Sandrine Rousseau in Toulouse: “It depresses me to do politics in Ku Klux Klan groups”
Sandrine Rousseau was in Toulouse as part of a major debate around feminist issues in the housing estates. If she evaded questions about her ousting from Yannick Jadot’s campaign team, the ecofeminist shared her vision of current political ecology during the conference.
Impossible for Sandrine Rousseau to avoid her burning news. The ecofeminist was the guest this Saturday of a conference-debate organized by the association Tactikollectif (1) in the district of Izards, in Toulouse. But his ouster from Yannick Jadot’s campaign team after vitriolic remarks reported by Le Parisien, was again on the table.
“Little stories happen to you today with the Greens…”, joked the president of the association Tayeb Cherfi, when presenting it to the public.
After Nora Hamadi, journalist, and Yamina Aissa Abdi, co-founder of the association Izards Attitude, who recounted their inspiring journeys, make way for the “white and bourgeois woman”, as Tayeb Cherfi called her in a wink to one of his tweets.
The room was packed, adding more chairs was not enough to seat everyone. “We are going to move from the neighborhood to politics” warned the president of Tactikollectif.
Sandrine Rousseau was greeted with a standing ovation, like the other speakers. Politics has put on its feminist costume. “I was born on March 8, Women’s Rights Day. I’m like Obélix, I fell into it when I was little. As a child, the differences in treatment between me and the boys made me interested in the question of feminism”, specified the founder of the association for the assistance of victims of sexual violence, En Parler. Microphone in hand, his eyes scanned the various interlocutors behind his rimmed glasses.
“A social ecology not rich”
Over the sentences declaimed with a broad smile, the discourse has become politicized. “The fear of women is politically organized,” she said. I feel it well when I speak and when some say “his speech is not legitimate” that it is an act of domination”. His political ambitions, swept away during his defeat in the environmental primary, are not buried. And she cleverly recalled it. “I would like a political caste that speaks on behalf of everyone. The left would be so afraid of societal movements that it hurts, ” castigated Sandrine Rousseau before declaring: “I would so like you to be in my political party. But which one? The one she is about to launch as certain rumors announce? “I will not answer these questions”, rejects the ecologist. Nor to others concerning Yannick Jadot or his EELV party.
During the conference, she still named her dream of a “more social and popular ecology, not a rich ecology”. “It depresses me to do politics in Ku Klux Klan groups. I want to do politics with faces of all colors”. An outing as she has the secret. One of those which earned her being persona non grata at the distribution of leaflets by EELV activists this Sunday, on the market Crystal, near Joan of Arc.