Secular Mobilisation Day, 6 December 2025:
The entire authentic secular movement was there with Libre Pensée
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All together to remind everyone that secularism and the 1905 law on separation are laws of freedom, not prohibition.
The 1905 law of freedom versus the freedom-killing “Separatism” law.
Secularists have chosen freedom over repression
and racism!
They were all there and spoke out:
- La Vigie de la Laïcité (VDL): Nicolas Cadène, Valentine Zuber and Daniel Verba
- The National Federation of Free Thought (FNLP): Benoît Scheneckenburger and Pierre-Yves Modicom
- Human Rights League (LDH): Emmanuelle Jordan-Chartier and Daniel Boitier
- The League of Education (LDE): Hélène Laccasagne
- Union Rationaliste (UR): Emmanuelle Huisman-Perrin
- Secular Solidarity (SL): Anne-Marie Harster and Michel Debon
- National Council of Secular Family Associations (CNAFAL): Jean-Marie Bonnemayre
- United Trade Union Federation (FSU): Grégory Frackowiak
- CGT-Force Ouvrière Confederation: Patricia Drevon
- FNECFP – Force Ouvrière
- (The FO Confederation will also speak on behalf of these two organisations)
- CGT Confederation: Gérard Ré
- FERC-CGT: Charlotte Vanbesien
- The FERC-CGT also spoke on behalf of the Union of CGT National Education Unions
- SUD-ÉDUCATION: Théophile Poussot-Dajnak
- SE-UNSA: Marie-Laure Tirelle
- Emancipation Intersyndicale: Quentin Dauphiné
- Rites-Unis de Memphis-Misraïm: François Bourcier
- Association for the Right to Die with Dignity: Elsa Walter
- Association of Friends of the Paris Commune of 1871: Sylvie Braibant
- Coudes à Coudes: Mornia Labssi
- La Marche des Solidarités (Solidarity March): Mariama Sidibé
- International Association of Free Thought: Christian Eyschen
- Humanists International: Yvan Dheur
- Rob Boston, Americans United for Separation – USA
- Aires Rodriguez – former Socialist Member of Parliament for Portugal
- Keith Porteous Wood, International Expert at the UN
▪ At the end of the meeting, a young representative of Vigie de la Laïcité read the joint declaration of the six associations organising Secularism Day on 6 December 2025. This was published in the Tribune section of Le Monde in the evening (dated 7 December 2025).
The Eugène Hénaff Grand Theatre at the Bourse du Travail was packed to capacity and from 2.30 p.m. to 5.45 p.m., the audience listened intently and enthusiastically to the various speeches given by representatives of the country’s authentic secular movement. The slogan “Repeal the Debré Law!” was chanted en masse as a secular demand.
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▪ On the morning of 6 December 2025, the academic symposium of the Vigie de la Laïcité (Secularism Watchdog) took place at the Grande Loge de France in the Grand Temple Franklin Roosevelt, which was packed. Fifteen high-level contributions on the 1905 law and on secular separation in several countries were delivered. It was opened by a video conference message from Jean-Louis Bianco, President and Founder of the Vigie de la Laïcité. Then, among others, Valentine Zuber, President, Philippe Portier, Nicolas Cadène and Jean Baubérot, members of its Board of Directors, spoke.
Participants were welcomed by Dominique Loiseau, Regional Delegate and Head of Culture for the GLDF, and Denis Moscovici, Delegate for Secularism for the Grand Lodge, who then read a welcome message and presented the position of the Obedience on secularism as laws of freedom and tolerance, from Jean-Raphaël Notton, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of France.
