An appeal by teachers at the University of Paris-VIII Vincennes - Saint-Denis - a petition to halt the "Law for the Reform of the University"
We, teachers, researchers and members of the personnel of the University, state our categorical opposition to the Law for the Reform of the University (LRU), our total support for the student protest movement and our participation in that movement.
Under the misnomer of “autonomy” (autonomy of management, but neither intellectual nor scientific (…)
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The University That We Want in France
4 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Sarkozy vows to bring rioters to justice
28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Sarkozy vows to bring rioters to justice
By Nicola Clark and Katrin Bennhold
Published: November 28, 2007 PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Wednesday to bring those who shot at police officers to justice as a wave of rioting by angry youths in the suburbs north of Paris showed signs of ebbing.
"What has happened is absolutely unacceptable," Sarkozy said after he was whisked to a bedside meeting with a wounded police captain upon his return from a three-day state visit to China. (…) -
More rioting in Paris suburbs after angry youths fire shotguns at police
28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
November 27, 2007 Police union reports 77 injured By Nicolas Garriga, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - Youths rampaged for a third night in the tough suburbs north of Paris and violence spread to a southern city late Tuesday as police struggled to contain rioters who have burned cars and buildings and - in an ominous turn - shot at officers.
A senior police union official warned that "urban guerrillas" had joined the unrest, saying the violence was worse than during three (…) -
Racism: Guerrilla on Paris’ Doorstep
27 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
By Claude Ribbe translation : Idriss Stelley Foundation (ISF)
The north of Paris’ suburbs currently lives an unprecedented explosion. There has not been any precedents to compare to this time, the violence expressed towards the police is extreme and the Youth are seeking all the local politicians to lynch them.
Abruptly, the police chief of Sarcelles, a nearby city, was seriously struck in the face and sixty policemen were injured (five of them critically) last night. It would seem that (…) -
FRANCE / A Look into the Muslim Headscarf Hysteria
24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
y Laila Lalami, The Nation
A kind of aggression." "A successor to the Berlin Wall." "A lever in the long power struggle between democratic values and fundamentalism." "An insult to education." "A terrorist operation."
These descriptions — by former French President Jacques Chirac; economist Jacques Attali; and philosophers Bernard-Henri Lévy, Alain Finkielkraut and André Glucksmann — do not refer to the next great menace to human civilization but rather to the Muslim woman’s headscarf, (…) -
Mike Robertson Arrested As He Climbs The Eiffel Tower For Burma
20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Filmed by a Bellaciao’s friend
by Mick Ryan
Mike Robertson (45) of Wareham, Dorset, the deep-water soloist, photographer and recent Banff award-winning author of Deep Water was arrested on Monday whilst climbing the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Mike was protesting against Total’s - the French oil company, based in Paris - continued involvement in Burma, despite the elected Prime Minister and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), Aung San Suu Kyi’s wishes that they (…) -
EU polls would be lost, says Nicolas Sarkozy
15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Referendums on the new European Union Treaty were "dangerous" and would be lost in France, Britain and other countries, Nicolas Sarkozy has admitted. - EU subsidies ’shifting away from real farmers’ - Your view: Are referendums dangerous? - Paris faces strike gridlock
The French president’s confession that governments could not win popular votes on a "simplified treaty" - drawn up to replace the EU constitution rejected by his countrymen two years ago - (…) -
Sarkozy’s Visit: Stressing the Positive
6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
By BRUCE CRUMLEY
"Rien" — French for "nothing," famously the final diary entry by Louis XVI on the morning of his overthrow on July 14, 1789 — is exactly what the French are expecting out of Tuesday’s White House summit between President Nicolas Sarkozy and President George W. Bush. The visit is expected to largely serve as another exercise in atmospherics to showcase just how positive the U.S.-French relationship has become, despite nothing having substantially changed in policy terms (…) -
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing: The EU Treaty is the same as the Constitution
31 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentLift the lid and look in the toolbox, and all the same innovative tools are there
The difference between the original Constitution and the present Lisbon Treaty is one of approach, rather than content. The draft constitution resulted from a political desire to simplify European institutions, rendered inefficient by recent expansions. It was about creating more democracy and transparency within the European Union. It was about opening the way for a "Constitution for the people of Europe". (…) -
Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest
30 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsFormer U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.
U.S. embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint (…)