In 1973 the French government had given a permit for the construction of a German-owned lead plant in Marckolsheim. On September 20, 1974, a few weeks after an international demonstration on August 25, when 2000 people gathered at Wyhl against the proposed lead-factory and nuclear power plant, residents of the French, German and Swiss region successfully occupied the site of the planned, highly polluting lead factory.
On January 25, 1975, twenty two weeks after the start of the occupation, the French government prohibited the construction of the plant. To celebrate the success, but also to raise awareness about other destructive plans, two weeks later, on February 9, singers, poets and bands from the region Elsass played at the Frendschafts Huss at the Marckolsheim site. Many of them performing in Alemannic, the regional dialect. On that evening this album was born. Only a few days later, on February 18, the site for the proposed Wyhl nuclear power plant, was occupied.

Listen to the song Herr Minister, ich will a Ding, performed by Jean Dentinger.
https://www.laka.org/bijlagen/2023/04/jean-dentinger-herr-minister-ich-will.mp3

The single is initiated and released by les Comité antinucleaire des Rhône-Alpes. The region was named after the river Rhône and the Alps mountain range and is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. Its capital, Lyon, is the second-largest metropolitan area in France after Paris. In the second half of the 1970s the struggle against the planned fastbreeder reactor Superphenix at Malville, located in this region, was the main battlefield of the French anti-nuclear movement.
Side 1 Les centrales nucleaires is a song by Steve Waring. Waring (born in 1943) moved to France from the U.S. at the end of the 1960s. He has been making his voice, his guitar and his banjo heard through numerous albums and concerts throughout the world. In the 1980's, he started playing "naive" folk music for children. Since then, he has become one of the most important figures in children's music.
The B-side is a song by Olivier Cabanel: J’ai mal a Malville. Cabanel (born 1942 in Nîmes) besides an environmentalist of the first hour, is an artist, singer, composer, painter, and citizen journalist. Together with two other activists he developed the first photovoltaic power station connected to the network in France. He remained active in the anti-nuclear movement. In October 2011, at the age of 70, he played at the manifestation demanding the closure of the Bugey nuclear power plant.

Brumbt is a singer/songwriter, actor and teacher, who sings in Alemannic, the dialect spoken in Alsace (France), Baden-Württemberg region (Germany) and the Basel region (Switzerland). This is his second album after his 1976 solo-debut Poschtkart üss’m Elsass . Brumbt collaborated in a number of anti-nuclear compilations such as Marckolsheim/Wyhl (1975, see above) and Dreyeckland (1977, see; Germany). He invented the term ‘Dreyeckland’ - the land of 3 borders. It comes from an eponymous song on this album which ends with: "Mer kejje mol d'granze éver e Hüffe on dànze drum arum" (‘We'll throw the borders in a heap and dance around’)
The song Malville am Rhone on this album tells the story of the demonstration against the superphenix fastbreeder reactor on July 31, 1977 and Vital Michalon who was killed by the police.
The lyrics of the song Le Mim Landel lejt e Deckel is a poem by Andre Weckmann from his 1977 narration “Die Fahrt nach Wyhl”.

Listen to the song Malville am Rhone, written and performed by François Brumbt.
https://www.laka.org/bijlagen/2023/07/brumbt-malville_am_rhone.mp3

Duchemin, Lesquer and Guiho are local folk musicians from Nantes (Brittany). Both songs written by Fernand Duchemin. Jack Alain Guiho is a guitarist and part of the folk group Namnetes, who released 2 albums in the mid-1970s that ranged from traditional folk to prog-rock. From 1987-2004 he was director of Rendez-vous de l'erdre, a still-existing well-known jazz festival in Nantes.
This 7” single was released by Coordination des comites de la defense de l’environnement de la basse loire, campaigning against the proposed Le Pellerin (Le Carnet) nuclear power plant about 15 km downstream from Nantes, In September 1976 the site was selected for a nuclear power plant. The project quickly experienced its first protest actions: demonstrations took place, the project got rejected by the municipal council of Le Pellerin and farmers joined forces to fight the purchase of land. Twenty years later, in September, 1997, it was announced that the "Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry has asked EDF to give up" its development of the project.

