Program description

Here are the program-descriptions for the conferences, round tables, workshops, screenings and shows.

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SATURDAY 26 AUGUST

14:30 (Saulx)

[Assembly] Self-managed anti-nuclear assembly

14:30 (Ornain)

[Practical workshop] Seed production

18:00 (Orge)

[Show] De la sexualité des orchidées, by Sophia Teillet (1H20) in French: A lecture-show in which Sofia Teillet, an actress disguised as a lecturer, discusses orchid reproduction: how pollen passes from the male to the female sex. A whole host of questions can be asked by observing living things. And when it comes down to it, the only thing that science knows for sure is that everything is born of an accident.

21:00 (Stage)

[Concerts] Foudre rockeur / Habits sales / Claude wave / Logistique & Ludique (DJ Set)

SUNDAY 27 AUGUST

10:00 (Saulx)

[Assembly] Opening plenary of the camp and presentation of the collectives

10:00 (Orge)

[Self-managed discussion] Exchanges and discussions about peasant seeds

All day (Meuse)

[Seed exchange] – all day: We invite all participants to bring seeds produced in their own areas. The aim is not only to exchange seeds (gardening and field crops) but also to share ideas on catalogues, reproduction techniques, seed autonomy, marketing, new GMOs, genetic erosion and the future of farmers’ seeds over a drink (or two) throughout the weekend. With an introductory workshop on seed (re-)production on Saturday, a presentation by the Buzuruna Juzuruna farm (Lebanon), and representatives from L’Or des Graines and the Faucheureuses Volontaires d’OGM (Voluntary GMO Reapers) among others, there will be plenty to discuss throughout the weekend. In short, bring your seeds.

14:30 (Saulx)

[Assembly] Presentation of local anti-nuclear struggles

15:30 (near the Ornain tent)

[Concert/Show] Dans les bois (short version) Tartine Reverdy invites a family audience to follow her into the woods, where she will meet the Bishnois, farmers from northern India who are extremely respectful of all living things. With her accordion slung over her shoulder, she’ll be on hand this Sunday for half an hour of songs full of oxygen, resistance, nature and childhood.

17:00 (Saulx)

[Debate] Can we win the fight against the nuclear industry? Malville, Gorleben, Lemoiz, Plogoff, Wackersdorf… After these historic battles, plans for power stations, reprocessing centres or waste burial sites have been abandoned thanks to our struggles. However, the problem remains a major one, and the price paid for this commitment is often very high. We have invited some of the protagonists of these historic struggles to share their experiences and discuss the past, which is often seen as victorious, but also as despairing in view of the scale of the atomic evil.

17:00 (Ornain)

[Show] Immondices (40 min) in French, almost without words: In a collision, a confused cyclist has merged with a fox. This macabre encounter will give her a burst of wild life. Two actresses dance through the relationship between animality and humanity, combining masked play and hand-held puppetry. “Immondices” explores the boundaries between dreams and death, and attempts to reveal our forgotten links with the living.

18:00 (Orge)

[Fire of emotions : Palm Park Ruins, Pamina de Coulon (70 min) in French: Where it’s a question of the garden as well as the house Where it’s a question of living, in the rich and thick sense of the term Where it’s a question of artisanal violence in the face of industrial violence Where it’s a question of private property as well as that great historical joke Where it’s a question of barbed wire as a perversion of brambles and creepers Where it’s a question of environmental and living management infrastructures Where it’s a question of toxic plants and potatoes, moles, slugs, snakes Where it’s about the grrrrand mélange, the interweaving and the fire that is both cuisine and apocalypse Where it’s about howling in a circle, holding hands Where it’s about starting the world over again, at last

21:00 (Orge)

[Film] Tu Nourriras le Monde, Paroles de paysans (2h30 min) in French: What’s holding up the agro-ecological transition? To answer this question, two young agronomists went to meet the cereal farmers of Champagne Crayeuse to trace the history of this region, which has become one of the bastions of productivist agriculture. Behind this particular story lies that of the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU. The film (1h30) will be followed by a debate with one of the directors (1h).

MONDAY 28 AUGUST

8:30 (Saulx)

[Assembly] Camp life plenary: assembly to discuss the organisation and smooth running of our self-managed camp.

10:00 (Saulx)

[Conference] Peasant struggles in history: To get things off to a good start, S. Pérez-Vitoria will trace the history of peasant struggles here and elsewhere. All too often marginalised, the role of peasant farmers in revolutions and liberation movements has been fundamental. Far from the corporatism that is attributed to them, peasants are still today the bearers of a vision that transforms the world (S. Pérez-Vitoria).

10:00 (Orge)

[Workshop/Discussion] Land is politics! Presentation of land issues with a focus on Germany. Who owns the land? Who has access to it? What can be done about it, and what solutions have already worked? After an introduction, a discussion will take place between the various people from the different regions and countries represented. (jAbl)

10:00 (Ornain)

[Round table] Farmers’ struggles and tactical diversity: cross-country experiences from Belgium, France and Switzerland: What tactical possibilities and means are available to maintain a balance of power and wage the vital struggles to preserve land? From repossessing land, to dismantling infrastructure, to setting up organised and combative local collectives and alliances with institutional organisations, what political resources do we need today to amplify the role of peasant struggles in our territories? (Réseau Soutien Agriculture Paysanne, Fabriek Paysanne, Grondements des Terres, Uniterre, Camarades français).

