France rejects the European Constitution - the first crack

[BushSpeak]

in the Neo-liberal fortress!

I know this is a duplicat post, but I want to present a full explication of the motivations behind the movement in France and it will be easier to do a full thead than to have it lost in in the middle of another one. I'll leave the choice up to the moderators.

I'm sitting here in Brittany as the news just fell on the TV and I have to get the word out before the Fox News spin masters turn this inside out and isolate the French people to keep this anti neo-liberal revolution from becoming contagious.

By a margin of 55-45%, the French people said "No" to the neo-liberal advance that has been dismanteling the social structures created to rebuild Europe after the Second World War.

There is a feeling here that this could be a historic moment. This is the first time that a country in it's majority has said no the neo-liberal bulldozer. Just as you did last November. The difference is that "Old Fashioned Europe" still uses paper ballots and transparent ballot boxes. At least, we have the chance that the people's voice can be heard.

We will need your help to explain the underlying motivations in the French vote, just as you can build from our victory to help raise the consciousness in America.

This will be rather long to give you decent understanding of the social, political and historical repercussions of the events.

Suffice it to say that this Constitution was extremely neo-liberal in it's orientation. Nearly 500 pages, with a third section of over 300 articles that attempted to constitutionalize neo-liberal economic policies for the next 50 years. The only other constitution in the history of the world to mix constitutional institutions and economic policy was the constitution of the Soviet Union.

I have to go out and celebrate with friends from Attac. I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow to start filling in the gaps.

I'll either re-edit this message or put a new one in with CAPS, so you know it's part of the original thread.

May the force be with us!

BushSpeak