“We could be pessimists”, admits Pierre Goldberg, one of the cornerstones of the Workshop meetings in Montluçon (Allier), listing the summer drought and fires, the “very strong social concerns of the Secours populaire or the Secours Catholique”, the pension reform or also “the questioning of peace” and the nuclear threat …
A former IPCC speaker as first guest on Wednesday 28 September
But for the Workshop members it’s not about giving up. “Because it can also lead to optimism,” adds the former mayor and deputy of Montluçon. In any case, “the desire to act” is still equally strong within the association “through debates and expertly selected great witnesses. It is in its DNA, the Atelier still has the same “attachment to ending capitalism”.
For this new season, the issue of climate change will, of course, be central. “Because we connect, like many progressives, social and ecology,” says Pierre Goldberg.
It is therefore anything but a coincidence that the first meeting, Wednesday 28 September, from 6 pm, at the Ilets farmhouse, will have as a guest Hervé Le Treutclimatologist, former speaker of the IPCC and member of the Academy of Sciences, to discuss the theme “Humanity in great danger”.
The Workshop meetings return to Montluçon (Allier) with a first debate on medicine
A representative of Greenpeace in December, the editor of Reporterre in November
Pierre Goldberg does not hide his satisfaction in accepting “such a dimension”. Nor that of being able to confirm the arrival of Clemente Sinechal, activist at Greenpeace for a debate titled “Like capitalism and the war against the torpedoes of democracy”, December 15. “We’ve been trying to get someone from Greenpeace for years. I really think we’re going to be a hit with this fall program. “
A third meeting is scheduled a month earlier – November 17 – with Hervé Kempf. The editor of the magazine Reporterre will come to talk about his book with the evocative title: “Que creve le capitalisme, it will be him or us”.
Meetings scheduled for 2023
Two more meetings …
The first is scheduled for January 19th with Pierre Zarka around his book “To get rid of the representative system”. A second is planned around popular sovereignty with André Bellon, polytechnic and former socialist deputy, and Pierre Crépin, independent economist.
A novelty …
From March to July, the Atelier will give a voice to left-wing political parties (NPA, PCF, LFI, PS and Verts). “Without prejudice to what they say, we will ask them to explain to us how they intend to work for an exit from capitalism. “
Michele Nicola
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