Survey on the Rural Coordination, agricultural trade union organization at the origin of blockade operations around Paris and major provincial cities. With a traditional speech it brings together communist farmers, members of the FFA (French Federation of Agriculture) marked to the right, and grain farmers. Evocation of two of its creators: Philippe Arnaud and Jacques Laigneau. The report alternates the archive images of the events organized by the Rural Coordination, and the analysis of Bertrand HERVIEU (CNRS).
There were 2000 in Chartres under the banner of the Rural Coordination to say no to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) decided by the European Commissioner for Agriculture Raymond Mac Sharry. The comment is accompanied by reactions and testimonies of farmers and the interview of Jacques LAIGNEAU, president of the Rural Coordination, which brings together the FFA unions, the Confédération paysannne, the Modef, the FNSEA, the CDJA.
The trans-union movement of the Rural Coordination maintains, despite its ban by the Ministry of the Interior, its plan to block the Paris region next Tuesday to protest against the European reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Meeting of the leaders of the Rural Coordination in their headquarters based in Ecublé (Eure-et-Loir). Interview with Alain GAIGNEROT and Philppe ARNAUD, Rural Coordination,
The Rural Coordination movement, created a few months ago in opposition to the European reform of the CAP (common agricultural policy), already has five thousand members. Evocation of the profile of its sympathizers often former members of other unions like the FNSEA, with two unions present in the Rural Coordination including the Modef close to the communists and the FFA classified on the right. Report in the Gers with interviews with Philippe ARNAUD, secretary general of the Rural Coordination of Gers, Gérard DARDENNE, farmer, and Henri TURIAF, vice-president FDSEA, member of the Rural Coordination.
This report focuses on the Coordination rurale (CR), an agricultural union that has just been created in response to the reform of the CAP. Arnaud Deroince and Dominique Rougeau, farmers affiliated with the CR, explain their motivations at a demonstration (filtering dam). In Isle Jourdain, at the headquarters of the Rural Coordination, met with its president Jacques LAIGNEAU who says "that he goes to the assault of Europe because the only madness when one has nothing to lose is to do nothing".
Tomorrow in Agen, the Rural Coordination will demonstrate for the first time, against the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) wanted by the European Commissioner for Agriculture Raymond Mac Sharry. Comment accompanied by images of a manequin depicting a farmer hanging from a tree, signs in the fieldss "Die outdoors", "Die in the Gers", "Rurality makes you live". Interview with Jacques LAIGNEAU, farmer in Lussan (Gers) and president of the Rural Coordination (CR), who explains that the CR brings together union and non-union members in an alliance that is not directed against existing unions, But is in favour of Europe if it is resistant to American interests.
This afternoon at the exhibition center of Niort (Deux-Sèvres), nearly three thousand farmers of the great Southwest demonstrated against the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in the absence of FNSEA and CNJA and the initiative of the Coordination rurale mouvement created three months ago in the Gers.
In Agen, the alliance of the Rural Coordination created three months ago and which brings together farmers from the Gers and Lot-et-Garonne on the fringes of agricultural trade unions and which wants to be apolitical, held its first meeting at the Parc des expositions in Agen. The topics discussed include the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the GATT agreements. The comment is accompanied by images of the meeting, signs in the fieldss "Production Accelerated of Unemployed", "PAC on crève", a manequin depicting a farmer hanged with "Assassins of the rural world". Interview with Jacques LAIGNEAU, President of the Rural Coordination.
The La Laigne Rural Farmers Coordination planted large billboards and models representing farmers hanged to protest the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to make people in cities and rural areas aware of the situation of farmers. The commentary is accompanied by images of the signs "No to CAP 92", "France and Europe, sacrifice the rural world, its peasants and children", "the peasant feeds men, cultivates life, does not want to be assisted", "CAP 92 = rural suicide", "The CAP will kill us all!". Interviews with Pierre-Jacques GORIOUX and Francis PINEAUD, from the La Laigne Rural Coordination.