Activitat / Conferència / Conversa / Pensament contemporani DO Europa 2016

El Born Centre de Cultura y Memòria
19 Oct 2016

Coïmbra, Portugal, 1940. És doctor en Sociologia del Dret per la Yale University i professor catedràtic de Sociologia de la Universidade de Coimbra. Es director del Centre d’Estudis Socials i del Centre de Documentació 25 d’Abril d’aquesta mateixa universitat. A més a més, és professor distingit de l’Institute for Legal Studies de la University of Wisconsin-Madison. Se’l considera un intel·lectual amb reconeixement internacional en l’àrea de les ciències socials, popular al Brasil per la seva participació en diverses edicions del Fòrum Social Mundial. Ha publicat treballs sobre globalització, sociologia del dret, epistemologia, democràcia i drets humans.

Tercera edició del cicle D.O. Europa, amb converses amb pensadors i intel·lectuals internacionals que busquen comprendre millor aquesta construcció social, econòmica, institucional i d’identitat compartida que és Europa, així com els valors que porta associats.

Com sempre, la periodista Mònica Terribas actuarà com a comissària i conductora.

Dijous, 3 de novembre A les 19 h

Sala Moragues.
El Born CCM El Born Centre Cultural i de Memòria, Plaça Comercial, Barcelona, Espanya

Activitat en català, castellà i anglès.

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A public meeting to discuss the aftermath of the Paris attacks was held on 24 January 2015

Islamic Human Rights Commission
27 Jan 2014

The Islamic Human Rights Commission held a last minute public meeting, ‘What now for Europe? The instrumentalisation of the Paris attacks’ on Saturday 24th January following the violent attacks in Paris, early January. The event featured a diverse platform of speakers; both Muslim and non-Muslim and from various academic and activist backgrounds. The meeting was initiated to discuss the immediate aftermath and examine what rhetoric will follow and what directions Europe will take in the medium and the long term.

The panel of six, chaired by Abed Choudhury, gave short presentations based on their experiences, attitudes and viewpoints towards the incidents in Paris and its effects, followed by a conversation with the audience.

Our first speaker, Houria Bouteldja, a French citizen of Algerian heritage, is the founder and spokesperson of French decolonial political party, Party of the Indigenous of the Republic (PIR). Houria discussed injustice as being in the nature of the French republic. There is little scope for solutions for stopping French involvement in international wars as well as solutions for its internal problems, including Islamophobia. Despite the French elite able to influence a nihilistic behaviour in the most fragile, Houria stressed we still have a responsibility to do something.

M’Baireh Lisette is an expert in crisis management. His activism, rooted in the French colonisation of Chad, has been fuelled by the independence of Chad, the social movements in Africa, France and Palestine, and by the struggle of PIR for a decolonial political alternative. M’Baireh mentioned the comments made by French MP Manuel Valls about tackling ‘apartheid’ in French cities which is a reminder that white power is the only legitimate custodian of violence. The elite frames the way you think about power and PIR has the ability to disrupt this.

Ramon Grosfoguel, professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, discussed the effects of French colonialism and how this rhetoric plays out in society today. There is a struggle in which Islamophobia is voiced more loudly which calls for extreme right wing solutions, so much so that now in France, even the left and anti-Fascists are speaking in the same way as the right. France has also clarified the meaning of laicite in the last 20 years, to fit its colonial obsession with Muslims. The French have never respected the freedom of speech of colonial subjects and it is this hypocrisy that pushes fragile youth into destructive mode.

Kevin Cobham, Cambridge educated criminal defence lawyer and human rights advocate, discussed the hypocrisy of the West by mentioning the 43 students killed in Mexico and the lack of coverage and protests of the events in the West. What matters in Europe is property, and part of that property is Whiteness.

Richard Seymour, writes for the Guardian and appears on TeleSur. Richard mentioned the exacerbating presence of Islamophobia in Europe and the state structural, race-making processes that turn Muslims into a race as well as marginalising Muslims.

Arzu Merali, co-founder of IHRC and Head of Research, made mention of the number of demonstrators that protested against the Pediga movement in Germany, describing it as a small victory in a battle. It was surprising to see that level of mobilisation in Europe and there was a question of whether we will be seeing that in the UK. Arzu also referenced Muslims’ sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the media but still a vertical viewpoint.

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Le racisme gangrène nos sociétés : contrôles au faciès, destructions de camps roms, agressions de femmes voilées, discriminations à l’embauche et au logement de personnes portant des noms à « consonance étrangère », circulaire Chatel contre les mamans voilées…

UJFP
23 Nov 2014

Les attaques contre des populations décrites comme « dangereuses » se multiplient. Elles s’inscrivent dans un climat idéologique et médiatique qui, au nom de la « guerre contre le terrorisme » ou d’une conception particulièrement cynique de la devise « liberté-égalité-fraternité », entretient la haine contre ceux – et celles – qui sont décrits comme « étrangers ».