10:00 (Meuse)

[Conference – Discussion]: Exchange of practices on collective rearing: presentation of the operating method put in place by the team of goatherds in the Grangeneuve cooperative (Longo Maï), followed by discussions on the advantages of this model for promoting the well-being of both animals and farmers. (Longo Maï; the table is open to other speakers!)

10:00 (Barnum 1)

[Workshop] Subverting the sexual division of agricultural labour through technology / In chosen mixity groups without cis heterosexual men / Registration required: Understand the evolution of the sexual division of agricultural labour and how “technology” helps to stabilise it in order to explore the possibilities of individual and collective subversion. Alternating moments of exchange in small or large groups and moments of transmission of research by Agathe Demathieu from Atelier Paysan.

10:00 (Barnum 2)

[Workshop] Discovering mediation with NVC / Registration required: When people are unable to overcome relational difficulties using the usual means at their disposal, the intervention of a neutral third party is an alternative way of breaking the deadlock and rediscovering a collective dynamic. What is mediation with NVC? How does it work? Who does it work for? To achieve what? (Group of mediators “Les capybaras”)

14:30 (Saulx)

[Conference] Reprendre la terre aux machines et Sécurité Sociale de l’Alimentation”: Presentation of the manifesto “Reprendre la terre aux machines” co-written by members of Atelier Paysan and discussion with the audience (Atelier Paysan, SSA).

14:30 (Orge)

[Conference] Veggie-gardening on living soil: Presentation of “living soil gardening” and the Grand Est network, whose main objective is to develop the implementation of cultivation practices that respect the soil and living beings in general, including the market gardener (Maraichage Sol Vivant Grand Est).

14:30 (Orge)

[Round Table] Self-managed aprenticeship in vegetable-gardening. Comparison between Switzerland, Germany and France: Presentation of different self-managed training courses in gardening and sharing of experiences. What are the issues? How does it work? What are the difficulties? (FAME, d.i.y. Solawi-Ausbildung, Champs et fourches libres)

14:30 (Meuse)

[Workshop] Peasantry and trade unionism (1) How can workers support the development of an agriculture that is both respectful of the Earth and living beings and emancipating for peasants? How can local farmers contribute to facilitating workers’ access to healthy food produced according to these criteria? Can trade unions be used to facilitate these mutual aid relationships (Sud-Solidaires)?

14:30 (Barnum 1)

[Workshop] Discovering restorative circles (1) Co-constructing a response to conflict: This involves questioning the response to conflict in our collectives, and learning how to co-construct a restorative system. (Group of mediators “Les capybaras”)

14:30 (JP’s farm)

[Mechanics workshop] Introduction to the maintenance of tractors and/or agricultural equipment/ In mixed groups chosen by people who need these skills on a daily basis. No hetero-Cis-Men / On registration: Familiarise yourself with the operation of a tractor and routine maintenance operations and observe and maintain other hitched implements such as haymaking equipment. Observation and maintenance of a tractor in a small group. (greasing, oil changes, levels, tyre pressures, etc.). Practice identifying the various engine, transmission, electrical and hydraulic components. Exchange of experience. Various subjects can be developed according to the needs of the participants. (Evolène and Julia)

17:00 (Saulx)

[Conference]: Digital, robotics, genetics: a discussion on digital agriculture. Agricultural machinery has already had far-reaching consequences: peasant ethnocide, systemic debt and land grabbing, massive loss of biodiversity, water stress and soil erosion. The “third agricultural revolution” embodied by the triptych “digital, robotics, genetics” promises to produce more to feed the planet while preserving it. It’s a renewal of the productivist spirit of the 1960s, repainted in green, which promises that intensifying the model that caused this catastrophe could solve it (Marcelle).

17:00 (Orge)

[Gesticulated conference] Unwinding or is neoliberalism going to die and how can we make it go faster? Marie-Laure Guislain, from the Allumeuses.bzz association, explores how to get out of the patriarchal neoliberal neocolonial system, through her dances, songs and stories of collective struggles. Starting with an episode of “militant burn out” and “vicarious trauma”, Marie-Laure examines the factors that lead thousands of activists to burn out and prevent struggles from being sustained. She then proposes that we cleanse our bodies and our organisations of the neo-liberal injunctions to productivity and a sense of urgency. Finally, she invites us, as she does with the groups that her association Allumeuses helps to overcome exhaustion, to cultivate antidotes to the “burn-out culture” in order to restore care at all levels and thus regain strength and hope (Collectif Les allumeuses).

17:00 (Ornain)

[Conference-Discussion] Preserving agricultural land around cities: what if the struggles of working-class neighbourhoods involved access to land and the creation of market-garden belts? Within the Coordination Île-de-France des the fight to preserve nearly 700 hectares of particularly fertile land in Gonesse near Paris continues.

17:00 (Meuse)

[Coordination de luttes] : Inter-cantines de l’Est : Hi, we’re a few people from a few canteens in the north-east of France who think it would be really cool to set up a kind of inter-cantines for the struggle in the east. If you’re part of, or would like to join, a local wrestling canteen, we’d love to get together to think about the idea, explore what we’d like to do and the possibilities.

17:00 (Barnum 2)

[Workshop] Sharing practices on mediation in collectives (in depth): Have you ever been involved in a conflict within your organisation/group? Have you tried facilitating dialogue, mediation, finding solutions, proposing compromises? Sharing of mediation experiences (amateur or professional), accompanied exercises, reminders of posture. Possibility of proposing a theme in advance. 2 to 3 hours, registration required (Les capybaras group of mediators).

