500 Brothers Group Leads Mass General Strike In French Guiana

[thatrapsfan]

Nothing about this in the root It's getting a lot of French coverage as its coincided with their general election.

@KidStranglehold @MansaMusa @Dip @Frangala

Video on them here:

Says they formed in reaction to growing violence in the territory. Now expanded their platform to talk about economic problems in French Guiana. Huge unemployment and very high cost of living. A French delegation came to visit the other day and they refused to meet because they werent senior enough. Told them to go back to France and get a ministerial delegation
VIDEO. Crise en Guyane : qui sont les 500 Frères ?


Good stats and background on the situation in French Guiana/Guyane at the moment in this article (also French) Les chiffres clés pour comprendre la situation en Guyane

 

[Bawon Samedi]

 

[BigMan]

Will this be similar to the 09 riots
?

Let me get my google translate out

 

[thatrapsfan]

Guyane : le gouvernement tergiverse

French PM said Minister's would meet with the strike leaders, on the precondition that "republican order" is upheld They're trying to make them seem like a violent group, in some corners of the French media, but they have stuck to civil disobedience. Theyve also enforced the general strike on businesses that didnt shut down.


They rushed and shut down an event where Segoloene Royal was speaking last week (senior member of the governing Socialist party and Hollande ex-partner).

 

[thatrapsfan]

Will this be similar to the 09 riots
?

Let me get my google translate out

I think that was in Guadeloupe? Can vaguely remember general strikes then. Its interesting that the French overseas territories seem to have a culture of organized labour.

 

[BigMan]

I think that was in Guadeloupe? Can vaguely remember general strikes then. Its interesting that the French overseas territories seem to have a culture of organized labour.

It was in Guadeloupe and Martinique i think

Organized labor is / was big in the Caribbean (don't know about the Spanish Caribbean tho)

 

[AlainLocke]

That's what we need to do in the USA...but you know...


Salute to them...

 

[BigMan]

I wonder whether these nations would be better independent

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Freedom for French Guyana!

 

[TransJenner]

That's a lot of siblings

 

[BigMan]

There was a gwada poster let me see if I can find his posts

I know little about the eastern Caribbean TBH

 

[thatrapsfan]

@Liu Kang Are you from one of the overseas territories?

 

[thatrapsfan]

Macron called French Guiana an island and is getting some heat for it
Emmanuel Macron et "l'île" de Guyane

 

[Kasgoinjail]

props for the info, Dr Runoko Rashidi was stuck out there last week and couldn't get here to the UK for his tour of the British Museum he was pissed

 

[Kasgoinjail]

I wonder whether these nations would be better independent

my aunt from Curacao honestly feels like Holland is the best thing to happen to that island... I dunno...