France’s public sector is on national strike Tuesday against the €54 billion cuts in public services in the government’s draft 2027 budget, with students blocking schools across the country facing police violence.
Après un été où le dérèglement climatique est devenu réalité avec 100 000 hectares brûlés en France, et deux hectares sur l'île anglo-normande de Sercq, les citoyens français se mobilisent pour réclamer des mesures d'urgence face à l'inaction du président de la République.
Part I. "All our comrades, whether in Portugal, Norway, are paying very close attention to France's presidential election...it’s extremely important that Europe resists this fascist wave.."
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À 16 ans, elle tractait au marché après avoir vu des vidéos du fondateur d’un nouveau parti sur YouTube. Dix ans plus tard, le parti, La France insoumise, est devenu la première force de gauche en France, et Emma Fourreau, aujourd’hui âgée de 26 ans, mène la campagne
After a summer when climate breakdown became a lived reality in France, with climate fires scorching 100 000 hectares and even two hectares of Sark, this autumn French citizens are mobilising for urgent action against Macron's inaction.
"We're going to the Corn Riots festival to change the world." Vraiqu’sie, Jersey's new choir singing in the island's indigenous language opened Jersey's Corn Riots Festival. The festival celebrates protests begun by islanders to stop people starving for the profit of powerful landowners.
Over one weekend, islanders fought a fire in Sark, then Guernsey's La Corbière headland while Jersey was inundated with reports of smoke - it turned out from Port-bail on Normandy's coast. After a summer of climate fires French firefighters are striking for resources to fight them.
A draft law long pushed-for by the far-right would erode the rule of law itself by giving French police - already Europe's deadliest force - the presumption of "legitimate defence" when they kill or maim civilians.
« Nous allons au Corn Riots Festival changer le monde ! » L'édition 2026 du festival de Jersey s'est ouverte avec une performance par Vraiqu’sie, la nouvelle chorale qui dynamise l'apprentissage du jèrriais, langue indigène de l'île.
Tenu au château du Valle depuis 1976, le 50ᵉ Vale Earth Fair, le plus ancien festival des îles anglo-normandes, a dû se déplacer à l'intérieur pour un festival, « comme rien d'autre vu à St Peter Port » capitale de l'île.
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Mobilisation de milliers de personnes dans 100 villes en France dimanche 20 septembre contre la proposition de loi « Permis de tuer » ou « la présomption de légitime défense des forces de l’ordre » dans un pays où la police est déjà la plus meutrière d'Europe.
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213 outdoor music events were cancelled this summer in France
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"All those faces..."
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Returning to the Earth Fair for the first time in six years, Sark's most-famous wearers of flares play a festival which began in a sea of flares 50 summers ago.
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Colette Esteves, one of Guernsey's "most accomplished and talented acoustic performers," returns to the castle in a showcase honouring the folk tradition of the early festivals. An islander who took her guitar sailing around the world, she has played in France, Spain, Portugal and the Azores.
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Guernsey's musicians look back at their first Earth Fairs.
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Part I: "We reckon 2,000 people turned up. It was huge."
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Celebrating half-a-century of concerts in a castle, and 20 years of the Vale Earth Fair inviting bands from the closest land, The Dynamics play at St Malo's sunset spot, Au Bains des Dames beach café, on their way to Guernsey, on 29th August.
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Part II: Stories from original collective members continued.
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An army of part-time roadies, an old Charlie Chaplin & cowboy movie playing as a backdrop and the people sent still dancing out into the warm summer night. The First Annual Festival Of Folk Country & Rock Music, as reviewed in 1976 by the late Errol Groves. After an
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"The music scene can never have been better here in Guernsey"
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"It became really apparent to me that you can't just be passive."