18:00 (Outside)

[Show] Plastic Boum Boum (50 minutes): A sonic epic that sees a pile of rubbish take on the allure of a sound system and the sounds of a crazy rave party, without any electrical assistance. Chattering building blocks, a big blue can that works, giant magic pipes, a dangerous all-purpose saw, plastic crates that hide noisy treasures… 50 minutes of dialogue between extra-ordinary instruments without words so that everything comes together in a big collective techno boom boom climax. For ages 5 and up!

20:30 (Saulx)

[Performance] Pratiques Vulpines (35 minutes), in French: A lecture and performance, an essay in animal perspective based on a mental map. The fox cunning is developed, taking the form of a set of individual and collective practices, all geared towards the development of new sensitive forms and tools of resistance.

21:00 (Orge)

[Film] Une île et une nuit, a film by the Pirates des Lentillères (1h40 min) without subtitles, in French, Soussou, Polish, Bambara, Occitan, Byelorussian, Wolof, Romanian, Arabic, English, Tamasheq: Fiction produced collectively over the last two years by the residents and users of the Quartier Libre des Lentillères, a self-managed space fighting to defend the last market garden land in the city of Dijon.

TUESDAY 29 AUGUST

8:30 (Saulx)

[Information] Legal Team

10:00 (Saulx)

[Round Table] Exploitation of seasonal labour in agriculture (1): This first plenary presentation will give a clearer picture of the situation of exploitation of seasonal labour in agriculture and the logic behind it, by mapping the players and, above all, by giving a voice to those who live these situations. (Eco-seasonal workers, Sezonieri, Codetras, Ana Pinto and Sandra, Jornaleras de Huelva, Badra N’Diaye, Roula Sehaier – International Federation of Domestic Workers Tunisia)

10:00 (Orge)

[Round table] Antispeciesist cultivation practices in vegetable growing: a cross-cutting discussion between the theoretical contributions of the vegan gardening manual “Sans fumier!” and their practical application in the Jardin des Maraîchères, a vegetable garden in the free district of Les Lentillères (JDM, translation team for the work “Sans fumier”).

10:00 (Meuse)

[Self-managed discussion] ZADs: we’d like to talk about the difficulties encountered within the ephemeral living and fighting collectives that make up the ZADs, and the solutions being explored to resolve them. Or any other subject that strikes your fancy! PS: On September 1, France will announce the creation of the anti-ZAD Brigade…(Zadistes d’ici et d’ailleurs)

10:00 (Barnum 1)

[Workshop] Subverting the sexual division of agricultural labour through technology? Open to all / Registration required: Understand the evolution of the sexual division of agricultural labour and how ‘technology’ helps to stabilise it in order to explore the possibilities of individual and collective subversion. Alternating between small and large group discussions and transmission of research by Agathe Demathieu from Atelier Paysan.

10:00 (Barnum 2)

10:00 (Grand Barnum)

[Workshop] White norms in activist circles: A participatory workshop to share knowledge about the privileges inherent in being white, reflect on ways of combating racism in our spaces, and directly test ways of taking action at your own level (Collectif Diffraction).

10:00 (Outside)

[Stroll and discussion in the forest] Climate change in the forest, between inevitability and opportunity: global change is causing numerous disruptions to forest ecosystems. Nature won’t wait for us to adapt. How can we react to these upheavals, while resisting the pressures of the conventional sector? (La Caouette, collectif pour des alternatives forestières 08)

14:30 (Saulx)

[Round Table]: Exploitation of seasonal labour in agriculture (2): The double penalty for women: This second session will focus on the specific situation of women in seasonal agricultural work and their double exploitation. (Eco-seasonal workers, Sezonieri, Codetras, Ana Pinto and Sandra, Jornaleras de Huelva, Badra N’Diaye, Roula Sehaier – International Federation of Domestic Workers Tunisia)

14:30 (Orge)

[Conference-Discussion]: Buzuruna Juzuruna Presentation of Buzuruna Juzuruna seed farms in Lebanon.

14:30 (Ornain)

[Conference] Animal traction in peasant farming: why reintroduce animal traction into peasant farming practices? Presentation of experimental practices in market gardening and cereal growing at the Grangeneuve agricultural cooperative in Longo Maï. What are the difficulties? What are the learning methods for the driver, the horse and the tools? What tools are needed (Longo Maï).

14:30 (Meuse)

[Coordination de luttes] Psycho-emotional care in a militant environment: a time for meeting and exchange between collectives and people already involved or wishing to become involved in the theme of psycho-emotional care in militant/peasant organisations or collectives. Ideas: an opportunity to meet and network.

14:30 (Barnum 1)

[Workshop] Towards Social Security for Food: How can we collectively use the right to sustainable food, a fundamental right that is currently unfulfilled, as the first lever in the transition of the system? We propose to discuss with the people involved how we can think locally, but as part of a national collective, how we can implement an act of resistance to globalisation and the agro-industrial system. (Somhack Limphakdy and Lucie Dubois, SSA Alsace + Eric du CLAC from Au Maquis farm)

14:30 (Barnum 2)

[Workshop] Discovering restorative circles (2) Facilitating dialogue: Practising facilitating dialogue as part of a restorative system. (Group of mediators “Les capybaras”)

14:30 (Grand Barnum)

[Workshop] Self-managed and self-governed grocery stores: Coop’ or not coop’ to do away with supermarkets, startup alternatives and small chefs: let’s create our own free and self-managed grocery shops! With someone from Cooplib’.

17:00 (Saulx)

[Presentation] The CRID’s international delegation: a dozen international comrades (from South America and Africa, among others) involved in peasant and rural struggles will be present throughout the week to provide us with their insights.

