A symbol of peace and solidarity
The 18-metre-high Mast of Fraternity, a project of the Coque Nomade Fraternité association, will be installed on the île de Nantes. The public will be able to gather at the foot of the Mât de la Fraternité to denounce racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, violence against women, contemporary slavery and more. Topped by the Fraternity flag, the mast will be adorned with a multitude of LEDs, lit up in different colours depending on the event.
Led by the association ‘La Coque Nomade Fraternité’, this monument will be a unifying symbol for the upholding of human rights and the struggle against racism and discrimination. OBJECTIVE: To inaugurate the world’s first Mât de la Fraternité ‘, in Nantes, in May 2025. This project costs 192,000€. We need to raise a further 109,000€. We need you!
The construction of the Mast of Fraternity started in 2022. Vocational colleges produce the Mast’s concrete and metal parts, a collaboration which enables young people to take part in a humanist project, raising awareness of racism, discrimination and the need to live in peace and harmony.
This monument, a beacon of light and fraternity, is an international project. After Nantes in 2025, several Masts of Fraternity will be erected in different cities around the world to convey a message of solidarity and tolerance and to help combat discrimination.
In 2023 the first exchanges took place between the association la Coque Nomade Fraternité et heirs of slavery from Great Britain. A visit to London and Bristol in spring 2024 helped lay the foundations of an international alliance around the memory of slavery and reparation. The meeting in april 2024 in Nantes « Paroles de Descendants » brought together descendants of enslaved people and slavers. Now, the common desire to collaborate continues !
The city of Bristol in particular has come forward and an international alliance is being consolidated to install several Masts around the world : Boston, Londres, les Barbades, Glasgow, Liverpool, Cardiff, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Bordeaux, Hanovre.