{"id":10580,"date":"2018-12-13T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2018-12-13T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:08:29","slug":"demands-of-the-yellow-vests-or-gilets-jaunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/13\/demands-of-the-yellow-vests-or-gilets-jaunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Demands of the Yellow Vests or Gilets Jaunes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019ve found it frustrating that the media and online commentary is more names and phrases \u2014\u00a0Yellow Vests, Green New Deal, Extinction Rebellion \u2014\u00a0ad infinitum than an actual discussion of the issues these people are demonstrating about. \u00a0I had to spend some effort to find out what the demands and, thus, the issues actually are. \u00a0Now I can decide what to\u00a0think and do about it. \u00a0May this information be of use to you.<\/p>\n

In French: \u00a0www.scribd.com\/\u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

As translated on twitter: \u00a0threadreaderapp.com\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Housing for all homeless people
\n2. A more progressive tax system
\n3. Minimum wage of 1,300\u20ac\/month
\n4. Measures to protect small businesses (stop building malls, no more \u201cbig box\u201d stores), more parking spaces in downtowns
\n5. Government program for insulating homes & other buildings
\n6. Big businesses (McDonald\u2019s, Google, Amazon…) should pay big taxes & small businesses pay small ones
\n7. Same health insurance system for all (including self-employed)
\n8. Keep retirement system the way it is now (working people pay the pensions of retirees)
\n9. No more increases on fuel taxes
\n10. No old age pensions below 1,200\u20ac\/month
\n11. All elected officials should earn French median income + reimbursement of travel costs if justified + meal tickets
\n12. All salaries & government benefits must be indexed on inflation
\n13. Protect French industry, outlaw delocalizations
\n14. End the European system whereby workers from other European countries are paid the lower salaries and benefits of their respective countries rather than French wages and benefits
\n15. Job security. Larger businesses should be obliged to give more employees permanent contracts (CDI)
\n16. Create a French industry of hydrogen powered automobiles
\n17. End the politics of austerity
\n18. Treat the causes that are forcing people to migrate.<\/p>\n

19. Better treatment for asylum seekers. Provide lodging, food, security & education for minors. Work with the UN to build camps in many countries to hold asylum seekers until their papers are processed
\n20. Accompany those who are not granted asylum back to the countries they came from
\n21. Create a program for integrating immigrants. Living in France entails becoming French (certificate program in French language, history, civics)
\n22. Maximum salary fixed at 15,000\u20ac\/month
\n23. Jobs for the unemployed
\n24. Increase disability pensions
\n25. Rent control. More social housing and in particular housing for college students, contractors, gig economy workers, people without steady jobs
\n26. Outlaw the sale of French public property (dams, airports…)
\n27. Allocate much more money to the justice system, the police and the armed forces. Pay police officers overtime or allow them to take the corresponding hours off
\n28. The totality of sums collected at toll booths should go to maintaining the countries highways & roads and to road security.
\n29. As the prices of natural gas & electricity have risen since these sectors were privatized, we demand the re-nationalization of these industries and the lowering of prices
\n30. An immediate end to the closings of smaller train lines, post offices, schools and maternity wards
\n31. Well-being for our elderly. Outlaw for-profit elderly care. The time of \u201cgray gold\u201d has come to an end
\n32. A maximum of 25 students per class from nursery school through high school
\n33. More public financing of psychiatry
\n34. Write a popular referendum system into the Constitution. Create an on-line referendum site where citizens can propose new laws, overseen by an independent body. If a proposition receives over 700,000 votes it should be introduced into Congress, accordingly completed, amended and discussed before all citizens are allowed to vote on it (within exactly one year of obtaining the 700,000 signatures)
\n35. Return to a presidential mandate of 7 years (currently it\u2019s 5) with interim elections of reps
\n36. Retirement for all at 60 years old and at 55 for people in professions that are hard on the body (construction work…)
\n37. Extension of public aid to parents paying for daycare for children up until 10 years of age
\n38. Incentivize transportation of merchandise by rail
\n39. No withholding of income tax
\n40. Presidents should no longer receive a salary for life
\n41. Outlaw the tax paid by shopkeepers each time a client pays by credit or debit card
\n42. Tax kerosene, air and maritime fuels<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Another source in French<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.cnews.fr\/france\/2018-12-06\/la-liste-des-revendications-des-gilets-jaunes-801586<\/a><\/p>\n

and machine translated English
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To compare and contrast,<\/div>\n

here are Representative Ocasio-Cortez’ proposed goals for a Select Committee on a Green New Deal (https:\/\/ocasio2018.com\/green-new-deal<\/a>) as part of the resuscitated House Committee on Climate Change:<\/p>\n

“The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall be developed in order to achieve the following goals, in each case in no longer than 10 years from the start of execution of the Plan:
\n100% of national power generation from renewable sources;
\nbuilding a national, energy-efficient, \u201csmart\u201d grid;
\nupgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety;
\ndecarbonizing the manufacturing, agricultural and other industries;
\ndecarbonizing, repairing and improving transportation and other infrastructure;
\nfunding massive investment in the drawdown and capture of greenhouse gases;
\nmaking \u2018green\u2019 technology, industry, expertise, products and services a major export of the United States, with the aim of becoming the undisputed international leader in helping other countries transition to completely carbon neutral economies and bringing about a global Green New Deal.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are UK’s Extinction Rebellion’s demands (https:\/\/rebellion.earth\/demands\/<\/a>):<\/div>\n
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\u201cThat the Government must tell the truth about how deadly our situation is, it must reverse all policies not in alignment with that position and must work alongside the media to communicate the urgency for change including what individuals, communities and businesses need to do.<\/div>\n
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\u201cGood intentions and guidelines won\u2019t save the ice caps. The Government must enact legally-binding policies to reduce carbon emissions in the UK to net zero by 2025 and take further action to remove the excess of atmospheric greenhouse gases. It must cooperate internationally so that the global economy runs on no more than half a planet\u2019s worth of resources per year.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBy necessity these demands require initiatives and mobilisation of similar size and scope to those enacted in times of war. We do not however, trust our Government to make the bold, swift and long-term changes necessary to achieve this and we do not intend to hand further power to our politicians. Instead we demand a Citizens\u2019 Assembly to oversee the changes, as we rise from the wreckage, creating a democracy fit for purpose.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My approach to climate change is
\n100% renewables ASAP
\nzero emissions economy ASAP
\ncarbon drawdown ASAP
\ngeotherapy (not geoengineering) ASAP<\/p>\n

Resources:\u00a0http:\/\/drawdown.org<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.crcpress.com\/Geotherapy-Innovative-Methods-of-Soil-Fertility-Restoration-Carbon-Sequestration\/Goreau-Larson-Campe\/p\/book\/9781466595392<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/bio4climate.org<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/soil4climate.org<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/solarray.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gmoke\u00a0 Sunday December 09, 2018\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0(dailykos.com) I\u2019ve found it frustrating that the media and online commentary is more names and phrases \u2014\u00a0Yellow Vests, Green New Deal, Extinction Rebellion \u2014\u00a0ad infinitum than an actual discussion of the issues these people are demonstrating about. \u00a0I had to spend some effort to find out… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10583,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/10583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}