17:00 (Orge)

[Discussion] Fighting and living with local people: working classes, rural areas and political mobilisation: most of the battles against the GPIIs are taking place in rural areas. These areas, the people who live there and the political struggles that take place there are often misunderstood (or even despised) (see Gilets jaunes). So how can we better resist with the residents we sometimes find it hard to win over or mobilise? How, when and where do activists and residents meet? What divides us and what brings us together? How can we move away from exclusionary postures and militant elitism? (Michel)

17:00 (Ornain)

[Conference] Presentation of the book “Notre pain est politique”: from wheat to bread, via flour, the three parts of this book retrace the reality of current industrial production and its disastrous social, economic, environmental and health consequences. In the face of this, it shows our experiments with wheat, machinery and farmhouse bread, as attempts to break away from this model (J. Tribe-Anselme, M. Brier, R. Baltassat).

17:00 (Meuse)

[Debate] Intersectional anti-speciesism at the heart of emancipation struggles: definition and presentation of anti-speciesist movements and their interactions with other struggles against systemic oppression (Anti-speciesist activists in the area).

17:00 (Barnum 1)

[Workshop] Ways out of militant burnout: in small groups, we explore the factors of burnout in our collectives, which sometimes lead to militant burnout or traumas by ricochet (or vicarious), using popular education tools. We look at the possible changes we can make in our lives and in our groups to get away from the culture of burnout, and cultivate the joy of activism more often, so that we can live a regenerative activism. (Marie-Laure Guislain)

17:00 (Barnum 2)

[Workshop] Sharing practices on collective mediation (more in-depth) : Have you ever been involved in a conflict within your organisation/group? Have you tried facilitating dialogue, mediation, finding solutions, proposing compromises? Sharing of mediation experiences (amateur or professional), accompanied exercises, reminders of posture. Possibility of proposing a theme in advance. 2 to 3 hours, registration required (Les capybaras group of mediators).

18:00 (Ferme de JP)

[Show] Rotofil, Les armoires pleines company (1H10), in French, for ages 8 and up: Rotofil tells the story of a farm inheritance. Anaïs’ story. She didn’t take over the family farm, she chose another life. But she’s faced with a dilemma and struggles with the demands, the joys and the anger. Her voice mingles with the testimonies of farmers, the drums are her beating drum, and the scenography unfolds live between a car park and a green wasteland. Anaïs invites us into her landscapes.

20:00 (Venue to be confirmed)

[Coordination de luttes] Coordination des médiateurs.ices alliées (Coordination of allied mediators): an opportunity for people already involved or wishing to become involved in conflict management in militant/farmers’ organisations or collectives to meet and exchange ideas. Ideas: expand the network of “allied” mediators? Share our practices? Train each other? Exchange mediators between collectives (Group of mediators “Les capybaras”).

20:30 (Saulx)

[Show] Récolte d’Amourage, by Féeniks (1H), in French, for ages 5 and up: Flam, an ambiançadaire from the planet T.R., lands on Earth to try and save his planet from glaciation, with the aim of harvesting and producing 1,312 doses of love. Except that love is born of body movement, and on Earth, the human race has difficulty moving its body. But nothing will stop Flam. If necessary, humans will be transformed into transmagic beasts to harvest his harvest.

21:00 (Orge)

[Film] Fermes en transitions vers l’agriculture bio-végétalienne (Farms in transition to organic-vegan farming), in French: the documentary film shows examples of farms that have moved from a ‘classic’ agricultural model to an organic-vegan farming model. Based on the film, discussion on the issues and challenges involved in making such agricultural transitions.

21:30 (Scène Bar)

[Concert] Les Freemeuses: happy anti-nuclear covers

WEDNESDAY 30 AUGUST

8:30 (Saulx)

[Assembly] Camp life plenary: assembly to discuss the organisation and smooth running of our self-managed camp.

10:00 (Saulx)

[Round-table] Water struggles: In the shadow of climate change, the disruption of the water cycle has gone unnoticed in Western Europe in recent years. The propaganda of the energy transition and decarbonisation has taken over, reducing the debate on the impact of capitalism and its industries to a techno-solutionist one. However, now that droughts and fires are taking hold in the midst of completely disrupted seasonal rhythms, it is clear that, on the ground, climate change is increasingly becoming a hydraulic issue. As the world dries out, and faced with the invisibility of the many forms of pollution and privatisation of water, the question of how water is used and shared, which has historically been at the heart of environmental, peasant and indigenous struggles, is finally becoming a major social issue in rich countries. Whether we are fighting against the use of water tanks and bottled water, the destruction of water tables, all forms of landfill waste and watersheds, all forms of extractivism and industrial waste, or the construction and impact of large dams on our lives, everywhere on the planet, defending the water that connects us and enables us to live will be one of the key issues in the struggles ahead. This round-table discussion will provide an opportunity to take stock of the struggles being waged here and elsewhere to confront the multinationals that are everywhere seeking to control water, all water, and with it, life.

10:00 (Orge)

[Round Table] “Farmers’ struggles will either be feminist or they won’t be”. Sexist and sexual violence persists throughout our society, and the farming world is not exempt. On our farms, in our collectives, in our farmers’ and agricultural organisations and in our trade unions, the dominant agricultural culture that values hegemonic masculinity is still expressed. So, in rural areas, where we quickly find ourselves isolated and overworked, and where the word ‘feminism’ is often stigmatised, what tools can we build to arm ourselves against sexism and to emancipate ourselves in a farm setting? How do we organise ourselves as women farmers, project leaders and farm workers? The experience of writing the comic strip “Where’s the boss? Chroniques de paysannes” and the work carried out by the women’s commission within the Confédération paysanne provide examples of attempts to answer these questions (M. Boissier and Céline – comic strip “il est ou le patron”; Paloma from the Confédération’s women’s commission).

