This is a press conference of the movement of yellow vests
at the port of Saint-Lazaire.
We have drawn up a communiqué. Here it is:
To everyone! Since 17th November the movement of yellow vests
has been expressing the weariness of the population
which has had enough.
It has had enough of being taxed, humiliated, and exploited.
Despised by an authority that is increasingly arrogant against the weak,
and sides ever more with the powerful.
Since November 17th the economic blockades
are growing in the streets and in the supermarkets.
The goal is to run the power of money dry,
to bring down the authority that secures it.
These actions have also had bad consequences.
The citizens that died living their everyday lives,
also had to put up with this system,
which threatens friendly and humane relationships,
by replacing them with monetised relationships.
We don't want to cause long lasting damage
for the women and men that live here.
Our goal is to regain
decision making power for the people.
An authority that gives them entitlement.
If we wait too long our movement will fall.
The awakening of the people has spread.
In Belgium, Bulgaria and Germany
and in other places in the world people are waking up
and have decided to stop waiting.
They have the same problems as us.
A meeting in Paris has been decided
for November 24th on Champs-Élysées
to visit President Macron,
as he suggested himself.
Everyone that can should head to Paris.
It's really important.
But the executive also has regional intermediaries.
The representatives of the executives in each region and small town
are the prefectures and the sub-prefectures.
They have to implement the decisions
which are decided by people who are less and less in touch with
our reality.
These are places where people's power should be exercised,
where brotherhood and friendship combine
where human, social and ecological problems
can be solved more simply
so that welfare can follow
and the welfare of our collective wealth
and our environment.
The movement of yellow vests in Nazairer Beckens
at the port of Saint-Nazaire
has decided to hold a meeting
at the sub-prefecture of Saint Nazaire
on Saturday 24. November at 14.00.
We are calling on all participants,
to respect the local streets,
as well as the building of the sub-prefecture.
Our goal is not to destroy but to build
a humane world
for future generations.
We are calling on all cities in France
to organise a meeting on the same day and same time.
on Saturday 24th November at 14.00
at your local authority,
and to maintain the same peaceful attitude
and to respect the property of your local authority.
We demand that the authorities provide access
to public places that are owned and financed by us
and built by our hands.
We will no longer wait for decisions to come from above.
The political, financial and industrial leadership
that governs our land
will always be incapable of
solving our social and economic problems,
that they don't see or understand.
We are the solution to our problems.
We as the workers, unemployed and pensioners
of all backgrounds and skin colour.
Let's act while we still have time. We owe ourselves that much.
We owe it to the elderly, we owe it to the children.
We call on the yellow vests to meet on November 24th,
to carry out the economic blockades.
We sign this statement as: "The movement of yellow vests
from the port of Saint-Nazaire"