Talking about the revolution

Yesterday in Marseille we had a big event to launch the Nouveau parti Anticapitaliste: a 10-hour meeting with forums and debates, and a creche, and concerts, and a speech by Olivier Besancenot the charismatic leader of LCR. I had brought my current portable WIP, a mouse cozy in purple bamboo yarn, and when I got it out of my bag, Aurélien, a young hothead whose cut-and-dry political pronouncements sometimes border on the Stalinist (but I love him), said, in an unusually tender tone: "Oh,my mum knits too." So I gave him a good talk about the ideological implications of crafting, the feminist issues it is linked with, and was amused to see the disbelief in his eyes when I told him about the Red and Black Ravellers group.

La semaine prochaine, ce sera la Journée Mondiale du Tricot en Public, et la fête d'ATTAC 13, une nouvelle occasion pour prêcher par l'exemple. Entre les écolos hardcore et les mamies à l'ancienne que je côtoierai certainement à ces occasions, il va falloir que le discours soit affûté et percutant.