10:00 (Ornain)

[Conference-Discussion] Alternative forest management: How can we get away from the “protected forests” / “industrial forests” opposition? How can we intervene in forests without contributing to their over-exploitation and degradation? Presentation of gentle silvicultural methods (harvesting and skidding) that respect the balance of forest ecosystems and the people who work in them (P. Menon ; J.Poppei – Longo Maï ; R. Kieffert La Caouette).

10:00 (Meuse)

[Discussion] Food-producing agriculture and remunerative agriculture: food-producing agriculture, whether to feed one’s community or to feed a struggle, faces many difficulties: access to land, the difficulty of having status and even simply of having weight and credibility in the agricultural world… How can we earn a decent wage when we choose to make a living from our agricultural activity without making the food we produce inaccessible to the most precarious? And many other questions and confrontations are welcome! (Open table!)

10:00 (Barnum 1)

[This participatory workshop explores the impact that the characteristics of the neoliberal neocolonial patriarchal system (such as productivity, urgency, perfectionism, binarity… as described by Tema Okun on whitesupremacyculture. home) are having an impact on our lives and our communities, and we’re starting to cultivate antidotes to help us overcome our collective exhaustion, strengthen our struggles and co-construct a culture that is more respectful of living things (Marie-Laure Guislain from the Allumeuses collective).

10:00 (Barnum 2)

10:00 (Ferme de JP)

[Workshop] Introduction to welding and tool handling / Mixed-sex chosen without cis het men, on registration. Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 4pm, max 10 people per day: Learning the basics of welding: getting to grips with an arc welder (coated electrode); preparing your workstation, preparing metal parts; getting to grips with grinding and measuring tools: different types of discs, cutting and grinding metal parts and preparing for welding. (Vi and Adeline from Fabriek paysanne, a Belgian anti-capitalist collective that aims to improve farmers’ quality of life by supporting their technological sovereignty through the manufacture, support and organisation of a network around agro-ecological tools).

14:30 (Saulx)

[Round Table] Debate/presentation on access to land: Millions of farmers will be retiring in the next few years – at best – or will be brutally deprived of their activity in the name of “higher” interests. In theory, millions of hectares of land should be freed up, but large agro-industrial capital companies, speculators and useless, imposed major projects have their fingers on the trigger and their capital in their pockets to take advantage of the land. The constraints on landless women who want access to a plot of arable land, to farms, and even more so in the “countries of the South”, are enormous. Fewer and fewer people seem to want to join this profession. It is often perceived as restrictive and unremunerative, unless you accept the capitalist logic that is at the root of the devaluation of rural occupations in general. We have also come together at these meetings to discuss desirable alternatives to these issues, in order to establish farmers’ rights and build a future for agriculture. We have invited actors from the world of trade unions and agricultural activists, from the European Coordination of La Vía Campesina (ECVC), jABL (Germany), Uniterre (Switzerland), Groupe Paysans du Sud (Cameroon) and Confédération Paysanne (France), to discuss access to land in different contexts. (Alexania Rosseto (MAB, Brazil), Badra N’DIAYE (Enda Diapol, Senegal), Nataanii Means (No-Dapl, Standing Rock, US)).

14:30 (Orge)

[Conference-discussion] Combating photovoltaic projects in agricultural and rural areas: Will 500,000 hectares be covered in photovoltaics? While France is spearheading this marketing practice known as “agrivoltaics”, and the most prominent industrial players are taking on the digitisation of fields, hundreds of organisations are opposing these projects. Because “agrivoltaics” takes us further away from autonomy and adds to our dependence on the agro-industrial complex another dependence that is more modern and consensual, because it carries the image of renewable energy. (L. Santiago, Confédération Paysanne / l’Empaillé; L. Keraron, Silence, V. Grunwald “former PV prospector”, G. Schmidt, deserter from a research consultancy)

14:30 (Ornain)

[Conference] Putting trees back in our fields and pastures: Definition then presentation of the issues and different agroforestry models. Basic knowledge to design, implement and finance a suitable agroforestry project (D. Princet, SylvaTerra).14:30 (Barnum 1)

[Workshop] Making our collectives and struggles last: understanding and caring for group dynamics (4 hrs): participatory workshop to share experiences and use simple tools to analyse how a collective works: understanding group dynamics and power relations, identifying the consequences of asymmetries of privilege, sharing tools on how a collective can manage these dynamics and enable its members to get involved over the long term. (Collectif Diffraction)

14:30 (Barnum 2)

[Survey] Brochure “For agriculture without animal exploitation”.

14:30 (Grand Barnum) [Listen to podcast and discussion] : Travailleurs.euses détaché.es, les dessous d’une exploitation : A two-part audio documentary by Hélène SERVEL and Tifenn HERMELIN. This podcast is the result of an investigation that began in 2018 in the western Bouches-du-Rhône region.What could be the routes that have brought these hundreds of South American farm workers this far? How does this well-oiled system work?

