shut down a country - civil action - by staying home - millions of workers at a time - yellow vests - [PEACE]

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Thu Dec 5 15:30:26 PST 2019


Ahh, the smell of effective civic action in the morning.

Gilet jaun slowing down? Getting a little weary on the weeknds?

Just stay home. Effective? You bet - when millions of public
transport workers and others all stay home on the same day, just as
truckies have been barricading the oil refineries and other choke
points, you got yerself a shutdown of Western France.

Yee haw muffas :D

  France Paralyzed By Largest General Strike In Decades
  https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-paralyzed-largest-general-strike-decades

  ...
  On the fist day of the strike, parts of Paris resembled a ghost
  town during what are typically busy morning-commute hours. Roads
  were empty, and train stations were deserted, according to the
  Times of London.

  The biggest industrial action of Macron's tenure is, so far,
  staggering in scale: 50% of French teachers are off work, nine out
  of ten trains were cancelled and eleven of the fourteen underground
  lines in Paris are closed. A total of 245 separate demonstrations
  have been announced across France as students, firefighters,
  healthcare workers and others joining in. Strikes at Air France
  forced a wave of flight cancellations, leaving thousands of
  travelers scrambling for a workaround. Air France cancelled 30% of
  its domestic flights and 10% of international short- and
  medium-haul flights on Thursday, RT reports.

  Millions of workers are staying home.

  In Paris, some resorted to bikes, skateboards or walking in the
  bitter cold as 90% of the trains in the country were closed.
  ...



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