"Slave choir" of the "Nabucco", throws of black dresses, false crime scene in the heart of Paris ... Six weeks of strike did not get the better of the creativity of the demonstrators opposed to the pension reform, widely relayed on social networks.
Many will remember the ballerinas of the Paris Opera on strike, gracefully performing a few steps from the "Lac des Cygnes" on the forecourt of the Palais Garnier, on Christmas Eve. Another symbolic act noticed and witness to the anger of many professionals: the jets of work tools of all kinds, in the face of ministers and directors.
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The lawyers of Caen started the movement on January 8 by throwing their dress at the feet of the Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet. This gesture was imitated by their colleagues from the Paris courthouse, who repeated the action, lining the pavement of the room with lost steps in their dresses.
Black dresses, white blouses ...
The black dresses were imitated by the white blouses of the staff of the Saint-Louis hospital, who threw off their work clothes, Tuesday, during the director's vows, in support of the thousand department heads who have committed to resign everywhere in France, for lack of means.
The teachers also took action by emptying their school bags and also throwing away textbooks, notebooks and reporters, especially in front of the permanence of the deputy LREM of Hauts-de-Seine, Bénédicte Petelle, or the rectorate of Clermont-Ferrand.
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Under the gold of the Republic, the agents of the National Furniture, responsible for three centuries for the furnishing of the official palaces, deposited their tools at the time of the wishes of the director, to protest against the "breakage" of their statute. Equipped with sirens, the firefighters did not hesitate to climb scaffolding at Gare du Nord to harangue the crowd and to water town halls and sub-prefectures.
As the strike movement, started on December 5, 2019, begins to falter, some see these symbolic actions as a means of revitalizing the mobilization.
With AFP
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