Program

For this year’s event, we’re keeping a strong focus on local struggles, but we’re also keen to ensure that a wide range of related issues are addressed and highlighted: social, peasant, trade union, environmental and human rights struggles, feminist and queer struggles, anti-racist struggles, etc. We want to encourage alliances between different struggles around common grassroots issues!

Panel discussions

  • Is environmentalism over ? Resisting the major anti-environmentalist offensive
  • Against extractivism: alliance between local and global struggles
  • After the victory of our local struggles, continuing together
    Against soil artificialisation and the concrete industry – how can we take action?
  • New battle fronts and strategies against digital technologies and their world 
  • Between revival and rearmament, the current challenges of the anti-nuclear struggle
  • Struggles against waste incinerators and for another waste policy

Assemblies

  • Water struggles: state of play, tools and direction
  • Community gardens fight back

Workshops

  • History of environmental struggles and schools of thought
  • Join the season of actions of the Uprisings of the Seine!
  • Mobilising, building radical alternatives and alliances within counter-projects
  • Collective reading of a Short Handbook of Energy Democracy (Petit manuel de démocratie énergétique)
  • Fighting against waste incinerators and for another waste policy
  • Understanding and responding to pro-nuclear arguments
  • Investigate and calling out the funding of polluting projects and their insurers

Panel discussion

  • Fighting the far right through and within sport?
  • Countering the reactionary offensive on migration and building dignified asylum practices
  • How to explain the rise of the far right in rural areas?
  • Working-class neighbourhoods and rural areas – moving from beyond sterile opposition to fighting together

    Workshops

    • Timeline: History of the far-right
    • Debate: Campaigning differently in rural areas
    • Eco-fascism or carbofascism? When the far right rejects or attempts to hijack ecology
    • Investigating: analysing your territory to better calibrate your actions
    • Countering far-right ideas and attempts at entryism in our organisations
    • Working-class neighbourhoods and rural areas – moving from sterile opposition to fighting together  
    • Resisting the far-right in companies

    Pannel discussions

    • Exposing leftist machos
    • Promoting feminist initiatives in rural areas
    • Different family models: a struggle in its own right

    Training

    • Sexist and sexual violence: feminist strategies for restorative justice

    Workshops

    • Making a feminist fanzine
    • Gynaecologic self-observation 
    • Self-defence against obstetric violence
    • Ecofeminisms fresk 
    • De(con)structing patriarchy
    • Training on in first response training  for victims of sexist and sexual violence

    Experiences sharing

    • Talking circle for victims of sexist and sexual violence
    • The place of children in our struggles

     Panel discussions

    • Free Palestine: for an ecology of liberation
    • Decolonial ecofeminism
    • ‘For an international decolonialism’
    • The continuity of colonial violence: repression ‘à la française‘
    • Everyday racism and microaggressions – how to recognise them and stop reproducing them
    • Antiracist struggles made invisible – how to fight back on social and traditional media
    • Fighting antisemitism
    • Feminisms and Islamophobia
    • Unbolt the colonialism in our streets

      Workshops

      • How to unbolt colonialism in our streets

      Panel discussions

        •  Current situation, strategy and prospects in small farmers struggles
        • Why is livestock farming in decline?
        • The historic struggle of women farmers in Lower Normandy
        • 1 million small farmers? OK, how do we do that?
        • Feminism and peasantryTaking back control of our food / (RMA) followed by workshops

        Workshops

        • RMA: Food security
        • RMA : Social food security projet
        • RMA: AMAP (Community supported agriculture schemes)
        • RMA: Can our territory feed us (Fertile Territories)?
        • RMA: Municipal sovereignty
        • Pesticides: the struggle of poisoned workers
        • Creating common land ownership through “foncières”, how they’re built and organised
        • Monitoring who gets access to land: how to set it up? Creating supply chains for struggles

        Assemblies

        • Pesticides: the struggle of poisoned workers
        • Assembly: ‘Photovoltaic production on living soil : an overview of on-going struggles’

         Panel discussions and conferences

        • Reclaiming means of production, rethinking our economic alternatives
        • Against authoritarian dissolutions, let’s organise our response
        • Struggles for protecting public services; which services tomorrow?
        • How to organise to fight poverty in a context of ecological crisis
        • Reducing production and working hours: why and how?
        • How to fight against the ongoing global remilitarisation?
        • Fighting at university: for a popular, critical and emancipatory university
        • The push back against freedom of association – how to protect ourselves ?
        • Review and perspectives from the latest major social movements
        • Municipal elections – what can local councils really do, and how can we take action for 2026?

