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Between 1 and 3 million people in the streets !
JC Helary
On 2006/04/04, at 14:57, JC Helary wrote:
>> 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