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  • France: The Issue behind the Barricades
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    Boy, those students sure have a lot of people in a tizzy. From the slightly left of center of the political spectrum all the way to the far right, pundits and politicians are outdoing each others to declare that something horrible is going on in the streets of France. At the former end, the students are being roundly ridiculed as lazy elitists, and on the far right, the whole French nation is being characterized as crazy. Some of the drivel passed on by the New York Times (…)

  • Race, class, and "whiteness theory" By SHARON SMITH
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
    Race, class, and "whiteness theory"
    By SHARON SMITH
    http://www.isreview.org/issues/46/whiteness.shtml
    Adapted from Sharon Smith’s new book, Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Haymarket Books, April 2006). Sharon Smith is also the author of Women and Socialism: Essays on Women’s Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2005). Her writings appear regularly in Socialist Worker newspaper and the ISR.
    GIVEN THE depths of (…)

  • When Will Americans Wake Up? get on Message with the Sissy French (CounterPunch)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    When Will Americans Wake Up?
    Get on Message with the Sissy French
    By DON MONKERUD
    Why aren’t young people here aren’t taking to the streets along with their French counterparts to demand better treatment from employers and the government. A second question might be why the U.S. labor movement isn’t out on the street with them.
    French young people are angry that they face 20 percent employment, and they’re angry that the government’s "solution" to this crisis is a law that would allow (…)

  • US Media to French Youth: Fight for your right to be fired
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    APRIL 5, 2006 4:56 PM
    CONTACT: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 212-633-6700
    NEW YORK - April 5 - Given the mainstream media’s general antipathy towards France and nearly unanimous endorsement of neoliberal corporate globalization, it’s no surprise that reporters covering the massive student protests in France would be unimpressed with pleas to protect workers’ rights.
    The policy under fierce debate would allow many French employers more "flexibility" to hire and fire young workers (…)

  • Kleenex Workers by Barbara Ehrenreich (the Progressive )
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006
    Was it only three years ago that some of our puffed up patriots were denouncing the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” too fattened on Camembert to stub out their Gaulois and get down with the war on Iraq? Well, take another look at the folks who invented the word liberté. Throughout the month of March and beyond, they were demonstrating, rioting, and burning up cars to preserve a right Americans can only dream of: the right not to be fired at (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Transit workers are fighting for us all
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Union struggle is about the top issues for most Americans: health insurance and a secure future
    BY GENE CARROLL
    Gene Carroll is the director of the Union Leadership Program at Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, in New York City.
    Back in December, when those 34,000 pesky bus and subway workers who belong to Transport Workers Union Local 100 in New York City walked off the job, the news media and local government traffic managers from Riverhead (…)