France had yet ANOTHER grève nationale yesterday, the 6th one for the movement against changing the retirement system hère. But this time they weren’t kidding around at all, and everyone was out in full force. There wasn’t any violence in Bordeaux as far as I know, but there were huge and extremely violent riots all over the country that made headlines all over the world. And when I checked mid-afternoon, the striker count was 480,000 ! Thankfully all the public transportation in Bordeaux wasn’t affected this time, but school was another thing. At Bordeaux 3 where I have translation classes, the students had blockaded every single entrance to all the university buildings with stacked up chairs and tables from the Inside so no one had any chance of getting in whatsoever. Needless to say all classes were cancelled there (but NEVER as sciences-po OF COURSE.)
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| Riots in Lyon (from nytimes) |
To make thing worse, the oil refinery companies have been on strike for the past week, so people are starting to freak out about not having any gas or oil for their cars and houses. There’s even maps online of the limited amount of places where you can get oil – and of course the lines there are massive because no one knows when they’ll go back off strike. All the national trains and Airlines (SNCF, AirFrance) are delaying or cancelling practically all their trains and flights. We’re crossing our fingers and praying that our train actually leaves here for Paris so we can fly out to Italy!
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| Strikers everywhere... |
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