Nuit Debout, paris, france, occupy

France -Since massive mobilizations swept the nation on March 31st against proposed Labor legislation, thousands of people have held nightly occupy style public assemblies coined ‘Nuit Debout’ or Night Stand to further a movement that has grown into a full-on rejection of the current systems of governance.


 

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The Nuit Debout public assemblies released the following statement.   (List of demo’s scheduled for Saturday below)

Our mobilization was initially aimed at protesting against the French Labour Law. This reform is not an isolated case, since it comes as a new piece in the austerity measures which already affected our European neighbors and which will have the same effects as the Italian Job Acts or the Reforma Laboral in Spain. This concretely means more layoffs, more precarity, growing inequalities and the shaping of private interests. We refuse to suffer this shock strategy, notably imposed in the context of an authoritarian state of emergency.

The debates taking place in the assemblies on Republic square prove that the general exasperation goes way beyond the Labour Law and opens a more global issue: the reconsideration of a social and political system stuck into a deep crisis and on its way out. We will not be the ones crying because of its end.

This movement was not born and will not die in Paris. From the Arab Spring to the 15M Movement, from Tahrir Square to Gezi park, Republic square and the plenty of other places occupied tonight in France are depicting the same angers, the same hopes and the same conviction: the need for a new society, where Democracy, Dignity and Liberty would not be hollow shells.

Supporting testimonies received from abroad warm us and strengthen our commitment. This movement is yours too. It has no limit, no border and it belongs to all of those who wish to be part of it. We are thousands, but we can be millions. Together, standing, awake. Let’s rise up together.

Current scheduled Nuit Debout solidarity demonstrations – click for event pages

Germany
Berlin
Belgium
Cork
Spain
Barcelona
Madrid
Murcia
Salamaca
Tarragona
Zaragoza
France
Aix-En-Provence
Amiens
Anger
Annecy
Avignon
Besançon
Bordeaux
Bourges
Calais
Champ-flowered
Châteauroux
Clermont-ferrand
Dijon
Fort De France
Grenoble
Le Havre
Laval
Lille
Sacked
Lorient
Lyon
Marseille
Montpellier
Nancy
Nîmes
Pau
Rennes
Rouen
Toulon
Toulouse
Towers
Valencia
Villefranche de rouergue
Portugal
Lisboa

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