[fse-esf] Fw: Fw: [NextGenderation] belgium: racism as collective responsibility

[NAAR fh]

Dear all

The email below was passed onto me and I thought it would be appropriate to circulate on the ESF list for those on the list from Belgium or with a connection to Belgium. I am not aware this having been circulated previously on the list.

Please circulate widely to for signatures to other networks and organisations as well.
The link at the end takes you directly to the Flemish version of the petition which is also available in French.

Best regards
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Milena Buyum
Co-ordinator
National Assembly Against Racism
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> dear all,
>
> i would like to send you this link to a petition - entitled "Racism is a
> collective responsibility" - some of us initiated after the instances of
> extreme (violent & killing) racism in belgium in the last weeks. 
> i want to do this for two reasons:
>
> 1/ to share with you an initiative that seeks to produce a countervoice
> against hegemonic racism in flanders and belgium. racism which accounts
> for how the violence and killing was and is continued to be framed as 
> the acts of a mad deluded  individual, while the structural character of
> racism is denied. (the text can be read in flemish and french on the site)
>
> 2/ and to ask your help in distributing the petition as widely as you 
> can. BUT, having said that, i think it only makes sense to actually sign
> the petition if one has some kind of connection with belgium. this
> should be understood in the most inclusive sense (living in belgium, 
> being from here, having lived here, having beloved ones here, liking the
> place, etc.), but i do think it is important to keep a focus in terms of
> the "voice" that speaks through the petition: those (for whatever 
> reason) concerned with and (in whatever capacity) involved in the
> construction of this place. in the petition we address "our" political
> parties, "our" media, etc., and i don't think a petition with a strongly 
> international character is the kind of constituency and political
> pressure we need (to build up) in this context. but i know there are
> quite some people with a link to belgium on this list - please read the 
> petition and sign if you agree - and i'm sure others have connections to
> such people - please circulate the link to the petition through your
> networks, if you consider it makes sense.
>
> here it is: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopracisme
>
> thanks,
> & take care,
> sarah
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Milena Buyum 
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