born here or from elsewhere
equal rights are for everyone!
We do not want a racist society. We want for our neighbors, office colleagues, workshop colleagues, our classmates, for our doctor, our baker, for the girlfriend or classmate of our girls, our boys… a real equality of rights.
We live together, and do not conceive of society other than in respect of what binds us. Fraternity stands alongside liberty and equality on the fronts of our public buildings. These major principles must translate into effective access to all rights, for all; by welcoming and valuing the diversity that makes our country, any country, rich; through the development of solidarity for and with those who need it.
Foreign workers, exiled people, international students… whether they arrived yesterday or 20 years ago, they all find themselves the target of migration policies which see the foreigner as a potential criminal, a “undesirable”.
The immigration law of January 2024 and the Asylum & Immigration Pact of the European Union have further radicalized repressive and brutal policies, generalizing administrative mistreatment. Public policies are today misused and used as tools to monitor, arrest, detain, expel… It is against this backdrop that xenophobia, stigma and discrimination thrive on a daily basis.
The seas bring back to our shores the bodies of those whom the political choice of a “fortress Europe” has condemned; exiles who came to seek the protection to which they are entitled are sent back to atrocious fates in countries that violate fundamental rights as much as international law; children and adolescents are abandoned by the institutions that should protect them; people who work, study, live with us are harassed and treated like delinquents because they do not receive the documents that would legalize and perpetuate their stay; long-term residents encounter undue difficulties in extending their residence permit, and therefore find themselves plunged into a dramatic spiral, losing their job, their housing, their social rights and their medical coverage .
The far right develops the fantasy of a “foreign” population presented as too numerous and “unassimilable”. It stirs up among the population the rejection of “foreigners” who – according to it – are the cause of all the socio-economic ills endured by society. Echoing, the government is exploiting this fear of the other and preparing yet another ever more repressive law which could free itself, this time, from the framework of the rule of law. This escalation, contrary to our values of humanity and solidarity at the basis of our social pact, is deeply damaging our societies.
We must react! There are already many of us doing this on a daily basis, despite the threats weighing on our union and association activists who are committed to those who are deprived of their rights and their dignity to a skin color, a religion or the simple fact of being born elsewhere.
Millions of citizens think like us and are ready to make the powerful voice of solidarity ring out!
In continuation of International Migrants Day
Saturday December 21 at 11:00 a.m.
Rally in front of the Roanne sub-prefecture
At the call of Cimade, the Human Rights League, Amnesty International, the FSU, Solidaires and the CGT
Author: Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region