14:30 (Outside)

[Practical workshop] Manoeuvring a trailer / mixed, chosen without a cis het man / registration required, max 8 people: Learn or gain confidence to manoeuvre single and double axle trailers with style: reversing, parking, burning and wheeling (Julia)

17:00 (Saulx) [Round Table] Getting out of extractivism? Lithium, brown coal, gold, cobalt, uranium, oil, gas… The history of industrialisation is also the history of the extraction of materials that are often rare, generally linked to colonisation, and always harmful to the environment.In view of climate change, we tend to rank the forms of this extractivism – never renewable – and very often accept that what happens elsewhere is acceptable… But “not here!Yet beyond environmental issues, on both an ethical and moral level, there is a strong link between all the irreversible forms of exploitation of the earth. We have invited participants in various struggles against extractivism, from lignite mines in the Rhineland to lithium mines in the Allier and uranium mines in Niger (in video), and will be talking to members of the CRIIRAD about the often invisible effects of these industrial activities. We hope to link these different initiatives and see what common discourse could strengthen transnational struggles against extractivism. (Kanahus Freedom Manuel (No-Dapl, Standing Rock, US, Canada), Manoela Royo (Modatima, Chile), Juan Pablo (Yukpa, Colombia), Nadja (Luetzerath, Rhineland)).

17:00 (Orge) [Round-table] The perverse effects of so-called renewable energies: industrial wind turbines are springing up like mushrooms in Meuse and Haute-Marne. How, by whom and for what reasons are these projects being developed?What impact are these concentrations of energy infrastructure having on biodiversity and the landscape?Are these rural areas destined to become industrial zones for the production of “renewable” electricity?Who are the winners and losers in this “energy transition”? How can we think about, criticise and oppose this technological onslaught without succumbing to pro-nuclear siren songs? (J. Chamoin, CIEL Sud Haute-Marne; B. Vue)

17:00 (Ornain)

[Conference] Fighting for forests: the diversity of strategies for defending forests in the face of state policies aimed at production and the dynamics of artificialising forests and industrialising their exploitation. Presentation of struggles (SOS Forêt, local struggles) and discussion on the complementarity of means of action.

17:00 (Barnum 2)

[Workshop] Exchange of practices on mediation in collectives (in depth): Have you ever been involved in a conflict within your organisation/group? Have you tried facilitating dialogue, mediation, finding solutions, proposing compromises?Sharing of mediation experiences (amateur or professional), accompanied exercises, reminders of posture.Possibility of proposing a theme in advance. 2 to 3 hours, registration required (Les capybaras group of mediators).

21:00 (Saulx)

[Show] 7 minutes, comité d’usine (1H), in French: Ten shop stewards have to decide on the future of their factory, which has been sold to a multinational. There is only one condition: they must keep their jobs. Will they accept it? 21:00 (Orge)

[Film] Titixe by Tania Hernández Velasco(1H), in Spanish with French subtitles: The last peasant in a Mexican family dies, taking all his knowledge with him. With no experience of farming, his daughter and granddaughter attempt one last sowing to convince the grandmother to keep the family land.Together, they discover the remains – the titixe – of this man: dancing shoots, a tree in mourning, clouds, ghosts… and lots of seeds.

THURSDAY 31 AUGUST

8:30 (Saulx) [Information] Legal Team

10:00 (Saulx) [Round Table] Small-scale farming VS industrial farming: How do agro-industry and its standards threaten small-scale farming? What kind of farming models and ways of relating to animals do we want? Feedback on the problems of slaughterhouses, the humane treatment of farm animals and all these standards that are killing us. The aim of this round table is to highlight what farmers have to say, their daily lives, the difficulties they encounter in respecting their farming ideology, highlighting what is important to them and the difficult compromises that sometimes have to be made (S. Dinard, farmer in the Dordogne and member of the association “Quand l’abattoir vient à la ferme”, a farmer from a collective farm in the Ain, a farmer from a collective farm in the Ardèche).

10:00 (Orge) [Workshop] Conflicts, tensions and the resilience of groups” (3h): identify what generates conflicts and tensions within groups, share experiences and practices or resources that help to overcome the various points of tension (Collectif Diffraction).

10:00 (Ornain) [Conference] Eco-fascism: what is it? An introduction to fascism and eco-fascism in rural areas and agricultural dynamics (Radiaction).

10:00 (Barnum 1) [Workshop] Our queer struggles in the fields. For LGBTIAQ+/ Between 1 and 20 people/ Being queer in the countryside has its share of problems. Come and share what you’re going through. Together we can better understand the systems of oppression we live through. Come and present your collective, your initiatives to do survival work or community work in your country, with agricultural structures. We can then discuss our experiences and give each other advice to give us strength. And continue the discussion at the café discussion at 2.30pm! (Robin and the Transformeuses with Lou)

10:00 (Ferme de JP)

[Workshop] Introduction to welding and tool handling / Mixed-sex chosen without cis het men, on registration. Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 4pm, max 10 people per day: Learning the basics of welding: getting to grips with an arc welder (coated electrode); preparing your workstation, preparing metal parts; getting to grips with grinding and measuring tools: different types of discs, cutting and grinding metal parts and preparing for welding. (Vi and Adeline from Fabriek paysanne, a Belgian anti-capitalist collective aiming to improve farmers’ quality of life by supporting their technological sovereignty through the manufacture, support and organisation of a network around agro-ecological tools).

14:30 (Saulx)

[Lecture/discussion] 500 years of the Peasants’ War in Germany and Alsace: On 17 May 1525, thousands of rebellious peasants were massacred in Saverne (Alsace) by the Duke of Lorraine. Demanding an end to serfdom and the election of priests by the people, they had taken up arms and destroyed castles for months. Some had as their motto the famous Omnia sunt communia, all things are common, everything belongs to everyone. What is the memory of this revolt? What parallels can we draw with those of today? How can we celebrate, in our own way, the 500th anniversary of this key moment in the beginnings of capitalism?