Depuis une trentaine d’années, et singulièrement depuis 2001, l’islamophobie est devenue le canal privilégié d’expression – et même de régénération – d’un racisme d’État. Instrumentalisant de « nobles principes » (la laïcité, la République, l’égalité des sexes…), un redoutable système d’exclusion se construit jour après jour, en France comme dans les autres pays européens.

Alors que le Vieux Continent traverse une grave crise économique et sociale, il est particulièrement dangereux de désigner des boucs émissaires à la vindicte populaire (musulmans, Noirs, Roms…). La désaffection des victimes à l’égard des forces de gauche qui ne les défendent pas, comme la progression fulgurante de l’extrême droite à l’échelle continentale, ces dernières années, en témoignent.

Le racisme ne disparaîtra pas tout seul. Aujourd’hui comme hier, il faut se battre pour faire reculer cette forme particulièrement vicieuse de racisme qu’est l’islamophobie. Comme les Noirs américains dans les années 1950-1960, comme les travailleurs immigrés des années 1970-1980, il faut continuer la bataille pour les droits civiques et pour l’égalité.

Après le succès de la première « Journée internationale contre l’islamophobie » qui a rassemblé plusieurs centaines de personnes à Paris en décembre 2013, nous organisons une nouvelle journée de réflexion et d’action le samedi 13 décembre 2014, en associant plus de forces et d’organisations, et en travaillant en coordination avec les groupes qui, dans d’autres pays européens, se mobilisent contre l’islamophobie et organiseront au même moment des rassemblements similaires au Royaume-Uni, aux Pays-Bas et en Belgique…

Venez nombreux-ses !

SAMEDI 13 DÉCEMBRE 2014

UNIVERSITÉ PARIS-8 SAINT-DENIS
amphi D001
Métro : Saint-Denis Université (Ligne 13)

JOURNÉE INTERNATIONALE CONTRE L’ISLAMOPHOBIE

Paris, Amsterdam (dew.baboeram@amcon.nl), Londres (nadia@ihrc.org), Bruxelles (Info@pianfoabriek.be)

UNE BATAILLE POUR LES DROITS CIVIQUES !

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PARIS

SAMEDI 13 DÉCEMBRE 2014
Lieu : UNIVERSITÉ PARIS-8 SAINT-DENIS – Amphi D001
Métro : Saint-Denis Université (Ligne 13)

PROGRAMME

9H30 – 12H30
TABLE RONDE – L’ISLAMOPHOBIE DANS TOUS SES ÉTATS

13H45 – 16H15
ATELIERS THÉMATIQUES – SIX ATELIERS AU CHOIX

16H 30 – 17 H
RELEVÉ DE CONCLUSION DES ATELIERS

17H – 19H
TABLE RONDE – VAINCRE LE RACISME ET (RE)CONQUÉRIR NOS DROITS

19H – 20H
PERFORMANCE ARTISTIQUE – « MUSULMAN » ROMAN

Contact : islamophobie13dec2014@gmail.com
#JICI2014 Twitter : @JICI2014
Facebook : Journée internationale contre l’islamophobie
Télécharger le programme

Organisations et associations participantes : Participation et spiritualité musulmanes (PSM), Collectif Féministes pour l’égalité (CFPE), Mamans Toutes Égales (MTE), Association pour la reconnaissance des droits et libertés aux femmes musulmanes (ARDLFM), Collectif des musulmans de France (CMF), Commission Islam et laïcité, Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP), Mouvement du christianisme social, Front uni des immigrations et des quartiers populaires (FUIQP), Parti des indigènes de la République (PIR), Collectif enseignant pour l’abrogation de la loi du 15 mars 2004 (CEAL), Collectif antifasciste Paris-Banlieue (CAPAB), Union des organisations islamiques de France (UOIF), Institut de recherche et d’études sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient (iReMMO), Cedetim/Ipam, ATTAC France, Front thématique antiracismes du Front de gauche, Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA), Ensemble, Sortir du colonialisme, Fondation Frantz Fanon, Collectif Stop le contrôle au faciès, Studio Praxis, Femmes plurielles, AFD International, International Jewish Antizionist Network (IJAN), Tayush (Belgique), Bruxelles Panthères.

Médias : Saphirnews, Oumma.com, BeurFm, Politis, Mediapart, Radio Orient, Basta !, Radio France-Maghreb…

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March 13, 2013

We wanted to say a big thank you to all supporters for showing your presence at the demonstration outside Parliament on Monday. We know legal protection for victims and future victims of Caste-based discrimination is very important for you and we know that many of you took a day off work and spent money to get to London to stand in unity. Thank you.

