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  • France’s political crisis grows as 3 million take to streets
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
    Police fought running battles with rioters in central Paris last night as youths attacked officers with bangers, bottles and concrete at the end of a mass demonstration against a youth employment law that has caused a political crisis for Jacques Chirac’s ruling party.
    Trade unionists and student leaders said up to three million people took to the streets across France yesterday - the second time in eight days that the country has seen its biggest street (…)

  • Farm Workers Target McDonald’s, Suppliers Over Wages Farmers Workers Target Mac Donald
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by OneWorld.net
    by Abid Aslam
    WASHINGTON - Florida tomato pickers converged on McDonald’s Corp.’s flagship Chicago restaurant over the weekend to protest poor working conditions and wages they say have stagnated for 30 years.
    The farm hands, members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, want a penny-per-pound pay raise from their employers, growers based in and around Immokalee, Florida. And they want Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s to (…)

  • from france
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    More than 3 000 000 protesters today !
    Join us !
    Stop liberalism
    Total strike
    A great day

  • Well Exercised and Supple, French Unions Flex Muscles
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CRAIG S. SMITH
    PARIS, March 28 - Armed with hot dogs and baguettes, balloons, buttons, banners and, of course, gallons of red wine, France’s major trade unions set out Tuesday to change the law, or to bring down a prime minister trying.
    Responding to their rallying cry, more than a million people showed up in the streets, marching in the familiar protest parades that the unions sponsor from time to time. In Paris, the slow-moving street fair stretched for miles.
    "The unions haven’t (…)

  • Anti-immigrant hysteria versus common sense
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BC Editor Bruce Dixon
    Last weekend in Los Angeles somewhere between half a million and two million legal and illegal immigrants and their supporters hit the streets protesting the same federal legislation that brought at least three hundred thousand into the streets of Chicago two weeks earlier, and smaller crowds in dozens of other cities. As this article is written, the U.S. Senate has just stricken the most onerous provisions of pending immigration bills which make an instant felon (…)

  • France: Millions of workers and students strike against Gaullist government
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Rick Kelly and Antoine Lerougetel
    An estimated 2 to 3 million striking workers and students demonstrated in cities and towns throughout France yesterday in opposition to the Gaullist government’s “First Job Contract” (CPE-Contrat première embauche) legislation, which permits employers to dismiss young workers without cause or compensation during their first two years on the job.
    The largest rally was held in Paris, where 700,000 people marched in cold and wet conditions. Other large (…)

  • ONE MILLION WALK OUT BRITAIN’S BIGGEST DAY OF ACTION SINCE 1926 GENERAL STRIKE
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Strike protests in Paris and London
    By Philip Johnston
    It was the best of strikes and it was the worst of strikes.
    Across Britain and France millions of public sector workers stopped work, in the former to protest about pension reforms and in the latter to block new youth employment contracts.
    But whereas in Britain the day was marked by nothing more revolutionary than picket lines and rallies, in France it ended with clashes on the streets. In Paris, where 700,000 marched, police (…)

  • Mass protests on the streets of France, organisers of the marches claimed that three million people
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Organisers claim 3m people join marches Sarkozy floods Paris with 4,000 riot police
    by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
    Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of France yesterday, disrupting schools and transport in a nationwide strike to pressure the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, to withdraw his controversial new employment law.
    Organisers of the marches claimed that three million people joined marches with major demonstrations in Marseille, Bordeaux and a dozen (…)

  • Over 1 Million Protest in Los Angeles for Immigrant Rights!
    27 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The largest demonstration in the history of California
    Today in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California. March organizers announced from the stage that the crowd was over 1 million.
    Univision and other Spanish-language television reported that up to 2 million people marched. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting police estimates, gave the march 500,000 - police estimates have been (…)

  • The largest demonstration in the history of California: Over 1 Million Protest in Los Angeles for I
    26 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A.N.S.W.E.R.: Full Rights for Immigrants! Legalization Now!
    Today in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California. March organizers announced from the stage that the crowd was over 1 million. Univision and other Spanish-language television reported that up to 2 million people marched. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting police estimates, gave the march 500,000 - police estimates have (…)