14:30 (Orge)

[Conference-Discussion] Acquiring forests to preserve them: Presentation of the Forêt en Vie endowment fund, which acquires forests to make them available to citizen collectives through an innovative forest lease guaranteeing harmonious use of the forest (N. Naulet, Forêt en Vie).

14:30 (Ornain)

[Conference] Dealing with right-wing (eco-)movements in rural areas – How can we counter them? How can we organise ourselves? How do we react to groups and individuals who define themselves as “left-wing” but who flirt with right-wing ideas and actors? Discussions based on three concrete examples from France, Austria and Germany.

14:30 (Meuse)

[Coordination de luttes] Contre les projets photovoltaïques : Temps d’échanges stratégiques ouvert aux collectifs de lutte concernés par l’agrivoltaïsme sur leurs sols agricoles, naturels et forestiers. The idea could be to continue drafting the broadest possible joint declaration (initiated at Larzac). To achieve this, we need the participation of as many organisations as possible (L. Santiago, Confédération Paysanne / l’Empaillé; L. Keraron, Silence, V. Grunwald “former PV prospector”, G. Schmitt, deserter from a research consultancy).

14:30 (Barnum 1)

[Café-discussions] Le genre ça me questionne / En mixité choisie LGBTIAQ+ :Come and meet and discuss with people who don’t feel very comfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth. It’s open to people with questions, people who are still subject to gender roles, but also trans people, non-binary people, queers, butches, etc… Those present will be able to introduce themselves and their situation and, depending on the number of people present, have a little chat. (Pio)

17:00 (Saulx)

[Round table] Mass actions: feedback on mass militant actions against ecocidal projects in various European countries. What impact has it had? What are the limits and risks in the current context? (Ende Gelande, Occupons le Terrain, and various other unnamed movements).

17:00 (Orge)

[Workshop] Legal forms for collective facilities: Collective farms, farmers’ collectives, cooperative farms – these are just some of the terms used to describe collectively managed agricultural production, and the legal arrangements are cobbled together from what already exists, sometimes satisfying the legislation but often a mess when it comes to human experience. What if we felt justified in going back to basics and rethinking a satisfactory legal and social framework for our collective and farmers’ initiatives?

17:00 (Meuse)

[Workshop] Peasantry and Trade Unionism 2: How can workers support the development of an agriculture that respects the Earth and living beings and at the same time emancipates peasants? How can local farmers contribute to facilitating workers’ access to healthy food produced according to these criteria? Can trade unions be used to facilitate these mutual aid relationships (Sud-Solidaires)?

17:00 (Barnum 2)

[Workshop] Introduction to systemic oppressions: understanding the basis of the theory and practising the ally posture” (3h): First part: collective discussion on the definitions and workings of discrimination and oppressions (racism, sexism, validism, etc.), their systemic dimension and their impact on our minds and bodies, to share a common basis of theory. Second part: training in receiving critical feedback when we have done something that has hurt someone, so as to be able to welcome the anger of people who experience oppression. (Collectif Diffraction)

21:00 (Saulx)
[Film] D’égal à égal, collectif A4 (35 min), in french : members of the association A4 got to Limousin to meet peasants and to determine together how to “get out of the city” discover the countryside, learn things and, why not, to settle down sometime !

[Film] Frutos de Resistencia, Interbrigadas/Aline Juarez (60 min), castillano/arab/lituanian french subtitles : Five strong storys of hope and resistance within the plastic-oceam of Almería, the heart of industrial agriculture in Europe. Through the eyes of women, migrants, syndicalists, everyday exclusion and exploitation stories by the spanish society are made visible. Frutos de Resistencia shows powerfull perspectives of collective organisation of people who struggle for their fundamental rights in front of industrial agriculture. We will discuss with activists from interbrigadas and also invited the producer.

21:00 (Scène)
[Concerts] Gamin / Alice / Hyperculte

VENDREDI1ER SEPTEMBRE

8:30 (Saulx)
[Assembly] Camp life plenary: assembly to discuss the organisation and smooth running of our self-managed camp.10:00 (Saulx) [Round Table] Small-scale farming VS industrial farming: How do agro-industry and its standards threaten small-scale farming? What kind of farming models and ways of relating to animals do we want? Feedback on the problems of slaughterhouses, the humane treatment of farm animals and all these standards that are killing us. The aim of this round table is to highlight what farmers have to say, their daily lives, the difficulties they encounter in respecting their farming ideology, highlighting what is important to them and the difficult compromises that sometimes have to be made (S. Dinard, farmer in the Dordogne and member of the association “Quand l’abattoir vient à la ferme”, a farmer from a collective farm in the Ain, a farmer from a collective farm in the Ardèche).

10:00 (Saulx)
[Round Table] Struggling against NATO-Military Bases in the countryside. For the purpose of training for war, hughe military infrastructures are set up: training grounds, missile-testing-areas, numeric experimental zones, antennas… Military training facilities always mean important contamination in the ground and in the water. They chase populations and impeach food production (P. Dominguez – CNRS (CNRS) ; struggle in Montenegro ; a transféminist antimilitarist collective from Sardinia and No Muos from Sicily).

10:00 (Orge)
[Workshop-Discussion] Management of sexual and sexist violence in militant/peasant events : after a quick introduction in the present collectivess, sharing of empiria on processes of formalized violence – management, violence experimented by the participants. Does the culture in our collectives evolve? What works, what could get better? (FFS, Longo Maï, table ouverte !)

