Today, the Quarter Hour meets Alisa, who is one of those Russians from France who help welcome Ukrainian refugees to France. She recounts her “shame” and “guilt” since the start of the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron presents his program for a day of strike for wages. And then, the Quarter Hour takes you to the Angoulême comic strip festival, more punk than ever!
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“We tell stories to children in their language”, says this Thursday, March 17 at the Quarter Hour Alisa, a 38-year-old Russian who has been living in France for eight years. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, she says she feels “shame” and “guilt”. She therefore decided to commit to welcoming Ukrainian refugees in France, by “protecting” the children and helping the parents with their administrative procedures or in organizing their journey to the destination they they have chosen, in France or in a neighboring country.
This Thursday, March 17, was also a day of strike for an increase in wages and pensions. Thousands of people demonstrated in Paris and in a hundred cities in the region. While Emmanuel Macron presented his program for the presidential campaign, the left-wing candidates Fabien Roussel (PCF), Philippe Poutou (NPA) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) marched in the Parisian procession.
And then the Quarter Hour takes you to the Angoulême International Comics Festival which opened this Thursday and runs until Sunday. He awarded his Grand Prize to a Quebec author, Julie Doucet. A punk and feminist artist, she is unknown to the general public but has marked generations of authors for her “Dirty Plotte”, a Quebec word for the female sex, released in the late 80s.
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