In Brest, “Friday Mass” against excessive consumption at Espace Jaurès – Brest

A very surprising movement, this Saturday, November 26, 2022, in the Jean Jaures shopping center, in Brest: around 3 pm, activists from the Brest of Extinction Rébellion group first nailed themselves to the entrance doors in order to block access to the exhibition. Via Jean-Joris Street. They then posted the shady activists on the front displaying a message mentioning the climate emergency.

against the mechanisms of need creation

A way to protest against excessive consumption, which according to them is symbolized by Black Friday. “We want the climate convention recommendations for citizens to be respected in their entirety without filtering. In particular those referred to in the ‘consume’ topic such as establishing an emission class, banning the use of billboards in certain cases. We are also calling for events such as consumption to be banned,” the group said in a statement after the event. Black Friday.

“We do not encourage boycotts of events such as Black Friday. A boycott means that individuals who are alienated by advertising campaigns are able to let go of the needs that are created at home and the addictions that result from them. However, we are here to denounce the manipulative mechanisms that create consumer needs (advertising, sales, offers exclusivity, other marketing maneuvers, etc.) that were pushed to a head during Black Friday,” the activist group defines.

Limited discomfort

Contacted, Andre Le Bars, the mall’s manager, did not want to comment. The activists weighed anchor just before 5 p.m. Note that the inconvenience remained limited for the shops, as the mall has another entrance.