Pascal and Claire Genneret were members of the French folk band Celebration, which released one album in the mid-seventies. This single was released with support of a number of anti-nuclear, feminist and environmental organisations in the Aube region. La Polka du nucleaire and b-side Rencontre are written by Pascal and Claire Genneret. “It is necessary to underline the cooperative aspect of this disc, which could be realized only thanks to the subscriptions and donations of groups and individuals”. Le Kiosque d'Orphée was a small publishing house, or actually more a record manufacturer than a label: Artists pay to get some pressings.
Since the late 1990’s Pascal Genneret is known as L’Instituteur chanteur (the singing teacher) and writes and performs until this day children’s songs, many of them dealing with environmental issues. Claire became involved in child care and protection and developed what is defined as a third way between family placement and institutional placement, while encouraging parents' autonomy in the education of their children. In concrete terms, the child is entrusted to the child protection service as part of a judicial or administrative placement decision, but the parents retain a right to daily accommodation, with intensive work by a socio-educational team carried out at their home. This home placement made it possible to reconcile protection of the child and intensive support for the parent.

Listen to the song Rencontre, written and performed by Claire and Pascal Genneret.
https://www.laka.org/bijlagen/2023/04/genneret-rencontre.mp3

Fernand l'Eclair is not the name of the singer, but from a French rock band from Brittany (Brest), active at the end of the 70's. Previously named "Mathieu Donnart Street", after a street in Brest. L'Éclair was a French satirical weekly illustrated with caricatures and published between June and October 1877. Plogoff was the proposed location for a nuclear power plant in Brittany. Thanks to massive popular resistance, bolstered by Breton culture and language, the newly elected Francois Mitterand canceled these plans in 1982. Although Mitterand was elected on the promise of phasing out nuclear energy, aside from Plogoff he ended up presiding over the expansion of the French nuclear program.
The text from the b-side Plogoff is about a police officer (from the CRS, the heavily militarised riot-police) who falls in love with a demonstrator, but realizes well that he is on the wrong side of history. Tregastel (the A-side of this single) is also a city in Brittany.

A release from the newly established CRILAN to protest the nuclear reactors at Flamanville and the reprocessing plant at La Hague. Louis Guibert, a 76 year old inhabitant (a-side) and the 20 year old Raynold and Olivier Fleury (b-side) performing the songs with a clear message. De plus en plus nombreux, nous les gardiens du monde / paysans, travaillieurs, venus de tous cotés / pourront revigorer la planete moribonde (more and more people, the guardians of the world / peasants, workers, coming from all sides / will be able to restore the dying planet).
CRILAN (Comité de Réflexion, d'Information et de Lutte Anti-Nucléaire) was founded in Normandy in 1980 after the construction of two nuclear reactors of Flamanville started (they came into operation in 1986 and 1987, respectively). CRILAN opposed also the development of the reprocessing center of La Hague and the storage center of low-level radioactive waste at La Manche. CRILAN still exists.

The struggle against Golfech is one of the lesser known anti-nuclear struggles, but from the early 1970’s popular resistance and sometimes militant actions took place. This single, with two local artists -one of them, Totoche, played also on a fundraising part in December 1979- was released in february 1981 to support the struggle. One thousand copies were pressed and the profit “of this recording will be used to pay the fines imposed on the victims of the Giscardian repression ... while waiting for the Mitterrandian repression. The fight will continue!”. Mitterand was to become the successor of Giscard d’Estaing as the next president.

