
Youth organizations are calling for massive blockages on Tuesday before Thursday's inter-professional mobilization on purchasing power.
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After the All Saints' Day holidays, high schools and faculties are experiencing blockages and disruptions. Youth organizations consider the government's announcements insufficient and call for the movement to continue.
As for high schools, the mobilization also remains relevant with the return on Monday of charred trash cans and blockages in front of several establishments.
“We voted for a black week” and “we will be at the demonstration on November 5, we will organize a high school procession,” Natie, a junior at the Rive Gauche high school in Toulouse, explained to AFP. In his establishment, around a hundred young people plan to organize a blockade all this week.
According to the Ministry of Education, 41 establishments were blocked on Monday (out of 3,700). The High School Union (USL) has identified approximately four times as many.
The figure looks set to be higher on Tuesday, the first day having been more, in high schools as well as in universities, devoted to organizing the continuation of the movement.
Determined to “not give up” in the face of government announcements deemed insufficient, youth organizations are calling for massive blockades of colleges and high schools on Tuesday, before joining the national inter-professional mobilization on Thursday on purchasing power.
“The movement does not stop: students continue to want to mobilize,” Suzanne Nijdam, president of Fage, the first student organization, told AFP.
“We must continue to show, particularly at Matignon, that the universities are still mobilized, that it will not stop so easily, and that we must now respond with something concrete,” she adds.
Monday, upon returning from the All Saints' Day holidays, around 15% of higher education establishments again experienced “disruptions”, which varied, according to the government.
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Massive blockades of faculties and high schools will take place on Tuesday.
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Students and high school students will join Thursday's national interprofessional mobilization on purchasing power.
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