3rd edition
THE PEOPLE WANT 3.0 🌅Drawing new horizons 🌅
The internationalist meetings "Les Peuples Veulent" are back for their third edition! Activists from all over the world are expected in November in Montreuil to tell us about their experiences, share their ideas, analyses and hopes. During three days, round tables, movie screenings, concerts and of course tasty meals will be proposed in the magnificent space that is AERI. To allow us to meet, to dance and to think together. In the company of guests from India, Lebanon, the United States, Tunisia, Iran, France, Greece and Chile we will try to draw together emancipatory horizons that can cross borders and oceans.
This edition will unfold around three themes:
🌊 The Feminist International 🌊 The wave of feminist revolt keeps growing around the world. In the last few years, feminist struggles have continued to disrupt the established order and to imagine a more egalitarian future for all. While some demands are sometimes specific to local contexts, there are more than resonances between feminist struggles in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. These mobilizations and the circulation of tools, ideas and forms of action can be understood as a collective experience, both local and transnational. Thus, wouldn't the feminist international be a revolutionary hypothesis in its own right?
🌎 Internationalisms of yesterday and tomorrow 🌍 How to translate and put in resonance situations, experiences and uprisings in the four corners of the world? How to make dialogue between resistances whose contexts are very different but who share the same will for radical change? How to organize transnational mutual aid from exile and how to unite several fronts in the face of authoritarian and neo-liberal logics? There is a diversity of initiatives, in the past and the present, aiming to build and consolidate links between revolts in different countries. To strengthen and multiply them, what new internationalist strategies can we imagine for today and tomorrow?
🧭 The ways of change 🧭 Between discredited parties and leaderless popular uprisings, political hypotheses emerge to propose alternatives to both the current system and the political organizations of the past. Communalist hypothesis in the United States, new forms of organization in France or Lebanon, feminist coordinations in Chile or Sudan, affinity networks in many territories... so many ways of experimenting solidarity and to move forward on the paths of emancipation. What are the hypotheses in experimentation or to be elaborated in order to succeed in overturning authoritarian regimes, inegalitarian systems and reactionary structures?
❗ PROGRAM ❗
🌐 Friday, November 12 🌐 ▶ 6.30 PM 🎥 a selection of short films documenting past struggles and contemporary revolts from India to Chili ▶ 8 PM 🥣 Syrian dinner ▶ 9.30 PM 🪕 Concert
🌐 Saturday, November 13 🌐 ▶2.00 - 4.30 PM : Internationalisms of yesterday and tomorrow 🌍 with Longo Maï (Europe), Collectif98 (Iran), Alpha Kappa (Greece) Crimethinc. (USA) and Buzuruna Juzuruna (Lebanon) ▶5.30 - 8.00 PM : The ways of change 🧭 With Megaphone (Lebanon), Coordinadora Feminista 8M (Chile), Longo Maï (Europe), Alpha Kappa (Greece), MASA (India) and Crimethinc. (USA) ▶8 PM 🥣 Syrian dinner ▶9.30 PM 🎶 Dj set
🌐 Sunday, November 14 🌐 ▶12.00 PM 🥣 Syrian brunch ▶14.00 PM 🎥 screening of "Born in Flames”. By Lizzie Borden, 1h 30 mins, 1983. "In a future where the socialist government gains power, a group of women plan a revolt." We thank the Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press for making the screening possible. ▶ 4.00 - 6.30 PM : The Feminist International 🌊 With Coordinadora Feminista 8M (Chile), Roula Sougeir (Lebanon, Tunisia), Arya Thomas (India), Somayeh Rostampour (Kurdistan, Iran) - Syrian Feminist Society (Syria) by video. ▶7.00 PM : Closing drinks
🎧 Throughout the event, a radio set open to the public will allow us to discuss and present each of our guests in more detail (full program of interviews to come) 🎧
🎪 Creative space for children 🎪 We warmly thank : ▶ the AERI space ▶ the fondation Danielle Mitterrand ▶and Via le monde of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis within the framework of Appel à agir 2021 For their valuable support in the organization of this third edition of Les Peuples Veulent❗
At AERI, 57 rue Etienne Marcel Montreuil - Metro Croix de Chavaux