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Riots Spread From France To U.S. As Strikes Continue (cars set ablaze in Brooklyn?)
Anarchist News ^ | 10/20/10

Posted on 10/21/2010 2:20:56 PM PDT by Libloather

Riots Spread From France To U.S. As Strikes Continue
Submitted by anon on Wed, 2010-10-20 04:37

Rioting in France over austerity measures has spread across the Atlantic Tuesday night, with small groups of youths forming sporadically throughout Brooklyn and causing disturbances.

The youths were seen building barricades, setting several cars on fire, and skirmishing with police, ostensibly in opposition to cuts to social services in France and the United States. The protests come as countries around the globe are adopting IMF-style austerity programs and cutting social services amid the global economic recession in attempts to right their economies.

The demonstrators last night carried signs saying "We won’t pay for their crisis," as they chanted, "From Paris to Brooklyn, Nous Sommes Tous Des Casseurs." The skirmishes were described by NYPD as fairly mild, though eyewitnesses describe seeing several cars set ablaze in the rioting.

One demonstrator who asked that his name be withheld said, "We want to see a global rebellion against a future of capitalist crisis, so we are making it happen tonight ; we want to show the youth in France that they are inspiring us and they should keep rioting."

Several residents said the groups of youth were handing out copies of "The Coming Insurrection," an anonymously-written book from France made famous when its supposed authors were arrested on terrorism charges in France and became known as the Tarnac 9. When the book was released in English last year, an impromptu book party was held in a New York Barnes & Nobles, which was reported in the New York Times.

The United States has not seen massive protests like the ones currently taking place in France against raising the retirement age, but many states have levied severe cuts to social services since the financial crisis began, including cuts to higher education that sparked occupations of university building throughout the U.S. last year.

Whether these riots in Brooklyn are an isolated occurrence or will spread throughout the U.S. as the situation in France becomes more serious remains to be seen.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; france; riots; strike
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To: screaminsunshine

MGM Detriot


21 posted on 10/21/2010 2:31:14 PM PDT by SvenMagnussen (Soebarkah renounced his US Citizenship in 1968.)
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To: Libloather

IIRC some years ago a poster here said that welfare first began in Germany as a way to keep the poor from rioting and initiating a violent communist revolt. Not much has changed.


22 posted on 10/21/2010 2:31:34 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Libloather

It’s time to load and load !!!!! If not now, it will be soon.
Read an article today stating Social Security had to borrow money to meet this Mo. obligation ?????


23 posted on 10/21/2010 2:32:04 PM PDT by buck61
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To: Libloather

Did you see they are threatening riots in the UK now too?

Unions threaten French-style riots as the axe falls on 500,000 public sector jobs

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322359/SPENDING-REVIEW-2010-Unions-threaten-riots-500k-public-sector-jobs-axed.html#ixzz131wnESQJ

More on France it’s a disaster there now

France in turmoil as nationwide strike over pension reform stretches on

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102103924.html

Nicolas Sarkozy orders break-up of blockades as French protests continue

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/20/nicolas-sarkozy-france-protests-blockades

French strikes: panic-buying at petrol pumps
• A quarter of petrol stations run dry ahead of half-term break
• All 12 refineries and some fuel depots are blockaded

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/21/french-strikes-panic-buying-petrol

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8076192/French-industry-losing-at-least-100-million-a-day.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322441/France-riots-Chaos-airports-blockaded-ninth-day-protests.html


24 posted on 10/21/2010 2:32:04 PM PDT by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: LibLieSlayer
"In Mississippi, we use lead."

Ditto: Alabama.

25 posted on 10/21/2010 2:32:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: GonzoGOP

Speaking of Brooklyn, anyone hear Jimmy from Brooklyn on Rush’s show today? He was great as usual. I miss Bob Grant’s old callers (Carl from Oyster Bay, David from Irvington, Frank from Staten Island, and Linda and Dorothy).


26 posted on 10/21/2010 2:33:18 PM PDT by tommyboy (We'll do it live)
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To: Libloather
"We won’t pay for their crisis"

So taxpayers can take the same attitude every time some leftist group demands government help?


27 posted on 10/21/2010 2:33:51 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (Prosecute & remove Obama's boot-licking lackeys NOW)
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To: SvenMagnussen

Is that the new Volt?


28 posted on 10/21/2010 2:34:25 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: xp38
"IIRC some years ago a poster here said that welfare first began in Germany as a way to keep the poor from rioting and initiating a violent communist revolt. Not much has changed."

What do you think LBJ's Great Society was about. Blacks were burning down the cities in the USA.

BTW, if you stop paying, they'll burn them again. (You probably weren't aware that you are paying a bribe every day to Black people.)

29 posted on 10/21/2010 2:38:49 PM PDT by blam
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To: screaminsunshine

Stock up on pepper spray?How about 168 grain Sierra Matchkings?


30 posted on 10/21/2010 2:39:02 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: the invisib1e hand
almost spreading their propaganda for them, here.

Almost. Just imagine leftist lunatics setting cars on fire two weeks before an election. Whoopee!

31 posted on 10/21/2010 2:39:08 PM PDT by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: Libloather
This is a scary book I've heard Beck speak of it:

Several residents said the groups of youth were handing out copies of "The Coming Insurrection," an anonymously-written book from France made famous when its supposed authors were arrested on terrorism charges in France and became known as the Tarnac 9. When the book was released in English last year, an impromptu book party was held in a New York Barnes & Nobles, which was reported in the New York Times.

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32 posted on 10/21/2010 2:41:28 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Ozymandias Ghost
Anarchists have a news service ...who knew???!!!

They report, they decide?

33 posted on 10/21/2010 2:44:11 PM PDT by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: Libloather
One demonstrator who asked that his name be withheld said, "We want to see a global rebellion against a future of capitalist crisis, so we are making it happen tonight ; we want to show the youth in France that they are inspiring us and they should keep rioting."

Profiles in (liberal) courage...

34 posted on 10/21/2010 2:44:50 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Farmer Dean

55gr in .223/5.56 and 225gr in .45acp work well also...red


35 posted on 10/21/2010 2:47:13 PM PDT by rednek ("Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.")
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To: Libloather
Or - it's a hoax.

Brooklyn youths shouting "From Paris to Brooklyn, Nous Sommes Tous Des Casseurs"?

36 posted on 10/21/2010 3:07:47 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Libloather

“I can find ZERO news stories backing this up. Could’ve been just a Halloween prank for all I know. “

That crap won’t fly here. The Guard would be out thumping heads before it got anywhere near what they have in France.


37 posted on 10/21/2010 3:10:47 PM PDT by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: Farmer Dean

“How about 168 grain Sierra Matchkings?”

My favorite.


38 posted on 10/21/2010 3:12:36 PM PDT by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: Libloather

One word: Kent State


39 posted on 10/21/2010 3:14:00 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: screaminsunshine
Stock up on pepper spray double aught to douse them with.
40 posted on 10/21/2010 3:16:58 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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