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France's political crisis grows as 3 million take to streets
The Guardian ^ | 6 April 2006 | Angelique Chrisafis

Posted on 04/05/2006 7:28:31 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

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 demonstrations in almost 40 years. The protests, including one by hundreds of thousands of students and scholars who marched through central Paris, were mainly peaceful.

They were marked by a carnival atmosphere somewhere between a victory parade for the demonstrators and a funeral march for the "first employment law" as the ruling party prepared to begin negotiating its way out of the crisis.

Police fired teargas in Paris's Place d'Italie last night after groups of students and youths, some from the suburbs, attacked police lines.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloodyfrench; eurabia; frogs; jackchirac; parisriots; riots; screwed; yoots
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To: Revolting cat!

Let the frogs sink under their Islamic Masters....The Paris runways will feature the latest Burkas :)


21 posted on 04/05/2006 8:12:43 PM PDT by Darth Malice
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To: NCjim; RightWhale

That's what I thought. A sausage to the chops? Very strange!


22 posted on 04/05/2006 8:13:00 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Gritty
Start worrying about what will happen to the ones left in France when the Muslims take over!

Naw, nothing to worry about. The Muslims aren't going to take over, the next government will...be...uh...Socialist...

Uh-oh.

23 posted on 04/05/2006 8:23:48 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: NCjim

Ooooooo, bangers and mash,..yum.

Meat and potatoes, all around the world, the staff of life.


24 posted on 04/05/2006 8:23:50 PM PDT by garyhope (Simplicity is best in everything)
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To: Dog

"....three million people took to the streets..."

Expect this same (or worse) scenario here if we don't expel all illegals immediately.


25 posted on 04/05/2006 8:26:04 PM PDT by panaxanax
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To: Aussie Dasher
youths, some from the suburbs,

Translation: muslims, some from the outlying projects,

26 posted on 04/05/2006 8:35:16 PM PDT by Looking4Truth (Radical Muslims and Illegal immigrants: Too stupid to create so they invade or destroy.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

French Students Take to Streets Over New Employment Law

A new law aimed at reducing youth unemployment (currently 23 percent) by making it easier to hire and fire young workers has sparked an outcry of opposition from the intended beneficiaries. As many as 1.5 million people participated in street demonstrations to protest the “First Job Contract” law passed by Parliament.

Jacques Esse, one of the students leading the protest, denounced the law. “They are trying to take away our leisure and force us into boring jobs,” said Esse. “We need money, not excessive demands on our time.”

Esse contends that forcing young people into the workforce will have anti-democratic impacts. “Who will march in the streets to protest bad laws if everyone has jobs?” asked Esse.

Esse demanded that the government save his generation from a life of meaningless toil. “Our time and our minds should be free to create the new ideas needed for a new millennium,” said Esse. Esse proposed that corporations and the rich be taxed to provide stipends for young intellectuals like himself.

Asked what new ideas for a new millennium he has, Esse responded that his proposed stipends for young intellectuals was just the first of many he was sure would be forthcoming if he isn’t bogged down by a dead-end job and has the time to work on them.

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27 posted on 04/05/2006 8:50:21 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: Aussie Dasher
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28 posted on 04/05/2006 8:53:02 PM PDT by loveitor.. ("I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours..." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Aussie Dasher
up to three million people took to the streets across France yesterday

WTH. Doesn't anyone work any more.

29 posted on 04/05/2006 8:56:07 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Where is everyone going to the bathroom?OOOOPPPS,sorry,dumb question!


30 posted on 04/05/2006 9:04:31 PM PDT by xarmydog
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To: Aussie Dasher
Police fought running battles with rioters in central Paris last night as youths attacked officers

The Police have probably surrendered by now...

31 posted on 04/05/2006 9:32:37 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: Looking4Truth
youths, some from the suburbs,

Translation: muslims, some from the outlying projects,

I see you speak the language. Well done. Spot on.

32 posted on 04/05/2006 9:43:12 PM PDT by LikeLight
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To: Aussie Dasher
Let me see, a boatload of French muslim kids riot and burn thousands of cars. Then they get the ol' Cartoon Protest riots. Now they get the "What? No guaranteed jobs???" riots.

While I don't subscribe the the "broken window" economic theory, there should be plenty of short-term post-riot cleanup jobs available, right?

33 posted on 04/05/2006 11:27:04 PM PDT by boycottliberalhollywood.com (www.boycottliberalhollywood.com - www.twoamericas.us)
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To: xarmydog
Where is everyone going to the bathroom?OOOOPPPS,sorry,dumb question!

The French Sh!t in their pants.

34 posted on 04/05/2006 11:31:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: Aussie Dasher

The more they have, the more they want. Ingrates.

It will happen here if President Bush doesn't get serious about illegal immigrants.

***Responsible Americans can help prevent this movement in America by volunteering for or starting Literacy programs in their community.***

Volunteering to teach English provides an opportunity to teach about America at the same time. It is the parents of these youth or need to assimilate. If they can communicate with teachers and community leaders, then there is a better chance that they can undo the harm that public schools are doing to their children.

Sign up to teach ESL today!


35 posted on 04/06/2006 4:18:11 AM PDT by demoRat watcher (Keeper of the Anthropocentrism Ping List)
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To: Aussie Dasher; All
I am adding news of these new riots to this original "Car-B-Q" riots post:

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:



36 posted on 04/06/2006 4:40:39 AM PDT by backhoe (The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
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To: Revolting cat!

The amount of them food stamps we giv eout is down.

Fewer people on the dole than most any other first world country except Japan.


37 posted on 04/06/2006 5:16:30 AM PDT by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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To: Aussie Dasher

"Let them eat cake"...worked in their past.


38 posted on 04/06/2006 5:29:08 AM PDT by RetSignman (( HELP...I'm trapped between these curved things))
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To: Aussie Dasher

The French are revolting.


39 posted on 04/06/2006 5:30:08 AM PDT by Drango (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: John Semmens
You're kidding, right?

I mean that post had to come from The Onion.

L

40 posted on 04/06/2006 5:31:33 AM PDT by Lurker (In God I trust. Everyone else shows me their hands.)
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