In the previous Courant Alternatif, we announced a national anti-nuclear
initiative in Rouen to oppose the relaunch of both the civil andmilitary nuclear program. The mobilization was mixed: 800 to 1,000
demonstrators in Rouen, a hundred or so the next day on the beach in
front of the Penly nuclear power plant. This is not many, very few if we
compare it to the strength of the anti-nuclear movement in the past, but
not dishonorable if we consider the current state of the anti-nuclear
forces. The fact remains that there were no more people in Rouen, a
"national" demonstration, than in Caen (CA n° 340), a "regional"
demonstration.
How to break out of isolation?
The associative village was a success, both in terms of the number of
stands, their informative content, and the logistics (toilets, canteens,
etc.). But it was held on deserted quays (because of gloomy weather?).
Similarly, the demonstration was more of a stroll, as announced, on a
mostly completely deserted route (negotiations with the prefectures were
difficult). More significant on the state of mind of the anti-nuclear
movement, there was no signage to indicate how to get to the village, or
even that it existed. No leaflets were planned for the population. While
anti-nuclear activists are constantly asking themselves how to intervene
in the environmental movement, no link was made with the Lubrizol
disaster. However, local, grassroots struggles were present, from Bure
and La Hague to the Fessenheim technocentre. It should also be noted
that "Stop nuclear power" represented a more than significant part of
the mobilization.
It would seem that the anti-nuclear movement is contaminated by a fault
that is not specific to it: confusing addressing the population with
communication. The gathering in Penly was entirely designed "for the
photo". But also the village and the stroll were partially designed from
this point of view. This is forgetting that only numbers and the balance
of power can open the media to us, before the quality of the shows,
press releases and speeches. We will never win the population back to
our fight if we remain social media oriented, social networks that run
on algorithmic intimacy. There was also very little echo in the media.
How to rebuild when there are few of us?
Of course, the fewer of us there are, the more we try to compensate for
the weakness of the numbers with the power of symbols. And it is far
from stupid. But it is a good tactic provided we do not delude
ourselves: no symbol will ever stop the nuclear program, otherwise we
would have won a long time ago. The problem is when we spend more time
thinking about symbols and the form of communication than on the means
of mobilizing, or rather when we confuse the two.
The temptation is also great, and the anti-nuclear coordination has
succumbed to it, to take refuge in the shadow of the "big guys", the
political parties and the NGOs. Neither the LFI, nor the Greens, nor the
NPA have really mobilized their troops for this initiative. On the other
hand, to hold the microphone, they were there (well, the LFI and the
NPA, the Greens were apparently pushed aside). Let a party that has
strongly mobilized for an initiative speak, why not? But it is not by
obligingly handing them the microphone that we are going to force them
to mobilize. And as much as there are anti-nuclear activists in the
Greens, the NPA and the LFI, activists who fight so that their party
moves on the subject, we cannot say that these parties are investing in
the field. When we see that there was not a word on the subject in the
New Popular Front program, we can well imagine that the first subject
that some and others are ready to drop to access the delights of the
power's seats is this one.
Not to mention the NGOs for which we sometimes wonder if they have an
organ between their two ears. Greenepeance's slogan was "Nuclear, too
slow, too expensive, too dirty, too risky". Too slow, nuclear?? For
anti-nuclear people?? Of course, it was implied that it was too slow to
save the climate. And these imbeciles don't even see that, does it
suppose that nuclear could be a solution for the climate?
In summary, we can say that the results of this mobilization are rather
mixed. It is a mobilization in the image of the current antinuclear
coordination, with all its weaknesses, its ambiguities, but it must also
be recognized that it is the only attempt at mobilization on the scale
of a hexagonal revival of nuclear power, at a time when there are few
local struggles, especially concentrated either on waste (Bure, La
Hague), or on nuclear accessories (Fessenheim technocenter).
Sylvie
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4285
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