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  • French Muslims face job discrimination
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Days of rioting in the bleaker suburbs of Paris have highlighted discontent among many French youths of North African origin.
    As part of a series on French Muslims, the BBC News website’s Henri Astier looks at the issue of discrimination, a leading source of frustration in France’s unemployment-riddled ghettos.
    Sadek recently quit his job delivering groceries near Saint-Denis, just north of Paris. He was tired of climbing stairs with heavy bags.
    Sadek, 31, has a secondary school (…)

  • Many held as French riots spread
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    French police have arrested more than 250 people following fresh riots in and around Paris and other parts of France.
    Nearly 900 cars were burnt on the ninth consecutive night of unrest in immigrant-dominated areas near Paris, despite a heavy police presence.
    Nurseries and a school were burnt overnight and unrest spread to Nice, Lille, Marseille and Toulouse.
    Hundreds of people have heard a call for calm at a rally in one of the Paris suburbs worst hit.
    The mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, (…)

  • Shots fired as French riots escalate
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rioters shot at police and fire fighter crews in the worst night of a week of violence in poor suburbs that ring Paris, as France’s conservative government struggled to quell the unrest.
    Youths who rampaged on Wednesday night left a trail of burnt cars, buses and shops in nine suburbs north and east of Paris, home to North African and black African minorities frustrated at their failure to get jobs or recognition in French society.
    "It’s a dramatic situation. It is very serious and we (…)

  • European Free Arts demonstration against repression of Free Parties and Teknivals
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    12th november 2005
    European demonstration of Sound Systems in Strasbourg
    Meet at 14:00 (13:00 GMT) in PLace de la Republique in the center of Strasbourg
    We demand the right to exist,
    We demand the end of systematic and unjustified repression against us,
    We demand the condemnation of countries such as the Tcheck republic for brutally repressing our organised events for no justifiable reason,
    We demand the right to be treated as socio-cultural performers; because our events are (…)

  • Robert Fisk: All over the globe, our leaders seem to be suffering from a severe bout of infantilism
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As someone who has to look at the eviscerated corpses, I can only shake my head in disbelief
    By Robert Fisk
    I wonder sometimes if we have not entered a new age of what the French call infantilisme. I admit I am writing these words on the lecture circuit in Paris where pretty much every political statement - including those of Messrs Chirac, Sarkozy, de Villepin et al - might fall under this same title. But the folk I am referring to, of course, are George W Bush, Lord Blair of Kut (…)

  • Give them a chance to breathe free
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    from die WELT:
    by Jeffrey Gedmin, Director, Aspen Institute Berlin
    After attending in Paris recently a meeting of pro-democracy Syrians, I returned sheepishly to Berlin. That’s because I have the strong impression that a majority of Germans think like Peter Scholl Latour, namely that a) the Middle East does not want democracy; b) the outside world could not help anyway; and c) that the Amis should definitely not interfere.
    I always wondered why Chancellor Schroeder would pile on his (…)

  • “I pay for for my Support to the Iraqi People"
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The « Oil for Food » affair
    Free... but on bail !
    Statement by Gilles Munier
    Secretary General of the French-Iraq Friendsdhip Organisation
    “I pay for my support to the Iraqi people...”
    After 60 hours of questioning and police custody, I was charged, on October 6, 2005, by Magistrate Philippe Courroye but released on a bail amounting to 80 000 euros or $ 96 600 which I have to pay in four instalments till February 2006 or be imprisoned. My passport has been withdrawn and I am (…)

  • France : a million protesters...
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A nationwide one-day strike in France has disrupted travel and business and dealt the first major challenge to the economic program of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
    Official figures showed turn-out from the public sector, with 30 percent of railway staff and teachers, 23 percent of electricity workers and between 15 and 30 percent of post office staff joining the stoppages.
    Demonstrations were staged in cities from Marseille in the south to Le Havre in the north, with the largest (…)

  • HE SARTRE MYTH: REBORN?
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Georges Duncan
    Cubanow.- Half a century later, the texts and words of Jean Paul Sartre, the scandalous French intellectual, are once again being read as if they had never before been read, and his figure is being reconsidered as if it had been hidden and waiting for better times.
    Recently, in connection with his 100 th anniversary, philosophers and writers, critically searched out files of one of the most lucid and controversial thinkers of the last century.
    For some, Sartre was the (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela at the Fête de l’Humanité
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We were there. Bellaciao
    By Greg Oxley
    A series of very successful meetings were held in solidarity with the revolution in Venezuela at the annual Communist Party festival - la Fête de l’Humanité - which was held in the Paris area last weekend. Overall, more than 400 people heard Jorge Martin speak at the Fête.
    A series of very successful meetings were held in solidarity with the revolution in Venezuela at the annual Communist Party festival - la Fête de l’Humanité - which was held in (…)