10 April 2006
Labor in France, Identity in America
Question: what happens when you have demonstrations in France and the US happening almost simultaneously? Issues that generate a lot of heat, but not a lot of light. In France, the youth are protesting a law that would in essence, make younger workers more expendable. Meanwhile in America, we have protests concerning the criminalization of undocumented foreigners. With almost 12 million of them, how can one government put an "one size fits all" sticker on them? We as Americans have a chance to learn a few lessons from the French protests and the issues of nationality, immigration, and the idea of belonging. One of those lessons is how do we treat newcomers to America--with open arms or with cuffed hands?
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First welcome in the blogworld.
Criminalization of undocumented foreigners is also unfortunality a side of our society....for exanmple few months ago we protested (yeah we always protest in this country :) ) against the government about the eviction of a young man (19 years old) who has been living in france for 6 years, has a child here, studies and works here. But the government wanted to evict him without considering his situation...fortunately the contestant won...
Ah government.....one way to think, one way to act :(
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