RENVERSER LA TABLE avec Victoire Tuaillon – Pourquoi militer dans le Camp du Bien ?

Over the past twenty years, major social movements have often been fiercely repressed, including the Gilets Jaunes and anti-racist and environmental movements (Justice pour Adama, ZAD, Sainte-Soline…). How can we explain the discrediting, and even criminalisation, of activists working for all these causes?

For this first session, we will take care to define our terms: what does activism actually mean in France today, in 2026? Why is activism essential to any true democracy?

Around the table, three guests reflect on and openly embrace their activism.

Alice Coffin and Fatima Ouassak are two experienced activists who dare to proclaim it: they belong to the Camp du Bien (Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2026). In their jointly written manifesto, urgently composed “with a knot in our stomachs and a target on our backs”, Alice Coffin — journalist, feminist politician and author of Le Génie lesbien (Grasset, 2020) — and Fatima Ouassak — political scientist, co-founder of the Front de mères and author of La Puissance des mères and Pour une écologie pirate (La Découverte, 2021 and 2023) — examine the major movements of our time. They propose radical but achievable solutions for facing the 2027 elections: “We won’t be a barrier; we will be a tidal wave.”

Alongside them, Johan Faerber, teacher, literary critic, holder of a doctorate in literature and author of Militer, verbe sale de l’époque (Autrement, 2024), explores the possibilities and limits of social, political and cultural activism in France through several high-profile cases. His conviction: “To stop being an activist is to accept silence.”

A discussion without empty talk, to understand why there can be no democracy without activists… and why “getting involved” is not enough! Followed, as at every session, by time to learn a protest song together.