[Peace-discuss] Re: [UCIMC-print] Greek students' protest spreads..to Paris!

[John W.]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:53 PM, <pengdust at aol.com> wrote:

 Greece, France, Italy, Spain.... even Iceland! And still amerikans sit on
> their asses doing nothing about what faces them!! I'm ashamed.
>

I'm waiting to follow YOUR lead, of course.



> "You know you are oppressed when they've even stolen your ability to
> dream!"
>

And to sing.  That's another way you can know when you're oppressed (or
depressed).




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Tuck <christuck911 at gmail.com>
> To: candiscussion at googlegroups.com; peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net;
> can-uiuc at googlegroups.com; imc-print at lists.ucimc.org
> Sent: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 5:06 pm
> Subject: [UCIMC-print] Greek students' protest spreads..to Paris!
>
>  French protest over school reforms
>        *Organisers said about 13,600 people took part in protests in Paris
> [AFP] *     Protest against education reforms have taken place across
> France despite an announcement earlier this week by the government that it
> would postpone changes to the secondary school curriculum indefinitely.
> Thirty eight people were arrested in Lyon where five police officers were
> injured in scuffles with a group of about 150 demonstrators who threw rocks,
> damaged cars, set fire to rubbish cans and smashed bus shelters.
>  About 200 students briefly blocked a high-speed train line in the main
> station in the nearby city of Dijon.
> Several thousand students also took part in protests held in Paris and the
> city of Rennes in western France.
> Police in the French capital used tear gas after clashes on the margins of
> a demonstration in the old student quarter near the Luxembourg gardens,
> where organisers said about 13,600 people took part.
> Protests over plans to revamp the school curriculum, cut classroom hours
> and slash 13,500 education jobs had already turned violent last week, with
> students again clashing with police in several cities.
> Xavier Darcos, France's education minister, had agreed to postpone the
> reforms amid fears of social unrest modelled on the on-going demonstrations
> that have engulfed Greece.
> But French students have kept up calls for the plans to be dropped
> permanently.
> *'Widespread misperceptions'*
> Francois Fillon, France's prime minister, said the government was prepared
> to consider some changes to the reforms but he said there was no question of
> cancelling the project, which the government said was aimed at making the
> state school system more effective.
> Fillon said: "We have decided to take more time with schools because there
> have been widespread misperceptions. We are going to re-open consultations,
> so we are ready to accept changes in the reform."
> Protesters insisted they would maintain their action until the government
> backed down definitively.
> "We won't resume discussions until the government gives up its plans to cut
> jobs," said Alix Nicolet, president of the FIDL students' union, who
> contrasted cuts in public spending with the sums used to bail out crisis-hit
> banks.
> "You keep hearing about the financial crisis, that there's no money for
> young people, and on the other hand you give out billions to the banks and
> of course that creates discontent," she said.
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Tuck
> "People should not be afraid of their governments,
> Governments should be afraid of their people."
>
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