Alice Diop filmmaker-sociologist-activist :
«Nous, on vote» (We're voting)
As a racialized person facing this catastrophe, I speak so that an experience, personal and singular, can be heard. I speak so that our words can exist. In this situation of unrest, what helped me was to confront head on the program of the National Rally. I read it completely. I took notes in a journal to develop ideas to engage in this struggle. The extreme right in power is not only a moral discomfort but a veritable existential fear...for people like me it a question of life or death--Alice Diop
Alice Diop filmmaker-sociologist-activist, whose films interrogate the social, political, ethnic fabric of French society, has always aimed her camera at the peripheries of French communities. In response to the prospects of an extreme right in power, she has launched the collective «Nous, on vote» (we're voting).
Friends, artists, cultural workers, a group with one objective: mobilize the youth in working-class neighborhoods who frown on voting, hence a high level of abstentionism. Her objective is to encourage residents of these neighborhoods to vote in the legislative elections on June 30 and July 7 in France. "It's a question of life or death."
Source and image: Libération, 26 juin 2024
Source and image: Libération, 26 juin 2024
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