Dominique Sopo has been the President of SOS Racisme since 2003. SOS-Racisme is the preeminent racial justice organization in France founded in 1984 as a result of the race riots that engulfed the country in 1983. SOS-Racisme recently-released Manifesto for Equality: 60 Propositions for Change, policy proposals to address the root causes of racial strife that erupted again in 2005 in the heavily-immigrant suburbs where people of color are concentrated in France. Previously, Dominique was the leader of France’s best-known student movement. www.sos-racisme.org
