Women Yellow Vests organize their first separate march

Yellow Vest participants in Commercy published a call rejecting self-appointed leaders and asking local groups to coordinate through assemblies. A wooden cabin on the town square became a meeting...

Yellow Vest demonstrations continued after the government suspended the planned fuel-tax increase. The agenda had widened to purchasing power, public services, political representation and the...

Bondy Blog interviewed young residents of Paris-area working-class neighborhoods who supported some Yellow Vest demands but did not join the marches. They described fear of being stigmatized as...

Four environmental organizations launched a legal campaign arguing that the French state had failed to meet its climate obligations. A public petition helped make the case visible beyond courts and...

During the Act VIII demonstrations, video evidence published by Mediapart challenged the account of an officer’s conduct toward protesters in Toulon. Coverage of the incident raised questions about...

The petition associated with L’Affaire du Siècle passed two million signatures, a major milestone in a campaign seeking legal accountability for inadequate climate action. Organizers used the petition...

At a large Act IX gathering in Bourges, participants used grievance notebooks to record demands ranging from higher wages and a better distribution of work to lower fuel costs and stronger local...

Delegations from roughly 75 local Yellow Vest groups met in Commercy for the first “Assembly of Assemblies.” Participants debated shared principles, political demands and how to coordinate without...

The CGT’s national mobilization brought Yellow Vest demonstrators into the same streets as union members, students, teachers and postal workers. The day tested whether a Saturday-based,...

Bondy Blog published an interview with political scientist Julien Talpin on the barriers to civic participation in working-class neighborhoods. The discussion challenged the idea that low visible...