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This is a testimony about what is happening in France. Georgia Pouliquen is a lawyer. She is currently on administrative leave after blowing the whistle on corruption and harassment in the local courts

In French, they are referred to as “casseurs”, which means people who break stuff. According to Olivier Cahn who teaches at the University of Clergy Pontoise and is a researcher at the CESDIP-CNRS (the

The Foulards Rouges (Red Scarves) are a joke, but the independent police union “Syndicat France Police - Policiers en Colère” (France Police Union - Angry Police Officers) is not laughing. They issued

The bottom line: A little more fashionable than those yellow vests, I’ll grant you that. The Red Scarves were created in opposition to the Yellow Vests. It started November 26th on social media and registered

Well, so much for the police taking off their helmets and joining the Gilets Jaunes. If anything, direct orders (and bribery in the form of some payment of unpaid overtime and a 300 euro bonus) form the

Before I go back to my Yellow Vest frenzy, I want to close the weekend with a salute to the other colors from my Barrett-Jackson Auction escapade. So take a seat, and off we go... The Green Hornet, a 1968

It is my one-year anniversary on Steemit! So a lighthearted post on the Barrett-Jackson auto auction, and this time no focus on yellow, I promise. Just a stroll through this most joyous, most noisy, most

As you may have noticed, I have been going nuts with the Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests lately, ever since the French have started sporting these most fashionable garments on their Saturday strolls. This

THE GILETS JAUNES Their estimated numbers vary greatly depending on where you get your information. For example, a total of 50,000 Gilets Jaunes was the official total number given by the Ministry of the

According to official sources and the MSM the movement is losing steam. Oh yeah? This is Saturday 5th January in Bayonne. (And be sure to watch the hate-filled mobs in my last post 😉)

In the traditional presidential speech to wish the French people a happy new year, Macron made some references to the social unrest shaking France right now. He was very deliberate and stern, and was

This is the first new year in decades that I have a modicum of optimism, thanks to the Gilets Jaunes movement. This song was written for the Gilets Jaunes (credits at the end of the video), based on a

In the first video the police are retreating. In the second video the “merdia” (media +merde i.e., media + shit = merdia) are forced to leave by the Gilets Jaunes. Both times, there was no violence on

Yesterday, I featured the police wall of shame. In this blog I want to pay homage to the police officers who removed their helmets, to those who joined the French people because they too ARE the French

France: The powerful and the weak. This is what a police state looks like. The elderly, the handicapped, high school students, women, come get your beating! PLEASE RESTEEM. I am not after upvotes. Just

PLEASE RESTEEM. I am not after upvotes. Just want to make sure the word goes out. (Most if not all of these videos are in French. If you would like to translate any of them, please ask in the comments,

PLEASE RESTEEM. I am not after upvotes. Just want to make sure the word goes out. As a French citizen living abroad I have been wearing my virtual gilet jaune, or yellow vest, since the inception of the

Even the blind are marching (approx. 30 seconds in)

Even if this woman were completely barmy, which I very much doubt, this is some pretty scary stuff.