?sir casting, and LCR, which 
however was stakeholder committees to support convergence, calling young people to 
register with an ultra-Julien Dray present on all tables.

For suburban youth is the height after recovering from the March 83, and the first 
spontaneous reactions - I witnessed here - push to want to go physically disrupt the first 
public demonstrations of SOS Racisme, unfortunately background sometimes anti-Semitism - 
or rather a Judeophobia - detestable.

Medlars for the guys, concerts for "good students"

SOS will rather attract the educated youth, much less suffering city youth, and know how 
to mobilize "large masses concerts" that will help their decision-racist consciousness. It 
is not here to say that all subsequent SOS activities have had a no impact in the struggle 
against racism and all its members were only "useful idiots" manipulated, as it must be 
recognized that a number of hierarchs of socialist power may have attitudes quite correct 
as ladies or gentlemen Gaspard and Dufoix Worms and Belorgey, among others ... The current 
commemorations of the March 83 will have at least helped raise the veil on the font of SOS 
Racisme enough troubles in the desire to dispossess the "movement beur" of its autonomy 
and promote young, clean-cut and malleable by those in power movement.

For their part, the "rejected" and other "relegated" will mostly no alternatives to stop 
all activity and silence, headlong rush into delinquency or addiction, or withdrawal 
Community and / or religious retreat that even well-meaning always deplore today as when 
they are not going to blame ...

Moreover, today, the biggest misconception is not he persists between the traditional 
left, "la?carde" the old and the young Muslim culture clinging to the branches of their 
religion as a life and survival In return, posting ostensibly challenge, "anger and 
political protest against the abandonment of cities and their inhabitants", again having 
been relegated outside politics and the only camp of "religion", in fact "conglomerate 
belonging to both social, territorial, economic and religious." **

Nevertheless, Convergence will experience an ephemeral suite with Memory fertile and 
antiracist alternative University for Equality (until 1986). But more importantly, despite 
all these setbacks, the movement will continue in various forms and names, with JALB 
(Young Arab Lyon and suburbs, following Zaama suburb of around Djida Tazdait, who had not 
participated in the Walk 83 fear of handling!), the Committee against double jeopardy, the 
MIB (Movement immigration and suburbs), Agora, Diversity, Tactikollectif and Motivated in 
Toulouse, Origins controlled ACLEFEU, Echo cities , Remembeur and other Natives of the 
Republic ..., as was rightly pointed Those who still work.

Daniel Warrior, companion and control, December 2013

(Intertitres the model)

PS: If you have seen or will see the movie Walk, very accurate with the right tone, you 
above response to questioning induced by the last lines of text before the credits. 
Memory: "In the excitement of March, a year after was founded SOS Racisme. None of the 
marchers will be part. "Just as you have the explanation of the end of inadmissibility 
submitted in November 2013 by Toumi Djaidja the current Minister of the City, Fran?ois 
Lamy, on an official commemoration of the March 83 to Minguettes, whereas this last, at 
the time a teacher in the suburbs and a member of PSU, was actually part of the service 
order on arrival Nov. 30, 1983. The same Fran?ois Lamy, it has some years, gave it to the 
best of his "humanity" by refusing running water and the removal of a huge pile of trash 
unhealthy a Roma camp in Palaiseau city which he was mayor from 2001 to 2012, denying them 
any dialogue as if they were a "invisible people" in the mode of behavior of whites 
vis-?-vis Africans in the heyday of apartheid. Like what scapegoats follow, resemble and 
even add ...

* Farida Belghoul reappears today in the wake of Equality and Reconciliation around Alain 
Soral and his delusional Judeophobic complotisme, pretending there find an outlet for his 
social and political rage still intact. Reduce all the problems of the moment, certainly 
monstrous, and the evils of globalization to harm a so-called conspiracy falls at least an 
intellectual laziness to the need to continue to analyze the evolution of capitalism and 
the fight as such, if not the worst demagoguery or foul theories. That said, while 
reaffirming our right to criticize the policies of the Israeli government and the Zionist 
project that underlies not be automatically taxed as "anti-Semitism". Zionist Jewish 
friends here and there, reflected every day! And Jewish anti-racist who participated in 
Convergence must be stunned. Again what a mess on the bottom of "complementary enemy", 
paraphrasing Germaine Tillion!

See ** Charlie Hebdo "deaf rap and cities Louis Jesu in Liberation December 17, 2013, 
written in response to the controversy surrounding a verse of the song of a collective of 
rappers, Marche (conducted in margin the eponymous film) "Reclam (ant) a bonfire for these 
dogs Charlie Hebdo". Personally I first responded to this verse as against a 
total-direction relative to the mood-religious Walk at the time and absolute rights 
defender blasphemy (and I persist and sign!) . But in fact we can ask if it is not 
indicative of the chasm between socio-cultural team and militant atheists Charlie drives, 
locked in a kind of self-between "people convinced of centers cities "and the young French 
cities in suffering, not to mention the demagogy of some rappers who often have deserted 
suburbs as they ensured success.