Éléonore Schmitt hopes, finally, to be heard on Sunday, October 16 in Paris. She will walk alongside representatives of the left during the “march against high cost of living and climate inaction” led by the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his Nupes partners.
“We see that unity was lacking in the social moment and in the political movementsays this spokesperson for the student association L’Alternative. I think something may be going on. It gives hope.” Two days before an interprofessional strike, the left-wing parties are hoping for thousands of people, a “show of strength” to engage in a showdown with the government. More than 600 young people from student and high school associations also plan to be present.
“Today, we are still organizing food distributions with over 500 students.”
Éléonore Schmitt, spokesperson for the student association L’Alternativeat franceinfo
According to Éléonore Schmitt, young people, who were talked about a lot during the Covid, fall back into oblivion and feel neglected. “There is anger that has gone up a notch compared to recent months, recent years. At the time of the Covid crisis, it was kind of the first time that we saw queues at food distributions that big.recalls the young woman. We have the impression that the precariousness of young people has disappeared but this is not at all the case. It must be said that young people are also affected by inflation. The price of notebooks, for example, has increased by more than 18% according to the FIDL high school student union.
At 16, Gwen Thomas Vels, national delegate of the high school organization, is also keen to march against climate inaction: “We are the generation that will live the next few years, the next decades. We ask ourselves questions, we read the IPCC reports which tell us that we must act quickly and, at the same time, we see the governments which do nothing Billionaires can still do private jet pools, it’s a disaster but we’re still not heard.”
FIDL spoke at the press conference of youth organizations calling for #March16October !
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– FIDL, the high school student union (@FIDLnational) October 14, 2022
Today, the fear is not to succeed in attracting enough young people to the streets. Young people who sometimes transform this feeling of abandonment into resignation.