Listen to the song Ne laisse pas entrer la mort, performed by Totoche.
https://www.laka.org/bijlagen/2023/04/Totoche-ne_laisse_pas_entrer_la_mort.mp3

The song Beg Ar Van from the album Terre de Vivants / Bed An Dud Vew deals with the struggle against the planned nuclear power plant at Plogoff and especially the presence in the area of a hugh police force, seen as occupational forces from the French. He sings: a ba' bourc'h Plogoñv da vitin araog dihun an dud / "Ar chass a glewan o harzhal, setu ar soudarded c'hall" ( in the town of Plogoff in the morning before people wake up / "I hear the dogs barking, here come the French soldiers!"). In the 1970s, Alan Stivell was very much involved in social movements, and in particular in the anti-nuclear movement. In April 1975, Stivell (and also Gilles Servat) took part in one of the first Breton anti-nuclear manifestations, in Erdeven.
In September 1975, a group of Breton artists declared “their solidarity with the struggle against the establishment of nuclear power stations in Brittany and elsewhere" and being in favor of peaceful mass action to stop the constructions.
On March 15, 1980, Stivell headlined a concert at Plogoff in solidarity with jailed anti-nuclear militants. As early as 1976 Stivell had released a song on his album about the history of Brittany (‘a History falsified by the Bourgeoisie’) Raok Dilestra (Avant D'accoster or: Before Landing) drawing attention to the imprisonment of nine Breton activists from the struggle for decolonization: Naw Breton 'Ba' Prizon.

French band founded in Nantes in 1971 by Jean-Louis Jossic, Jean Chocun and Jean-Paul Corbineau, with Bernard Baudriller. Initially called "Tri Yann An Naoned" ["Three Jean of Nantes"] in Breton language), they soon shorten their name to Tri Yann and gained enormous success in Brittany and France. Their longevity, their incessant touring activity and their fidelity to their Breton roots earned them a cult status in Brittany.
An heol a zo glaz / The sun is green is the sixth album, released in 1981. Side B is a 22 minute epic suite in 5 parts mixing traditional tunes and compositions, with lyrics in Breton written by famous Breton writer and poet Pierre-Jakez Helias.
The suite, Kan goanag ha kann (A song of hope and battle), deals with the resistance against the planned nuclear power plant at Plogoff in Brittany, where on Pentecost 1980, 100,000 people gathered near the Pointe du Van, at the call of the inhabitants of Plogoff. Francois Mitterand was elected president in May 1981, promised to phase-out nuclear power in the running-up of the elections, but Plogoff was the only nuclear power plant he cancelled 1982, a year after being elected. Jean Louis Jossic, flutist, singer and main lyricist of Tri Yann on the morning after Mitterand’s election: "This morning, a green sun rises on the moor of Plogoff. And this sun salutes the rising hope of a People standing up". This is a beautifull website about the history of the struggle at Plogoff.

Since Bure was designated in the late 1990s as one of the underground laboratories to investigate the possibility of geological storage of radioactive waste, which silently passed as the site for storage of all French nuclear waste, the town in the Haute-Marne region has become an important regional but also national and international focal point for the anti-nuclear movement.
This Stop Bure compilation of specifically anti-nuclear songs, was released on the Beat label in coordination with the international collective of associations fighting against the disposal and with the support of the Sortir du nucleaire network. The excitement of this project created a real artistic stir: from the original 3 tracks in 2002 to this 11 tracks CD. All profits generated by the sale of this CD are used to raise awareness about and fight against the pseudo-lab of Bure. More information [French]

A second CD in solidarity with the struggle against the proposed geological disposal site at Bure. Bure is and has been, the main focus point of the French anti-nuclear movement for the last decade. On this CD a collection of radically anti-nuclear songs, thoroughly tested at numerous events. The CD is accompanied with a great little, richly illustrated songbook. Read more [in French].

A CD-release to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown and its consequences in Belarussia, Russia and Ukraine. As part of a global campaign to raise awareness about the people affected by the disaster, a book with photographs by Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong was published in conjunction with an exhibition of those photos. This CD was released by Greenpeace France and includes a bonus video and a 16-page booklet with information and photo's from the exhibition.

Listen to the song Silence on meurt, performed by Agnes Bihl.
https://www.laka.org/bijlagen/2023/04/Bihl-silence-on-meurt.mp3