Sylvain Garel

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Sylvain Garel (born 1956) is a French Green politician.

Early life[]

Garel was born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. He has a master's degree in Contemporary History and specializes in Film History.[1]

He entered politics at age 17, in the Ecologist movement,[2] after campaigning for René Dumont[3] who was the first French ecologist to run for president. He joined the Green Party in 1989.

He trained as a teacher and works as a historian and film critic.[4]

Career[]

Garel founded a festival for Cinema of Quebec in France in 1991,[5][6] over which he presided for six years.[7] As a member of Critic's week, he attends the Cannes Festival. He was the vice-president of the French Trade Union for Cinema Critics.[8]

An ardent anti-fascist, Garel in the early 1990s cofounded "Ras l'Front", a French network fighting racialism and white supremacy.[9]

Garel is a Paris city councillor. He ran for Europe Écologie–The Greens in 2001. He is a former president of the Greens group, who deployed a banner in support of Chinese and Tibetan political prisoners while the 2008 Olympic torch was at the Eiffel Tower. On 29 January 2009, at a reception for the Chinese New Year at the Paris city hall, he submitted a memorandum requesting the release of Chinese and Tibetan political prisoners.[10]

One of his political goals is to have the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X evicted from the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet church in Paris. In 2002, he led the Paris municipal council to pass a resolution against what he claims to be an illegal occupation,.[11][12] On 8 December 2003, he supported 200 illegal migrants to occupy this church for several hours. They had to leave the building after the intervention of a parishioners.[13][14] As President of the district council of Montmartre, he turned the spot into the first green district of the capital.

In 2004, Garel opposed municipal subsidies for Jewish , claiming that they discriminate against non-Jewish children.[15]

In 2006, Garel opposed giving John Paul II's name to a public place in front of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Garel quoted the late Pope's opposition to abortion as a reason for not honouring him,[16] along with his opposition to safe sex practices and opposition to contraception.

In 2010 he called for a National Day without a military parade.[17] In September Garel opposed a settlement between the City of Paris and its former mayor Jacques Chirac in a corruption scandal.[18] In October 2010, Garel promoted the opening of an experimental drug consumption room in Paris.[19]

In 2011, he protested against the erection of a marble stele in the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet church, in memory of those who suffered for their fidelity to French Algeria.[20][21]

In June 2011, Garel appeared on the "shame list" of French politicians published by Europe-Israel, a lobby fighting antisemitism, bigotry and anti-Zionism.[22]

Garel was appointed in 2014 as a project manager for the International relationships of the City of Paris.[23] In 2016 he joined the Association Internationale des Maires Francophones (AIMF) for promoting French-language cinema.[24]

References[]

  1. ^ GRECO, Bertrand. "Sylvain Garel, tout feu, tout flammes - leJDD.fr". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Les Verts Paris 18 - Sylvain Garel". lesvertsparis18.free.fr. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  3. ^ GRECO, Bertrand. "Sylvain Garel, tout feu, tout flammes - leJDD.fr". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Sylvain Garel - Le passager clandestin". lepassagerclandestin.fr. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Sylvain Garel, spécialiste du cinéma canadien". Le Parisien. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Vous m'en direz des nouvelles ! - Philippe Lioret et Gabriel Arcand, au nom du fils" (in French). Radio France Internationale. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  7. ^ grandpixels.com. "Sylvain Garel - Festival 48 images seconde". Festival 48 images seconde (in French). Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  8. ^ ABK, Atelier. "SFCC : fonctionnement". jcbidard.pagesperso-orange.fr. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  9. ^ "Sylvain Garel, spécialiste du cinéma canadien". Le Parisien. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  10. ^ Tibetans disrupt Chinese New year reception in Paris
  11. ^ Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet : avec foi mais sans loi
  12. ^ Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet divise la majorité municipale
  13. ^ L'église Saint Nicolas du Chardonnet
  14. ^ Les sans-papiers chez les intégristes
  15. ^ "L'affaire des crèches loubavitch à Paris". L'Humanité (in French). 30 September 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  16. ^ "Non à une une place Jean-Paul 2 à Paris sur le grand parvis de la cathédrale Notre-Dame". gauchemip.org (in French). Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  17. ^ "Les Verts de Paris proposent un 14 juillet sans défilé militaire". RTL.fr (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  18. ^ Verrier, Matthieu. ""Comme si on condamnait toute une bande, sauf son chef" - leJDD.fr". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  19. ^ "Sylvain Garel, sur les salles de shoot : " La société a changé, l'idéologie anti-drogue vieille de 40 ans n'est plus d'actualité "". streetpress.com. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  20. ^ Les victimes de l'OAS auront leur stèle au Père-Lachaise
  21. ^ Apposition d’une stèle en hommage aux victimes de l’OAS dans le cimetière du Père Lachaise
  22. ^ "France: La liste des élus de la honte ! Tous soutiennent les terroristes du Hamas | Europe Israël news". Europe Israel - analyses, informations sur Israel, l'Europe et le Moyen-Orient (in French). 13 June 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  23. ^ Maupoil, Tristan Quinault (4 June 2014). "Des ex-élus recasés par Anne Hidalgo à la Ville de Paris". Le Figaro (in French). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  24. ^ "L'importance du nombre – Entretien avec Sylvain Garel | Culturopoing". culturopoing.com (in French). Retrieved 7 September 2017.

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