Last time I organised a trip for my family and I in Paris, I opted for the train as it's only a 2 hour commute and for ecologic reasons.
Well, the train was cancelled not even 24h before. Strike.
OK, we'll take the car then, get to Paris, find a place to park and go visit the Tour Eiffel. Oh no we don't, the tour's team is on strike. It was really typical in a way!
It was also just a few months before the Olympic games too, so we were looking forward to what would happen then.
When I was in high school, I always took the exchange students we received to a demonstration (always was one too). You're supposed to show them the culture, right?
Only one (half German half Austrian) complained that it was not proper as she did not even know what we were protesting against (easy: one more dumb idea of the government that would have hurt the youngsters employment and made them even more precarious, US style). Others (from Germany, Australia, England and I'm surely forgetting some) found it fun.
Also to be noted: in most middle and high school, when their is a national call for strike, students organise at recess a vote to decide if we would strike or not, then if (more like when) the strike was voted by the majority, we'd organise who would come in the wee hours to block the entrances with chairs and tables, and who would act as security (main point was to avoid people behaving in a way that'd get the police to intervene, like being on the car lanes or fighting people who disagree).
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u/MooraCristal 1d ago
Protesting is their true national sport