"Act III": New Day of High-Voltage High-School Mobilization in France
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In France, a new large day of protests for high school students is being held on Tuesday, and students demand more funding for education and better learning conditions.
French high school students are taking their school protests one step further by entering “act three.” Tens of thousands of students—joined by unions and political parties—are expected on the streets of Paris alone.
The high school students, supported this Tuesday by student organisations and trade unions, are returning to the streets. Tens of thousands of people are expected in some 30 cities. The supervision of the law enforcement forces will be particularly scrutinized as the accusations of police violence increase.
France bracing for national day of protests and high-school blockades with thousands expected to join marches
Officials across France are bracing for a national day of protests, with thousands of pupils expected to join marches across the country. A youth protest movement is currently sweeping the nation amid a growing debate over the scale of the police response to the crisis. In one incident which has made international headlines, a teenager's hand was blown off as school protesters clashed with riot police in Lens.Local media reports the 15-year-old …
In Paris, the rally is planned on the Place de la République from 2 p.m. A national education union (FSU, CGT, FO, CFDT, Unsa, Sud and Solidaires) calls to go down the street and join the high school students.
For this "Act III" of a movement that started in mid-September in the Paris region before spreading, the high school students received the support of an inter-union of National Education who called to go down to the street alongside them, in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and about thirty other cities.
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