Gillets Noir
Statement of Gillets Noir about the occupation of Pantheon: Rise up dead people!\n\nToday, we, migrants without papers,\nliving in migrant centers, inhabitants of the street,\nWe occupy the Pantheon\n\nWe are those without papers, without voices, without faces for the French republic. We come here, in the tomb of your great men, to denounce your desecrations. Your violations of the memories of our comrades, of our fathers and our mothers, of our brothers and our sisters in the Mediterranean, in the streets of Paris, in the migrant centers and in prisons. France perpetuates slavery in a different manner. Our fathers died for France. And those who have died are dead. The responsibility falls to the living, to the ones who are in power today. The dead shall rest in peace.\n\nThe day before yesterday we attacked the borders by occupying the Air France terminal of the Charles de Gaulle airport. It is there, where the French police is throwing us into airplanes towards Algiers, Dakar, Khartoum, Bamako or Kabul. It is there were Djiby, our comrade, was deported.\n\nYesterday, we invaded the offices of Elior at La D\xe9fense neighborhood and the General Labor Directorate. We went to tell the bosses who humiliate us and break our bones that fear is on their side now!\n\nToday, we continue to attack the State and its racism, in France and in Europe. We come to defend our dignity! We are not begging anyone anymore and we will get our rights with the force of struggle!\nWe came to tell you that the motto of France for foreigners is humiliation, exploitation, deportation. The France which conducts war over there, pillages our resources and decides for, and together with, our corrupted States. The France which makes war here.\n\nWe occupy, Because there are 200,000 empty housings in Paris, and our people are sleeping under the bridges of the ring road. Because the municipality fenced the streets of the Avenue Wilson camp at Saint Denis.\n\nBecause in the migrant center of Thiais, like in all the others too, the polices raided the inhabitants all the way till their rooms.\nTo demand the liberation of our Gilets Noirs comrades, imprisoned in detention centers, and freedom for everyone else too\n\nFor the abolition of these prisons for foreigners!\nWe do not only struggle for papers but also against the system that creates people without papers.\nWe will not pay anymore the cops or a receiving agent to obtain an appointment.\nWe do not want to negotiate anymore with the minister of interior and his prefectures.\nWe want to speak to the prime minister Edouard Philippe, now!\nWe will stay here until the last one of us gets their papers and for those who arrive in France later to have the liberty to stay!\nTo all those who revolt here, in Soudan or in Algeria,\nTo our comrades, to all those who fight against the exploiters,\nTo all those who believe that no human being is illegal,\nTo all those who have had enough with blocking the far-right all these 5 years,\nAnd who are persuaded that the struggle against the racism which is coming, is the combat against the racism which exists.\nPapers and housing for everyone!\nFreedom of movement and installation!\nLong live the struggle of Gilets Noirs!\nNor the streets nor prison, papers now!\nGilets Noirs en Lutte\n\nNasim Lomani