“We do not dissolve an uprising”: in Nantes, demonstrators wanted Wednesday evening to send a message to Gérald Darmanin. About a thousand people, according to the organizers, 1,200 according to the prefecture, gathered in front of the prefecture in support of the Uprisings of the Earth, the dissolution of which was announced the same day in the Council of Ministers.
Several unions (CGT, FSU, Solidaires) participated in the rally. In Nantes, many activists, marked by the long fight against the airport project at Notre-Dame-Des-Landes which was finally abandoned, say they are particularly sensitive to this dissolution in the context of the current climate crisis.
New gatherings on June 28
“Whatever the name of this collective, we are the weed that will continue to grow for the common good”, warns Mathilde Peyrache, 39, secretary of the Sud Solidaires 44 union in Loire-Atlantique, who “fully assumes its mobilization by their side. “The Earth Uprisings are the only chance for our generation to get out of it,” said Esther Le Cordier, 19, an anthropology student and member of the movement. “We won’t be able to stop our anger because we can’t tell the young people that it’s going to be fine. This is scientifically false,” she adds.
The members of the Nantes support committee announce new gatherings in France on June 28 and call for action in “a thousand ways” in the period to come.
Several dozen rallies were also scheduled for Wednesday evening throughout France in support of the collective, accused of violence by the government. In Lille, around 200 people gathered in front of the prefecture. In Toulouse, between 200 and 300 people gathered. Among them, several members of the “La Voie est libre” collective, opposed to the construction of the motorway to link Castres to the Pink City, according to which, instead of “acting in the face of climate change, (…) the State prefers to break the thermometer”.