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Le Forum Social des Quartiers Populaires Fri, May 25 2007

CALL for the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES

Over the past 30 years, the French banlieues have been calling for justice. Concrete demands have been expressed through demonstrations, marches, days of action, public meetings, hunger strikes, and mass revolts. The response from governments of all political hues that have all come and gone, since the Ministry for Urban and Social Development was set up 15 years ago to address social exclusion and ghettoisation in housing estates, has been an array of initiatives with their fair share of acronyms and so-called miracle cures: ZEP (Education Support & Development in Targeted Zones), DSQ, ZUP, ZAC & ANRU (Urban Development Zones…)

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