An extraordinary photo of high school students protesting the pension reforms in Paris from The Boston Globe’s series of arresting images chronicling the protests across France (here).
Perverse Egalitarianism
an otherwise excellent blog
An extraordinary photo of high school students protesting the pension reforms in Paris from The Boston Globe’s series of arresting images chronicling the protests across France (here).
Perverse Egalitarianism 
what a brilliant form of protest and photo. the full-size version reveals a fine survey of (in)humanity in the various expressions of the riot police when confronted by such an act.
They passed the increase of age though, striking’s not the same anymore, is it?
Oh Mikhail, stop being such a pissy pants! Regardless, the picture (and the form of protest) certainly deserves some attention. One might even say it’s “striking.” (ack..)
It strikes me how posed the photo is. Those kids had to amble up and settle in position while the cops waited in choreographed dynamic postures. There’s no movement from the riot line – they’re looking for direction from someone stage left, ok boys we got the shot.
i’m not sure french protests have ever been very successful (see this), but damn they do it with style!
1789?
oh, i’ll grant you that little affair, but what have you done for me lately?
I was kidding, of course…
I for one just wanted to use the phrase “pissy pants” in a sentence.
It does need a wider circulation, I concur.
ps. the SUNY Humanities department should go out with such pomp.
C’mon, this ‘style’ is low-grade pastiche. Take one situation, cross with another, voila’. Like when my friend Jeff and I used to go play chess in elevators to freak out the suits.
And the issue is raising the retirement age two years to 62. Which nowadays is late middle age.