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The yellow vests protests or yellow-jacket protests (French: Mouvement des gilets jaunes, pronounced [muvmɑ̃ de ʒilɛ ʒon]) were a series of populist, [64] grassroots [65] weekly protests in France that began on 17 November 2018 and ended on 28 June 2020.
Jérôme Rodrigues is a French lead figure in the populist Yellow Vests Movement, advocating for social demands and participating in demonstrations and The True Debate.On January 26, 2019, while filming a protest at Place de la Bastille in Paris, Rodrigues was hit by a sting ball grenade, resulting in the loss of his right eye.
May 68 (French: Mai 68) refers to a period of civil unrest that occurred throughout France from May to June 1968. Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories.
Protests in France against a COVID-19 health pass are being re-invigorated by a familiar face. Jerome Rodrigues, was a major figure in the Yellow Vests protests two years ago, which first sought ...
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of yellow vest protesters rallied Saturday in several French cities for a 10th consecutive weekend, despite a national debate launched this week by President Emmanuel ...
2018: Ongoing Yellow vests movement (French: Gilets jaunes protests) over dissatisfaction with wealth disparity and ongoing increases to fuel taxes. 2022: 2022 Corsica unrest by Corsican nationalists in response to prison attack on Yvan Colonna; 2022: 2022 Paris shooting, protests after the killing of three Kurds in Paris.
The convention was a response to the wider Yellow Vest protest movement and as an extension of the French "Grand Débat National", organized in response to it. In particular, the convention was a response to the protests against the fuel tax and the decreased speed limit, which the Yellow Vest protesters viewed as unfair to the poor, and it was ...
The death toll linked to France's anti-government "yellow vest" protests has risen to nine, as demonstrators kept up major disruptions of road traffic.