After four months of refuge the Collective Right to Keep back in the street-s
In October 2010 opened a shelter at the Church St-Jacques to protect many people without actually threatened legal status for reference, but also and especially to attract the attention of the public and authorities on the unsustainability of the status of rejected applicant es-es of that township, deep-es for years in daily stress, misery and in constant fear of a return to a country where it / they have no or more links.
Today, due to our differences with the authorities of the Catholic and Protestant churches we close the last refuge in the Church of St. Esprit Lausanne.
We regret that the churches do not use their moral authority to denounce symbolic and living conditions made hundreds of people without status who want to live normally. On their backs and refusing to support their right to a dignified life, they deny their most fundamental values and aiding and abetting the discriminatory policies and detrimental to the lives of migrants.
During the four months of refuge, many political personalities or individual parishes, parishioners expressed their support for people under state aid emergency and our action.
Fort-es of this support, we are determined es to continue our struggle for regularization. We expect that federal and cantonal authorities are finally opening the doors to those who want to build a new life. Residence permits are the first step toward allowing people to live in peace. We denounce the absurdity of policies aimed at locking up asylum applicant es in non-places, excluding them from the company which cost huge amounts of money, whereas most these people could be autonomous.
Today we invite the representative es civil society to call the department Mr. Leuba regulation criteria broader and more connected with reality. This debate is obviously not to stop at the county level, but also be relayed in Bern.
democracy belongs to us ... let her live in our vision of opening! Let us not close our eyes and ask for more justice and equity!
Another Switzerland is possible and necessary, and our struggle continues!