Paris stages huge environmental protest

by Kaitlin | April 2, 2007 at 09:44 am

669 views | 0 Recommendations | 0 comments

Parisians gathered yesterday as a reminder to their politicians that they signed an ecological pact protecting the country's natural resources. April 22 is the first round of France's national elections--they do a second round on May 6 if no candidate wins 50% or more of the vote--so this protest (as well as last week's riots) are probably the beginning of many political activities in the coming weeks.

See the invitation to the protest, below, as well as a (loose, as it was done with my high school French and the aid of an online translator) English translation.

Ensemble, à trois semaines du premier tour de l’élection présidentielle, rappelons aux candidats qu’ils ont signé le Pacte écologique et se sont engagés sur des propositions.

Les ONG environnementales, avec la Fondation Nicolas Hulot, s’unissent dans un appel commun « Votons pour la Planète ! ».

Soyons nombreux, de toutes les régions de France, à affirmer notre détermination et notre vigilance.

"Together, three weeks until the first voting round of presidential
election, let's remind the candidates that they signed the
ecological Pact and engaged in proposals.

ONG environmental, with The Nicolas Hulot Foundation, are
linked in the common call 'Vote for Our Planet!'

Let us be numerous, in all the areas of France, to affirm our
determination and our vigilance."