        Assemblies

        • Assembly on housing: how can residents organise to win battles against landlords?

        Workshops

        • Why and how to join a trade union
        • Collective reading : from local struggle to the recovery of the means of production
        • Launching a citizen-led participatory electoral list: where to start?

          Workshops

          • LGBTQIA+ struggles in 2025: fronts and strategies for action
          • LGBTQIA+ in rural areas: living and organising collectively
          • Fighting back against transphobic attacks
          • Faggot, trans, dyke and green: unnatural? Really

            Workshops

            • Thinking about fighting strategically with care
            • Introduction to first aid in an activist context
            • How to listen to someone who has experienced violence
            • Ending oppressive humour!
            • Talking circle for men who have experienced violence
            • Talking circle for gendered people who have experienced violence
            • ‘Mental health, the key to success (or “how to take care of yourself as an activist”)’
            • The place of alcohol in public and private events.
            Together, let’s learn practical ways to mobilise, defend and make ourselves known while protecting ourselves. The workshops are divided into thematics, so we can share our practices and strengthen our capacity for collective action!

              Anti-repression

              • The price of activism : Consequences of repression
              • Digital self-defence workshop

                Keeping our collectives alive and lasting

                • Immersive game: The great game of cooperation                  
                • Breaking the spell: taking our collectives out of the neocolonial neoliberal system towards a regenerative militant culture.                  
                • Participatory conference on activist care

                  Investigation

                  • Mapping the struggles;
                  • Fighting against public surveillance in our towns and villages
                  • Activist investigation: a how-to guide
                  • How to support and protect whistleblowers

                    Media attention, strategies, press and social media in our struggles today

                    • Communication strategies in activism
                    • Getting media attention for our battles
                    • Launching and making the most of a petition

                     

                      Skills networks

                      • Role-playing game: ‘What if we would play at abolishing the market? Come and break the stranglehold of the economy!’

                        Series of workshops: ‘Creating material support collectives for our struggles (canteens, granaries, mutualized equipment, food supply networks, etc.)’

                        • Overview and reflections of initiatives and practices,                            
                        • Setting up and strengthening your action                                  
                        • Building links for the future: geographical networks, thematic, networks                                  

                        Fighting oppression

                        • Fighting systemic oppression                  
                        • More joy, less violence (through self-organisation)

                          Law as a tool for activism 

                          • Mobilising legal tools in your struggle with the law firm Natur’avocat, in collaboration with GreenVoice         
                          • Round table: Who wants environmental law dead ? (and how can we still use it)?

                            Mobilisation

                            • A fresk of resistances
                            • Artivist roots;                  
                            • Creative responses: imagining powerful actions to support our struggles – by @La.breche.creative                          
                            • Non-violent civil disobedience: coordinating an action from A to Z – by ANV-COP21                           
                            • Free boxing – by FRAP
                            • Introduction to tree climbing – by Les Grimpantes

                            The programme is still being finalised, but we can already tell you that there will be 3 nature walks a day: birdwatching mornings, botany/entomology afternoons and chiropterist evenings!

                            In collaboration with La Clef cinema, we’ll be showing activist films and documentaries (the programme will be available soon).

                            Special programming will take place throughout the duration of the festival in two areas for children and teenagers!

                            Two stages will also take place in the adult programming:

                            • “Making a family differently: a struggle in its own right?”
                            • Feedback: welcoming children into activist spaces

                             

                              Concerts

                              • We will reveal the program to you soon!