Secrètes de Paris

Today at about noon the Place d'Italie began filling up with students, ringleaders with their bullhorns, and idiots with huge sound systems on the back of pick-up trucks that made it impossible for me to get any work done, so I went down to have a look (Pedro needed to pee, actually).

From the ground, here they are gathering at Place d'Italie. Everyone is pretty much standing around while the music plays on the loudspeakers. Some enterprising promoter has tacked Ben Harper concert posters all over every surface, including the trees. If that doesn't give you an indication of the nature of these marches, nothing will!


And here is the trash the march leaves in its wake. Nice to see they're all guaranteeing jobs in the public sanitation sector.

I heard on the news that protesters in one town have been throwing rotten food at the town hall. Next thing you know Villepin will be telling them to throw cake. ;)