PROGRESSIVES HIJACK STREETS AND SPACES

 

DEMONSTRATORS TAKE THE LONG, WIDE STRAIGHT STREETS

BUILT FOR MARCHING TROOPS

They cross the canal overpass...

Les Indignés (like Occupy)

In 2012

To assemble at one of the huge spaces built for assembling the army, often place de la République:

Victor Locaturolo

Claude Abron 

Heart of the giant demonstration after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack (January 2015)

AVAAZ / zoom

Alternative to a climate march that threat of terrorism had cancelled (December 2015)

Nuit debout ("Up all night") / zoom

Epicenter of a nationwide movement of occupation of public spaces (March-May 2016) 

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People from other countries demonstrate there too

Support for strikers in Chili, during a major strike in France (2019)

Juan Francisco Gonzalez / Youtube

Young men from Sudan, January 2025

 Siomara Cramer

The immense barracks at the edge of working-class territory. 

Americans join a protest against Trump's visit (November 2018)

They demonstrate before Trump's second inauguration (January 2025)

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Epicenter of left-wing mobilisation against the xenophobic far right when it was expected to win the legislative elections of 2024...

Adapted from a Getty photo in The New York Times, July 1, 2024 (cut)

 The New York Times, July 7, 2024 (cut)

Place de la République shows how

urban transformation meant to repress insurrection

has become a progressives' tool.

 

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