Farmers in Nort-sur-Erdre invaded supermarkets to place stickers on milk and meat products

Nort-sur-Erdre: Farmers in Action in Supermarkets

Thursday, farmers, led by farmers’ union FNSEA, have placed “stickers” on dairy and meat products in two stores, to denounce them “too cheap.” Thirty farmers visited Thursday morning, the two supermarkets in the town of Nort-sur-Erdre (Loire-Atlantique). Mickaël Trichet, general secretary of the FNSEA 44 (National Federation of Farmers ‘Unions), explained that it was an […]

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Agricultural Crisis: Farmers Block Vannes 1

Agricultural Crisis: Farmers Block Vannes

The protesters demanded “a remunerative price” for their products and “fair distribution of margins” … Several farmers have set up checkpoints around the city of Vannes at 6 am this Monday morning to the call of the FDSEA of Morbihan.  The protesters are demanding “a remunerative price” for their products and “fair distribution of margins”. […]

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Anti-migrant rally in Calais

Calais: Anti-Migrant Rally – Twenty Arrests

Organized by the Islamophobic movement Pegida, the event in Calais caused some clashes despite its prohibition. Etienne Desplanques, Chief of Staff of the prefect of Pas-de-Calais says:  “Around 12:30pm, groups began to circulate in the city centre, mainly of ultra neo-Nazi type of right. Seven of them were arrested at the beginning, then a rally was […]

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Agricultural crisis continues in Brittany with protests planned at Supermarkets

Agricultural Crisis: Black Thursday for Carrefour and Leclerc

The Agricultural Crisis continues with the FDSEA 56 and JA 56 decided to block a dozen supermarkets and hypermarkets on Thursday 4th February and tomorrow, Friday 5th in Morbihan. The agricultural crisis is set to continue, with members of the farmers union targeting ten stores which are planned to be well blocked off this Thursday […]

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Protests to be held throughout France against the State of Emergency

Mobilization for the State of Emergency does not become “Permanent”

Demonstrations are planned in at least 70 cities in France on Saturday to oppose the draft deprivation of nationality and the extension of the state of emergency. In Paris, a demonstration will start at 2.30pm in the Republic Square to rally to the Palais-Royal. Other shows are planned in the provinces in the main cities of […]

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Farmers protesting in Ancenis, to cause traffic disruption

Loire-Atlantique: Farmers block the Toll Road, Ancenis

Farmers protest action is provided in Ancenis on the A11, between 11am and 4pm on Wednesday … While the mobilization and protests continues especially in the Britany area for several days, the traffic situation looks complicated once again on Wednesday, with the farmers of the Regional Federation of Farmers’ Unions and the Young Farmers (JA) are deployed […]

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Taxi strike in Paris turns violent with 19 protestors arrested

Taxi strike: Angry drivers arrested at Orly and Porte Maillot

Protesting against the competition of passenger vehicles with drivers (VTC), taxis blocked the Ring Road, this Tuesday morning… Tyres on fire and the CRS copiously sprinkled with various projectiles.  Striking taxi drivers blocked on Tuesday morning during an hour, the Paris ring road up to the Porte Maillot in protest against the “unfair” competition, according […]

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Almost 2,000 anti-airport protesters gathered outside the courthouse in Nantes.

Notre-Dame-des-Landes: Hundreds of Anti-Airport Protesters at Nantes Court

Large mobilization of anti-airport protestors, Wednesday in Nantes court where the expulsion request of fifteen inhabitants and farmers  of Notre-Dame-des-Landes is examined … At just after 10 am this morning, more than a hundred people are already gathering before the court in Nantes. The first banners are deployed. Everything so far is calm. More than a […]

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Traffic disrupted on Nantes ring road

Notre-Dame-des-Landes: Anti-airport Protesters to Conduct Snail PaceTuesday Morning

Occupants Zad have snarled traffic Tuesday morning, before the hearing on the deportation of historical inhabitants of Notre-Dame-des-Landes … They do not let go. After the great demonstration on Saturday on the Nantes ring road and Chevre bridge, anti-Airport protesters continue to put pressure on the state and the Vinci development team for the abandonment of deportation […]

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