Nearly 300 personalities from the world of culture wrote an open letter to the President of the Republic in the columns of the newspaper Release to affirm their opposition to the text.
A platform of artists to affirm their opposition to the pension reform. Nearly 300 personalities from the world of culture – including actresses Audrey Fleurot and Laure Calamy and comedian Jonathan Cohen – call this Wednesday for the immediate withdrawal of the text in an open letter to the President of the Republic, published in the columns of the newspaper Release.
These cultural professionals denounce a reform that is “unfair, inefficient, affecting the most precarious and women the hardest, rejected by the vast majority of the population, and even a minority in the National Assembly” and underline their opposition “to the method the passage in force by the 49.3”.
“Professions have been on strike for several weeks, garbage collectors, railway workers, energy specialists, teachers, in ports and docks, trade, etc. They are mobilizing for all of us, with a sense of the general interest which commands our respect and which on the contrary seems to have disappeared from the heads of our rulers”, can we read in the tribune.
And to add: “If the best known among us are not the most affected by the postponement of the retirement age and the increase in the number of annuities, we know that it is not It is not possible to work later when a growing number of people are unemployed, in precarious conditions, suffering at work, and even in danger of dying even before retirement age.
“It is high time to make our voices heard”
“While the climate is getting dangerously warmer, while inequalities are exploding just as much as the cost of living, rather than fragmenting society, there are much more ambitious projects to carry out to consolidate it. It is high time to make people hear our voices, because the cinema, the theater, the culture, if they sometimes carry the dream and the escape, are especially works which speak about our world”, continue the signatories of the text about the reform which plans to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.
“Mr. President, we stand in solidarity with those who strike and demonstrate with reason against this unjust and unpopular law […] We do not want to deplore the victims of serious injuries, or worse death, in these demonstrations: reason and democracy impose the immediate withdrawal of this pension reform”, they conclude.
Among the signatories, we also find the actresses Juliette Binoche, Camille Cottin or even Noémie Merlant, the actors Swann Arlaud and Alex Lutz, the directors Michel Hazanavicius and Cédric Klapisch as well as the artists Camélia Jordana and Philippe Katerine.
other personalities had already taken a stand in January against the pension reform : the actresses Adèle Haenel and Corinne Masiero, the host Valérie Damidot or the actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin, the novelist Nobel Prize for literature Annie Ernaux, have thus signed a first column published in the weekly political.
The honoured writer Nicolas Mathieu also published on March 18 in Mediapart a column entitled “Do you know what rage you have just unleashed?”.