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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Mael and Agathe, two participants in France's latest wave of unrest share their experiences and talk about the future of the movement
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0:00.0 | Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood. |
0:09.2 | This is silenced, the radio murders. |
0:12.4 | You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do. |
0:17.2 | The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness. |
0:24.4 | And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy. |
0:30.8 | I'm Osvalotian. Listen to silenced, the radio murders. On the iHot radio app, Apple podcasts, |
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0:46.6 | It's been four months since French president and manual Macron effectively declared war on |
0:51.3 | French society. You've domestically called pension reforms. Macron's proposal would increase |
0:57.0 | the retirement age from 62 to 64, effectively robbing the working class of two years of their |
1:02.4 | lives. In January, French unions filled the streets of Paris with trash. Now, French workers |
1:09.3 | build brick and mortar barricades on highways and set branches on fire on train tracks. |
1:14.8 | Welcome to Aikat happened here. |
1:19.2 | The escalation from protest to uprising is, in part, a product of how Macron forced the |
1:24.9 | retirement age increase through a national assembly he no longer controls. Without the ability |
1:30.4 | to win a vote, Macron's Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne suddenly invoked article 49 of the |
1:37.0 | French Constitution, which allows the ruling government to force a bill into law without a vote. |
1:43.1 | Macron argues that because circumventing parliament to force legislation through his legal, |
1:47.8 | the move is democratic. Millions across France disagree. We spoke to two French protesters, |
1:54.8 | Maillet, a student in Lyon, and Aikat, a union railway worker at a state-owned rail company |
2:01.2 | about the movement. The two met through a struggle committee designed to bring people from |
2:05.6 | different backgrounds and movements together to fight against Macron's reforms. And four, |
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