blockades
Articles about direct action using blockades, often of transport links.
CPE: Youths give lesson in solidarity
News of transport blockades mostly by high school pupils and young people.
Guingamp in Brittany
Photos from Gare du Nord yesterday
Photos just in of the blockade by around 2,000 students and high school pupils of Gare du Nord yesterday.
See the full set at libcom.org/gallery.
Originally posted at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zulunation/
7 April: Demonstrators injured in Paris as blockades continue
France protests news roundup from 7 April, including a car ploughing into demonstrators, office occupations and blockades.
Demonstrators injured in Paris
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6 April: Villepin makes major speech amidst mass transport blockades
A round-up of news from the anti-CPE struggle in France, including Villepin's speech and responses, and the transport blockades across the country.
- Four student demonstrators and one policeman were injured on Thurday, the 6th April. At the end of the aftermoon, the police force removed some 450 students who were blocking the railways on the North Matabiau station and stopped traffic for an hour and half. According to the local authority, the five injured people were transferred to the hospital.
Anti-CPE Movement: Gare du Nord, Paris, 6th April 2006
Thursday 6th April, approximately 2000 students and high-school pupils join in small groups a blockade at Gare du Nord, Paris around 3pm, staying on the tracks and blocking traffic for 2 hours. Photos from http://www.flickr.com/photos/zulunation/.
5 April: CPE protests updates
Latest news from the anti-CPE struggle from across France from Wednesday 5 April including blockades of businesses and roads.
-The police force have opened the Gustave Eiffel High School, in Gagny, by force
-A hundred anti-CPE demonstrators, including the Revolutionary Communist League figurehead and postal worker Olivier Besancenot, blocked the postal sorting office in Nanterre earlier today
4 April: CPE protest live updates
Hour-by-hour coverage of the day of strikes, demonstrations and further blockades and occupations across France against the new employment law.
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Anti-CPE Movement: Blockade of the French Consulate in Greece
Intervention and blockade of the French consulate in Thessaloniki in solidarity to the French rebellion and against the antisocial CPE law. Photos from: http://www.resistance2003.gr/en/gallery/photo.php?id=676
Spontaneous demonstration by French school children
Students from three Lycees in Nantes (Guist'hau, Vial and Jules Verne) decided to carry out a collective action today.
A meeting was called for 2.30pm outside the former Palais de Justice. Around 1,000 people answered the call, including older students from the university. The action originally decided upon, a blockade of the main crossroads in the town, quickly transformed into a series of spontaneous demonstrations.
1 April: Latest CPE protest news
Updates from the CPE struggle in France, including a motorway blockade in Caen, demonstrations in Paris, new photos and more.
-Photos just in of a road blockade of the 'periph' (periphery in Caen, from Thursday 30th March. The blockade was eventually cleared by CRS riot police using water cannons and tear gas, and is represented here in 70 photos of the events.
New eyewitness accounts
