France

French Farmers Grow Angry

November 14, 2014 Alan Taylor, www.theatlantic.com Organize! Food and Agriculture, France, Labor Unions

French farmers unions organized a nationwide day of protest yesterday, staging demonstrations in villages and cities across France. Thousands turned out, expressing their anger at collapsing prices (due in part to sanctions against Russia), increased environmental regulations, cheap imports, and high costs. They took to the streets, dumping tons of produce, flinging manure on government buildings, burning effigies, and throwing apples at riot police. The farmers also urged their fellow countrymen to "eat French" and support local agriculture. Farmers dump pumpkins in front of an entrance to buildings of the Vaucluse prefecture in Avignon, southeastern France, on November 5, 2014, during a demonstration called by French farmers unions FNSEA (Federation Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants Agricoles) and JA (Jeunes Agriculteurs).

Riots, Clashes In France After Activist Killed By Police

November 2, 2014 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! France, Police abuse, police murder

Another anti-police brutality protest turned violent in the French city of Rennes, with masked youths and police engaging in running street battles. The unrest follows the death of a young environmental activist earlier this week. Overnight Thursday, protesters in the northwestern city lobbed flairs at police and flipped over cars, some of which they set ablaze. Police responded by firing tear gas. The number of arrests or injures, if any, remains unclear. The protests are in response to the death of 21-year-old activist Remi Fraisse. He was killed early on Sunday by an explosion, which occurred during violent clashes with police at the site of a contested-dam project in southwestern France. His death, the first in a mainland protest in France since 1986, has been blamed on a concussion grenade fired by police. France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who came under serious pressure to resign following the incident, announced an immediate suspension of such grenades, which are intended to stun rather than kill. On Monday, outrage at Fraisse’s death sparked protests in several French cities. Violence erupted in Albi, the town close to the dam, as well as in Nantes and Rennes. Fraisse was one of 2,000 activists present in the southwestern Tarn region to protest the €8.4m ($10.7) million Sivens dam project.

In France 21 Year Old Dam Protester Killed

October 27, 2014 Revolution News!, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Dam, Energy, Environment, France, police brutality, Protest

17 hours after police attacked again the ZAD resistance in Testet, south of France, a 21 year old ZADist was found dead. During the clashes, witnesses say they saw a man collapse and noticed the police taking him away. On Saturday, October 25th, 5,000 people from all over France gathered at Testet in opposition to the dam project and the violent repression of the ZAD resistance, which is ongoing for years, and has increased in the past months. Police attacked the protestors to remove them, and some militants battled the cops until late in the night. Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas grenades; several protestors were badly injured. Later in the night, firefighters and police claimed they have found the body of a man in the woods, while eye witnesses who were there say the body was found at police roadblocks.

Air France Cancels More Than Half Its Flights on Pilot Strike

September 22, 2014 Andrea Rothman, www.bloomberg.com Resist! France, Worker Rights and Jobs

Air France (AF) canceled more than half its flights on day two of what may become the airline’s most disruptive strike since 1998, as pilots protest measures aimed at cutting costs. The airline flew 47 percent of scheduled flights as of 11 a.m. Paris time, more than yesterday’s 40 percent, as pilots walked out to protest plans to expand low-cost operations with flight crews paid less than at the main carrier. A strike planned for today by Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA) pilots was canceled.

10 Forest Defenders Injured In Police Attack To Clear Way For Dam

September 4, 2014 Revolution News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Dam, Environment, France, Police

10 zadists were injured by the French police who resumed their attacks against the occupation of the forest Sivens in order to clear the way for developers build a dam considered useless, even more since it implies the deforestation of 40 ha. Occupiers – naming their occupation ZAD, zone à défendre meaning area to be defended - have been fighting the state and capitalists for a year now to save the forest; previous occupations have been brutally repressed by police, protests have been violently attacked, activists even started hunger strikes in vane to force local authorities hold public debates. They were evicted form the forest before, but always returned and set up en encampment so they can guard the forest from the police and the developers. The more intense repression against them grew, the more zadists came to defend the trees. On September 1st, just as the the day broke, 200 riot cops from Paris, armed with rubber bullets and tear gas and attack dogs, attacked the zadists and partially destroyed their encampment, to clear the way for the trees to be cut. Zadists opposed resistance and erected barricades; villagers mocked and tried to stop cops. But, “punishment was harsher than in previous confrontation”. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at them, badly injuring 10 zadists. “We come across a person whose leg was hit by a stun grenade. Dozens others were helped by nurses. A person was wounded in the neck by a rubber bullet: “It’s like being at war,” a nurse said.