The demonstration, the lobbying and briefings to the Lords made a real difference. Together with the powerful and memorable speeches made by
supportive Lords the Amendment Clause on Caste was voted in with a very sizable majority. You can read the debate from Hansard, from the
following link: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldhansrd/text/130304-0001.htm#13030411000732

You can even watch the debate on the inclusion of ‘caste’ from the following link (time 16.36 – 18.15):

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12656

Our campaign will now move onto the House of Commons where the Amendments agreed to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill will be
considered by the Commons. We will need to ensure that we all lobby our local MP to ensure they support the Amendment on Caste. We will be
happy to share our draft of the lobby letter with you shortly.

See below for a joint statement that was issued following the successful demonstration outside Parliament.

Finally, we have listed a range of news and media links that have reported on the debate in Parliament, and the outcome for Caste Equality here in the UK.

In Unity
Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance Team.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/mar/05/caste-discrimination-outlawed-lords

http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2013/03/nss-welcomes-vote-to-outlaw-caste-discrimination

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21659744

http://www.demotix.com/news/1844366/british-asians-rally-against-caste-based-discrimination-uk#media-1844210

http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=791591

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/03/05/peers-demand-ban-on-caste-discrimination

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/316710/house-lords-votes-outlaw-caste.html

http://iheu.org/story/uk-set-outlaw-caste-discrimination-after-pressure-secular-and-humanist-campaigners

http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2013/03/stamping-out-caste-system-0

http://blog.rubensteinpublishing.com/caste-case-collapses-2/

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Europe/UK-s-Upper-House-votes-to-ban-caste-discrimination/Article1-1021727.aspx

http://gulftoday.ae/portal/6e65a561-21f3-468c-a6d3-1b32e0495b76.aspx

http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/caste-discrimination-amongst-south-asians-requires-legal-recognition-in-the-uk/comment-page-1/

http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/3/5/outlaw-caste-discrimination-in-uk-peers-tell-government#

http://in.news.yahoo.com/uks-upper-house-votes-ban-caste-discrimination-183000028.html

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The House of Lords stands up for the victims of Caste Discrimination in the UK
March 5, 2013

We are delighted that powerful arguments by members of the Lords defeated the Government yesterday with a notable majority – Hansard:256 to 153. They have sent a strong and unequivocal message that discrimination on the grounds of Caste has no place in the UK.

Almost 400 community leaders, activists and campaigners from across the UK protested on Parliament Square to demand justice for Dalits, as the Debate on the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill began in the House of Lords. With one voice we called on the Government to do
the right thing by providing legal protection to victims of Caste-based discrimination in the UK.

We know the Government has acknowledged that Caste discrimination is a “complex and sensitive issue” and that “no-one should suffer prejudice
because of Caste”. But education without legislation will simply not work. Appointing consultancy firm Talk For A Change as a way forward
is nothing more than playing with loaded dice. Strengthening community relations is a different activity to providing a legal remedy for
discrimination that is already acknowledged and evidenced as existing in the UK. Any idea that this will work directly contradicts NIESR’s findings.

The Government must now do the right thing and accept the amendment on Caste to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill when it returns to the House of Commons.

Below is a list of the supporting organisations that endorsed the Joint Statement that was submitted to Government on the 28th November 2012

Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance (ACDA)
Anti Slavery International
Anti Land Grab and Forced Displacement of People
Asian Rationalist Society, Britain
Association for Community Cohesion (ACC)
Begumpura Foundation
BhagwanValmik Sabha Bedford
BhagwanValmik Sabha Birmingham
BhagwanValmik Sabha Coventry
BhagwanValmik Sabha London
BhagwanValmik Sabha Oxford
BhagwanValmik Sabha Southall
BhagwanValmik Temple Wolverhampton
British Asian Christian Council
British Pakistani Christian Association
British Organisation for People of Asian Origin
Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ)
Central Valmik Sabha UK
Coalition Against Caste Discrimination (CACD)
Dalit Solidarity Network UK (DSN UK)
Dalit Freedom Network UK
Dr. Ambedkar Mission Society, Bedford
Federation of Ambedkarite and Buddhist Organisations UK
Federation of Pakistani Christians (UK)
Indian Workers Association (GB)
Jagat Guru ValmikJiMaharaj
Indian Christian Concern
Indian Christian Association
Indian Overseas Congress UK
Kanshi Radio Ltd
Liberty
Northern Ireland Council For Ethnic Minorities (NICEM)
Odysseus Trust
Ravidassia Community Centre, Hitchin
Shri Guru Valmik Sabha International
Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha UK (SGRS-UK) and is the voice for all Shri
Guru Ravidass Temples in the UK:
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Coventry
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Strood, Medway
- Shri Guru Ravidass Temple (Foleshill, Coventry)
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Bedford
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Birmingham
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Bradford
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Darlaston
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Derby
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha, East Ham
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Glasgow
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Gravesend
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Erith Kent
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Leicester
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Luton
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Northampton
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Southall
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Southampton
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Strood
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Walsall
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Willenhall
- Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha Wolverhampton
Voice of Dalit International UK (VODI-UK)

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Arzu Merali in the Universal Justice Network – ABIM Workshop
Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia, May 2012

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