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Post by pieter on May 25, 2019 5:22:49 GMT -7
The yellow vests movement The yellow vests movement or yellow jackets movement (French: Mouvement des gilets jaunes, pronounced [muvmɑ̃ de ʒilɛ ʒon]) is a populist, grassroots revolutionary political movement for economic justice that began in France in October 2018. After an online petition posted in May had attracted nearly a million signatures, mass demonstrations began on 17 November. The movement is motivated by rising fuel prices, a high cost of living; it claims that a disproportionate burden of the government's tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes, especially in rural and peri-urban areas. The protesters have called for lower fuel taxes, a reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a minimum-wage increase, the implementation of Citizens' initiative referendums, as well as the resignations of President Emmanuel Macron and the Second Philippe government.
The movement spans the political spectrum. According to one poll, few of those protesting had voted for Macron in the 2017 French presidential election, and many had either not voted, or had voted for far-right or far-left candidates. Rising fuel prices initially sparked the demonstrations. Yellow high-visibility vests, which French law required all drivers to have in their vehicles and to wear during emergencies, were chosen as "a unifying thread and call to arms" because of their convenience, visibility, ubiquity, and association with working-class industries.
The protests have involved demonstrations and the blocking of roads and fuel depots, some of which developed into major riots,[69] described as the most violent since those of May 1968, and the police response, resulting in multiple incidences of loss of limb, has been criticised by international media. The movement has received international attention, and protesters in many places around the world—some with similar grievances, others unrelated—have used the yellow vest as a symbol.
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Post by pieter on May 25, 2019 5:29:17 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 25, 2019 5:42:11 GMT -7
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Post by karl on May 25, 2019 11:34:20 GMT -7
Pieter
By the reason of clear and present situation, this movement appears to become very popular for some reason that is not entirely clear.
On the side that is not caution, these international movements composed of large numbers of uncontroled individuals is an opportunity for those not connected to the movement to hide in the crowd for transfer with out detection in to which ever state their purpose may be.
Europe has for many years been a hot bed for various terrorist groups for who ever they may be. With this, transfer of weapons and explosives using the crowd to hide them selves by and what ever they are smuggling.
Karl
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Post by pieter on May 25, 2019 12:26:36 GMT -7
Karl,
I met, photographed and filmed the Dutch Yellow vests from close by in Arnhem during their demonstration on Liberation day, May the 5th 2019. Before the TV interview with their Arnhem representative I spoke with another representative from Leiden city who gained National attention when she refused to shake hands with the Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte during a meeting between the Dutch prime minister and the Yellow vest delegation in his government prime minister office. I completely agree with your first sentence. This movement appears to become very popular for some reason that is not entirely clear to me either.
I Understand the popularity of the Rightwing Populist and Leftwing Populist political parties in the various European countries, their grassroots movements, their ideologies, their aims, their opposition against the European political and Financial-economical establishment and elites. I understood the French Yellow vests ( as a provincial protest movement against French eco taxes, rising fuel prizes (gas for cars) and the rising costs of living for a Middle class and working class who struggles to survives social-economically and financially. The French Yellow vests are clearly against the second Philippe government, the forty-first government of the Fifth Republic of France, the second government formed by the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe under President Emmanuel Macron. It is a clearly anti-Marcon movement with an Eurosceptic element with support of far right and far left Marine le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon supporters.
Prime Minister Édouard Philippe
President Emmanuel Macron
Jean-Luc Mélenchon's political party La France insoumise ([la fʁɑ̃s ɛ̃.su.miz]; variously translated as "Unbowed France", "Unsubmissive France", or "Untamed France") is a leftwing to far left political party which ideology goes from Alter-globalisation and Democratic socialism to Eco-socialism, Environmentalism, Left-wing populism, Soft Euroscepticism, Souverainism and Left-wing nationalism.
Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (born 19 August 1951), is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th constituency since 2017.
Members of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's political party La France insoumise
Marine Le Pen supporters of her Right-wing to far-right Rassemblement national (National Rally) stands for French nationalism, National conservatism, Souverainism, Economic nationalism, Protectionism, Right-wing populism, Anti-immigration, Euroscepticism, Anti-globalism and Social conservatism.
Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen (born 5 August 1968) is a French politician and lawyer serving as President of the National Rally political party (previously named National Front) since 2011, with a brief interruption in 2017. She has been the member of the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais's 11th constituency since 18 June 2017.
Members of Marine Le Pen's 'Rassemblement national' party during a demonstration in July 2018
But it is a fact that the Yellow vests in France has a broad popular support amongst people of the French lower middle class, workers, some civil servants, youngsters, middle aged people and even elderly people. A Far right and Far left bunch of thugs cause aggression, violence and vandalism, and these elements are people of the anarchist Autonomist Black Bloc, French Hooligan elements looking for an opportunity for violence, rioting and 'the fun of violence and vandalism', and there are French hard core far right Nationalists, far left Trotskists, Leftwing Unionists, Party Communiste members (Marxist-Leninists -Stalin/Sovjet direction) amongst them and next to that just disgruntled French citizens. The Yellow vests movement ((French: Mouvement des gilets jaunes) goes from rather moderate discontented French civillians from outside Paris, to the extremists. A coalition of Freelancers, farmers, people with small enterprises, workers, unemployed and probably some working youth and students who oppose the central government in Paris and the capital Paris in general. The destruction in Paris was largely done by French people outside of Paris who have little with Paris, and many of them detest Paris as the Political center, as the city of the Political, financial economical, cultural, educational, administrative, and press/media elite of France. These Yellow vest people see the rest of France outside Paris as the real France of the common man, the lower middle class, the working class and the farmers.
Yellow vests protest against fuel prices in Bordeaux, France.CreditCaroline Blumberg/EPA, via Shutterstock
In the Netherlands the Yellow vests are an unclear bunch of people with vague ideas, who also face opposition from people who support the Yellow vests in France. The Dutch population is to pragmatic and less ideological and philosophical than the French people. The Yellow vests were booed and mocked in Arnhem by common Arnhem people. People shouted at them 'Go work, you lazy bums', 'get a job', and less subtle remarks and slogans. The people who insulted the Yellow vests often were working class types and middle class types who spoke with an Arnhem dialect. The Yellow vests clearly do not have the mass support the Yellow vests had and have in parts of France and Belgium. The woman (see video) I interviewed was a sympathetic women and spoke about their manifest. But the group of Yellow vests I saw was a crazy bunch of homeless people, weird unemployed people and people with some conspiracy theory complex. Their hostility and distrust of every authority, press/media and state official makes it hard to communicate with them. They are a social collective without a central leadership. Everyone can speak for themselves as a Yellow vest.
My video I made about the Yellow vests in Arnhem
2 Yellow vests refused to shake the hand of prime minister Rutte. Many Dutch people regarded that as a sign of disrespect and criticized the Dutch Yellow vests. I had a phone conversation (Arnhem-Leiden) with one of the women who refused to shake the hands of Prime Minister Mark Rutte. This woman was very fierce in her anti-government, anti-politicians and anti-political establishment and anti-elite point of view.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by pieter on May 25, 2019 12:49:36 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 25, 2019 12:55:55 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 25, 2019 13:00:23 GMT -7
The motivations of the French Yellow Vests
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Post by pieter on May 25, 2019 13:02:29 GMT -7
Poland: 'Yellow Vest' protesters sound the alarm over struggling farms
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