Saint-Nazaire hosts the second Assembly of Assemblies

France Nature Environnement Grand Est and local associations ask the Vosges prefect to stop or revise Nestlé’s water withdrawals around Vittel, citing pressure on local aquifers and the priority of...

Students and school pupils joined the first large global youth climate strike, with marches in Paris and many other French cities. The mobilization drew on school strikes inspired by Greta Thunberg...

The March of the Century brought climate organizations and Yellow Vest participants into a shared mobilization for social and environmental justice. In Paris, organizers connected the climate crisis...

After assaults on hospital staff and worsening working conditions, the emergency service at Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris began an open-ended strike. Other emergency departments joined, and...

Attac activist Geneviève Legay, a 73-year-old participant in a Yellow Vest gathering in Nice, was badly injured during a police charge. The incident led to conflicting public accounts, video...

Journalist and Taranis News founder Gaspard Glanz was arrested while covering the Yellow Vest demonstration in Paris. Prosecutors later imposed a restriction that barred him from Paris on Saturdays...

Groups of Yellow Vests, climate marchers and young climate activists organized the “Spring of Change” in Verdun. Reporterre described a small turnout and a convergence that had not yet taken broad...

Yellow Vest groups joined the traditional May Day demonstration in Paris alongside union contingents and other activists. Politis reported on the complex mix of participants and on the government’s...

Unions across the public sector organized coordinated strikes and demonstrations in Saint-Denis and Saint-Pierre. Témoignages reported more than 1,000 people in Saint-Denis and around 500 in...

Health workers from emergency departments across France marched in Paris to demand more staffing, improved working conditions and recognition of their work. The movement had spread beyond the capital,...