LAUSANNE, QUARTER OF SAINT-MARTIN / VALLON / 2005-2011
Certain underprivileged areas of Lausanne offer indeed almost no access to a plural press due to the disappearance of independent newspaper stands. In fact, these zones are literally given up by the editors and diffusers of the press (I noticed that there were no boxes of free newspapers either).
THIS IS THE STORY OF MADAME CARAMBAR, A KIOSKOWNER WHO REFUSES TO CLOSE HER KIOSK.
In 2005, Payot Naville Distribution SA stopped the distribution of newspapers and magazines to kiosks. The contract imposes a monthly turn over of 1530 € in order to allow a newspaper distribution. Payot Naville Distribution SA (which belongs by 65% to the French multinational Lagardere and by 35% to the Swiss French group Edipresse) is also the supplier of the kiosks RELAY and NAVILLE.
This local economy is opposed to a market economy in which kiosks play the role of little supermarkets. Madame Carambar had to give up selling newspapers. She was obliged to find an alternative in which the solidarity of the clients is required as well as a kind of economy of the gift. Today, she has found a solution : keeping on selling newspapers but second-hand ones. Neighbours, clients, friends bring her there weekly and monthly papers once read. We witness here an opposition to the big monopolies. The identity of the kiosk has been saved for some time.
Tilo Steireif, 03.08
FLYER GIVEN TO THE CLIENTS AND NEIGHBORS. IT EXPLAIN HER SITUATION: SHE DOESN’T RECEIVE ANYMORE FRESH NEWS AND SHE IS ASKING FOR ANY OLD MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPERS TO SAVE HER KIOSK.
