{"id":19737,"date":"2016-01-27T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=19737"},"modified":"2018-01-27T04:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T11:55:29","slug":"christiane-taubira-parfois-resister-cest-rester-parfois-resister-cest-partir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=19737","title":{"rendered":"Christiane Taubira: \u201cParfois r\u00e9sister c\u2019est rester, parfois r\u00e9sister c\u2019est partir\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 737px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/md1.libe.com\/photo\/456726-christiane-taubira-a-la-sortie-du-conseil-des-ministres-le-19-septembre-2012-a-paris.jpg?modified_at=1348852739&amp;width=960\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"484\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christiane Taubira<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Christiane Taubira, France\u2019s Minister of Justice, resigned today. As she explained, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanite.fr\/christiane-taubira-%02parfois-resister-cest-partir%02-597371\">Sometimes staying is resisting<\/a>, sometimes leaving is resisting\u201d. We\u2019ll have something on Christiane Taubira in the next couple days. For the last four years, Brigitte Marti has written regularly, at <em>Women In and Beyond the Global<\/em>, about Christiane Taubira\u2019s struggles to reform the French penal system, to restore justice to so-called criminal justice, all the while combating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/politique\/article\/2016\/01\/27\/christiane-taubira-egerie-et-bete-noire_4854855_823448.html\">racist sexist attacks<\/a> on her and her policies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jan\/27\/french-justice-minister-christiane-taubira-resigns\">Christiane Taubira<\/a> may be leaving the government, but she is not leaving the struggle for women\u2019s rights, immigrants\u2019 rights, workers\u2019 rights, prisoners\u2019 rights, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/france\/2016\/01\/27\/taubira-se-fait-justice_1429454\">gay rights<\/a>, minority rights and more, all in the context of a vision of a realizable just world. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/politique\/article\/2016\/01\/27\/la-ministre-de-la-justice-christiane-taubira-a-demissionne_4854309_823448.html\">A just world is possible!<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 578px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s2.lemde.fr\/image\/2013\/07\/16\/534x267\/3448467_3_add7_christiane-taubira-le-16-juillet-face-a-la_1c698fa1e0013c96d2376233c69f97e6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"284\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christiane Taubira explains prison<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s a partial list of Brigitte Marti\u2019s pieces that, from June 2012 to last year, profiled Taubira\u2019s varied engagements and interventions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1312\">Resistances, les femmes, le pouvoir et l\u2019\u00e9lection<\/a> (June 18, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1476\">From Paris to Baltimore, our prisons are full but empty of sense<\/a> (November 21, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=6212\">In France, mandatory minimum sentences kill<\/a> (June 27, 2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=6493\">Scandal in France! Prison as a last resort!<\/a> (August 19, 2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=6509\">Evolution of a scandal in France<\/a> (August 29, 2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=6527\">Must punishment mean prison? Why are you asking?<\/a> (September 21, 2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=6588\">These racist attacks assault the heart of the Republic<\/a> (November 13, 2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=6599\">It is the responsibility of the State to defend reproductive rights and health<\/a> (November 21, 2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=14267\">French prison guards strike for global incarceration and dehumanization<\/a> (May 13, 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=14977\">The false case against Christiane Taubira<\/a> (May 24, 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=15702\">Can Christiane Taubira move France from repressive to restorative justice?<\/a> (June 2, 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=15796\">France\u2019s twisted road to restorative justice<\/a> (July 22, 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=15872\">From Paris to Washington, all women need easy access to real help in times of crisis<\/a> (August 29, 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=19040\">In France, isolation is not the answer to anything<\/a>! (July 22, 2015)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credit: Women In and Beyond the Global)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christiane Taubira, France\u2019s Minister of Justice, resigned today. As she explained, \u201cSometimes staying is resisting, sometimes leaving is resisting\u201d. We\u2019ll have something on Christiane Taubira in the next couple days. For the last four years, Brigitte Marti has written regularly, at Women In and Beyond the Global, about Christiane Taubira\u2019s struggles to reform the French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[880,1662,5237],"class_list":["post-19737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-brigitte-marti","tag-christiane-taubira","tag-france","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21972,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions\/21972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}