{"id":44631,"date":"2019-03-21T07:37:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44631"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:37:48","slug":"yellow-vest-movement-not-yet-changing-its-color-to-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44631","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From Paris, L\u00e9a Bouchoucha reports for\u00a0Consortium News\u00a0on two sets of demonstrators, some of whom are mingling while others keep a distance.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S<\/strong>ome had hoped the two marches in Paris last Saturday\u2014 one focused on global warming and the other representing the 18th <\/sup>straight weekend of Yellow Vest protests  \u2014 would join forces and help unite environmental activism with social equity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 8, Cyril Dion, a well-known documentary film maker and environmental writer, gave a joint interview to Le Parisian<\/a><\/em> with Priscillia Ludosky, considered one of the founders of the Yellow Vest movement, in which they  both encouraged protesters to march together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To an extent that happened. Yellow vests were a common sight in the climate demonstrations on Saturday. And nongovernmental groups \u2014 Greenpeace France, the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, SOS Racisme, Friends of the Earth, 350.org and Alternatiba \u2014 voiced a fusion of environmental and economic demands. \u201cTime to change industrial, political and economic systems, to protect the environment, society and individuals,\u201d was a typical message expressed on one banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Participants<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The climate march included a \u201cRevolutionary Grandmother\u201d at left. (Lea Bouchoucha)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The contrasts between the two demonstrations, however, wound up drawing the main press attention<\/a>.Coverage by outlets such as Reuters<\/em> and the Associated Press<\/em> emphasized how the march on climate change \u2014 which drew around 45,000 in Paris, according to media estimates \u2014 was peaceful and included movie stars. The smaller Yellow Vest demonstration in the capital, estimated at around 10,000, was marked by rioting and vandalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Yellow Vests disagree with violence in demonstrations. But plenty of images have spread on social media that show a few protesters posing proudly in front of vandalized, expensive restaurants and luxury shops along the Champs-Elys\u00e9es Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A strong majority of French \u2014 84 percent of those polled \u2014 condemned the violence in a survey released March 20 by Elabe, an independent consultancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green From Paris, L\u00e9a Bouchoucha reports for\u00a0Consortium News\u00a0on two sets of demonstrators, some of whom are mingling while others keep a distance.\u00a0 Some had hoped the two marches in Paris last Saturday\u2014 one focused on global warming and the other representing the 18th straight weekend of Yellow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[24750,6963,24748,333,24712,24747,2510,24749,23287],"class_list":["post-44631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-climate-demonstrations","tag-consortium-news","tag-cyril-dion","tag-france","tag-green-movement","tag-lea-bouchoucha","tag-paris","tag-priscillia-ludosky","tag-yellow-vest-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44632,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44631\/revisions\/44632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}