Sylvain Garel

Sylvain Garel was born in 1956, in the 18th district of Paris. He has a master in Contemporary History and is specialized in Film History.[1]

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

He was trained as a teacher, he is a historian and film critic.[4] Garel founded the festival for Cinema of Quebec in France in 1991,[5][6] which he presided six years long.[7] Member of Crtitic's week, he attends the Cannes Festival during 25 years. He was also as the vice-president of the French Trade Union for Cinema Critics.[8]

An ardent anti-fascist, Garel in the early 90's cofounded "Ras l'Front", a French network fighting racialism and white supremacism.[9]

Sylvain Garel is a Paris city councillor of Europe Écologie–The Greens in 2001, former President of the Greens group, who deploying a banner in support of Chinese and Tibetan political prisonners when 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 goal is to have the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X evicted from the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet church in Paris. In 2002, he made the Paris municipal council pass a resolution against what he pretends to be an illegal occupation,.[11][12] On 8 December 2003, he supports 200 illegal migrants to occupy this church during several hours. They had to leave the building after the intervention of a parishioners,.[13][14] President of the district council of Montmartre, he turns the famous butte into the first green district of the capitale.

In 2004, Garel opposes municipal subsidies for Jewish Loubavitch cribs, claiming that they discriminates against non-Jewish children.[15]

In 2006, Garel opposes giving John Paul II's name to public place in front of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Garel quotes the late pope's opposition to abortion as one of the reasons for not honouring him[16], other reasons being opposition to safe sex practices and opposition to contraception.

In 2010, Sylvain Garel, a conscientious objector and anti-militarist, calls for a National Day without military parade.[17]

In septembre 2010, Garel opposes a settlement between the City of Paris and its former mayor Jacques Chirac, in a corruption scandal.[18] In October 2010, Garel promotes the opening of an experimental drug consumption room in Paris who has since opened.[19]

In 2011, he publicly expresses a protest against a marble stele, erected in the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet church to the memory of victims for their fidelity to French Algeria.[20][21]

In June 2011, Garel appears 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] Since 2016, he works at 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". LeJDD.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  2. ↑ "Les Verts Paris 18 - Sylvain Garel". lesvertsparis18.free.fr. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  3. ↑ GRECO, Bertrand. "Sylvain Garel, tout feu, tout flammes - leJDD.fr". LeJDD.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  4. ↑ "Sylvain Garel - Le passager clandestin". lepassagerclandestin.fr. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  5. ↑ "Sylvain Garel, spécialiste du cinéma canadien". leparisien.fr. 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  6. ↑ "Vous m'en direz des nouvelles ! - Philippe Lioret et Gabriel Arcand, au nom du fils". RFI (in French). 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  7. ↑ www.grandpixels.com. "Sylvain Garel - Festival 48 images seconde". Festival 48 images seconde (in French). Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  8. ↑ ABK, Atelier. "SFCC : fonctionnement". jcbidard.pagesperso-orange.fr. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  9. ↑ "Sylvain Garel, spécialiste du cinéma canadien". leparisien.fr. 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  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). 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  16. ↑ "Non à une une place Jean-Paul 2 à Paris sur le grand parvis de la cathédrale Notre-Dame". www.gauchemip.org (in French). Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  17. ↑ "Les Verts de Paris proposent un 14 juillet sans défilé militaire". RTL.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  18. ↑ Verrier, Matthieu. ""Comme si on condamnait toute une bande, sauf son chef" - leJDD.fr". LeJDD.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  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 "". http://www.streetpress.com. Retrieved 2017-04-10. External link in |work= (help)
  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). 2011-06-13. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  23. ↑ Maupoil, Tristan Quinault (2014-06-04). "Des ex-élus recasés par Anne Hidalgo à la Ville de Paris". Le Figaro (in French). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  24. ↑ "L'importance du nombre – Entretien avec Sylvain Garel | Culturopoing". www.culturopoing.com (in French). Retrieved 2017-09-07.
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