France: opening of the second Summer University of Social Movements
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Fatou Dieng, Vies volées et Mutilé.es for example, in Nantes on the occasion of the University of Social Movements and Solidarity 2021. © Twitter / @UEsolidaire
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The second edition of the Summer University of Social Movements and Solidarity is being held this week in Nantes, in western France, from August 24 to 28.
Representatives of 500 national and local organizations including Attac, Solidaires and Greenpeace are expected.
But also delegations from abroad.
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With our special evoyée in Nantes,
Anne Verdaguer
Chilean activist of the Mapuche movement, Collectif requisitions of the Right to Housing association (DAL), Adama collective ... repressive policies accentuated by the health crisis.
Annick Coupé, general secretary of Attac France:
For us, the issue is the citizen debate, I would say the political debate in the citizen sense of the term. And that seems all the more important to us that we have returned, or are going to return, in an important electoral year in France, with the presidential election and the legislative elections next year. We can see that it is a bit of an election of all dangers, in the sense that there is still a very significant risk that certain political forces will try to focus the debate on questions, for example, of immigration. So, for us, the challenge is also to carry other themes that seem fundamental to us.
And to reappropriate this word, the local solidarity networks wish to decompartmentalize the struggles and merge the debates.
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We realize that with this neoliberal globalization which is drifting away, we cannot tackle the struggles and the changes, the defense of rights and social justice, or a more sustainable world, without sharing, exchanging, learning the from each other,
”explains Catherine Godard, from CRID, the collective of international and citizen solidarity organizations.
To enrich oneself with one's differences in a world where crises are increasingly globalized and where withdrawal into oneself dominates.
Angélique Lambert, resident of the ZAD NDDL 👉 "A territory accustomed to struggle, and all these struggles have resulted in this historic victory, this abandonment of the designated public utility project" pic.twitter.com/tZND95Ny1J
- Summer University 2021 (@UEsolidaire) August 24, 2021
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