Comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage et sa transmission (COMET)

Abbreviation: 
COMET
President / Director: 
Martine Jean-Noël
Address: 
9 Rue Désiré Graux
95350 Saint-Brice-sous-Forê
France
Telephone: 
International: +33 1 34 19 31 12 (landline) ou +33 6 10 52 61 17 (mobile); National: 01 34 19 31 12 (landline) ou 06 10 52 61 17 (mobile)
Registration date: 
Monday, January 15, 2007
Registration details: 

Registration details can be found in the Journal Officiel.

Status: 
Ongoing
Type: 
Commemorative
Community/social
Cultural
Defence of Citizen Rights
Social justice
Historical overview: 

The Comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage et sa transmission (Committee for the memory of slavery and its transmission) (COMET) is an association that brings together people from Guadeloupe, Martinique, La Réunion, Guyana, Haiti and Africa. This association is primarily focused on achieving commemorative cultural events, festivities, and on the creation and promotion of new social relations based on citizenship and solidarity and focused on the relationship between France its African and/or Caribbean children. COMET also organises trips and concerts (Negro of the Lights). As part of its mission to support the Haitian people, COMET conducts solidarity actions in partnership with the Haitian associations of the Val d'Oise.

Summary of objectives: 
  • To collectively organise events around personal projects and to make them useful to a great number of people. These events may be: cultural, commemorative, festive
  • To create social, cultural or festive ties in order to promote new social relations in urban areas, focusing on the concepts of citizenship and solidarity, and on the relations between France and its African and/or Caribbean children
Keywords: 
Commemoration
Defence of citizen rights
Human rights
Memories of slavery
Patrimony
Slave ancestry
Social justice