'Up All Night' Protests Sweep France as 100,000 Join Pro-Democracy Movement

[Bubzer]

Demonstrations this weekend were held in as many as 60 cities and towns across France as well as in Belgium, Germany, and Spain, according to reports, as an estimated 120,000 protested against austerity, globalization, increasing inequality, privatization, and the continent's severe anti-migrant policies.

What began as a rebuke of the state's anti-labor policies has grown into a nation-wide pro-democracy movement that has been likened to the Indignados movement in Spain, or the Occupy protests in the United States.

For months, ideological tensions have been on the brink of combustion across France and greater Europe, particularly in response to the European Union's unpopular austerity economics and, more recently, the anti-migrant policies that have taken hold amid the larger crackdown on rights following the bombings in Brussels and Paris.

Meanwhile, observers are connecting France's leftist upsurge with similar pro-democracy movements taking hold across Europe and the United States

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[leftcoastmountains]

1. Huge rallies! Just huge!!!

[Donkees]

2. We the People - Awake!

"There’s something here that I’ve never seen before in France – all these people converge here each night of their own accord to talk and debate ideas – from housing to the universal wages, refugees, any topic they like. No one has told them to, no unions are pushing them on – they’re coming of their own accord."

[LongTomH]

3. The revolt against oligarchy and austerity is worldwide and will not be shut down!

Occupy started it. Bernie is riding the crest of a wave of change that promises to sweep the world.

Great comment by Michael Oman-Reagan: "Imagine if #BlackLivesMatter, #Occupy, #NuitDebout, #Iceland, #London, Bernie's folks, etc. all come together in global solidarity."