Discover the 135 Gard personalities who are calling to demonstrate this Sunday against the immigration law

Le comédien Philippe Béranger. Midi Libre – YANNICK PONS

La loi immigration divise profondément la société. une nouvelle manifestation est prévue ce dimanche en France et dans trois villes gardoises.

With the 201 "national personalities", 135 "Gardoise personalities" (elected officials, associations, doctors, artists, etc.) are calling to march on Sunday January 21 for freedom, equality, fraternity, for the withdrawal of the immigration law. 

They call for demonstrations in Nîmes at 11 a.m. from Maison Carrée, at 10:30 a.m. from the sub-prefecture in Alès and to gather at 10:30 a.m. at the War Memorial in Bagnols sur Cèze.& nbsp;

"In our diversity of ideas, commitments, professions, we express our great concern after the vote of the law known as « asylum-immigration », write these signatories in a press release. This is a dangerous turning point in the history of our Republic. "

Here is the list:

Jérôme Amicel, departmental secretary of SNES-FSU

Sylvain André, Mayor of Cendras

Philippe Alverde, Solidarity Trade Unionist Lasalle

Janie Arnéguy, activist Together! 30 

Jean-Michel Andriuzzi, Mayor of Montpezat

Henri Aram Hairabédian, sculptor/author

Françoise Asenat, Teacher, retired school principal

Christian Astor, Painter

Jean Marc Aubaret, Founder of the Mediterranean Center for Oral Literature

Jean Azarel, Writer

Laurence Baldit, Mayor of Grand’ Combe 

Christian Bastid, Vice-President of the Departmental Council of Gard – canton of Nîmes 2, Municipal and community councilor of Nîmes 

Philippe Beranger, Comedian, author

Emmanuel Bois, Secretary General FSU Gard

Michel Boissier, Professor of literature, Founder of the A T P d'Alès

Arnaud Bord, Alès municipal councilor – Alès Agglomération community councilor

Serge Bord, Mayor of Saint Julien les Rosiers

Christine Boularasse, Solidaires 30

unionist

Patrick Benezech, Mayor of Mus

Marianne Bernède, Municipal Councilor of Nîmes 

Christiane Berton, Solidaires 30 

Nadège Biot, departmental secretary of SE-Unsa du Gard

Mireille Bonnet, Bonnet Activist, Secours Populaire Français 

Françoise Bons, Oncologist

Vincent Bouget, Departmental Councilor of Gard – canton of Nîmes 3, Municipal and community councilor of Nîmes 

Christophe Brès, Departmental Secretary of the UNSA

Éric Brès, Doctor, Peace Movement activist

Serge Camboulive, retired

Odile Campagne Aigon, community activist

Theo de Cazenove, exiled welcome activist

Ghislain Chassary, Mayor of Rousson – Departmental Councilor of Gard – Canton of Rouson 

Cathy Chaulet, Vice-President of the Gard Departmental Council

Alain Clary, Former deputy and mayor of Nîmes

David Crunelle, English teacher – SNES-FSU activist

Pierre Dard, Founder SOCOOP International Solidarity 

Sylvie Durbec, Poet, artist

Jean Denat, Mayor of Vauvert

Annelie Deschamps, Lawyer

Bernard Deschamps, Former MP

Delphine Desyeux, dancer

Pierre-Edouard Detrez, Municipal Councilor, Community Councilor – City of Nîmes

Giovanni Di Francesco, secretary of the PCF Alès section

Jacques Olivier Durand, Author

Eugène Ébodé, academic, writer

Alain Fabre-Pujol, former Member of Parliament for Gard, Republican and Socialist Left representative

Sylvette Fayet, municipal councilor and community councilor of Nîmes

Isabelle Fardoux-Jouve, Departmental Councilor of Gard – canton of Grand Combe 

Bruno Ferrier, municipal and community councilor of Nîmes 

Tom Gareil musician

Denis Galvier, Musician (Coriander – Garric – Kabyl'Òc…)- ACI – creator of the festival Les Trad'Hivernales

Philippe Gasser, Psychiatrist, Together activist! 

