So I'm walking outside to get a coffee...

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Yes, but they have them over silly things...
I remember that there wasone in July back in '89, all because some woman told them to eat more cake...

They really do protest over the silliest things in France... "ooh, I dropped my croissant and the evil capitalist bourgeoisie cafe owner won't give me a replacement. Let us all march down the Champs Elysee and storm the Luxembourg Palace, or the Louvre Palace, or wherever we mighty French place our aristocratic Prime Ministers these days!"

That means nothing coming from an enlishman like yourself.

[Red Peasant]

Justice. Liberty. Equality. The right to protection from overmighty lords and employers.

Silly things DM?

[Scurvy]

in fairness, some of them are a bit silly, but some are important :)

[Major Robert Dump]

Can you please go to a "Nudists for PEace" protest next time? I want to see pictures of wrinkly old protestors with breasts that look like baseballs in socks. And if I can find some pictures from these protests can I post them? Pleaaaaase Soly, they arent sexual in any way.

[Csargo]

MRD thats what I wanna see too

[spmetla]

Yargh! Protests are so irritating. They just clog up traffic like stated earlier. Roadside ones political rallies are equally annoying when I need a parking spot nearby and they come over thinking I'm a supportor. Worst are pro environment protests and then the next day at the dump I find a bunch of their signs already in there (my county doesn't pickup garbage, you need to drop it off at tranfer stations).

As earlier stated as well protests aren't all to effect but they do occasionally raise awareness about certain issues. For actual effectivness I imagine if each of those protestors bothered to write an intelligent well though out letter and mailed it to all their elected representatives nessasery to effect the desired change then something would probably happen.

Interested to see how the mass immigrant protest will go. I frankly hope that the turnout is huge but that the economy is hardly effected and people realize they aren't that crucial to the economy and won't be afraid to be stricter on ILLEGAL immigrants.
Note: Please don't let last paragraph turn this into an immigrantion thread

[yesdachi]

I think it is great to see people exercising their rights! GO FREEDOM!

What I think is totally lame and very representative of the US in general is how fractured the message of the protest is. Get it together people, today Iraq war, tomorrow immigration, Darfur the next day and the battle against armpit hair the following.

Quality pics Soly!