Scientists in Rebellion researchers in full civil disobedience

• From 2 p.m., activists who came to demonstrate to “ban private jets, tax big thieves and make the ultra-rich pay” in the face of the climate emergency occupied the tarmacs of several European airports, as well as the floor facing the Dassault company Aviation, in Paris.

• In Germany, three movements engaged in the fight against “climate failure” organized, from mid-October, meetings in Berlin and Munich.

• In two years of existence, the members of the Scientifiques en Rébellion movement have organized several actions, including one in the spring of 2022, at the Natural History Museum in Paris.

“Make them pay”*.

This is the name of the series of actions undertaken by several environmental movements, including two collectives bringing together French and foreign teacher-researchers:

and Scientifiques en Rébellion.

From 2 p.m., the tarmacs of Berlin airports in Germany, and those of Farnborough and Luton in England, were invaded by activists who came to demonstrate to "ban private jets, tax big thieves and make the ultra-rich pay" in the face of the climate emergency.

While in France, activists gathered outside the premises of Dassault Aviation for an action of civil disobedience, also demanding a ban on private jets.

+ France +

This morning we were in front of Dassault Avion in Paris.

Dassault Aviation proudly claims its credentials manufacturing military and business jets.

This must stop!#MakePollutersPay #BanPrivateJets https://t.co/HFp6oStDCt pic.twitter.com/dwqKRDm4r0

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Demonstrations which are part of the wake of recent weeks when, in the run-up to COP27 which opened on November 6 in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, a European coalition has been set up among scientists , all fields combined.

A European coalition against climate inaction

In Germany, three movements engaged in the fight against "climate failure" organized, from mid-October, meetings in Berlin and Munich:

** created only a few months ago,

*** engaged in the fight against inequalities and Scientists in Rebellion.

"We have decided to organize actions in points of great visibility to attract the attention of the media and symbolically ask governments to act", explains Pascal Vaillant, teacher-researcher in computer linguistics, member of Scientists in Rebellion and present in Germany.

Hands glued to the ground in the Porsche museum in Autostadt, or on a BMW in Munich.

With prison as an immediate response for sixteen scientists, including five French, placed in pre-trial detention.

For the first time in two years, researchers from around twenty different countries had coordinated to occupy symbolic places, according to them, of the worsening of global warming and ecological disasters, such as public buildings or large companies. private, more "visible, because there is an ear that is all the more attentive as the public has a higher level of awareness", assures Pascal Vaillant.

"The scientist enjoys a certain stature"

Since 2020, the "Scientific in Rebellion" movement has been working alongside environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, Alternatiba, Greenpeace, ANV-COP21 and

, to "raise consciences", denounce the inaction climate change and warn about the consequences of global warming.

“Fortunately, the scientist still benefits today from a certain stature which allows him to be more easily heard”, assures Milan Bouchet-Valat, teacher-researcher in sociology and co-founder of “Scientifiques en Rébellion”.

In two years of existence, the researchers, about ten of whom come from the Labo 1 point 5 collective, have organized several actions, including one in the spring of 2022, at the Paris Natural History Museum, "next to the skeletons of extinct species », points out Milan Bouchet-Valat.

Quite a symbol.

“When someone, who is an academic or a researcher, tells you that climate change is very real and that it is caused by human activities, they are not telling you that because they are paid by lobbies or because it's wacky”, insists Pascal Vaillant, teacher-researcher in computer linguistics and member of Scientists in Rebellion.

No “rebel” scientists in Sharm el-Sheikh

While COP27 is in full swing in Sharm el-Sheikh, the members of Scientists in Rebellion preferred to continue their actions in northern countries.

Because if some of them have accepted to face verbalizations, even prison in Germany, undertaking the same type of occupations in a country like Egypt would be much more risky.

Ahead of the opening of the international climate conference, the Egyptian authorities arrested several people who had called for demonstrations, and reinforced security measures by installing surveillance cameras in all taxis, d 'after the NGO

.

“There is an increase in actions of civil disobedience or perfectly legal demonstrations.

But we are not going to demonstrate in Egypt.

We have the greatest admiration for the colleagues who have started, but we are aware that it is a repressive regime, and that it is necessarily much more difficult, ”admits Pascal Vaillant.

(*) Make them pay

(**) The last generation

(***) Debt for the climate

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