[A-List] 1-2.5 Million French Demonstrate against Sarko's Economic Policy

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Nestor Gorojovsky <nmgoro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi escribió:
>>
>> Maybe this is just dog bites man, but the French are up in arms
>> again:
>>
>> <http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/social/20090129.OBS2133/mobilisation__entre_un_et_25_millionsde_manifestants_en.html>
>>  Mobilisation : entre un et 2,5 millions de manifestants en France
>
> They have always been up in arms.
>
> Lately, they voted right because they were waging a war against Muslim
> immigrants. As you may recall, the highest voting rates for the right came
> from the former bastions of the French Communist Party in the "banlieue
> parisienne".
>
> Now they realize things may be a bit different.

Comparing reports on and videos of anti-Gaza-war demos in France and
Germany, for instance, I think the French demos were much more mixed
than the German ones.  In Germany, some demos were overwhelmingly
attended by Arabs, Turks, etc. with few leftists among them.  Leftists
had their own demos there.  Maybe the French leftists finally began to
figure out the Islam and immigrant question, too.

Yoshie