Political figures, artists, scientists, intellectuals and trade unionists took part on Wednesday April 12 in an evening of support for the collective Les Uprisings of the earth, co-organizer at the end of March of a prohibited demonstration against water reservoirs and under the blow of dissolution proceedings.
"
The will of the state was to suffocate us, and it is exactly the opposite that is happening
," welcomed AFP Benoît Feuillu, one of the spokespersons for the collective, during the party organized by the media Reporterre, Blast, Socialter and Terrestres in the performance hall of the Gare des Mines in Paris.
In a festive atmosphere, some forty personalities took the floor to express the reasons for their support and their adherence to the movement, the day before the decision expected in the Council of Ministers to dissolve the movement, accused by the Minister of Interior Gérald Darmanin to be at the origin of the "
violent actions
" which occurred on March 25 in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) during the demonstration against the water reservoirs.
“
The year 2022 in France was sadly emblematic of the worsening consequences of climate change
,” said paleoclimatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte, co-chair of one of the working groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. UN Climate Change (IPCC).
“
What is the most serious threat?
Is it the continuation of unsustainable trends (...)?
Or is it this contestation that disturbs in the face of inertia, in the face of the inadequacy of institutional and political responses?
she wondered.
Julien le Guet, spokesperson for the Bassines Non Merci collective, considers that "
the attacks on fundamental freedoms
" have prompted many people to join their cause, in France and abroad.
This mobilization "
is clearly a response to state violence
", believes Benoît Feuillu, but it is also explained by the "
need to maintain a field of political hope on ecological issues
".
Last October, during a first demonstration against the “
mega basins
” in Sainte-Soline, Gérald Darmanin had castigated “
ecoterrorism
” of the perpetrators of violence.