France Becomes First Country To Ban Pro-Palestine Demonstrations

July 19, 2014 Middle East Monitor, www.middleeastmonitor.com Resist! Ban, France, Palestine, Protest

France's socialist government provoked outrage today by becoming the first in the world to ban protests against Israeli action in Palestine. In what is viewed as an outrageous attack on democracy, Socialist Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said mass demonstrations planned for the weekend should be halted. Cazeneuve said there was a "threat to public order", while opponents said he was "criminalising" popular support of the Palestinian people. Thousands were set to march against the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, calling for an immediate end to hostilities in which civilians, including many children, have been killed, but Cazeneuve fears there might be a repeat of the fights between ultra-Jewish vigilantes and pro-Palestinians which happened after a demonstration last Sunday. Referring to the main Paris march, Cazeneuve said: "I consider that the conditions are not right to guarantee security." He welcomed a legal procedure instigated by the Paris police prefecture to ban the march, despite it already being widely advertised. Cazeneuve also advised other prefects across France to examine planned marches on a "case-by-case" basis, and to ban them "if appropriate". Michele Sibony, of the Jewish Union for Peace, said: "By outlawing free speech by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, France puts itself in a unique position in the world and Europe."

France Definitively Bans Genetically Modified Corn

May 6, 2014 NDTV, www.ndtv.com Resist! France, GMOs

Paris: France definitively banned the growing of genetically modified corn on Monday after its highest court and Senate both confirmed an existing ban. A grouping of leftist senators including members of the ruling Socialists, Greens and Communists approved a law banning MON810, a type of GM corn produced by US firm Monsanto, that had already been passed by the lower house of parliament, overcoming opposition from right-wing members. At the same time, the Council of State rejected a request from corn producers to overturn the ban on MON810. The council said the applicants from the General Association of Corn Producers (AGPM) had failed to make the case that they faced an urgent economic crisis as a result of the ban, pointing to the fact that only a small portion of French corn is grown with GM seeds. With Paris having twice put temporary bans on GM crops -- in 2011 and 2013 -- AGPM said Monday's verdicts were "not a surprise". The agriculture ministry banned MON810 -- the only insect-resistant GM corn allowed to be grown in the European Union -- in March.

French Parliament Bans Cultivation Of GM Maize

April 23, 2014 Emile Picy and Sybille de La Hamaide, www.reuters.com Resist! France, GMOs

France's lower house of parliament adopted a law on Tuesday prohibiting the cultivation of any variety of genetically modified maize, saying it posed a risk to the environment. France adopted a decree last month to halt the planting of Monsanto's insect-resistant MON810 maize, the only GM crop allowed for cultivation in the European Union. The law also applies to any strain adopted at EU level in future, including another GM variety, Pioneer 1507 developed jointly by DuPont and Dow Chemical, which could be approved by the EU executive later this year after 19 out of 28 member states failed to gather enough votes to block it. The law adopted by the French National Assembly is similar to one rejected by the Senate, upper house, in February when it was deemed unconstitutional. The Socialist government, like its conservative predecessor, has opposed the growing of GM crops because of public suspicion and widespread protests by environmentalists.

14 African Nations Forced To Pay French Colonial Tax

February 7, 2014 By: Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, www.siliconafrica.com Educate! Africa, Colonialism, Finance and the Economy, France, Imperialism

At this very moment I’m writing this article, 14 african countries are obliged by France, trough a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank under French minister of Finance control. Until now, 2014, Togo and about 13 other african countries still have to pay colonial debt to France. African leaders who refuse are killed or victim of coup. Those who obey are supported and rewarded by France with lavish lifestyle while their people endure extreme poverty, and desperation. It’s such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billions dollars from Africa to its treasury year in year out. We often accuse African leaders of corruption and serving western nations interests instead, but there is a clear explanation for that behavior. They behave so because they are afraid the be killed or victim of a coup. They want a powerful nation to back them in case of aggression or trouble. But, contrary to a friendly nation protection, the western protection is often offered in exchange of these leaders renouncing to serve their own people or nations’ interests.

Workers Barricade Bosses in French Goodyear Factory with Tires

January 8, 2014 Alexander Smith, Resist! France, Worker Rights and Jobs

Disgruntled workers at a Goodyear factory in northern France detained two of their bosses Monday by barricading a meeting room door with a large tire, their union said. The incident is the latest in a series of flare-ups since the Ohio-based tire giant said last year that it planned to close the 1,250-worker plant in Amiens by the end of 2014. So-called "boss-napping" became rampant in France in 2009 at the height of the economic meltdown, although the practice has since tapered off. Workers would not let the manager and a human resources chief leave a room after a meeting turned sour, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) union told The Associated Press.

US Spying On Foreign Governments Creates Major Blowback

October 25, 2013 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Brazil, Empire, France, Germany, NSA, Wars and Militarism

Now that the extent of US spying on foreign leaders, including US allies, is known it is creating major blowback against the United States. No doubt anger at the United States for its aggressive leadership of the largest empire in world history which has military, economic and political implications has been building up for a long time. Countries have been pulled into wars based on lies, forced to participate in torture and rendition, drawn into negotiations on trade agreements that undermine their national policies in favor of profits for US transnational corporations among many examples of abuse of power. The spying on foreign leaders is an issue in its own right, but in fact the issues are much broader.

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