Coralie Ghirardi unionist political leader

Marie-Claire Gelly Aubaret, Honorary Deputy Director of the Cratère National Stage of Ales 

Aurélie Genoler, Occitanie regional elected official

Corinne Giacometti, Municipal and community councilor of Nîmes

Jean-Luc Gibelin, Vice-president Occitanie region

Frédéric Gonzalez, Éditions Sansouire

Marie-Christine Gordien, Writer and Poet

Katy Guyot, First Deputy Mayor of Vauvert, Occitanie Regional Councilor

Emmanuel Grieu, Mayor of Mandagout

Georgette Draussin, algologist anesthetist

Yannick Iffernet, CGT Alès agglomeration manager

Béatrice Ladrange

Municipal and community councilor Alès 

Denis Lanoy, director, section secretary of Nîmes PCF. Coordinator

PCF culture commission

Jean Yves Lantoine, Popular education association activist

Jean Launey, Spokesperson League for Human Rights section of Nîmes 

Marc Livecchi, Community activist

Irène Lebeau, Mayor of Dourbies

Patrice Loubon, Artistic Director

Jean-Pierre Hladky, Neuro-surgeon

Dominique Houdart, Director

Raymond Huard, historian

Julie Huou, Founder and Director, Association for Migrants

Sibylle Jannekeyn, Secretary of the Nîmes group, Europe Ecology The Greens – The Ecologists

Pierre Jaumain, Socialist Party – 1st Federal Secretary of Gard 

Maguy Joncourt, Allergist, co-president of the Human Rights League, Nîmes section

Mireille Jullien, former elected town hall of Alès, Member LFI

Jullien Pacioni, Writer, Municipal Councilor of Clarensac, delegate for the environment and responsible for communication 

Paul Planque, Municipal Councilor of Alès, Community Councilor of Alès Agglomération

Patrick Malavieille, Vice-President of the Departmental Council of Gard – canton of Grand Combe

Stéphanie Marc 

Actress

Didier Marion

Farmer, Spokesperson Confédération Paysanne du Gard

Marion Mazauric 

Editor

Claude Mazauric 

Historian

Simone Mazauric, Historian

Daredjane Meliava, author

Charles Ménard

municipal councilor Beaucaire

Jo Menut, Municipal and community councilor of Nîmes 

Group "Nîmes Citoyenne à Gauche"

Lyssandra Mercier, Trans Solidarity Organization

Juliette Mézenc

author

Gérald Miesch

unionist Solidarity 30

Emma Morin 

actress director

Maya Amer Moussa

teacher

Marie-Françoise Mousel 

associative activist (Resf30-Trampoline)

Jean-Pierre Neel, Musician

Lhoussaine Noual, community activist

Nathalie Ouzoulias, CGT Alès agglomeration manager 

Nicole Palat, President of Women in Solidarity of St Martin de Valgégales

Bruno Paternot, artist Cie Rêves du 22 Mars, based in Nîmes

Stella Pinnisi, RTH coordinator – L'Art resource – artistic and cultural resource center – Nîmes

Eddie Pons, designer, director

Amina Richard, Author

Bertrand Riou, Director of CACN

Bruno Rivier, Secretary General of the CGT Gard departmental union

Roger Mathieu, Associative Activist

Jean-François Meyer, former leader of the PCF and cultural mediator

Jean-Christophe Muller

Retired, former Pastor of the United Protestant Church of France, former Deputy Mayor of the City of Alès

Dominique Rolland, Vice-president of the community of commune of Aigoual Causses Cévennes

Michel Sala, Deputy

Jean-Jacques Salgon, Writer 

Martine Sagit, Secretary of the local union CGT Alès

François Séguy, Former municipal councilor of Nîmes

Marc Simon, Musician composer 

Jean-Michel Suau, municipal councilor of Alès

Elise Thiébaut Author, journalist

Florence Thiébaut, President of the Friends of Prolé association

Christiane Thomas, secretary of the ALES section of the PS

Marie Claude Tordo, Doctor, Teens Without Borders

Pierrick Touguet, secretary of the local group EELv/ecologists, Ales-Cévennes.

Pascal Trarieux

Art historian, former museum curator

Pietro Truddaiu 

Volunteer activist, solidarity association

Cyndi Varnier, Secretary General of the CFDT Gard departmental union

Antoine Vasa, Languedoc-Roussillon regional co-secretary of the group "Young Ecologists"

Bruno Vasa, Spokesperson for the Nîmes group  Europe Ecology The Greens – Ecologists

Catherine Vasseur, Director

Yves Verdeil, Doctor

Didier Vignolles, Municipal Councilor of Aramon