Martinique rises up against “the high cost of living”

Roadblocks and demons- trations against “the high cost of living” are on the increase. The préfecture has declared a curfew. Workers explained: “The demonstrations that were called were meant to be peaceful, but in very poor districts, people cannot take it any more and the children are idle, so things are getting out of hand. That is what the media focus on, instead of showing people’s real living conditions” “High living costs, repres- sion: these are the same pro- blems as in Kanaky. We are once again experiencing colonial repression against demonstrators whose demands are to be able to live” “Big fishing companies and tour operators have every- thing, and fishing zones and boats are taken away from small-scale fishermen… they too are also going hungry.’ Others point “soaring plane fares that prevent us from visi- ting (our) children who are living in France” The situation has been made worse by the chlordecone scandal (1), because many families used to survive by planting vegetables around their homes. That is no longer an option, because you risk getting poisoned, so you have to buy everything. The same goes for water: bottled mineral water costs three times as much as in France, [...]

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