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Block the Vichy European Summit on Immigration, November 3-4 2008!

Vichy | 20.10.2008 18:23 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

Given the short time limit, any help is greatly welcomed to spread this international call widely in your networks and activist medias.

Block the Vichy European Summit on Immigration, November 3-4 2008!

On the next November 3rd and 4th , the French presidency of the European Union will gather, upon the initiative of Brice Hortefeux, French minister of immigration, integration and national identity, the whole 27 European ministers of Interior and Justice. They will all meet in Vichy, the historic capital of the pro-Nazi regime in France during the Second World War, where deportation of the Jews, along with other “undesirable” people, was orchestrated by the government. Today, the European ministers will attempt to firmly discuss on the control on the fluxes of immigrant workers and the application of the (in)famous « return directive », that facilitates the deportation of migrants at European level.

We cannot let this provocation happen without an answer. In a time where people without a status are answering to government chases by burning retention centers at many places in Europe, it's a minimal task for those who support them to disrupt this gathering of ministers.

What's needed is to physically keep this congress from happening, by taking over the city, block access to it, seize public space, disrupt everyday life in Vichy until these occupying forces leave.

In France, various collectives and political organisations have started a mobilisation. A demonstration will happen on moday the 3rd , 18h00 in Vichy. For logistical information (travelling plans, accomodation...), please contact  vichy2008@riseup.net. Keep in touch

The migratory politics are now european, so must be our answer to it !

FRENCH :
Les 3 et 4 novembre prochain, la présidence française de l'Union Européenne réunit, à l'initiative de Brice Hortefeux, ministre français de l'immigation et de l'identité nationale, l'ensemble des 27 ministres européens de l'Intérieur et de la Justice. Elle les réunit à Vichy, capitale du régime pro-nazi en France durant la seconde guerre mondiale, d'où s'est organisée notamment la déportation des juifs.

Aujourd'hui, les ministres européens entendent s'y entretenir gravement du contrôle des flux de main d'oeuvre immigrée et de l'application de la fameuse "directive retour" (qui organise les expulsions des migrants au niveau européen).

Nous ne pouvons laisser cette provocation sans réponse. A l'heure où les sans-papiers répondent à la traque qui leur est livrée par l'incendie des centres de rétention dans plusieurs pays d'Europe, c'est la tâche minimale de ceux qui les soutiennent que de perturber le banquet des ministres.

Ce qu'il faut c'est empêcher physiquement la tenue de ce congrès, investir la ville, bloquer ses accès, s'approprier l'espace public, perturber le cours normal de la vie à Vichy jusqu'à ce que l'occupant s'en aille.

En France, des collectifs, des orgas, des groupes, commencent à organiser la mobilisation. Une manifestation aura lieu lundi 3 novembre à 18h00 à Vichy. Pour des infos logistiques (hébergement, transports…) un contact :  vichy2008@riseup.net.
Les politiques migratoires sont désormais européennes, notre réponse doit l'être aussi !

TOUS A VICHY !

(le temps est court, mais la force est avec nous.)

Vichy

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