10:00 (Ornain)
[Debate/Workshop] Working in collectives, building up cooperatives. In the last decades, many of us decided to look for another type of peasant installation than the classical ones. More or less selfmanaged collectives, less hierarchies, more emancipation – the aim for collective types of economy and lasting perspectives. We want to debate on those experimentations and invited people and peasants from Longo Mai in the south of France, Gartencoop in Freiburg in Allemagne and from the Coopérative des Jardins de Cocagne in Geneva. The aim is to have an insight in organizational difficulties and common errors, as well as on the numerous often non-conventional solutions set up by our friends. (Longo Maï, Gartencoop, Jardins de Cocagne).

10:00 (Meuse)
[Projection debate] Arms within a transition towards bio-végétalism : a film shows examples of farms who went from a « classical » agricultural model to a bio-végétalien. On the base of this film we want to talk about the challenges such transitions involve. (Militant.e.s anti-spécistes sur zone)

… Soon there will be more 😉

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The Gathering program is still being drawn up. We have identified the themes and we are in contact with about one hundred speakers that we have in mind for the various round tables and theoretical and practical workshops. Some workshops have already been confirmed, while others are still awaiting confirmation. The precise program remains to be worked out, taking into account various technical issues and people’s availability.

The final program still needs a bit of thought, but here’s a pre-program to help you plan ahead and avoid the unbearable wait that can eat away at your spring nights!

The 9-day choreography

The camp will be divided into several phases.

1. The first weekend

On Saturday August 26, we’re planning a soft landing to discover the camp and the surrounding area. Not too dense a program, then, but certainly some visits, a few stalls and probably a seed and seedling fair. Saturday evening will be opening night with concerts and DJs.

Sunday August 27 will be dedicated to the presentation of local initiatives and struggles: against CIGEO of course, but not only. We’re planning a big welcome plenary session, to define the main operating principles for the camp, and to give collectives the chance to introduce themselves. In the evening, we’ll be hosting a screening and debate.

2. The week from Monday August 27 to Friday September 1

The heart of the week will be dedicated to exchanges about peasant and rural struggles, combining round tables, discussions, debates, moments of sharing and coordination for collectives wishing to do so, training sessions, participative workcamps and practical workshops.

Every evening, there will be a film screening or a show, and a bar to continue exchanging over a drink.

3. Closing weekend

Saturday September 2 will be the mobilization day, with a peasant market and a demonstration. At the end, a big party will last until Meuse dawn, with concerts and DJs.

Spaces for the event programming

We will have 2 large 300-seat tents, one of which will be equipped for simultaneous translation in several languages, and two small 50-seat tents. In three of these spaces, the program will be planned in advance, with one slot in the morning and two in the afternoon. The last small tent will be available for self-managed programming: either for collectives and networks who would like to take advantage of this meeting moment to organize, or for discussions or workshops spontaneously proposed by participants.

Discussions and workshops soon to be confirmed

Introduction:

Presentation of the diagnosis and strategy formulated in the book “Reprendre la terre aux machines” (Atelier Paysan & Sécurité sociale de l’alimentation) (“taking back the land from the machines”, by the Peasant Workshop and Social Security Food Project)
Peasant resistance and struggles throughout history

The diversity of struggles:

Struggles against extractivism: lithium and coal mines
Defending water
List of naturalist struggles actions
The rout of roads
Struggles against nuclear waste burial in Europe
Struggles against NATO military bases in rural areas (with activists from Sardinia, Sicily, Montenegro and France)
Agriculture and migration
Struggle against “renewable” energy projects: wind turbines, methanization and photovoltaics on farmland and forests
Struggle against industrial plantations and clear-cutting in forests
Feedback on mass action strategies in various European countries
…

Farming alternatives and agroecology:

Issues and strategies to promote access to agricultural land in different European countries
Peasant seeds: 1. technical discussions 2. Seed autonomy networks
Vegetable gardening on living soil and conservation agriculture
Large cereal cultures and bread-making
Animal traction in agriculture and forestry
Animal biodiversity
Diverse forms of peasant collectives (governance, legal structure, etc.)
Soft forest management
Agroforestry
Bio-vegan agriculture
Self-managed training in vegetable gardening
…

Breaking down walls between struggles and perpetuating our collectives:

Anti-fascism in rural areas
Eco-fascism
Workshop about the “white norm in militant circles”
Fighting classism in peasant/activist movements
Issues and challenges in the ZADs
Gender and peasantry (the book “Il est où le Patron? Chroniques de Paysannes” (“Who is the boss? chronicles of peasant women”), Commission Femmes de la Conf’… (Women commission of the peasant confederation))
FLINT people in peasant and rural struggles
Workshops: how do techniques contribute to the sexual division of labor?
Rural anti-speciesist movements and collectives
Sustainable activism: against peasant and activist burn-out
Prevention / care in peasant and activist collectives
Understanding and caring for the dynamics of our struggles
Introduction to systemic oppression: theory and practical training for ally posture
Conflict and violence handling: discovery workshops about mediation and NVC; in-depth workshop about mediation and conflict handling in collectives; workshop to co-elaborate a conflict handling system on the camp; introduction to restorative circles; coordination of allied mediators/facilitators; listening/mediation stand.
Small shops and services in rural areas
…

Practical workshops:

Introduction to metalworking
Drawing up a crop plan for diversified vegetable gardening
Farm mechanics
Route to practice reverse with trailers
Seed reproduction
Bread making
Weeding, harvesting for camp and other vegetable gardening pleasures
Naturalist walks
Chainsaw maintenance
Field demonstrations of self-built tools
…