Protest in Strasbourg France March 19th 2009

Today Alsace hit the streets with a total of 33 thousands protesters in the region. 22 thousand of whom marched along the streets of Strasbourg. The protest was against the current economical situation in France, demanding change from the new regime. This, however was not the sole focus of our unification. While the Unions and various social groups were screaming for a better economy the high school and college students went all out against the new educational reforms Darkos, the new prime minister of education in France, is trying to get passed. These reforms will change the baccalaureat in France so that not all bacs will be of the same quality, richer schools will have better, richer bacs where as the poorer establishments will have rather limited options. He also wants to fire many of the high school teachers, which would give us classes of over 3O students per class. This means that individual help wil become even rarer and the attention span of the class is easily lost with so many students. France is uniting against a new, limiting and short-sighted regime.

April 4th there will be another protest in Strasbourg, this one even bigger with people flying in fro mover the world to protest the war-centered thinking of NATO. The protest will take place during the Conference so come and show your support if you can. It is our world and our job to protect it.