1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:01,600 I'm super mad at you 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:03,760 how could you go to a riot without me? 3 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:05,840 you were supposed to be my riot buddy 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,140 Riiiiiiiiiiise and shine mothafuckers. 5 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,440 I am your host the Stimulator, and this is the fuckin news. 6 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:34,030 This year marks the 50th fucking anniversary of the riots of '68, 7 00:00:34,030 --> 00:00:37,100 when millions of Parisian students and workers cut class, 8 00:00:37,110 --> 00:00:42,340 walked off the job, drank wine, built barricades, ate croissants, fought the pigs, and tried 9 00:00:42,350 --> 00:00:44,460 their best to overthrow the French government. 10 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,660 They were anarchists, that was the spirit 11 00:00:47,660 --> 00:00:51,160 And although they were the furthest out politically 12 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:55,480 That was also the one place where workers joined 13 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,660 with students and almost toppled the goverment 14 00:00:58,660 --> 00:01:00,900 Your revolution is over Mr. Lebowski! 15 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:02,040 Condolences! 16 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,620 The bums lost! 17 00:01:05,180 --> 00:01:09,400 Aaaaaand in the decades that have followed, riots and labour unrest have become as French 18 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,920 as a mime playing Frère-fuckin-Jacques on an accordion. 19 00:01:12,220 --> 00:01:14,260 That's so problematic! 20 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,140 So it's no fucking surprise that peeps in France have decided to honour 21 00:01:18,140 --> 00:01:20,660 the anniversary in the only way you'd expect. 22 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,400 Happy birthday to you!!! 23 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,320 Not what I had in mind. 24 00:01:27,460 --> 00:01:29,700 That's right... the French “poulets” are once again on 25 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:32,290 the back foot, as swarms of black-clad, 26 00:01:32,290 --> 00:01:35,610 cop-bashing cortèges de têtes keep beating them back, 27 00:01:35,610 --> 00:01:38,780 hucking bottles, and doing le smashy smash. 28 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,720 This time around, la merde's hitting the fan 29 00:01:50,740 --> 00:01:54,860 after Emmanuel Macron, the radical neoliberal centrist piece of shit elected to 30 00:01:54,860 --> 00:01:58,400 power last year on a strict platform of not being Marine Le Pen 31 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,890 announced plans to push through sweeping changes 32 00:02:00,890 --> 00:02:04,460 to France’s state-run rail system, the SNCF. 33 00:02:04,460 --> 00:02:07,790 These reforms include cutting the strong employment protection rights for 34 00:02:07,790 --> 00:02:10,999 rail workers, and taking the initial steps to privatize 35 00:02:10,999 --> 00:02:13,489 the SNCF by publicly listing it on the stock market 36 00:02:13,489 --> 00:02:16,159 – part of a broader attack on public sector workers 37 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,480 being carried out in the name of EU integration. 38 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:24,200 We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. 39 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,779 Your culture will adapt to service us. 40 00:02:27,779 --> 00:02:29,010 Resistance is futile. 41 00:02:29,010 --> 00:02:31,949 Buuuuuuuuut the country's famously militant workers 42 00:02:31,949 --> 00:02:35,290 weren't gonna take that shit lying down, and they've been joined by students 43 00:02:35,290 --> 00:02:39,629 pissed off at planned university reforms... not to mention all the sketchy French yutes 44 00:02:39,629 --> 00:02:42,430 who've jumped at the opportunity to break from their daily ennui 45 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,040 to throw down against the pigs.... because after after all... 46 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,200 Everyone Hates the Police! 47 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,440 Yuuuuup, once again, peeps in France did not fuckin disappoint… 48 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:11,829 Shit started really popping off on March 22nd, 50 years to the day that radical students 49 00:03:11,829 --> 00:03:16,329 first occupied the Université Paris Nanterre, kicking off the historic wave of resistance 50 00:03:16,329 --> 00:03:17,329 that followed. 51 00:03:17,329 --> 00:03:20,269 In an impressive display of decentralized coordination, 52 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,499 180 demonstrations took place across France, including wildcat strikes 53 00:03:24,499 --> 00:03:29,400 that seriously jammed up France's trasportation grid 54 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,440 featuring militant black blocs that were reminiscent of the 2016 movement against 55 00:03:33,449 --> 00:03:35,489 the so-called “Loi de Travail”. 56 00:03:35,489 --> 00:03:38,879 Buuuuuuuuut in a stark reminder of how the political winds have 57 00:03:38,879 --> 00:03:42,819 shifted over the past two years, later that evening a student occupation 58 00:03:42,819 --> 00:03:47,639 of an auditorium in Montpellier University was viciously attacked by a mob of masked 59 00:03:47,639 --> 00:03:49,530 fachos, including members of the right wing student 60 00:03:49,530 --> 00:03:52,029 group GUD and several teachers, 61 00:03:52,029 --> 00:03:54,499 who were recognized and outed by their students. 62 00:03:54,499 --> 00:03:58,140 These goons rampaged through the hall, wielding wooden pallets and tazers, 63 00:03:58,140 --> 00:04:01,109 seriously injuring four people, including two students 64 00:04:01,109 --> 00:04:03,889 who had to be hospitalized with skull fractures. 65 00:04:03,889 --> 00:04:07,279 Several witnesses accused the dean of the university's law faculty, Philippe 66 00:04:07,279 --> 00:04:09,719 Pétel, of orchestrating the attack, 67 00:04:09,719 --> 00:04:13,069 after he allegedly let the thugs in through a back door and cheered 68 00:04:13,069 --> 00:04:15,449 as they literally cracked his other students' skulls. 69 00:04:15,449 --> 00:04:18,859 “I am very proud of my students, I fully support them. 70 00:04:18,859 --> 00:04:22,180 What was done had to be done, we can’t make omelettes without breaking 71 00:04:22,180 --> 00:04:23,180 some eggs” 72 00:04:23,180 --> 00:04:27,629 Tuesday April 3rd saw the start of three months of planned rolling strikes by SNCF workers, 73 00:04:27,629 --> 00:04:32,199 and with the large national union, the CGT, calling for a general strike on April 74 00:04:32,199 --> 00:04:35,220 19th, shit looks like it's just starting. 75 00:04:35,220 --> 00:04:40,129 Something tells me that this year, May Day in Paris is gonna be one for the cook books. 76 00:04:40,129 --> 00:04:42,879 Last but not least, 59 bad ass muthafuckas who were arrested 77 00:04:42,879 --> 00:04:47,330 for defiantly invading the streets of DC during the inauguration of the orange one, 78 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:50,560 are about to have their day in court, and face potential sentences 79 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,330 of 61 fuckin years in the clink. 80 00:04:53,330 --> 00:04:56,889 Their supporters have called for a day of Solidarity on April 10th, 81 00:04:56,889 --> 00:04:59,479 so you know the deal, drop banners, write graffiti, 82 00:04:59,479 --> 00:05:03,820 hold events and flood social media channels to help bring visibility to our comrades. 83 00:05:03,820 --> 00:05:07,280 For details visit defendj20resistance.org 84 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:09,520 Annnd that’s all the Fucking News for this week. 85 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,120 As always, if you wanna support my ass, shoot me some duckets at sub.media/donate, 86 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,560 and be sure and check me out on all your favourite corporate brainwashing 87 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:18,930 and mass surveillance platforms. 88 00:05:18,930 --> 00:05:20,880 Just search “Stimulator”. 89 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,520 Hasta La Pasta Companerxs!