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I was asked to participate in an oral history project that seeks to document the experiences of self-identified anarchists age 60 and older who have actively participated in anarchist and anarchist-adjacent political movements for at least two decades.

This study is being conducted by Philip Zura (Student Researcher / Principal Investigator) and Nathan Jun (Faculty Research Advisor) at John Carroll University.

The purpose of the project is to collect video-recorded interviews with self-identified anarchists age 60 and older from the United States, Canada, and the UK.

Interviewees were asked questions regarding their personal experiences in anarchist / anarchist-adjacent political movements, their reasons and motivations for joining / participating in anarchist / anarchist-adjacent political movements, their personal understandings of and thoughts about anarchism, etc.

Apparently, I am the only French or French-speaking person to have received the form with the questions that participants had to answer.

Recording will be made available for viewing by John Carroll University faculty, staff, and students, as well as the public at large, via appropriate YouTube or other online media. In the long term, transcripts of the recording may be produced and annotated for purposes of publication.

I am attaching the text I wrote for that occasion, to which I have made a few corrections and additions.

René Berthier
September 2025