Since then, the demonstrations in Paris have continued, and become known as the Nuit Debout, or 'Night on Our Feet' movement. The Paris meetings have been joined by one to two thousand people each evening, and a few hundred people have also demonstrated in public places in other French cities, including Nantes, Rennes and Lyon. On Wednesday and Thursday evening the demonstration spread to Brussels, where 200 people gathered to support the movement.
Nuit debout à Bruxelles. Jour J+2. #NuitDebout #NuitDeboutBXL #38mars pic.twitter.com/6JxUUrbCc6
— Albin Wantier (@AL_WNTR) 7 апреля 2016 г.
The movement's organizers have now set up their own radio station, called "Radio Debout," which aims to mobilize more people to join the demonstrations across Europe. The radio station has been set up by members of Radio Campus, a student-run radio station.
"The mobilization of Nuit Debout will continue. Citizens in other French cities and in Belgium and Spain are joining the movement and organizing gatherings in the evening. Radio Campus is on the ground to keep up with what is happening."
"Social networks and other streaming applications are being used to keep track of events. Going a step further, the participants have decided to collaborate and create a radio station, a medium that is a kind of extension to the citizens' voices we hear every night on the Place de la Republique," Radio Debout announced.
Samedi #40mars @radio_debout diffuse de midi à minuit en direct de @nuitdebout Merci pour votre écoute ce soir! pic.twitter.com/45XjvZJNy2
— radiodebout (@radio_debout) 7 апреля 2016 г.
On Friday the organizers released statements in various languages, calling for people everywhere in Europe to "Rise up together," and organize their own demonstration on April 9, using the hashtags #Nuitdebout and #March 40.
#NuitDebout's international call from #République
— Nuit Debout (@nuitdebout) 8 апреля 2016 г.
Everywhere, tomorrow #40mars
Rise Up together!https://t.co/MXvyTIQsEc
"We are thousands, but we can be millions. Together, standing, awake. Let’s rise up together," they wrote.
The group's Facebook page has released a list of protest events for users to share, which envisages demonstrations in cities in Germany, Belgium, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal.
Liste des événements, actualisée du #40Mars par Pays et par ordre Alphabétique (à partager…
Posted by Nuit Debout on Friday, 8 April 2016
The organizers of Nuit Debout have also published an online petition which describes their movement as "a crowd of concerned, engaged or simply curious citizens, composed of women and men of all ages and from all social backgrounds."
"These peaceful, open and popular gatherings aim at reinvesting the public space to exchange, discuss and build something together," they said.
On Tuesday demonstrators in Paris were joined by Miguel Urban Crespo, an MEP and member of Spain's left-wing Podemos movement. Podemos and the Indignados (The Outraged) anti-austerity movements in Spain and the Occupy movement in the US are thought to have served as the inspiration for Nuit Debout.
"From Egypt's Tahrir Square to the Puerta del Sol in Madrid and to here, there is a common demand, to occupy public space to do politics," Crespo said, and declared that there is less to fear from "the chaos" of citizen's mobilization than "the order" of the ruling parties, Paris Match reported.
"We see that there’s a kind of awakening of people who are mobilizing, but for the moment I think their demands lack precision," said Marta, who was taking part in the demonstration at Place de la Republique.
"There are lots of groups with lots of demands, but they haven’t converged yet."
