No Borders and Detainee Support are supporting a night of debate and movies at 8.00 PM at RampART , 15 Rampart Street, E1 2LA on Thursday 12th July.

Last monthin the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES took place in St.Denis, Paris. The event was attended by lots of different local grassroot movements, including Ahmad Rahman from of the Black Panthers of Detroit and Cilius Victor, member of a Police watchdog in London against racial abuse.

Films will include:

- Douce France - La saga du mouvement 'Beru' (Mogniss H. Abdallah, 1993)
- Britain's Black Legacy
- Germany, the Other Story
-Le Syndrôme de Hoyerswerda" (Reynald Bertrand , 2002) - The story of the Movement of Immigration and the Banlieus, including the riots in the suburbs between 2001 & 2002.

CALL for the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES, 22nd to 24th June, 2007, Paris

Our estates have become an easy target for media-hungry politicians and their sound-bite slurs: the 'lost territories of the Republic' are 'no-go areas' populated by 'irresponsible parents' and people drifting into 'Mafia-like' or 'radical Islamic' activities. The most stigmatised are the youth. They have become scapegoats for society's ills. It costs little to mouth civic values while violently exposing the 'scum' and the 'savages' to public condemnation.The suburbs have been made into a special law and order issue, in the hands of the police and courts. And yet in all the revolts we have seen, from the Minguettes (1981) to Vaulx-en-Velin (1990), from Mantes-la-Jolie (1991) to Sartrouville (1991), from Dammarie-les-Lys (1997) to Toulouse (1998), from Lille (2000) to Clichy sous Bois (2005), the message has been clear:

We've had enough of unpunished police murders and brutality, of police checks based merely on skin colour, enough of 'sink' schools, of unsanitary housing, of systematic unemployment and underemployment, enough of prisons, of humiliation and oppression! We have become almost immune to the silence of millions of men and women suffering daily from acts of social violence, much more devastating than a burning car. It is our right to revolt against the social order.