- Next Friday, caregivers will demonstrate to appeal again to the government to save the hospital.
- For almost a year, these nurses, nursing assistants, doctors have been crying out in dismay by all means.
- And even by the song, since many emergency services, psychiatry, maternity, diverted popular songs to sing their anger.
"If we are not heard to speak, maybe we will be listened to sing?" "Hopes Aurore, a nurse in Saint-Nazaire (Brittany). After a nightmare night in overflowing emergencies, Aurore takes a coffee and her pen and writes the words of Balance your blouse .
Does that mean anything to you? You may have discovered this clip on social networks which denounces the deplorable working conditions of caregivers ... and you will recognize the air of Libra your what of Angela. Since March 2019, some emergency paramedics have been on strike to demand more resources. The movement spread throughout the public hospital. Despite the three plans unveiled by Agnès Buzyn, these caregivers will shout their love for the hospital and their rage to defend their profession during a new demonstration in Paris on Friday February 14. On the Web, this unprecedented challenge in many respects takes on the air of songs: There's anger in the catheter in Valence, the Inter-Emergency group launches its Balance your plan in Buzyn, in Saint-Malo, we wish us All the health of the world on Sinsemilia, "if you no longer want to hang around, come to the emergency room to demonstrate" tell us the caregivers in Brest and many others ...
Write a song rather than shout "not happy!" "
When the fires of protest begin to light in mid-March 2019, an idea germinates in the emergency room of Valence. “When we decided to go on strike, a colleague suggested that we write a song rather than shouting“ not happy! ”Says Mélanie, the nurse behind the clip. She told me about A souvenirs , Trois Cafés gourmands, easy and festive. We brainstormed for 72 hours with colleagues where everyone could drop a note. »Mélanie putting everything into rhyme. "For us it was a bit of a game. In 48 hours, there are 500,000 views, we didn't believe it ..."
This solid box marked the movement, between the repercussions in the press, the song which invites itself in the processions and the long list, since, of other diversions of clips. In Saint-Nazaire, Aurore decides to write the words of Balance your blouse in the summer: “We had been on strike since March and we didn't have the impression that nothing was moving. The best way to make yourself heard is to add words to the picture, so we recorded a clip in the hospital. "The clips from Valence and Toulouse marked us, we thought it was the right way to spend time together in a good mood and to get the message out by another means than the demo", says Tanguy, behind the hijacking of Matmatah in Brest.
According to Mélanie, these “alarm songs” complement each other. "In Toulouse, it speaks more of the shift in ambulatory care, in Saint Malo in a direction that is deaf to the requests of the paramedics, we are more global." Since then, the phenomenon has snowballed: certain maternities (in Creil for example ), psychiatric services (Psychiatry in distress diverts Dommage from Big Flo and Oli) take up the torch.
Why this "fashion"?
"We don't have song lessons during our studies!" "Laughs Mélanie. But in the age of social media, sharing a powerful three-minute video, which says everything in a few rhythms and which can be shared millions of times, is a clearly useful tool for being heard. For Frédéric Valletoux, president of the French Hospital Federation (FHF), these very shared videos "show the attachment of the French to their health system".
Is this a specificity of this movement? "As much as the songs invented during social struggles have always existed ( La Marseillaise , the International ...), the diversions of popular songs, it does not happen often", admits Ivan Sainsaulieu, sociologist and author of Where is passed justice Social? * If some lawyers have pushed the Libra your dress , the multiplicity and inventiveness side diversions of clips in this movement of caregivers is remarkable.
A way to talk about a movement that is struggling to catch the light. This strike, which has lasted for almost a year, does little to "disturb" politicians, because nurses, nursing assistants, doctors on strike, on assignment, continue to treat patients. "We put banners everywhere, T-shirts" on strike ", we sign petitions, but we block anyone, recognizes Aurore. And our demonstrations are very peaceful. Another track, more sociological. "It makes sense for a young movement to use the tools of this generation," explains the sociologist. I think that the fact that there are many caregivers can explain this search for pictorial forms, aesthetics and sensitivity. "
Even if our interlocutors assure that they did not have instructions, these original initiatives could be encouraged by the collective Inter-Emergencies, which pilots this spontaneous mobilization, coming from the base and outside the trade union apparatuses. The imagination more, the network less, therefore.
For Mélanie, another explanation for this accumulation is in humor, the necessary hindsight of these care professionals. “We are confronted with sick people all day. It is in our interest to be able to laugh at everything to keep moving forward. The song relaxes, it makes you dance, it feels good… ”
What efficiency?
These quirky, shared clips, do they really move the lines? "When there is something symbolic, you always have to ask yourself is it a last resort?" Warns the sociologist. Since they cannot leave their post, they find other ways of expressing themselves but which do not necessarily have the same weight. Tanguy, a nurse in Brest, does not put an excessive hope in these clips. “It's nice, but it doesn't get things done. There was an echo in the public, but not at the level of our management or the government. "
“Europe 1 made Agnès Buzyn listen to our song, it was a highlight for us, our little bottle in the sea reached her ears, Aurore nuance. We have all sent letters to our elected representatives, to the press. We remember more a message in song than a speech. My children still hum the words of Balance your blouse today ! "As each day since the end of January, new doctors resign from their administrative functions, this slogan will resonate again in the procession next Friday.
* Where has social justice gone?, Septentrion, December 2019, 33 euros.
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