Hundreds Rally in Nantes for the Reunification of Brittany

Half a thousand people demonstrated in the ancient capital of Brittany called by 44BZH and Coordination Démocratique de Bretagne,. Under the slogan 'To Decide, To Vote, self-goverment', maiily young people claimed for a Referendum to unite again the Breton provinces on September 28th.

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National Movements in the French State Meet in Corsica

Environment, health, constitutional reform, deconcentration were the topics of the 24th Summer University of Régions et Peuples Solidaires helfd from 23th to 25th Agust. The alliance formed by a dozen of national movements* in the French State held the event in Aiacciu, Corsica, thanks to the National Corsican Party (PNC). RPS was formed in 1994.

RPS showed how centralism is disconnected from reality, and how the solution is in decentralization, autonomy and more power to the territories. It was supported by the growing French Green movement who links green politics with self-government. As Green leader Danie Cueff saif: "None can be Ecologist Without Being Regionalist Too". RPS also held its 25th Congress where Pèire Costa (Occitan Party) was again elected as "directeur".

Costa explains that RPS is a rising alliance: "Especially since the 2015 regional election where we have made progress. 2015 is the victory of the Nationalists of Pè a Corsica in Corsica. It is the score of the Alsatian movement that becomes the 3rd political force in Alsace. And then, there was the score achieved in the legislative elections of 2017: 3 deputies out of 4 in Corsica, 1 deputy Breton. And finally, the success of the European elections. It is clear that in the territories, people are becoming increasingly aware that the French policy, very centralized, is a dead end and that the project we are carrying can be a credible answer."

* PNC, Occitan Party, Yes to the Catalan Country, EH Bai, Breton Democratic Union, Our Land (Alsace), MRS, Democratic Dauphiné, Parti des Mosellans

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Successful Breton language Festival

This iconic event, which was revived in 2017 in Langoned/Langonnet (Morbihan) after an absence since 1998, is completely unmissable for anyone involved with the Breton language. It wass the meeting of the year for all Brittophones – present and future – as well as Breton lovers, supporters, anyone curious and all your friends. But it was much more than a festival: it is also a place of activism.  It was once again be an opportunity to remind everyone that the Breton language is rich with a multitude of colours and is a vector of constantly renewed creativity.

For those who do not (yet) speak Breton, the festival wass a unique opportunity to discover a world that may seem hidden, that of the Breton language. It is a “festival experience”, open to all. It will be an amazing immersion and discovery for some who do not speak or know Breton. A lifesize trial situation to discover Breton language and culture with your friends from far away!
The programme featuring the best artists of the moment included Dom Duff and Denez Prigent. On 3 stages, large concerts, a fest-deiz and festoù-noz, An Taol-Lañs (the only springboard for contemporary music in the Breton language), circus, cinema, theatre, conferences and debates, sport, a craftsmen’s village, the digital pole in the Breton language, the village of publishers in the Breton language and cultural associations, children’s games or workshops.

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Breton Party 1st annual Feast

It was held in Iffendic on April 28th. Gael Fleurent, president of the Breton Party, introduced the work day. The party invited over the Breizh Europe as well as the European Federalist Party. Both have formed a joint list for the May European elections. Aziliz Gouez from the Place Publique list was one of the speakers too. The list is promoted by Raphaël Glucksmann, from the french Socialist party. Jean-Pierre Lévesque presented the European petition for minority rights.

Irish diplomatic Erwan Fouéré spoke too about the new Europe after Brexit. Fouéré is the son of Breton thinker and militant Yann Fouéré exiled in Ireland decades ago. A debate ensued on the internal European borders: posted workers, control at the external borders: European officials at Frontex.? The agreement has not yet been made on this point, and he is happy to see that ideas can be exchanged with respect and courtesy. On the other hand the place of the regions in Europe was debated too, the control of these regions, the charter of minority languages, the coofficiality of these languages, federalism, the French decentralization to create "only 14% of funds Europeans are consumed in France, because the files go through Paris "recalled Erwan Fouéré, the consensus is again present.

The veteran Breton activist Thierry Jigourel came to present his series of comics on the History of Brittany, stating clearly that this is the history of Bretons, not Brittany.

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New platform for Brittany's to save the culture and the territory

The platform Pour une Bretagne enfin majeure (For a Britain finally of legal age) began its journey on January 12th in Karaez promoted by the Ar Falz movement. Ar Falz / Skol Vreizh is today mainly a bilingual publishing house run by retired or retired scholars. Founded almost a century ago by Yann Sohier, public master of Plourivo, Ar Falz was initially a Breton cultural left movement centered around the Breton magazine Ar Falz. This association has always campaigned for the teaching of Breton language and culture in public schools.

At the invitation of Ar-Falz, a hundred people gathered this Saturday, in Karaez / Carhaix to discuss the situation in Brittany and agree to a text intended for the elect at all levels. The text projected on the screen debated paragraph per word, word by word.

Political parties such as the UDB (Democratic Union of Britain), the Breton Party, EELV Britain (Greens), Breizh Europe, the Federalist Alliance Breton and the French Communist Party; or associations such as Bretagne Réunie, Breizh Impact participated. The yellow vests were invited to the debates, but any citizen could intervene. The word time was not limited, everyone could express themselves and we could only receive this unifying and transversal initiative through political divisions.

The promoters appealed to save the culture and the territory carried out the French centralism face of intensive agriculture, liberal Europe, globalization and ultra-liberalism. The idea of ​​the Ar Falz association is to launch a platform for the highest possible number of signatories in a common text. Once the text was finalized, Ar Falz / Skol Vreizh will request a meeting with the president of the Breton government and with the presidents of the Republic and the Senate, to inform them of the need to implement a development plan integral of Britain around several axes. During the debates yesterday, themes of energy, transport, ecology, language and Breton culture were addressed with some strong ideas and a lot of consensus. The gravity of the moment seems to have led to a certain maturity in the debates where once the left and the right approached.

One of the priorities is reunification, the state must only make 105,000 signatures obtained to activate the Loire-Atlantique right of option to re-enter Britain. Also about the form of combat: What happens with the yellow vest just reminds us, once again, that nothing is achieved without a power struggle in a presidential republic and its privileged elite.

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Bilingual information meeting : «What is the Breton Society ?»

«How will be Brittany saved ? Brittany will be saved the day when we will have created, in spite of, and against evreryone, a national life in Brittany. Brittany will be saved the day when we have taught our fellow countrymen and women how to read and write our language ; the day when we have improved our language, set up our schools with our schoolmasters and our books paid with our money ; the day when we have opened and raised enough our fellow countrymen and women's minds, to let them be a free people on every field of life, the life of the body or of the soul .»
Roparz Hemon, «Gwalarn e Breizh», Gwalarn issue 9, Spring 1927

How to set up a Breton autonomous society, in direct relationship with the other societies in the world, and at the same level as theirs ? Training learned people, organizing several oportunities (both intelectual and entertaining) intended to put together people until then scattered : here are our aims. which projects can be launched for performing such aims ? Yann-Vadezour ar Rouz’s directory, Kêrvrezhon project...

Bilingual information meeting : «What is the Breton Society ?»

(led by Rafael Urien; On Saturday 12 a viz Genver 2019, 2.30 pm, at the pub The Finnegans, 46 Aristide Briand Street, Kemper

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