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Chaos Erupts In Paris As “Armageddon” Protesters Riot During French Holiday
Chaos Erupts In Paris As “Armageddon” Protesters Riot During French Holiday Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris and other French cities on Wednesday to mark International Workers’ Day (also known as Labor Day), only to clash with French riot police. The demonstrators included Yellow Vests, trade unionists, climate change protesters […]
Tipping Point: The Gilets Jaunes are winning, what’s next?
Tipping Point: The Gilets Jaunes are winning, what’s next? Image source. The weekend just gone, Manifestation 23, marked a seismic shift in the five month battle between the Gilets Jaunes and the French state. The Notre Dame fire has brought into the open the strategic shift in public opinion that has occurred over the winter; […]
With Youth Climate Actions Backed by Leading Experts, Latest Round of Protests Highlights Call for Bold and Urgent Action
With Youth Climate Actions Backed by Leading Experts, Latest Round of Protests Highlights Call for Bold and Urgent Action “We can change it all if we want it all, and we do.” Protesters hold signs at the YouthStrike4Climate student march on April 12, 2019 in London. Students are protesting across the U.K. due to the […]
Yellow Vests Protests Rock Paris For 21st Consecutive Week
Yellow Vests Protests Rock Paris For 21st Consecutive Week
France’s Yellow Vests: Proving Police Are Indeed Part of the 1%
France’s Yellow Vests: Proving Police Are Indeed Part of the 1% 8,000+ arrested, 500 major injuries, 2,000+ imprisoned (as of Feb. 14), 1,500+ awaiting trials (Feb. 14), 12 deaths, 20+ blindings, 6 hands lost, 10,000+ rubber bullets fired. Cops never switch sides – they have too much to lose. The demonstration for “Acte 16”, on March […]
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA?
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA? The Yellow Vest anti-government movement (#YellowVests, #GiletsJaunes) began in France on November 17, 2018, when over 300,000 people across France protested a carbon tax on fuel. President Emmanuel Macron claimed the French were leading the world in the battle against climate change. The Yellow […]
France’s Yellow Vest Movement Comes of Age
France’s Yellow Vest Movement Comes of Age At its first “Assembly of Assemblies” in late January, this grassroots democratic revolt brought together many people who had never participated in politics. Yellow Vest protesters take part in a demonstration holding a banner that reads “Angry but not fascist” in Paris on January 26, 2019. (Reuters / Benoit […]
Unrest in France: No End in Sight
Unrest in France: No End in Sight The third group is extremely large: it is the rest of the population. The upper class treat them as regrettable dead weight and expect nothing from them except silence and submission. Its members often have a hard time making ends meet. They pay taxes but can see that […]
The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism
The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism Far from dying down after the holidays, France’s yellow vest movement is continuing to blaze throughout the country. Every Saturday for eleven weeks, protesters have been disrupting or blocking roads, traffic circles and freeway toll plazas, gathering in the squares of villages, taking to […]
France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time
France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time When the first demonstrations on the streets of Paris were reported nine weeks ago, nobody could have foreseen the endurance, the tenacity and the viral effect of the Yellow Vests movement. After all, the French are known to protest and to strike, it’s part and parcel of their […]
When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police
When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police It’s become routine, but ignores latest law on rights and title, say experts. RCMP action against the Wet’suwet’en last week was intended to send a message, says professor Jeffrey Monaghan. Photo by Michael Toledano. The use of heavily armed RCMP to enforce a court injunction and tear […]
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go Will France, under Macron – Implosion 2 – become a candidate for exiting the EU thanks to the Yellow Vests? The “Gilets Jaunes” will not let go. Not even – or especially not – after Macron‘s half-hearted, rather cynical and grandstanding concessions – of “too little and […]
France’s Ghosts of ’68: General Strike vs. Macron and the Technocrat Elites
France’s Ghosts of ’68: General Strike vs. Macron and the Technocrat Elites The Paris elites and their enablers may find that the next general strike won’t immobilize Paris, it will strangle Paris from the periphery. Eleven months ago, I posited in The Ghosts of 1968 (2/14/18) that the idealistic hope that mass demonstrations could trigger real reform […]
Protests Erupt As Zimbabwe Now Has The Most Expensive Gasoline In The World
Protests Erupt As Zimbabwe Now Has The Most Expensive Gasoline In The World Zimbabwe is once again at the brink of economic collapse, making a mockery of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s claim that the country is open for business. As Bloomberg reports, many shops and factories have shut their doors because of a lack of customers […]
The Tears of Justin Trudeau
The Tears of Justin Trudeau On January 7th the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) swept into a non-violent checkpoint set up by the Unist’ot’en and Gidimt’en clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. Fourteen people were violently arrested in the ambush by the militarized colonial forces. The camp was set up by hereditary leaders to defend the ancestral […]
