Yellow Vest Protests in France because President Macron hiked up the tax on fossil fuels

[mbewane]

Wonder how this attack in Strasbourg will play out for the Gilets Jaunes. You know thetre's gonna be all the usual talk about unity and whatnot.

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

I don't know much about this situation but The Alt-Right in America is loving this shyt.

 

[Maschine_Man]

I don't know much about this situation but The Alt-Right in America is loving this shyt.

it's not just the alt-right.

everyone should be loving this shyt. Fighting back against the Government (en masse), for the rights and freedoms that you believe in. Fairness and equality are thing that SHOULD be fought for.

ppl over here are way to damn complacent, and only wanna bytch and complain from their keyboards.

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

it's not just the alt-right.

everyone should be loving this shyt. Fighting back against the Government (en masse), for the rights and freedoms that you believe in. Fairness and equality are thing that SHOULD be fought for.

ppl over here are way to damn complacent, and only wanna bytch and complain from their keyboards.

Like I said I don't know the details and I believe if shyt get real people will get off their ass here.
Got video evidence of that the past few years with protest.
Only difference I see they realize they getting fukked as a whole, our situations are because of groups or political affiliation and we have not realized we all are getting fukked in some sort of way.
I could be wrong, but we will see when that crash happen like everyone predicting.

 

[Maschine_Man]

Like I said I don't know the details and I believe if shyt get real people will get off their ass here.
Got video evidence of that the past few years with protest.
Only difference I see they realize they getting fukked as a whole, our situations are because of groups or political affiliation and we have not realized we all are getting fukked in some sort of way.
I could be wrong, but we will see when that crash happen like everyone predicting.

this x 10000000

the moment ppl stop riding for some political team, and realize that politics by these elites has been just one big ping pong game the better off everyone will be.

 

[newworldafro]

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GRAPHIC: Photographer's Hand Blown Off By Police Grenade During Yellow Vest Mayhem

 

[afterlife2009]

Protests heating up a thread of videos





Macron fired his head police chief. Apparently they are banning the yellow vests from certain neighborhoods, shutting down protest that included “ultra-radicalized” groups and granting police officers more autonomy

 

[afterlife2009]

Yellow Vest Protests Prompt France to Ban Some Demonstrations

PARIS — French officials said on Tuesday that they would ban potentially violent protests in key areas like the Champs-Élysées in Paris, following a surge of violence during Yellow Vest demonstrations over the weekend that led to intense criticism of the government’s handling of security around tourist neighborhoods and wealthier areas.

Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said in a televised statement from Paris that after “intolerable” events over the weekend, the government had decided to ban any future Yellow Vest demonstrations “in the areas that have been most targeted,” if authorities became aware of “extremist elements” that intended to vandalize.

Mr. Philippe said one of those areas would be the Champs-Élysées, a major avenue in western Paris with luxury stores and tourist attractions that has become a focal point for the protests.

On Saturday, “breakers,” or casseurs, smashed an upscale restaurant, looted 27 stores and set kiosks and a bank on fire, forcing firefighters to evacuate a mother and her baby who were trapped on the building’s second floor.

weeks of increasingly violent demonstrations, security forces adopted a more flexible strategy, to try to quickly stop and apprehend rioters. On Saturday, the police arrested 237 protesters and took 144 of them into custody, compared with 1,100 arrests on Dec. 8, on the first weekend the new strategy was used.

The controversy over the use of rubber bullet launchers, nonlethal weapons that have caused dozens of facial injuries, forced police forces to reduce their use, Mr. Philippe said, hinting that the police would be allowed to adopt tougher measures.

He announced that the police would use drones, special products to mark rioters and video surveillance to arrest them. In addition to Paris, Mr. Philippe also mentioned squares in Bordeaux and Toulouse where protests might be banned.

A contentious law passed this past week by senators, which allows administrative rather than judiciary authorities throughout France to ban protests, will not go into effect until a review by the country’s constitutional council. Mr. Philippe said the law would help prevent masked rioters from gaining access to demonstration areas.

The Yellow Vest protests had tapered off in recent weeks, and several key figures announced that they would stop demonstrating. But the movement has maintained a continuous presence for 18 consecutive Saturdays, with violence seen by many as the only way to make sure their voices are heard.

President Emmanuel Macron has tried to stanch the protesters’ anger through what was known as the “Great National Debate,” 11 meetings throughout France that ended last week. But a majority of Yellow Vests have spurned the initiative.

On Monday, Mr. Macron received more than 60 intellectuals to discuss what would come after the “Great National Debate.” The government is expected by April to announce the first measures to emerge from that debate.

After a trip to East Africa last week, Mr. Macron went to the Pyrénées for a weekend ski holiday, which he shortened to address the violence. Many protesters complained that even a brief ski trip was an unseemly show of economic privilege in a time of popular hardship.

 

[DEAD7]

 

[Secure Da Bag]

They still protesting?

 

[afterlife2009]

46 weeks and counting of protests

 

[afterlife2009]

 

[mbewane]

Just for info, this is independent from the Gilets Jaunes. Obviously there are common things and a lot of the same people will be marching but this specific strike is precisely about an upcoming pension reform.

 

[Pressure]

Just for info, this is independent from the Gilets Jaunes. Obviously there are common things and a lot of the same people will be marching but this specific strike is precisely about an upcoming pension reform.

Basically a remix of the last massive strike right?

 

[DEAD7]

Overly generous pension plans...