French in new attack on youth job law

[seriousstan]

PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators joined rallies across France on Tuesday in a fresh assault by students and striking public sector workers on a youth hire-and-fire contract.

Two months of sometimes violent demonstrations took their toll on the popularity of the contract's main champion, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, whose ratings in a new poll slid 14 points in a month to 28 percent in March.

Unions said the turnout should reach the three million figure seen in last week's protests, among the biggest in France's 48-year-old Fifth Republic.

Police estimates were not immediately available but were expected to be much lower. Police said one million joined the demonstrations on March 28, a third of organizers' estimates.

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[Hardrada]

1. Aux barricades, mes amis! Camerades!

Wish I were there to protest this part of globalization and neoliberalism! I was accidentally in a protest in London. They do good protests in "old" Europe!

[norml]

2. Wonder why the protesters haven't found the Fox News/Sky News cameras?

You'd think someone with a TV would've called someone with a cell phone by now.