This is fucking awesome. At least this time we didnt see Nike boy trashing the Nike store. I think that France has some of the most interesting protests in the world. Why cant Canada be like this? Oh yeah, because Canadians are "peaceful".
I've been pondering that. Why does liberal capitalism pacify its citizens in some cases and not others? A more extreme version of this law has been in effect in parts of the US for years. I'm sure if they passed it in Canada, people would bitch, but they'd do nothing to stop it.
The reason this doesn't go on much in the United States is that the bosses have managed to infiltrate the Left effectively enough, sometimes with mere attitudes regarding so-called 'pacifism' that protest is essentially muzzled before it even quietly lines up on the street to get shaken down.
See this book as soon as you can:
'How Nonviolence Protects the State' by Peter Gelderloos (Signalfire Press, 2005 $8US/$10CAN
http://www.signalfirepress.org
They actually give permission to pirate the book in the beginning. I wish i had the means to reproduce a few copies. I may actually type the thing out. I dunno. However the Wooden Shoe bookstore in Philly, just north of South St., carries it; that's where I picked it up.
I need to see some of that in Chicago. The last time we had a good riot here was the same year as the '68 rising in France. I'd like to see the words of the second picture on some window in Chicago. It would tickle me to no end.
But if nothing else, France is the place to go, if you want to get on a good riot, out all of the Western core nations at the moment.
my god am i the only one who watched the nazi video? it makes me wish i knew some neo nazis so i could email the link to them... i wonder if they'd get so uptight over it that their heads would explode? totally priceless.
Fantastic pics from France. Love that "Inaccompli de '68" especially. Can't help hoping there's something really revolutionary going on there...
Great immigration post too. Do wonder though... if you turn his (ironic) argument round: if the immigrants already there in the US were to succeed in unionising themselves and winning decent wages and conditions and forcing employers to keep to them, would that stop or greatly reduce the flow of immigrants because the employers would no longer be able to use them as cheap labour? And if so, what would we reckon to the xenophobes campaigning for union recognition and labour rights as a means of halting immigration???
(Yes, there is some devil's advocacy going on here...)
Hmm. I can't say I know about the situation in the U.S. well enough to predict that. I know that in Canada, non-status immigrants can be deported for joining a union, much to the chagrin of IWW Toronto.
I think at the point that immigrants have unionized and won decent concessions, they're likely no longer illegal. Others will keep fleeing to the U.S. as long as conditions in Mexico are as bad as they are, and employers will hire whoever's on the lowest rung.
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Date: 2006-03-29 04:20 pm (UTC)Except in Québec. They'd riot.
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Date: 2006-03-29 04:52 pm (UTC)Or the immigration one?
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Date: 2006-03-29 05:10 pm (UTC)Les riches au goulag!
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Date: 2006-03-29 05:12 pm (UTC)See this book as soon as you can:
'How Nonviolence Protects the State' by Peter Gelderloos (Signalfire Press, 2005
$8US/$10CAN
http://www.signalfirepress.org
They actually give permission to pirate the book in the beginning. I wish i had the means to reproduce a few copies. I may actually type the thing out. I dunno. However the Wooden Shoe bookstore in Philly, just north of South St., carries it; that's where I picked it up.
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Date: 2006-03-29 05:40 pm (UTC)I need to encourage French immigration to Chicago
Date: 2006-03-29 05:57 pm (UTC)But if nothing else, France is the place to go, if you want to get on a good riot, out all of the Western core nations at the moment.
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Date: 2006-03-29 08:13 pm (UTC)I'm heartened by both the sentiments and the fact that I can read most of those slogans - my French is a little better than I thought, apparently.
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Date: 2006-03-29 10:04 pm (UTC)Great immigration post too. Do wonder though... if you turn his (ironic) argument round: if the immigrants already there in the US were to succeed in unionising themselves and winning decent wages and conditions and forcing employers to keep to them, would that stop or greatly reduce the flow of immigrants because the employers would no longer be able to use them as cheap labour? And if so, what would we reckon to the xenophobes campaigning for union recognition and labour rights as a means of halting immigration???
(Yes, there is some devil's advocacy going on here...)
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Date: 2006-03-29 10:11 pm (UTC)I think at the point that immigrants have unionized and won decent concessions, they're likely no longer illegal. Others will keep fleeing to the U.S. as long as conditions in Mexico are as bad as they are, and employers will hire whoever's on the lowest rung.
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