Alma Dufour

She was born on May 6, 1990 in Auch, Gers, France. She grew up in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, where her parents lived in low-income housing.[2]

In 2012, she graduated with a law degree from Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne University, which she completed with a master's degree in geopolitics, then in environmental sciences at AgroParisTech until 2015. She earns her living as an employee of Suez, then as a waitress, while working for the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) in Brussels on the circular economy (Negotiation of the Waste Framework Directive).[3]

In 2015, during COP21 in Paris, she joined the Alternatiba/Action non-violente COP21 movement. She was then hired by Friends of the Earth France, and went on to become spokesperson for this NGO from 2017 to January 2021.[1] From late 2018, Alma Dufour took part in the Yellow Vests movement, during which she was the victim of police violence.[4]

Alongside this activism, Alma Dufour also carries out institutional lobbying. Under her impetus, Friends of the Earth supported local struggles against a dozen Amazon mega-warehouse projects in France, including the Petit-Couronne project in Seine-Maritime. It is taking part in actions to block Amazon sites and occupy the land of future projects between 2019 and 2022 until the multinational abandons 5 of these warehouse projects. She also highlights the study by economists Ano Kuhanathan and Florence Mouradian, which argues that e-commerce multinationals are responsible for the destruction of 82,000 jobs in France.[5]

Following her experience in the fight against Amazon, Alma Dufour decided to specialize in the interaction between ecology and employment. She combats the idea that ecology could be a cause of job destruction, and also fights against the relocation of activities.[6][2] She is an active member of the Plus Jamais ça! collective, which brings together Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, ATTAC and trade unions: CGT, Confédération paysanne, Solidaires, FSU.[7]

In January 2021, she decided to leave her position as campaign manager and spokesperson for Les Amis de la Terre to join La France Insoumise and support Jean-Luc Mélenchon's presidential campaign.[1]

In May 2022, she was nominated as candidate for the Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale (the NUPES), in the fourth constituency of Seine-Maritime, and was elected deputy.[8] She becomes a member of the National Assembly's Finance Committee.[9]

Within LFI, she is in charge of the "agit-prop" pole from December 2022.[10]