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Thursday, May 2, 2019

On the Yellow Vests ... news, tweets, write-ups, vids and pics ...the last few weeks of marches in France


https://www.dw.com/en/despite-macrons-plans-french-yellow-vests-keep-on-going/a-48514235
 Despite Macron's plans, French yellow vests keep on going
President Emmanuel Macron's plans for tax cuts, higher pensions and reform of the civil service have failed to satisfy yellow vest protesters. Thousands took to the streets on Saturday.....






Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog
https://thesaker.is/french-muslim-support-of-the-yellow-vests-ignored-by-media/

 ....So the sight of a Muslim Yellow Vester makes many cops salivate. It also makes judges salivate at sentencing time.
“Muslims would be the first victims of police brutality,” confirmed Azergui. “They are always the sacrificial lambs in France, so why would it be any different at the Yellow Vest protests?”
On April 20th the police abuse was constant in Paris. Medics were working overtime as people were dropping like flies, but I only saw one unconscious person carried out on a stretcher – he was Black and thus quite possibly a Muslim, of course.
This guarantee of a double helping of both police brutality and judicial impunity is the second reason, but likely the most important reason, why Muslims might not be so eye-catching at Yellow Vest demonstrations.
This violence adds to the media silence – talking about Muslims and Yellow Vests would have to break the taboo against honest discussion of the institutionalised state violence towards the Muslim community.
Sad but true: one of the “great” things about the Yellow Vests is that it’s not only Muslims who are being brutalised anymore.
“France is starting to wake up to reality,” said Azergui. “When 4,000 Muslim families had their homes raided without a warrant during the State of Emergency, France didn’t care about police violence. There are so many images and videos which show how French cops abuse old people, women and innocent people – this is something Muslims live with daily. How could Muslims not have solidarity with such a movement?
Azergui’s thoughts reminded me of the case of Ali Ziri, a 69-year old Algerian native who was infamously beaten to death by French cops in 2009. Police violence is a real taboo in France, and by taking so many beatings the Yellow Vests are helping out their Muslim brothers and sisters......

 


  Ross Domoney an award winning freelance film maker  has some videos and pics at his blog below.
 http://www.ross-domoney.com/new-blog/2019/3/12/my-coverage-of-the-yellow-vest-protests-in-france


 


 


 
 From the Local Fr
https://www.thelocal.fr/20190502/unspeakable-why-did-dozens-of-protesters-burst-into-a-paris-hospital-during-may-1st-demonstrations
 
....An investigation has been opened into the incident and about 30 people have been placed in custody, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
 
Naturally the event has sparked a big reaction from France's politicians. 
 
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner described it as an "attack by dozens of ultra-leftist anti-capitalist 'Black Bloc' activists" while France's Health Minister Agnès Buzyn said it was "unspeakable to attack a hospital".
 
However it remains unclear whether the intrusion was an attack, whether the protesters were actually trying to escape the police or whether they were on the hunt for a riot police officer who had been hospitalised there after being wounded during the demonstrations.
 
"I do not know the reasons for this inexplicable intrusion," said the director of the university hospital trust, Hirsch. "I do not think it has anything to do with the hospitalisation of the CRS officer - I did not see them screaming for a particular wounded person.
 
"I do not know if it was a hospital invasion or if they were fleeing something.....

 






 
https://www.dw.com/en/yellow-vest-protesters-join-unionists-environmentalists-for-may-day-march-in-paris/a-48564724
 French police have clashed with protesters during the annual May Day rally in Paris, organized by unions but joined by other groups. More than 7,400 officers were deployed onto the streets of the capital.....

 

 
Very interesting interview below
 https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/the-revolt-of-the-yellow-vests-my-interview-with-atlantico-fr/
1 – Your 2014 book The Revolt of the Public has been presented as a kind of prophecy of the Yellow Vest movement in France. To what extent do you think the ideas developed in your book match the French situation?
My book’s thesis is that the decisive conflict of the twenty-first century isn’t between left and right, or between Islam and the West, or even between democracy and tyranny.  The pivotal struggle today pits an angry public, newly empowered by a dazzling array of communications technologies, against the elites who run the great institutions of modern society – very much including government.
These institutions received their form and spirit during the industrial age.  They function from the top down, hierarchically, methodically, ponderously, obsessed with five-year plans and pseudo-scientific position papers.  They make extraordinary claims of competence:  that they can deal with unemployment and inequality, for example.  To retain their legitimacy, therefore, industrial institutions require a monopoly over the information in their own domains.  Today, that monopoly has been swept away by the tsunami of information set in motion, around the turn of the millennium, by the digital revolution.  A roar of strange new voices now drowns out government pronouncements and explanations.  An overabundance of information, it turns out, is subversive of every kind of authority.
The elites still possess all the guns and most of the wealth – but they know they have lost their authority, their ability to command, and they are disoriented and demoralized.  The public in revolt can organize online and erupt in street protests, seemingly out of nowhere, at any time.  And the elites are always surprised:  from Tahrir Square to Brexit to the Yellow Vests, governments were shocked by the sudden radical change in the political landscape.  The elites had no idea of what was coming, and they have been unable to learn since.
Now, I don’t believe in prophecy.  I think that, in principle, we can’t know the future of complex systems like human societies.  Accurately describing the present should be the analyst’s task:  and that’s hard enough.
That said, the Yellow Vests and their movement match my description (not prophecy) of the public in revolt to a remarkable extent.  To begin with, they gathered below the digital horizon, in Facebook “anger groups” where they could whip themselves into a frenzy of grievance and repudiation and yet remain beneath the notice of the media and the politicians....


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