Video of France riots, burning tires as pension protestors clash with police

[LongTomH]

Run time: 01:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m8zfrJEcN8   Posted on YouTube: October 15, 2010 By YouTube Member: RussiaToday Views on YouTube: 130   Posted on DU: October 15, 2010 By DU Member: LongTomH Views on DU: 530

 
From Russia Today:

"Strikes across France intensified on Friday with police firing tear gas at protesters in the city of Lyon. About 1,000 high school students went on strike, overturning rubbish bins, smashing bus stops, and setting fire to stacks of free newspapers. The students and labour unions see President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform - raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 - as an attack on their well-deserved social protections. Workers at all 12 of France's fuel producing refineries have also joined the protest. Strikers burned tires outside an oil refinery in Donges, near Nantes in western France."

Now, if only we could get Americans to do the same!

[trungpa ricochet]

1. This needed to happen on Wall Street...

...and didn't. There are theories as to why Americans don't show their disdain for their abusive government. When I was young I marched and #@*!! sometimes too.

Maintenant j'habite la France. :thumbsup:

[Rageneau]

2. Some people live in the land of the free and home of the brave.

Too bad it's not us.

[repdemalliance]

3. Whoah

The spirit of '68 lives on!