[1] The eldest of a family of merchants, Saïd Bouziri moved to France in 1966 as part of his studies.
[2] He joined a Maoist group for a while but quickly became convinced that immigrants should retain their political sovereignty and therefore found their own structures.
This is what pushed him, in the context of the Six Day War of 1967 and May 68 to participate in the founding of the Palestine Committee which will become the Arab Workers' Movement [fr] in 1973.
Together with Driss el-Yazami, he created the Génériques [fr] association with for the purpose of preserving the history of immigration.
He was also the national treasurer of Human Rights League (France) -LDH, for founding a structure in order to allow foreigners to vote in local elections.