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시위는 점점 격화되고 있고, 이제 경찰들은 파리의 거리에 통금령 까지 내렸군요. ㅡㅡ;
전경의 곤봉에 맞으려는 여자를 보호하려 그녀를 감싸는 남자나, 추위에 떨며 시위를 하는 프랑스
대학생들이나, 차에 불을 지르는 사람들이나... 우리나라의 80년대를 떠올리게 하는군요 ㅡㅡ;
아무튼 이 풍경들 속에는 AIR의 낭만적 테크노 따위가 스며들 틈은 없는 것 같네요...
Some people say, internet can make more progressive.
However when people just do their own resistance only through internet in the warm room.
They just evacuated their anger to the internet...so I am. shit...--;
The system can control the world more easily and conservatively.
How dare they are! The system even make the law for the slaves in French...
'V' for French freedom!
Riot police seal off Paris streets as protests escalate
· Rampaging youths set fire to cars and shops
· Unions agree to meet PM but refuse to call off strike
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris Friday March 24, 2006 The Guardian
Cars were torched and shops burnt in central Paris last night after the seventh big protest in eight days against the government's controversial employment law ended in clashes between hooded youths and riot police.
The youths, some of whom had come in from the suburbs, grouped on the pavements at the Place d'Italie at the start of yesterday's protest march, and armed themselves with baseball bats, wooden sticks and metal bars.
As students and sixth formers moved towards the city centre chanting protests against the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, the armed youths began to snake up the side of the crowd. Covering their faces with tracksuit hoods and scarves, they moved fast in groups of 20 to 30. Several car windows had been smashed and a bus shelter destroyed.
Two hours later, when the protesters reached Les Invalides, hundreds of riot police had sealed off the entrances to streets leading to government ministries. Several groups of teenagers began smashing cars and shop windows. One shop was set alight and five cars were upturned and torched as riot police began pushing the protesters back.
Mr de Villepin is now embattled on all fronts over his controversial "first employment contract", known as the CPE. Mr Sarkozy has distanced himself this week, suggesting there should be a six-month trial period for the law, which would make it easier for employers to sack workers under 26. The government says such flexibility will encourage companies to hire young people and slash unemployment. The daily Le Parisien yesterday quoted an unnamed political source close to the president, Jacques Chirac, saying that if the controversy did not subside Mr de Villepin could be sacked.
Trade unions yesterday agreed they would meet Mr de Villepin for talks but it was unlikely they would call off a strike planned for next Tuesday. With transport and air workers already pledging support, the strike was being dubbed Black Tuesday by one French paper.
As the protests continued, pavements were littered with glass, parked cars had had all their windows put out, and benches had been ripped up to throw at police. One tourist took mobile phone photos, saying it was a portrait of modern France.
A university student who had been at the protest and watched the violence erupt said: "It was both students and young people. But the police have arrested a hell of a lot of people who had nothing to do with it. They are fascists."
A town planning student, Viviane Macé, said: "Bands of young guys have been running past the protesters with baseball bats all afternoon. It is a small minority of people but I can totally understand what is going through their minds. They feel as desperate as we do and they have got no other way to express themselves. They feel violence is the only action to take. I think some people might not even know what the CPE is. It says a lot about our society that people feel the need to express themselves with bats and metal bars."
One woman who had come to protest from the Seine-Saint-Denis region, which experienced the worst of last autumn's youth riots, said: "There are now kids in the worst areas of the suburbs who are being born into families where the parents have never worked. It is desperate."
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For would-be revolutionaries reduced to living vicariously through those who still have the energy to mobilise a proper protest, ie the French, comes welcome news, writes Laura Smith.
A blog created by a group of concerned individuals and hosted by a libertarian community website is claiming to offer "the most comprehensive English language coverage" of the ongoing battle between the French government and angry students and trade unionists.
A member of the group, which formed in cyberspace after chatting on internet bulletin boards, said they had become frustrated at the lack of detailed coverage available in English and decided to do something about it.
They were also disturbed by what they saw as the misrepresentation of the disturbances in the French suburbs last November as "race riots" rather than "the riots of mixed underclass youth" and wanted to offer an alternative view.
The result is the Unrest in France blog, which offers live updates of the protests, from sit-ins in Angers to violent confrontations with riot police in Rennes, almost 24 hours a day.
Information is sourced from the personal accounts of eyewitnesses, including young people taking part in the protests, and trade unions, the French press and independent news websites, as well as official statements by the French government and political parties.
The site is not the only blog to respond to the demonstrations by those objecting to the controversial "first job contract", known as the CPE, which will allow employers to sack young workers without explanation during a two-year probation period.
Violent unrest in Paris yesterday, which saw cars set on fire and shops attacked, has spawned a number of first-person accounts of the chaos and dramatic pictures. Others give a foreign student perspective on earlier, more peaceful,protests.
The French government says the new law will help cut unemployment - which stands at 10%, rising to more than 20% among the under 25s - but young people, who have grown up with France's jobs for life culture, object to the "flexploitation" job market they say it will encourage
첫댓글 심각하더라구요;;;;
우리나라는 26세 미만의 최초 2년만이 아니라, 전 연령대를 대상으로 재고용이 되어도 2년 내에는 항시 해고가 가능하답니다. 58%에 해당하는 비정규직의 경우는....그런 법안이 상임위를 통과하였는데도 몇몇 노조의 파업을 제외하고는 조용한 우리나라....너무 착해서 그런가???
우리나라사람들 파업자체를 나쁜걸로 인식하니 할말엄슴 자신도 노동쟈이면서 어쩜그리들 파업에 인색한지..에휴.
장난 아니네요.. 쩝..
요즘 전세계가 우경화되고 있다는 느낌. 덴마크, 프랑스 같은 나라가 이렇게 됬다면 말 다했네...ㅋㅋ
덕분에 학교도 안가서 잘 쉬고있습니다 ㅡㅡ; 농담이구요 저렇게 불지르고 때려 부수는애들은 장난치러온 철없는 양아치들입니다... 원래 이렇게 까지 세게 갈 생각은 안했는데 정부에선 지내멋대로 하고 노동조합, 학생조합에 아무생각 없는 애들까지 다 겹쳐서 난리가 일어난거에요... 아 나 이번 6월에 수능치는데 학교
닫혀서 미치겠네요 공부해야데는데 ㅠㅠ
니콜라 사르꼬지의 보수적인 정치에 맞서서 프랑스 인들이 계속 싸우기를 바랍니다. 제가아는 한에서는 그를 좋아하는 프랑스 인들은 별로 없는 거 같던데, 프랑스의 계속되는 실업률증가로 내놓은 대안이 그거라니.. 아무튼 밥벌어 먹고 살기 점점힘들어지는군요.
우리나라 비정규직 보호법안과 관련해 시사하는 부분들이 많군요.