TOLERANCE AND SOLIDARITY .
An article from Mouvement de la Paix (translation by CPNN)
Mouvement de la Paix supports the appeal launched by dozens of associations for a demonstration on 18 December for International Migrants Day.
Appeal text: Freedom and Equal Rights!
We, Undocumented and Migrant Collective, Trade Unions, Associations and March in Solidarity call for demonstrations and gatherings throughout the country on December 18 on the occasion of International Migrants Day.
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We will march all together against the rise of nationalism, racism and fascism that is spreading throughout Europe and around the world.
We will walk in torchlight in memory of the tens of thousands of women, men and children who have died on the migration routes and national borders and against the anti-migration policies of the governments of the richest countries on the planet and their accomplices.
We will walk to end the deaths, to support the freedom of movement and to close the detention centers.
We will walk against the promotion of immigration in order to provide cheap labor, for the regularization of undocumented migrants and for equal rights.
We will march for France’s ratification of the “International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families” adopted by the UN on 18 December 1990, which aims to ensure equal treatment between French and immigrant workers.
It is the general increase in poverty and the questioning of the social security caused by the austerity policies of our governments that nourish the feelings of malaise and alienation in the population. We need to struggle together to ensure a better and egalitarian society.