[lbo-talk] What Does It Take to Get 5% of Americans to Act like French Protesters?

[JC Helary]

> The population of France is about 60 million.  On 18 March, about  
> 1.5 million French students and workers protested, and on 28 March,  
> about 3 million of them did so.  That's about 2.5-5% of the French  
> population, and yet the country is already nearly ungovernable.   
> So, the question is, what does it take to get 2.5-5% of Americans  
> to get mad as hell and _act like French protesters_ (as opposed to  
> demonstrate every six months or so, without shutting down a single  
> city)?

And considering Chirac's position on the CPE, I am expecting  
interesting things today too starting in a few hours (3pm here now,  
so the demostrations etc should start in 3 to 4 hours in France ?)

Jean-Christophe Helary