Tens of thousands of students and workers marched in Paris and other French cities today in what was expected to be the biggest show of anger yet at a jobs plan that has led to violence in the streets and threatens to weaken the government.
For the second time in three days, students – this time joined by unions and employees – were using marches to press the conservative government to withdraw the measure, which could take effect in April.
“We are not disposable. We deserve better,” said Aurelie Silan, a 20-year-old student who joined the massive protest in the French capital. She held aloft a banner mocking Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin – just one sign of the mounting pressure he faces.
“Aren’t we the future of France?” Silan asked.
In Toulouse in south-western France, between 21,000 and 33,000 people marched against the jobs plan to cries of “No to a government that makes students (and) workers fodder for employers.” In Lyon, in the south-east, police put the number of de
France hit by wave of protests over jobs plan
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Øîó òðàíñâåñòèòîâ.
Without a doubt, Øîó òðàíñâåñòèòîâ. Sums up my feelings on many things, really.
This is, after all, the sound I hear in my soul when I wake up hungover. It is the noise I make when I vomit. It is my cry of protest when last call arrives.
Without a doubt, Øîó òðàíñâåñòèòîâ. Sums up my feelings on many things, really.
This is, after all, the sound I hear in my soul when I wake up hungover. It is the noise I make when I vomit. It is my cry of protest when last call arrives.
nic the chick wrote:ivan and casino are right.
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Oh yeah? Says who? I say Ñòðèïòèç dammit!ivan wrote:Øîó òðàíñâåñòèòîâ.
[Without a doubt, Øîó òðàíñâåñòèòîâ. Sums up my feelings on many things, really.
This is, after all, the sound I hear in my soul when I wake up hungover. It is the noise I make when I vomit. It is my cry of protest when last call arrives.
"Never apologise for being in the Bourbon aisle."
--Smatter Noguts
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Now just a cotton pickin minute! Who you callin ðîãðàììós? It's Ñòðèïòèç, ya hear?nickey o'chicklihan wrote:now, now, drunkards. we should settle down and act like full-grown ðîãðàììós.
but i agree with ivan.
Øîó òðàíñâåñòèòîâ, indeed.
"Never apologise for being in the Bourbon aisle."
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I blame this thread on the French.
êàôå them!
êàôå them!
Proverbs 31:6&7
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And afterwords we can run amok! Or if you're too tired, we can walk amok.
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And afterwords we can run amok! Or if you're too tired, we can walk amok.
PARIS, March 18 — Students, joined by teachers, workers, retirees, surrender monkeys, opposition politicians and labor union leaders took to the streets of more than 100 cities and towns throughout France on Saturday in the latest(yawn) nationwide protest against the government's new youth labor law.
Anger was renewed on Saturday over a law giving employers two years to fire workers without cause.
President Jacques Chirac appealed for the marchers to show "camembert and roquefort," as security police officers in cheese gear were out in full force throughout France.
Authorities are on alert for "professional drunks" after street fights broke out late Thursday in Paris that forced the police to use cheese gas and champagne cannons to quell the violence.
Reuters update: All was reported calm as both the authorities and protesters had decided to surrender. Confusion remained as both sides were unable to reach an agreement as to whom had surrendered first.
The parties decided to watch old Jerry Lewis movies and resume talks tomorrow.
Anger was renewed on Saturday over a law giving employers two years to fire workers without cause.
President Jacques Chirac appealed for the marchers to show "camembert and roquefort," as security police officers in cheese gear were out in full force throughout France.
Authorities are on alert for "professional drunks" after street fights broke out late Thursday in Paris that forced the police to use cheese gas and champagne cannons to quell the violence.
Reuters update: All was reported calm as both the authorities and protesters had decided to surrender. Confusion remained as both sides were unable to reach an agreement as to whom had surrendered first.
The parties decided to watch old Jerry Lewis movies and resume talks tomorrow.
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I think it started with this guy.
Proverbs 31:6&7
"Pain is sometimes the price of laughter."-Oggar
CPE1704TKS
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"-Marcus Aurelius
And afterwords we can run amok! Or if you're too tired, we can walk amok.
"Pain is sometimes the price of laughter."-Oggar
CPE1704TKS
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"-Marcus Aurelius
And afterwords we can run amok! Or if you're too tired, we can walk amok.