This Thursday, November 18, two citizen lookouts took place in Dijon and Moloy to request the reconversion of the site of the Commissariat for atomic energy and alternative energies in Valduc.
Communiqué from the Bourgogne Franche-Comté collective for the abolition of nuclear weapons of November 18, 2021:
22nd Monthly Citizen Watch in DIJON and Valduc: reconversion of the CEA and abolition of nuclear weapons.
Double Watch on November 18, 2021: in DIJON and MOLOY, near the site of the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA) in Valduc, which maintains and modernizes 290 French nuclear weapons, around ten launchers alert from the ‘Collectif Bourgogne Franche-Comté for the abolition of nuclear weapons’ took turns. They call :
– respect by France of art. 6 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which it acceded in 1992 and of which it blithely violates the spirit and the letter,
– France’s accession to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TIAN), which on January 22, 2021 became the standard of international law,
– and the conversion to peaceful activities of the CEA-DAM sites, including that of Valduc.
December 15: next Citizen Watch!
The ‘Bourgogne Franche Comté Collective for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons’ invites you to meet on Wednesday 15, for the December Watch, where we will be celebrating the 2 years of existence of these monthly Vigies!
Claude Bourdet, a Resistance against nuclear weapons
Claude Bourdet (1909-1996), French engineer graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He participated with Henri Frenay and Berty Albrecht in the founding of the resistance movement ‘Combat’. In 1942 he created and developed the network ‘Noyautage des administrations publics’ (NAP) to infiltrate the administrations of the French State and make them function in the service of the Resistance: intelligence of ‘Free France’, security of the Resistance fighters, sabotage ” professional “, supply of false papers, preparation for the seizure of power at the time of the Liberation. There he practices non-violent resistance and non-collaboration with the occupier and with the Vichy regime, “like Monsieur Jourdain doing prose,” he later wrote to Jean-Marie Muller. The administrations concerned are in particular the prefectures, the police, food supplies, electricity, the PTT and the SNCF.
Arrested in March 1943 by the Gestapo, tortured, he was deported to Buchenwald. In October 1945 he was made ‘Companion of the Liberation’. Writer, journalist, in 1950 he co-founded the newspaper L’Observateur and in 1960 the ‘Unified Socialist Party’ (PSU). He denounces the repression in Madagascar and the torture in Algeria.
As an extension of his fight against Nazism, and to denounce an immoral and suicidal weapon, Claude Bourdet co-founded in 1963 with Jean Rostand the ‘Mouvement contre l’Armes Atomique’ (MCAA), which in 1968 became the ‘Movement for Disarmament, the Peace and Freedom ‘(MDPL). He is a member of the Sponsorship Committee of the ‘Center for Documentation and Research on Peace and Conflict’ (CDRPC), which in 2008 became the ‘Armaments Observatory’.
He declared, during an exchange with the Revue Défense nationale: “It is quite certain that a large part of the lack of interest of citizens in the problems of national defense today, – except perhaps among certain very elites. informed, – lies in the idea that the famous “button” by which the Head of State starts nuclear war, guarantees us so well that it is really no longer worth worrying about defense. This disinterestedness perhaps satisfies certain “pacifists”. Me, it does not satisfy me. “
How can citizens support TIAN?
– Write to your Mayor, so that your municipality signs the ICAN Cities Appeal for nuclear disarmament, to your Deputy and Senator so that France ratifies the TIAN.
– Take part in Citizen Vigies in Dijon or Valduc, Paris and elsewhere.
– Ask your bank about its financing of the atomic bomb by participating in the action campaign on this theme.
– Take an interest in nuclear weapons, international security issues and democratic defense alternatives.
The Vigies and non-violent actions carried out by the ‘Collectif Bourgogne Franche Comté for the abolition of nuclear weapons’ are part of the framework of ICAN, ‘International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) , Nobel Peace Prize 2017, and following on from previous UN victories: ban on biological weapons (1972), chemical weapons (1993), anti-personnel mines (1997), and cluster munitions ( 2008). Discover the history with photos of actions in Dijon and Valduc since 2014.
The Bourgogne Franche-Comté collective for the abolition of nuclear weapons
http://abolitiondesarmesnucleaires.org – [email protected] – 06 14 24 86 96
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