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

Epicenter of the giant demonstration after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. 

(January 2015)

AVAAZ / zoom

Alternative to a climate march, which fear of terrorism had cancelled
(December 2015)

Nuit debout ("Up all night") / zoom

At the heart of a nationwide movement of months-long occupation of public spaces.

(March-May 2016) 

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

Americans join a demonstration against Trump's visit.

 (November 2018)

Juan Francisco Gonzalez / Youtube

Support for strikers in Chili, during a major strike in France

(2019)

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Place de la République, 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)

A transformation that Haussmann

would never have imagined. 

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