Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 19:00:51
Subject: M-NEWS: BOYCOTT AIR FRANCE/UPDATE


UPDATE ! UPDATE ! 
30 MARCH 1997
 INTERNATIONAL SIGNATURES !
New signatures from   FRANCE !
 THE 'SANS - PAPIERS' OF FRANCE NEED YOUR SUPPORT - send your signature
to  : pajol-AT-bok.net... and send your protest to your local AIR FRANCE agency !
Thank you.



FIGHT THE CHARTER FLIGHTS OF SHAME. BOYCOTT AIR FRANCE.

We, as film-makers, writers, artists, intellectuals, lawyers and
citizens who have occasion to travel by plane for professional or
personal reasons, declare our indignation at seeing the French airline
company Air France allowing itself to become the privileged instrument
of State xenophobia, by forcibly embarking undocumented foreigners
("sans-papiers") on its air liners or specially chartered planes bound
for Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Numerous eye-witness accounts from the deportees and from other
passengers and airline staff testify to the scandalous conditions under
which these deportations take place; these men are gagged, drugged,
chained, insulted and beaten with truncheons. Families are separated,
despite explicit promises to the contrary made by French government
ministers, and the sick are sent to a certain death from lack of care.

These practices are contrary to the most fundamental human rights and
serve no useful purpose other than to reinforce the xenophobic delusions
that are spreading through our country. These practices have continued
despite the protests of the trade unions represented at Air France.

For these reasons, and on the strength of the powerful moral impetus
generated by the appeal to disobey the Debre laws on immigration, we
appeal to users to BOYCOTT AIR FRANCE AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES (Air Charter,
Go Voyages, Jumbo) until these practices are stopped.

We also appeal to airport ground-staff and flight personnel to refuse to
collaborate in these forced embarkments and in the take-off of these
charter flights of shame.

Please send your signatures to:
Brigitte Largueze/Frederic Goldbronn
Fax:   ++ 331 48 06 58 67
E-mail : pajol-AT-bok.net

NEW ! NEW !
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT :
Andrea Domenici,
via Antonio Pesenti, 27, Italy
Bill Ferns
Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems, Dept. of
Statistics/Computer Information Systems, Box E-0435 Baruch College, City
University of New York
Boudewijn F. Roukema, Japon
Bridget
Fowler,. 251, Garrioch Rd., Glasgow G20 8QZ, GB
 Bridget
Cathy Picone
Adelaide, Australia
 Cecena Martorella Ana Esther, editor/ Chiapas review, Mexico
 Alex Falconer, Member of the European Parliament for Mid Scotland and
Fife
Jane Winston, Australia
 Jim W. Jaszewski. Hamilton, ON, Canada
John O.
co-ordinator, National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns, (NCADC)
England
Julian Samuel, author and film-maker, Canada
 naporso-AT-freenet.hut.fi (Marco Ciarlariello)
Prof. Michael Kelly
School of Modern Languages
University of Southampton, U.K.
Stephen A. Drury
(Association of University Teachers, UK)
Paul Sheridan
Brooklyn, NY
Thomas Lahusen, Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and
Program in Literature
Duke University
Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259, USA
 Janet Gale,  Melbourne, Victoria 3079, Australie.

support from France  :

UPDATE :
Yves Deschamps, Informaticien =E0 l'Université de Lille I
Thomas Giry
allocataire de recherches
departement de mathematiques de l'Ecole normale superieure
Sebastien Tranchart (Etudiant)
Laboratoire de spectroscopie Hertzienne
Villeneuve d'Ascq (59)
Samuel Johsua
Universite de Provence
Sciences de l'education
Richard Pinhas,
Compositeur.
 Sylvie Paycha,
mathematicienne
Francois Basset, Scientifique, Ingénieur Chimiste et génie Chimiste
Brigitte Rozoy (Enseignant chercheur)
Aurelie LEFEBVRE

as of 10 March 1997 :
Romain Goupil
Gilles Perrault
Maurice Rajfus
Pierre Bourdieu
and...