Solidarity with the Rebels of France

by o.r.g.a.n.i.c. Friday, Nov. 11, 2005 at 4:10 PM

The o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective wishes to extend our feelings of solidarity to the rebels of the migrant communities of France. It is clear to us that the recent uprising which has spread across the country is a reaction against years of bitter racism that has ruined countless lives as well as a reaction against racist immigration policies based on that racism.

We are in support of resistance against migration controls and wish to see an end to the violent system of state repression which led to the deaths of two young North African migrant children in Clichy-sous-Bios on October 27th. The police state justified by migration control regimes is a tool of capitalism which is used to maintain the disgusting inequity that neoliberalism perpetuates.

The bloody history of racism and colonialism in France cannot be ignored and forgotten, just as the same system of genocide that the US is built on cannot be either. Until this history is acknowledged and reconciled, there can be no peace.

We urge the people of the world to look closely at this uprising and the causes behind it. It is not a senseless riot, an idea which is used to promote racist ideas about people of color, just as it was used to describe the 1992 uprising in Los Angeles. The global system that seeks to control the movement of people at the point of a gun while freeing corrupt corporations to trample across the globe must come to an end. We are working to end that system, in solidarity with movements against migration controls all over the world, from France to Spain to Mexico and the US.

For more background on this situation, please see Indybay.org:
http://indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=3736&category_id=44

For more information about the o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective and our
campaigns, see http://organicCollective.org

For more information about movements against borders and racism around
the world, see http://deleteTheBorder.org