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Thursday, March 14, 2019

France's Yellow Vests/Gilet Juanes protest coming up to its 18th Saturday on March 16, 2019

The following are images from the last couple of weeks.  

What a beautiful example the French citizens are showing the world about peacefully protesting the establishment even as the police bullies keep up the atrocities on the crowds!!  In a world where the majority of countries are going through an unbelievable disparity between the haves and haves-not, the French public is showing us that this is the way to vent out one's  anger and frustration at the establishment ...  in a calm and collected, continuous way.  However, how long will it take the 1%ters  and their puppet politicians to change the situation to ease the problems the citizens are facing?   The longer the elite take to solve the issue of high prices that the have-nots can't afford, the higher the chances that France will erupt into a civil war. 

John Lichfield at TheGuardian
> Just who are the gilets jaunes?





 In just weeks they have brought upheaval to France and forced President Macron to tear up key reforms. Now they have caused the worst rift between France and Italy since the second world war. We unravel the story of the yellow-vest protests
he gilets jaunes movement is the longest-running protest in France since the second world war. It has lasted for 13 weeks but has mobilised fully for only 13 days – all of them Saturdays.
In the protesters’ own eyes, this is not a protest. It is an insurrection which happens mostly at the weekends. Through a series of Saturday putsches, the yellow vests hope not merely to bring down President Emmanuel Macron but to rip up the constitution of the Fifth Republic and replace representative democracy with popular government. Their support, always limited compared with previous French rebellions, is waning. They will not give up easily or soon. They are mostly peaceful, but acts and words of great violence are committed and spoken.
There is no simple explanation for the gilets jaunes. It is not a monolithic, single-minded movement. It has no leadership structure, no single, accepted programme of demands. That’s what makes it fascinating. And worrying.
In May last year, a young businesswoman of French West Indian origin, Priscillia Ludosky, 31, placed a petition online complaining about the high cost of petrol and diesel in France. Reaction – practically nothing. Ludosky is a calm young woman with dreadlocks who runs her own cosmetics business from home. She is an unlikely pioneer for a populist movement which is sometimes accused of being racist and far right (as parts of it undoubtedly are)......

 

 










 
 
From CBC
"> Yellow vest protester loses fingers in Paris clash with police  

Police used batons, fired tear gas as demonstrators advanced on National Assembly
French yellow vest protester's hand was ripped apart Saturday during violent clashes in Paris as demonstrators tried to storm the French National Assembly in a 13th consecutive week of unrest.
Police said the injured protester lost four fingers as police swooped in to stop protesters from breaching the parliament's exterior. Police could not confirm French media reports that the demonstrator's hand was blown up by a grenade used to disperse unruly crowds.
As scuffles broke out in front of the National Assembly and French police responded with tear gas, paramedics huddled around the injured protester at the National Assembly gates, providing emergency treatment and stopping bystanders from getting too close.....











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/27/gilets-jaunes-leader-hit-in-eye-during-protest-will-be-disabled-for-life
">Gilets jaunes leader hit in eye during protest 'will be disabled for life
Jérôme Rodrigues’s lawyer says he was injured by ‘flash-ball’ riot police weapon.
A gilets jaunes (yellow vests) demonstrator injured in the eye at a demonstration in Paris will be disabled for life, his lawyer has said.
Jérôme Rodrigues, a high-profile member of the protest movement, claims he was struck by a “flash-ball”, a launcher used by French riot police to fire large rubber pellets. They have been blamed for dozens of injuries, some serious, including the loss of an eye.
Investigators are looking into the incident after police reportedly insisted Rodrigues’s injuries were caused by a crowd-control grenade that exploded near him, a version of events his lawyer “categorically” denied......







Lucy Williamson at BBC
">Gilets Jaunes face big decision as Macron fights back

After almost three months of protests, France's yellow-vest movement, which rejected any formal leadership or political affiliation, has split over the question of whether to enter electoral politics.
This citizens' movement has already forced President Emmanuel Macron's first policy climb-down. So far, five separate groups have emerged with plans to contest upcoming elections - either the European parliamentary elections in May, or the French local elections next year.
One recent poll suggested a single list could garner 13% of French votes for the European elections - mainly drawing voters away from the far-right and far-left parties of Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.....









">Yellow Vests ransack MASONIC LODGE in French village as protest gets out of hand (VIDEO)

A crowd of Yellow Vest protesters broke into and trashed a Masonic lodge in the French village of Tarbes. The ransacking has been condemned by the French government, who accused the protesters of “stupidity” and “intolerance.”
Some 450 protesters had gathered in Tarbes on Saturday for the 17th straight weekend of anti-government demonstrations. Around midnight, La Dépêche paper reported, some protesters began shouting “we’re going to the freemasons!”
A smaller crowd of protesters marched on the Masonic temple, with one battering down the door of the secretive organization’s clubhouse. More protesters pelted rocks at the building and eventually the group forced its way inside. They overturned furniture, trashed the esoteric art hanging on the walls, and stole four ceremonial swords; they gave these back later on.......





From TheIndependent
Gilets jaunes
">Yellow vest protesters 'hurling faeces' at police in France
Yellow vest protesters in France have struck upon a new way to make their point during their weekly demonstrations – hurling faeces at the police.
Gilets jaunes marchers, who have been gathering across France every Saturday since November, have been spotted in several different cities filling bags with faecal matter and then throwing them at officers who are shepherding the protests.
A police trade union official from Marseille told the AFP news agency that three officers were hit by the unsavoury projectiles on Saturday during the most recent protest......

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