JR in Le Havre

When I first met the dockers of Le Havre, it was for the Women Are Heroes project and they helped me post huge eyes on containers, then we did an action with ballet dancers. We got to know each other better. They became part of of the team and in NYC, in Istanbul and others cities there were dockers pasting on the walls by my side. Unsurprisingly, when I introduced them to Agnes Varda, it was love at first sight… Today, we did something together. This arm is the symbol of the strength of these people who help to unload everything we use in our daily lives, and to ship everything we manufacture, these people living at the junction of land and sea. ??

Ein von JR (@jr) gepostetes Foto am 13. Jun 2016 um 5:11 Uhr

Seit vielen Wochen gibt es teils heftige Proteste gegen die Arbeitsrechtsreform (ähnlich der deutschen Agenda 2010) in Frankreich. Le Havre ist das Herz der Streiks, u.a. wurde hier das größte Erdölterminal blockiert was zu landesweiten Treibstoffknappheiten führte.