Universities on strike
Many French universities have been on strike since the start of February - their longest strike since '68. This has received very little media coverage outside France. My sister, being a student in France, is somewhat irritated by this, and keeps emailing me to grumble that nobody has noticed the protests. Unfortunately, my eyes glaze over when I try to figure out all the arguments and counter-arguments. Still, rather than totally ignore it, I thought I'd at least post a few links:
- The little coverage in English: Guardian, Independent
- French Wikipedia articles on the law and protests
- Rue89, a French online newsmagazine, Libération seems to have decent coverage. Today, they are suggesting the strikes might end soon
- Statements from the universities are popping up on Youtube
If you want to find out more about all this, you could do much worse than following the notes about it in Art Goldhammer's French politics blog