WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, Anarchosyndicalisme #182: Walk in step, walk straight, a drum... (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 This is not new, the state is always wary of young people. At a time of

nationalist withdrawals, incessant hymns, the hegemony of
all-competition versus cooperation, patriotic flags brandished on all
sides, everything is good to enlist, control, master and recruit. And
yes, beyond the Republican patriotic noise of the left as well as of the
right and of course of the extreme right, to perfect the building, it is
necessary to recruit and seek the adhesion of the greatest number...
---- So, let's be interested us to the youth. From middle school, the
State, through the presence of the Police, the Gendarmerie and even the
Army, in addition to official instructions and programs, penetrates the
young minds of our middle and high school students during activities or
educational outings or better still, information and orientation days.
And, one can appreciate the art of the recruiting speech, very studied
for a coherence of facade if one does not take the time to dissect it.
Nothing very new, you might say. Yes, but let's focus on the content.
It's amazing: The site, "Educational Café" publishes an article on March
27, 2023: "To arms children!

We learn that the Prox'RaidAventure association[...]-sponsored in
particular by the greatest French fortunes: Dassault, Bettencourt,
Mulliez, Bouygues, and founded by Bruno Pomart, former Raid policeman,
columnist for the Grandes gueules de l'info on RMC-intervenes in schools
and colleges to "bring the police closer to the
population".[...]Handling of weapons, handcuffing, pat-downs are on the
menu of the workshops which - strangely - take place in establishments
welcoming mainly students from from popular backgrounds.[...]

But the photographs that circulated from that day offer a completely
different image of that day: workshop for discovering professional
gestures and techniques in intervention, handling of defense sticks and
weapons, handcuffing, palpation, techniques of arrest, "in order to that
during a future control, the gestures of the police officers will not be
interpreted".[...]Some have put on a police uniform to complete an
obstacle course. Fortunately, the parents of students were moved by it,
in particular at the FCPE[...]

Naturally, this association is also fully involved in the SNU -Universal
National Service-and the arguments are the same: values of the republic,
citizenship and blablabla... From the raising of the flag to the
"demonstration of the know-how of the security forces», the atmosphere
is beginning to turn seriously brown everywhere and it is high time to
resist these toxic fumes for our children. The same activities had been
proposed to 200 children between seven and ten years old, use of tonfa,
belly plating, everything had also happened. Strongly mobilized, parents
and teachers obtained the end of the partnership. They had understood
very well what was at stake behind these workshops: targeting of
children from criminalized working-class neighborhoods, awareness of the
legitimacy of repression and the use of violence in the techniques of
maintaining order. At the moment, the association is active in Guyana
where it accompanies the students of the "Papayo" class of the REP+ Paul
Kapel college in "self-transcendence" within the framework of a "police
and security class" intended to train young people professionally. to
the professions of the police: "Receptive to playful training, the young
people wield shields and defense sticks while simulating a movement of
demonstrators towards the prefecture"... (FranceGuyane, March 24, 2023).
Dizzy "

In fact, these devices only aim to legitimize a relationship to
citizenship and law that is based only on the necessary obedience and
the whole repressive. Let's continue with the article from April 11,
2023 in the Monday morning newspaper: "Story of an intervention by the
Graines de France association in Seine-Saint-Denis", "Students in 4e and
3e are entitled to it for one day. The association is therefore present
for four days in this college of 93. A day of missed classes for the
benefit of the promotion of the police, and all the classes of the
establishment disrupted for four days, since it is necessary to make
room. Also... activities to replace the striking teachers on April
6th.[...]And then, we are reassured, it is not about this other
despicable association, which has aroused so many indignant reactions,
because it makes kids put on CRS uniforms, teaches them to let
themselves go obediently the handcuffs, etc.

So off we go for Graines de France, an "Empowerment/Police Population
association", almost as well approved as the first. On the program,
workshops: boxing, writing, theater, freedom of speech. To end this
beautiful day, a policewoman invited as a guest-star. We applaud, we
congratulate each other: "You were great! ". After the boxing workshops,
theater -role-playing-, verbalizations of the representations and images
of the pupils towards the Police, follow debates such;[...]"If the
police disappeared, would you be ready to move? The majority answers
"yes". A student answers "no". So the worker asks her: "Would you start
a family in this situation? She asks again: "If there were no more
police officers, would you think of becoming one? There, no one thinks
that she would become a police officer? Would you go and educate others?
What would the world be without the police? If the police wanted to come
back, what would happen? The students answer: demonstration, war, etc.
She continues: "How do we get the police to come back? The students: we
vote, the police make a video on social networks, etc.

Let's move on to high school students.
Recently, it has been common to see young volunteers "dressed" in the
uniform of the Universal National Service -the SNU-, "walking around" in
a row, in the public space, "supervised" by retired recruits or civilian
personnel of the army. In Montauban, during February, on the esplanade
of the fountains, dedicated these days to rallies against the law on
pensions and to the weekly market, it is the SNU which organizes a full
day of information and orientation for the youth.

In Cahors, following the major military maneuvers, on the closing
Sunday, as part of the Nation Army operations, the population was
invited to military events such as jeep rides, to approach the equipment
and the combat men and... and of course the presence of our young UNS
volunteers. Renewal of militarized presence, speech on the duty of order
and obedience, divisive speech of the State "If you are not with me, you
are against me!», everything is implemented to install the population
and the youth in a feeling of insecurity, of fear which legitimizes
aggressive, violent responses of self-defense channeled by an agreed
discourse of the supposedly benevolent State: «I protect you".

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