Social Movement Appreciation Project
In our rapidly destabilising world, it's clear that nothing will get better without large numbers of people working together. But social movements remain mysterious and under-studied creatures: the Social Movement Appreciation Project aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Social Movement Appreciation Project
The French anti-nuclear movement
You might be as surprised as me to learn the anti-nuclear fight is one of the biggest social movement scenes in France. I sat down with Pauline Boyer to learn about France’s current nuclear crossroads and its peculiar economic, cultural and geopolitical dimensions. We also consider nuclear as an ideology and Type of Guy, and discuss Pauline’s journey into activism through Alternatiba, a 2010s movement which created joyful, utopian spaces before it was cool.
End music from a spontaneous performance at Les Résistantes by what I think was La Criée, a feminist choir Montreuil in Paris. This song is ‘La Danse des Bombes’. It’s about the fighting for the Paris Commune in 1871
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