Statement of Solidarity from ARCI (Italy)
Human beings must be able to decide freely and independently the place where
they want to live. They should be able to choose if they prefer to live
where their roots are or in a place different from where they were born.
However, states, economic power and political structures, unrelated to the
daily life of men, women and children in the world, impose arbitrarily their
will upon people by means of force and violence.
For this, having already gotten the approval of the Peoples Movement
Assembly at the World Social Forum for Migrations in Quito, Ecuador 2010 for
a day of world mobilization on December 18, 2011, we are promoting the
assembly ‘Home is where I want to live’ to take place at the World Social
Forum in Dakar to discuss and approve a concrete plan to carry out this
international day of action.
For this, from Italy and from Dakar, ARCI stand in solidarity with you and
migrants hunger strikers in Greece!
Your struggle is our struggle.
For us, migrants coming from all country of the world and residing in all
country of the world, the time has come.
The time has come to abandon narrow outlooks, passivity, fear and egoistic
divisions.
The time for accepting everything, including charity and inhuman
exploitation, just to survive, is over.
Now it’s time for a global vision of our live, a worthy life that every
human being deserves.
It’s time for a global vision of the world: we know it better than anyone
else because our migratory paths cross it in every direction.
We know how to neaten a shack and how to clean up a hut, but we also know
how to manage intricate computing networks.
It’s time to learn and teach: what are our rights and our responsibilities,
how to make the first eventually respected, without exceptions; how to fully
take charge of the second.