Thursday, January 29, 2009

Strike 2!

OK, I've now seen an actual demonstration related to the strike. Here they are, in front of the borough hall for my neighborhood:


As you can see, it's a pretty small crowd, and in an hour-long walk across the center of Paris I didn't see anything else of the sort.

By the way, it's unclear whether the red flag means this was a communist demonstration, but the Communist Party is alive and well in France, as I noticed the other night in downtown Arles:

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