LIVE STREAMING VIDEO - 1,000,000 protesters in Paris right now, yellow vests protests re-igniting

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[–]FormosaOolong 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Here is a translation of one of the facebook calls to gather:

✊🏼 Call of January 18, 2020 ✊🏼 💥 Let's not lose anymore! 💥

The results are simple: we are regressing at all levels. Except in matters of police surveillance and repression. But otherwise: nature and species are dying, pollution is increasing, life expectancy has started to stagnate, public services are on their knees and private workers are on the knees with increasingly precarious and poorly paid jobs. .

The state in all of this is just an orchestra of above-ground technicians serving money. And at this level of bureaucracy, it can never be otherwise.

It is time to no longer lose, no longer accept the social regressions that go with their share of authoritarian and discriminating policies. It's time to rise up. One and all! French citizens or not, everyone is concerned, because this enemy who makes war on us has no borders.

January 18 is a Saturday. This date goes hand in hand with Thursday, January 9. With the difference that all the most job-insecure who will not have been able to strike will be able to come to demonstrate. This is an opportunity to be massive in the street to express our rejection of the pension reform and the world of Macron.

The pension reform should be presented to the Council of Ministers on January 24. Let us make sure that it never comes to be and that like its scribes, it goes to the dustbin of History.

Spread the word. The 18th, the whole of France in Paris!

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I smell the distinct stench of globalism. WTF? And pollution getting worse? It's better than ever. I think someone is hijacking legitimate protests.

[–]FormosaOolong 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can't agree with you here. I think it is not so much an "ism" as people fighting for what is right for people. Maybe where you live pollution is better, but in a lot of places (including Paris) it is worse. It also depends on how you define pollution: do you mean just air pollution/smog? There are cities where the air quality is actively dangerous. But if you include the industrial/chemical and other contaminations of our water, food supply, soil, it has indeed gotten much worse.

In the US, look for instance at the exponential increase in pounds per annum of glyphosate alone, not to mention 2,4-D and all kinds of other "approved" chemicals that are at the root of so much debilitating human disease.

They are actively protesting against Macron-style globalism, imo, and the elitist erosion of everything that keeps the rest of us healthy, well, and sane.