WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #338 - Politics, Feedback on experience: "Village Pré de Cordy", a blockade in a rural area (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 For more than five weeks in the city of Sarlat, a blockade was organized in the

Lycée Pré de Cordy. It was an opportunity for students, teachers but also local
residents to collectively experience a form of horizontal and inclusive struggle.
Back on this rich experience. ---- On March 7, the Lycée Pré de Cordy entered
into an episode of unprecedented strike and blockade. Launched by film students,
a blockade was put in place on the first day of the call for the renewal of the
inter-union. Some teachers and staff of the establishment decide to join the
strike and help the students to organize and maintain their blockade.
The blockade holds. It holds so much that it is transformed into a real living
space: space dedicated to relaxation with armchairs and sofas, dry toilets,
kitchen, bicycle parking... The atmosphere is cheerful, especially on sunny days,
during which the student musicians indulged in small improvised concerts, others
set up a badminton court in the parking lot, played a game of football, molky or
petanque with several teachers and others establishment personnel present on the
picket line.

A blockage that has become a place of life
The blockade is a place of meeting, exchange and debate that is held together by
the direct solidarity of local residents and businesses, in particular donations
of food or even furniture by a major French equipment manufacturer. The CGT
Éduc'action 24 provided financial and moral support to the students permanently
present on the blockade. The blockade therefore takes the nickname of "Village
Pré de Cordy".

Regular speeches, meetings between students and unions are organized, in
particular around the solidarity meals offered by the CGT, which allow
intergenerational exchanges. The atmosphere is festive and we stick with it, as
the students say on the microphones of local newspapers and radio stations such
as France Bleu Périgord or Sud Ouest. A comrade from the CGT, actively involved
in the blockade, testifies to the effervescence of this self-management
experience despite the reflections and the pressure exerted on them by
non-striking personnel.

Unparalleled mobilization
On Thursday March 23 the mobilization is stronger than ever, in the morning, a
sit-in is set up by the students to block the entrance to the school complex, ¬in
the afternoon, the procession of the demonstration leaves from Village Pré de
Cordy. Speeches are made by students and union members before the departure of
the procession, on the facilities of the blockade provided for this purpose.
About 2,200 people marched that day against Macron's pension reform and
authoritarianism.

Although the Lycée is used to blockades, this is the first time that it has
lasted so long, that solidarity is so strong there. It is rare to see such a
mobilization in rural areas and this shows us that the current struggle is much
greater than expected by our rulers and that by not giving up, by continuing to
blockade, to strike, to demonstrate, to fight , we will win against this
bourgeois State which leads us straight to death at work for the greatest
pleasure of the capitalists.

Alex (UCL activist) and Mylène (CGT 24)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Retour-sur-experience-Village-Pre-de-Cordy-un-blocus-en-zone-rurale
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