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A look back on the first months of the state of emergency in Paris: activists in custody, protests shut down, warrantless house arrests, and the COP21 strangled by anti-terrorist measures.

Following the Paris attacks, France, the United States, and our allies may opt for all-out war. But even if ISIS is destroyed, its message could still captivate many in coming generations.

Key organizers are pushing for the climate marches and protests to go ahead in Paris despite threats of a government clampdown, Claire Fauset explains.

The president of the Louvre has drawn up a 50-point plan to protect artworks under threat around the world. At last, someone is responding to Isis with a full-throated defence of our common human heritage

In the aftermath of the massacres of Paris, members and supporters of Attac, in unison with the French society, feel horror and revulsion at the indiscriminate and murderous hatred. Attac expresses its solidarity with the victims and their relatives. The people murdered Friday night were merely exercising their right to convivality, to civility, to art, to a free life, all things that these killers want to eradicate in the name of a fanatical vision of religion.

Facebook's safety check allows users to notify friends that they are safe during Paris attack.

With the UN climate conference putting Paris in the eco-spotlight this year, the impending closure of R-Urban, a project at the forefront of urban sustainability, seems curious timing