After five years of prosecution for the ‘crime of solidarity’, Cédric Herrou, a chicken farmer, had the ‘principle of fraternity’ recognised in the Constitution. Since then, his world has changed. He dispossessed himself of his land to make it common land. With Marion Gachet, he founded the Emmaus Roya community. The world’s first Emmaus agricultural community, it provides a living environment for people in precarious situations, even those who live illegally. Autrement tells this story.
Autrement is a response to all those who prefer to build walls rather than bridges. It’s a story that’s both local and universal in its human, social, political and ecological dimensions.
It’s a joyful, thrilling adventure, driven by the impressive resilience of the characters who bring it to life through their hard work, their sense of resourcefulness, their unshakeable will and their inventive courage… The characters are perpetually regenerated by an analysis of society based on their situation, full of intelligence, lucidity, irony and even humour, about a region, a country, a continent, a world and an era.
An eco-political success story of solidarity and fraternity, it traces the invention of a different way of thinking, living and doing things in a border valley, the Roya, which flows into the Mediterranean between France and Italy.
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