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À Sciences Po Paris: «On assiste à un mouvement international de solidarité avec les Gazaouis»
news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Yesterday - 19:27
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L’influenceur d’extrême droite Papacito condamné pour injures homophobes
news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Yesterday - 14:08
Aya Nakamura thanks fans for support over Olympics racism as she wins awards
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 11:37
French singer dedicates top prizes at Les Flammes ‘to all the blacks’ after backlash over rumoured Paris show
The French pop star Aya Nakamura has won three big prizes at France’s Les Flammes awards for rap, R&B and pop, and she thanked fans for their support after a racist row over rumours she would sing at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
“I’m very honoured because being a black artist and coming from the banlieue is very difficult,” Nakamura told the ceremony, which she opened with a medley of her songs. She dedicated her awards – female artist of the year, pop album of the year, and international star of the year – “to all the blacks”.
Continue reading...What is the real story behind Vietnamese Channel boat crossings?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 11:14
Speaking to experts and people on the ground in Pas de Calais reveals a different narrative to that told by Rishi Sunak
The people from Vietnam trying to get to England on small boats across the Channel stand out from the rest of those drawn to the Pas de Calais coastline.
They are notably young, many just teenagers. They tend to stick together and eschew the attention of the aid workers offering food and water down at the beach or in the forests where they sleep at night.
Continue reading...Bourguignon, burgers and beetroot: Paris Olympics to make history with vegetarian offerings
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 11:05
Chefs have created meat-free dishes for athletes while fans will have greatest choice of vegetarian food of any Games
It will boast the world’s biggest salad bar, offer fans vegetarian hotdogs and bring in up to half a million bananas by boat to meet athletes’ insatiable demand for the fruit while avoiding the carbon footprint of air travel.
As part of its efforts to cut carbon emissions , the Paris Olympics will make history by offering more vegetarian cuisine than in any Games.
Continue reading...High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films | Peter Bradshaw
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 17:27
In Human Resources, Time Out and The Class, the Palme d’Or-winning film-maker – who has died aged 63 – addressed French and European society at all levels
Laurent Cantet was a classic product of the French cinema industry: a deeply intelligent, high-minded progressive film-maker of the same generation as Robin Campillo and Dominik Moll whose supremely literate, emotionally committed, stylish and well-acted movies aspired to address French and European society at all levels.
Cantet made films that you could imagine being discussed around a gregarious dinner table of fashionable Parisians, with glasses being avidly drained and refilled all round – in fact, you could imagine Cantet himself talking about his work at just this kind of gathering.
Continue reading...Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 17:25
Director of Palme d’Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projects
Laurent Cantet , the award-winning film-maker whose creations tackled some of the most complex issues of modern French society, including meritocracy, the education system, diversity and class struggle, has died aged 63 after an illness.
Cantet was best known outside France for his film Entre les Murs (The Class), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2008. It depicted life inside the classroom of a secondary school in Paris’s diverse 20 th arrondissement and the relationship between students – compellingly improvised by non-professional teenagers – and their at times exasperated teacher.
Continue reading...La liquidation judiciaire de la SFAM, premier acte de la chute de la maison mère d’Hubside Store ?
news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 12:34
La SFAM, filiale d'Indexia, est placée en liquidation judiciaire. La chute de cette structure est susceptible d'avoir des répercussions sur le reste du groupe, accusé depuis des années d'avoir des pratiques commerciales illicites.
French national library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 11:56
Chemical thought to be in emerald green covers of four 19th-century books identified by Poison Book Project
France’s national library has removed four 19th-century books from its shelves whose emerald green covers are believed to be laced with arsenic.
The library said on Thursday that handling the books, which were printed in Britain, would probably cause only minor harm, but it was taking them away for further analysis.
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