This week, it's the
the winemakers—thousands of them marched in Bordeaux, Burgundy, and the Loire valley to protest the government's anti-alcohol campaign.
The handicapped and their friends, many demonstrating in wheelchairs near the National Assembly, are en colère about the lack of a law setting a deadline for access to public spaces.
And the shipwrights: white-collar workers at the shipyards in Brittany (which are government-owned) are en colère about (as usual) the possible privatization of the enterprise.
Also the Air France Flight Attendants
who are worried that they will suffer if Europe-wide rules come into effect.
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Since being called upon to put their lights on in the daytime, as of October, about a third of French drivers are doing so. In spite of the fears of the motards, the actual number of traffic deaths in the month of November 2004 was down almost 10% from November 2003.
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