Student and high school organizations want to “harden the movement” to highlight “the impact of the reform on young people”.
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VS’It is the turn of student and high school organizations to make themselves heard. Youth organizations called on Thursday to “harden the movement” against the pension reform, with actions every Thursday until March 7 and then a day of youth mobilization on March 9.
“We call on young people to mobilize, to harden the movement and to bring the country to a halt to make the government understand that we refuse its pension reform project”, indicated in a joint press release the student unions Unef, Alternative and La Fage, the high school student movement La Voix lycéenne, or even the Union of Communist Students, the Young Socialists, the Young Insoumis and the Young Ecologists.
The organizations ask in particular “to build mobilization through actions at places of study every Thursday until March 7”, then “to increase the pressure on March 7” and “to continue the mobilization on March 8”.
They called for “a day of action and mobilization of young people, on March 9 to denounce and highlight the impact of the reform on young people and to impose real social protection for young people”.
Universities already mobilized
University sites were closed Thursday in Rennes (Rennes 2 University) and Paris due to blockages by students or possible occupations. In Paris, the Tolbiac site of the University of Paris 1 was closed on Wednesday afternoon following an occupation by students. Some spent the night there and the site was still closed on Thursday.
The university also informed students of the closure of four other Paris 1 sites on Thursday, including the historic center of the Sorbonne, “in view of the current situation, the ongoing occupation and the deterioration of the Pierre- Mendes-France [Tolbiac, NDLR] as well as risks to the safety of persons and property”.
Between 100 and 150 young people also demonstrated Thursday at the end of the morning from the Place de la Sorbonne in Paris by touring university sites and high schools, at the call of various autonomous collectives. “The idea is to put pressure on the government,” said Enzo, 21, a student at the Sorbonne.
A few high schools have also been blocked or partially blocked in Paris or in the Paris region, such as in Janson-de-Sailly in the 16e arrondissement of the capital, or at the Lycée Lamartine (9e). “It’s our future that is at stake,” explained Charlie, 15, in front of the Lamartine high school.
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