BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18819838 SEQUENCE:18964792 CREATED:20181217T021600Z DESCRIPTION:French Yellow Jacket December 22 \nDecember 22 (Saturday), 2018 12:00 Noon At: French Consulate \nMacron Out NOW! And Trump Should Be Next: \nUS Working People Support The Struggle of the French People \nTo Throw Out Macron \n\nHundreds of thousands of French workers, students and farmers have been shutting down roads and protesting against massive tax increases on the working class and capitalist austerity with privatization and outsourcing of jobs. The “Yellow Jackets” movement is a spontaneous popular anti-capitalist protest that was organized through social media but is now getting increased from trade unionists and some unions. \n\nThe reactionary Macron government has met these protests with rubber bullets and grenades that have seriously injured the protesters. Macron has now ordered armored vehicles in the streets to shut down this protest. The French union leadership has refused to mobilize their members to support these protests despite the fact that their members face massive attacks including their working conditions and benefits. While the government is cutting social benefits and raising taxes on the working class they are increasing funding for the military and police to repress the people of France. \n\nThe capitalist class in France like the capitalist class in the US 1s seeking to solve their problems by making the poor and working class pay by allowing the corporations and billionaires to profiteer on the growing economic crisis. \n\nAmerican workers also face similar attacks on our jobs, housing costs, and health and education rights. The Republicans with the support of the Democrats have pushed privatization and deregulation and also more militarization of the police and the world. \n\nWhile workers have trouble surviving, Trump with the support of the Democrats is spending more than $750 billion on wars around the world. Macron who is now calling for a new army is pushing the same agenda globally as the major capitalist powers move toward economic and trade war with each other. \n\nThe US working people need to follow the lead of the French people and begin organizing with mass action to defend our healthcare, housing, education, and jobs. The trade union leadership in the US like the union leadership in France is terrified of mobilizing against these attacks. In fact, they are blaming the Russians for this crisis instead of the capitalist system, which they support. In fact, they are also supporting the growing trade war against China and many other countries. Our enemies are not the people of the rest of the world but the billionaires and corporate criminals who run the US and the world. \n\nBring Your Yellow Jackets, Instruments, and Voices Rally \nDecember 22 (Saturday), 2018 12:00 Noon At French Consulate \n88 Kearny St/Market St., SF \n\nSponsored by United Public Workers For Action \nUPWA.info \nhttp://www.upwa.info\n\nYellow vests: a movement of the workers against social inequality\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W802VnNdrWM\n\nWhat do the protesters in France want? Check out the 'official' Yellow Vest manifesto\n\nhttps://www.sott.net/article/402396-What-do-the-protesters-in-France-want-Check-out-the-official-Yellow-Vest-manifesto?fbclid=IwAR3eg7pjKvsKMmbjyW9r5GBwOqendIDe6eeeaRAgyB8aI4S0xV52lpmX2UY\n\nSott.net\nSat, 08 Dec 2018 17:38 UTC \nThe following list of demands has been circulating among French social media users in recent days. We do not know its exact origins or author(s), but it seems to have first appeared here on December 5th. You'll have to click on the image to enlarge it if you want to read it in French. We've translated it into English (in summary, not word-for-word) below... \ngilets jaunes manifesto\n\nGilets Jaunes' List of Demands \n\nEconomy/Work\nA constitutional cap on taxes - at 25%\nIncrease of 40% in the basic pension and social welfare\nIncrease hiring in public sector to re-establish public services\nMassive construction projects to house 5 million homeless, and severe penalties for mayors/prefectures that leave people on the streets\nBreak up the 'too-big-to-fail' banks, re-separate regular banking from investment banking\nCancel debts accrued through usurious rates of interest\nPolitics\nConstitutional amendments to protect the people's interests, including binding referenda\nThe barring of lobby groups and vested interests from political decision-making\nFrexit: Leave the EU to regain our economic, monetary and political sovereignty (In other words, respect the 2005 referendum result, when France voted against the EU Constitution Treaty, which was then renamed the Lisbon Treaty, and the French people ignored)\nClampdown on tax evasion by the ultra-rich\nThe immediate cessation of privatization, and the re-nationalization of public goods like motorways, airports, rail, etc\nRemove all ideology from the ministry of education, ending all destructive education techniques\nQuadruple the budget for law and order and put time-limits on judicial procedures. Make access to the justice system available for all\nBreak up media monopolies and end their interference in politics. Make media accessible to citizens and guarantee a plurality of opinions. End editorial propaganda\nGuarantee citizens' liberty by including in the constitution a complete prohibition on state interference in their decisions concerning education, health and family matters\nHealth/Environment\nNo more 'planned obsolescence' - Mandate guarantee from producers that their products will last 10 years, and that spare parts will be available during that period\nBan plastic bottles and other polluting packaging\nWeaken the influence of big pharma on health in general and hospitals in particular\nBan on GMO crops, carcinogenic pesticides, endocrine disruptors and monocrops\nReindustrialize France (thereby reducing imports and thus pollution)\nForeign Affairs\nEnd France's participation in foreign wars of aggression, and exit from NATO\nCease pillaging and interfering - politically and militarily - in 'Francafrique', which keeps Africa poor. Immediately repatriate all French soldiers. Establish relations with African states on an equal peer-to-peer basis\nPrevent migratory flows that cannot be accommodated or integrated, given the profound civilizational crisis we are experiencing\nScrupulously respect international law and the treaties we have signed\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/16/18819838.php SUMMARY:Macron Out Now! & Trump Should Be Next: US Working People Support French People LOCATION:French Consulate San Francisco\n88 Kearny St.\nSan Francisco URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/16/18819838.php DTSTART:20181222T200000Z DTEND:20181222T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR