(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Ciao Renaud, we will
not forget you (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Renaud Giraudet of Boudemange left this May 1, 2015. A symbol for this tireless
campaigner. Insubordinate, actor homeless struggles, he was a Libertarian Alternative
companion since its inception. ---- This is the anti-militarist struggle and especially
that of the deserters and draft evaders, which he actively participated, he had then
joined the libertarian movement in the 1970s by joining the Anarchist Coordination. ----
Renaud was discretion itself. Yet it marked the first steps of Alternative Libertaire
including through support to the struggles of poorly housed and homeless conducted under
the leadership of the association Right to Housing in which we are strongly committed-from
1991. He was there for both brilliant actions such camps facilities and requisitioning
empty buildings, that in the struggle in the long term when to spend months organizing
solidarity around those same places fight up to give owners and public authorities.
Activist more than theorist
Discreet, efficient and above all generous, are the words that come to mind when we think
of it. Renaud loved people and so many have benefited from its support. He could spend
hours talking to let off some fierce tension between homeless after months of uncertain
and grueling fight. This time, it also was that he thought necessary for the maturation of
ideas of emancipation, and development of self-organization to which he was very attached.
For years he continued this commitment in the DAL, then Doctors of the World, an
association with which he had help and that those who lived in the street when marauding.
Similarly, with Alain Crosnier, our former publication director who left us-es there ten
years now, it has hosted more than a comrade who need to put some time in their home
Lilas. This has also been the site of many meetings and discussions. Hacker, fascinated by
computers and new information and communications technology, he had created the first
website in 1998. Alternative Libertaire Renaud was a militant, activist, more than
theorist but nevertheless paid much the importance of ideas and this culture of self so
dear to Fernand Pelloutier.
And for that, and those who knew him, he was also a smuggler of ideas, readings he liked
to share with his friend-es as with those who have crossed at some point his way.
Ciao Renaud. Thank you for all that you gave. You were a nice person and we will not
forget you.
Laurent Esquerre (AL Paris Northeast)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Ciao-Renaud-nous-ne-t-oublierons
