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

[pengdust at aol.com]

 All right then!! That's one. Anyone else? Let's get the conversation started at least and start building a social movement. I'm up for it.


 


 

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From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
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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.

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"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).


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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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