So, Saturday evening I'm on my way home down the Boulevard Voltaire...
sirens are wailing and 8 wagons of riot cops are on their way, pell mell,
down to Nation.. On the Place Poltaire they were setting up a water canon...
just like the crowd buster in 'Soleil Vert'
I run back home, grab my two cameras fill them with a cartridge, empty my
pockets of anything awkward and I'm on my way down to Nation...
The demo isn't over coz there are still swathes coming down the Bd Diderot.
I go through a CRS (TN riot cops) cordon on the rue de faubourg st Antoine
and get through... fairly good humoured I was expecting some more aggro..
Sausage, pancake and waffles... some folk dancing ...
Folk having a cool time...
The last bunch of demonstators goes through.. a cordon of riot police
behind... I talk to someone, and i turn my head... THE SQUARE IS EMPTY!!! A
small group around a fire are warming there hands...
'We are cowards...' 'Noone is supporting the movement... where are the 5
million on poverty's doorstep... where is DAL, where are the unemployed?
'Look at all them dickheads demostrating' they are all saying in front of
their TVs.
The CRS didn't even ask us to disburse... we did it ourselves
'Shit this ain't no party. We ain't here to dance...'
On Saturday night in the Place Nation the dustbins were being emptied...
half an hour after the demo had finished... no more slogans, no more red
flags, no more smiles on folks faces...
Lets stay in the streets... lets avoid TF1 (TN national TV)... lets stay in
the street... let's not be cowards
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