Sunday, May 3, 2009

Will the French ever stop protesting?

It seems that the French people will never end their long tradition of protesting. Recent clashes of the immigrant lower class in France was not the last series of protests that has emerged in the country. According to the BBC, the traditional May Day marches will have this year a bit different theme a unified one, compared to previous years myriad of themes. Trade unions have called the French people to protest their country's economic actions, such as stimulus plans etc. With unemployment hitting 10% there are more people joining the march than before. Furthermore the marches have a 72% approval rating from the citizens, with the May Day march as the third in a series, since the beginning of this year.

The French have are angry not just about their job situation but furthermore about government action and their "golden parachutes" for companies, and lastly the very "expensive" image of the French President, Sarkozy, who recently has been portrayed in the media as one who frivolously spends his money and enjoys riches, while the people starve.

Keeping in mind France's history, adding to peoples bad economic situation an unapproved political thinking and a bourgeois leader, perhaps might spark one thing the French are very good at, a revolution.

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