“First Job Contract” protests in France
French students all across France protested the new employment law recently passed in response to high unemployment and the disadvantaged youth of the suburbs. More than half of France’s universities were closed on Tuesday because of demonstrations.
Tens of thousands of youthful and liberal members of the French population stood up and protested this law being passed! With that said I can’t help but wonder what it would take for the American youth to rally together for anything other than Black Friday.
As a student in a University in the United States I can’t help but wonder why more students haven’t gotten involved in protesting various laws passed that affect us as students. This last fall there was a march to the capital to protest the reform that has been proposed for the TAP program offered to students in need of financial aid. This protest attracted at most 60 people. It has been said that our generation suffers from a plague of apathy and I can see truth in that. I tip my hat to French students and to their perseverance in their pursuit of using peaceful protest to push an agenda they find important.
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