On 2006/05/22, at 6:05, Seth Ackerman wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>> And yet, it is telling
>> that, after the victory over the CPE, streets of France went quiet,
>> even as the National Assembly passed a bill for selective
>> immigration:
>> for skilled and educated workers from the South, against non-skilled
>> and ill educated workers from the South:
>>
>
> Actually there were demonstrations, organized by the Communists and
> others on the left, "contre l'immigration jettable." They just
> weren't huge, like the anti-CPE ones.
It shows one thing mostly, that more than the French "people", it is rather the French unions that showed they were able to organize a protest. It is only a cat&mouse game with the people in power to ensure that unions are continously considered as discution "partners" by the powers in place. If unions were really concerned by "the people", they would be able to organize mass protests against the proposed immigration law. But like in 93 with the Pasqua laws, no significant protest took place because unions traditionally do not care about non-workers & non-potential voters.
JC Helary