“We always walk on our heads.” The slogan has hardly changed since the mobilization at the beginning of the year, but the situation has no longer been worsened by health crises and climatic hazards which have led to very poor harvests. Added to this month of November is the specter of MERCOSUR and other international agreements.
Simple demands
The demands remain simple for the agricultural unions. They ask:
• Short-term and cash flow measures
• Drastic administrative simplification
• Recognition of agriculture as of general interest through the completion of the agricultural orientation law
• A stop to European and global inconsistencies to restore ambition to European food sovereignty.
Unions who also deplore that the actions which were to follow the promises made by the government to put an end to the first major crisis are only arriving in dribs and drabs. It is for all these reasons that the FDSEA 21 and 71 and the JA 21 and 71 are calling on the farmers of Côte d’Or and Saône-et-Loire to mobilize as part of the national movement FNSEA + JA this Monday, November 18 .
A mobilization in several acts
Before Monday, pre-mobilization is planned for Sunday, November 17 in the evening with the covering of the municipal entrance signs. Then it will be the real ACT 1 the next day. In Côte-d’Or, the unions are calling for the organization of “Fires of Anger”, a luminous communication action in response to the SOS last January organized in Maconge. The meeting is scheduled from 6:30 p.m. next to the Dijon ring road, in the Olympic swimming pool parking lot. The demonstrators will come without agricultural equipment, so there should be no disruption to road traffic in the department. A friendly barbecue to launch the actions will be organized on site.
In Saône-et-Loireit is at the Europe roundabout, in Mâcon, that the FDSEA and the Young Farmers of Saône-et-Loire (JA 71), meet their troops at the end of the day at 7 p.m.
Other actions are also planned from November 25, then December 9 by the FNSEA, unless all the problems are resolved by then, which seems unlikely.
