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  • 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 (…)

  • A Time for Heresy
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bill Moyers
    Bill Moyers is President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. This is the prepared text of his remarks delivered on March 14 upon the establishment by Marilyn and James Dunn, of the Wake Forest Divinity School, of a scholarship in religious freedom in the name of Judith and Bill Moyers.
    When Dean Bill Leonard asked James Dunn to join him here at Wake Forest’s new Divinity School, my soul shouted “Yes!” These two men personify the honesty and courage we need to (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Fearing More Unrest, French Leader Weighs Weakening Law
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By CRAIG S. SMITH
    Facing crippling strikes and growing civil unrest, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin today discussed with lawmakers watering down his contentious new labor law. But union leaders, who have refused to enter into a dialogue with the government until it has rescinded the law, showed no signs of budging on their promise to mount nationwide protests and strikes next week.
    "The basic demand of the youth and of employees is that the law be withdrawn," said Gérard (…)

  • French right looks to PM for way out of crisis
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jon Boyle
    PARIS - France’s ruling conservatives looked to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to chart a way out of a youth jobs law crisis on Tuesday as the threat of a national strike and fresh protests kept up the pressure.
    The large public sector is expected to join a one-day work stoppage on March 28 and high school students took to the streets on Tuesday around France to demand Villepin withdraw the contract they say removes job security for young people.
    Deputies from the (…)

  • Protests Heat Up as France Feels the Chill of Change
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PARIS, March 16 - Once again, students are on the barricades in France, evoking comparisons to the uprising of May 1968. But this is not a revolt. It is not 1968 revisited.
    Certainly, students are taking to the streets and shutting down universities, and tear gas penetrated the heart of Paris. Today, hundreds of thousands of protesters, most of them students, filled the streets and marched in cities throughout France. With teachers, workers, labor union leaders, the jobless, even retirees (…)

  • When a young Frenchman’s fancy turns to revolution
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    William Pfaff: When a young Frenchman’s fancy turns to revolution
    Governments in France are unwise to launch initiatives affecting students and the young when springtime approaches and the sap rises. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has put himself in a difficult situation at a moment when the French already suffer depression connected with unemployment, a sense of economic vulnerability and what seems like political futility. This week, Villepin confronts street demonstrations of (…)

  • Student protests erupt across France
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students want a controversial labour law scrapped
    French students have clashed with riot police across the country, as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched against a new government youth employment plan.
    At least 250,000 people took to the streets on Thursday in up to 80 towns and cities across France, according to police. Organisers put the figure as high as half a million.
    Student leaders said 120,000 people marched through Paris’s university quarter, although police said (…)

  • France : a look at the growing revolt against CPE
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled his labour law liberalisation package CPE on the 16th of January. He said that “urgent” action was needed to “bring the French labour market into the modern era”. The law would see employers hire 18-26 year olds on two year contract that would allow them to fire the youths without notice, and without explanation.
    In responce, student union bodies called for a week of meetings and mobilisation from 30th january including a call for a (…)