Archive for République
Mémorial Act
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags 1848, abolition, Antilles, Caribbean, French West Indies, Guadeloupe, MAct, memorial, Memorial Act, museum, Napoléon Bonaparte, Pointe-à-Pitre, République, Révolution française, Schloecher, slavery, triangular trade on September 2, 2025 by xi'an
What Just Happened in France Is Astounding [reposted]
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags abstention, cohabitation, diversity, Emmanuel Macron, far-right, French parliement, French politics, Frente Popular, Front National, inclusion, National Assembly, national unity, nationalism, NYT, opinion, populism, République, snap elections, snap vote, The New York Times on July 9, 2024 by xi'an
exceptional measures for exceptional circumstances, not as a new normality
Posted in Kids with tags état d'urgence, binationals, France, French government, nationality, Paris, République on February 7, 2016 by xi'an
Since the mass assassinations of November 13 in Paris, France is in a “legal” state of emergency (état d’urgence). Which has been once again re-conducted a few days by the Parliament and which could even become part of the Constitution if the planned vote succeeds in a few days! Emergency state that gives more and more emergency powers to the executive branch of the French State and thus to the police, with lesser controls from the judiciary and the parliamentary branches of the State. Beyond this arbitrary reduction of civil liberties and rights, from the prohibition of demonstrations to extra-judiciary house arrests, recently denounced by Amnesty International and the UN and many local organisations, the government is pushing for another change in the Constitution that would deprive binationals terrorists of their French nationality. Quite absurd (as if those terrorists cared!), discriminatory (what of Égalité?!), schizophrenic (“de-naturalising” someone does not turn him or her into an alien, nor erases the fact that she or he was born and raised in France), and anti-republican… Even though I remain sceptic of their real impact, there are several petitions around calling for the end of the emergency state and the dismissal of the de-naturalisation.
je pense donc…
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags demonstration, Je suis Charlie, Paris, République on January 12, 2015 by xi'an
