(MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES USED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS POST INCLUDING FRANCE 24 AND BFM-TV)
RALLY IN PARIS ON NATIONAL STRIKE PROTEST DAY AGAINST 'PENSION REFORM' THURSDAY 1/19/2023
PROTREST AGAINST PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S PENSION REFORM IN PARIS ON SATURDAY 1/21/2023
Near the end of last month a dramatic drop in hits on this blog from France.
In this age of Internet Censorship modern day "Jamming" as was the case in the days of Nazi and Communist rule regarding radio communications one wonders whether France's government was battening down the hatches for conflict related to its push for "pension reform"
THE THURSDAY STRIKE AND PROTESTS AGAINST PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S 'PENSION REFORM' LEADING TO MORE THAN TWO MILLION PARTICIPANTS ACCORDING TO ORGANIZERS.
THE GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE 1.12 MILLION.
A CALL FOR ANOTHER NATIONAL STRIKE AND PROTEST ON JANUARY 31ST AND FOR SMALLER STRIKE ACTIONS TO BEGIN MONDAY.
Today the "Left" in France led by its political leader Jean-Luc Melenchon holding a protest march to oppose the Macron pension plan. The march spearheaded by youth groups.
Protesters are gathered in Paris this afternoon opposing COVID policy and dressed in Yellow Vests...LIVE VIDEO STREAM PARIS YELLOW VESTS 1/21/2023...
The Left protest against the 'pension reform' came later in the afternoon.
A march today that drew thousands as seen during the later part of the video stream...LIVE VIDEO STREAM PARIS PROTEST PENSION REFORM 1/21/2023
ORGANIZERS OF THE LEFT PROTEST IN PARIS TODAY CLAIMING 150,000 PARTICIPANTS.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA CLAIMING MUCH SMALLER NUMBERS CITING SOURCES WHICH CLAIM IN ONE CASE 14,000 THE OTHER 12,000.
THE ESTIMATE OF 14,000 FROM A GROUP CALLED "OCCURRENCE" DENOUNCED AS COMING WITH A GROUP LINKED TO PRESIDENT MACRON'S CAMP.
Jean-Luc Melenchon speaking today hitting hard at Macron and at Elon Musk who has expressed his support for Macron's pension scheme.
Melenchon contending that Macron treats everything like it is a commodity.
About a dozen youth associations spearheading today's protest police evident checking participants some 1700 police checks done on protesters today.
Sandrine Rousseau, leader of the EELV environmentalist Left political party, speaking of a need for non-violent civil disobedience in opposition to the pension reform plans of Mr. Macron.
Video from protests in other parts of France outside Paris today including Besancon near the Swiss border. The protest moving through a commercial area and three minutes into the video the singing of the Yellow Vests song...
Protesters also gathered as they have been every week in a public square in Tours...
LATE IN THE AFTERNOON LIVE VIDEO FROM PARIS 5 PM LOCAL TIME SHOWING PROTESTERS STILL ON THE STREETS IN LARGE NUMBERS..
LIVE VIDEO STREAM PARIS PENSION REFORM PROTEST 1/21/2023
Tonight new public opinion polling showing a 65 percent disapproval rating for President Macron with his Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne at 64 percent disapproval.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Bordeaux in southwest France a revitalization of Yellow Vests protests in that city with the pension issue front and center.
One protester on a bicycle with a sign "Pendant Ce Temps A Davos" translated "Meanwhile In Davos" ...
For now that is the story of France and the Yellow Vests.
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