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My biggest strike: “I fall, my pants fall, everything falls. Even my dignity.”

My biggest strike: “I fall, my pants fall, everything falls. Even my dignity.”
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Long live the strike! In the third episode of our series on happy protests, Louise laughs again about the time she found herself naked in the middle of yellow vest protests.
(Photomontage Libération/Xose Bouzas. Hans Lucas. AFP)

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With Block Everything on September 10th and the calls for strikes, the country risks entering a cycle of social conflict. While not all protests are victorious, they remain a powerful collective moment. This week, our witnesses discuss their significant struggles that have made them experience intense emotions, change their way of seeing society, experience joy or even love… Today, Louise, a 23-year-old payroll manager, is delighted to have found herself naked during a demonstration against pension reform in Bastille.

“In 2019, I’m the high school student with three Bs: blonde, chubby, and stupid. It’s truly the time when every excuse is a good one to do a blockade. A canceled class? Blockade. A postponed test? Blockade. We think we’re on a mission, like revolutionaries 2.0. Blockades start out as a game, a way to skip class, but take on a more political meaning when

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