The SOS Racisme de la Côte-d’Or committee presents its action program for the month of March. The “Passport to Fraternity” exhibition will be displayed from March 23 to 29 at the Droit-Lettres University Library and at the Student House before being hung at the MJC Dijon Grésilles.
As part of the national week of fight and actions against racism and anti-Semitism which will take place from March 22 to March 29, 2021, the SOS racism committee of the Gold Coast presents its program of actions in a context pandemic linked to Covid-19. This week is in the wake of the international day against racism celebrated every year on March 21 since 1966.
As a reminder, at the origin of this day, the Sharpeville massacre on March 21, 1960.
This terrible event is taking place in South Africa, a country which denied the rights and freedoms of anyone who is not considered “white” under a system called “apartheid”. A pacifist demonstration is organized but turns badly when the police open fire without warning on the crowd. A total of 69 people were killed and more than 180 were injured, mostly by bullets in the back while trying to flee the violence.
Set up since 1984 by a collective of organizations including the education league, this week is sponsored by the Ministry of National Education, the Ministry of Housing and the City, and ACSE (National Agency for Social Cohesion and Equal Opportunities). Its objective is to make young people aware of the problems of racism, discrimination, intolerance and exclusion. In 2014, the interministerial delegation for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred, DILCRAH, placed under the authority of the Prime Minister, was tasked with stimulating public action. Thanks to calls for projects, it supports and accompanies structures and associations which have an educational offer in the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred.
Thus in 2016, SOS Racisme, Licra, Mrap, the League of Human Rights presented the films of the communication campaign of associations labeled “Great National Cause” against racism and anti-Semitism with the support of DILCRAH .
According to statistics from the Ministry of the Interior, racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim acts increased sharply in 2019: + 130% for racist and xenophobic acts, + 27% for antisemitic acts, + 54% for anti-Muslim acts. This is why it is necessary to increase public awareness, especially young people, of the dangers of racist ideology and the spread of hatred. SOS Racisme very committed to popular education, deploys prevention and awareness actions among 15,000 young people per year and organizes nearly 200 cultural and sporting events and citizen mobilizations to promote the values of the Republic.
The SOS Racisme 21 committee has chosen to honor Mrs. Latifa Ibn Ziaten, president of the IMAD association for youth and peace created in homage to her son Imad, a French paratrooper victim of a terrorist attack in 2012. She travels through colleges and high schools in France to promote the values of tolerance and fraternity among young people. In 2015, she won the prize for conflict prevention from the Jacques Chirac foundation and in February 2021, she received a prestigious international prize from the hands of Pope Francis in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Zayed prize for human fraternity during a virtual ceremony with in particular the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Gutierrez.
PROGRAMME :
– “Passport to Fraternity” exhibition from March 23 to 29 at the Droit-Lettres university library and at the Maison de l’Etudiant, 3 Esplanade Erasme 21000 Dijon. Inauguration on March 23 at 12 p.m.
– Establishment of a solidarity fund to fight against student insecurity from March 23 to April 30, 2021
– Exhibition “Passport for Fraternity” from March 31 to April 30 at the MJC des Grésilles 11 Rue Castelnau 21000 Dijon Inauguration on Wednesday March 31 at 3 p.m. – Intervention on the theme of fraternity and non-violence by Madame Ramatoulaye Diop, responsible mission at the headquarters of SOS Racisme in Paris, Head of the Salam, Shalom, Salut project
– Sensitization of final year students of the Eugène Guillaume de Montbard high school on the dangers of racist ideology with the module “Roll back discrimination” on March 28 Cine-debate around the documentary “Our turn”
– Actions at the Marcs d’Or and Saint-Joseph high schools in Dijon being finalized for the months of May and June 2021
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