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  • CALL TO RESISTANCE!
    6 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    EUROPEAN COORDINATION AGAINST PRECARIOUSNESS: STRASBURG, JUNE 9th-10th-11th
    For decades, a fierce neo-liberal policy has done its work all over Europe. We - as well as the environment around us - endure, everyday, the effects of this alienating system. This logic finds expression in all-out industrialism, everlasting perpetuation of established elites and ideological formatting, relayed by mass-media, governments and omnipresent aggressive advertising.
    Economy has become the sole (…)

  • HOMAGE TO BOBBY SANDS May 2d radio France Culture
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Radio France Culture on Tuesday, May 2nd from 3 pm till 4:30 pm More 4:30 pm to 5 pm a following debate
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    An homage to Bobby Sands and to his companions dead in Ulster
    Mostly French spoken more Anglophone interviews
    A documentary more live interviews by Rinaldo Depagne and Simon Guibert Sound director Jean-Philippe Navarre
    In "Le vif du sujet" Producer-coordinator: Alexandre Héraud, Special (…)

  • EUROPE : Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-26.htm
    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism by William Pfaff
    Paris — The specter of Anglo-American market capitalism dominated France’s student unrest in March and April, and motivated popular rejection in France a year ago of the proposed new European Union constitution.
    The election that has just given Italy a fragile center- left (…)

  • THE PYRES OF AUTUMN
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The torching of the French banlieues as both sequel to the No vote of May 2005 and symptom of a wider Western malaise. Rejection of official pieties of integration, and flames of revolt against an automated Europe.
    by JEAN BAUDRILLARD
    Fifteen hundred cars had to burn in a single night and then, on a descending scale, nine hundred, five hundred, two hundred, for the daily ‘norm’ to be reached again, and people to realize that ninety cars on average are torched every night in this gentle (…)

  • Lessons of a Left Victory in France
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rick Wolff
    France’s leading bureaucrats, from President Jacques Chirac on down, have been defeated. French neo-liberalism — the dismantling of its welfare state in favor of business — has suffered a serious blow. A powerful alliance of high-school and university students and of organized labor achieved the victory against the government’s law that undercut job security for workers under 26 years of age. The alliance forced Chirac to annul the law — exactly what he and the other (…)

  • Resistance: the Remedy for Fear By RON JACOBS
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Antiwar Movement Needs to Take a Look Around
    Resistance: the Remedy for Fear
    By RON JACOBS
    The French students and workers force the repeal of a law that would have provided employers complete control over the work lives of French youth. Immigrants and their supporters maintain a growing series of protests across the United States to oppose proposed legislation that would criminalize the existence of any US residents without the proper papers and those that assist them. On a (…)

  • France: The Issue behind the Barricades
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    Boy, those students sure have a lot of people in a tizzy. From the slightly left of center of the political spectrum all the way to the far right, pundits and politicians are outdoing each others to declare that something horrible is going on in the streets of France. At the former end, the students are being roundly ridiculed as lazy elitists, and on the far right, the whole French nation is being characterized as crazy. Some of the drivel passed on by the New York Times (…)

  • When Will Americans Wake Up? get on Message with the Sissy French (CounterPunch)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    When Will Americans Wake Up?
    Get on Message with the Sissy French
    By DON MONKERUD
    Why aren’t young people here aren’t taking to the streets along with their French counterparts to demand better treatment from employers and the government. A second question might be why the U.S. labor movement isn’t out on the street with them.
    French young people are angry that they face 20 percent employment, and they’re angry that the government’s "solution" to this crisis is a law that would allow (…)

  • US Media to French Youth: Fight for your right to be fired
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    APRIL 5, 2006 4:56 PM
    CONTACT: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 212-633-6700
    NEW YORK - April 5 - Given the mainstream media’s general antipathy towards France and nearly unanimous endorsement of neoliberal corporate globalization, it’s no surprise that reporters covering the massive student protests in France would be unimpressed with pleas to protect workers’ rights.
    The policy under fierce debate would allow many French employers more "flexibility" to hire and fire young workers (…)

  • Kleenex Workers by Barbara Ehrenreich (the Progressive )
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006
    Was it only three years ago that some of our puffed up patriots were denouncing the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” too fattened on Camembert to stub out their Gaulois and get down with the war on Iraq? Well, take another look at the folks who invented the word liberté. Throughout the month of March and beyond, they were demonstrating, rioting, and burning up cars to preserve a right Americans can only dream of: the right not to be fired at (…)