So, I was not working and that was great. Other people were working.
There are people who never stop, like doctors and medical wokers, trains, and soon. Freelancers work for their own so (apart their lack of citizen involvement) they can manage their job like they want. And finally there are employees who worked on a free-day like on a usual working day, and I think this is shocking.
For example the city gardens guards. There were not working on November 1st, so I assume that the local authorities like better to respect a religious day than a hommage day to people who died "for our freedom".
I thought France was a lay state!
Be sure to understand, I am not a patriot. That's the opposite: I would define myself as an internationalist. I do am a strong pacifist. But I still take care of this days when we have a thought for the poor people who have been killed in a war served for the glory the power and the wealth of a few powerfull persons who certainly did not send their children to fight.
Some things never change as France is always fighting in the countries where Total and Bolloré need it.
There was no more celebration for the Russian Revolution 100th anniversary a few days before.
The Bolsheviks' take-over, with quasi no blood, inside a revolutionary period was taking an argument from Lenin about this war for the rich and not for the peoples.
The peoples who had a large place during the Second Komintern by adding a part about self-determination: fighting for the people's choice to free from colonization.
A night, a quiet take-over, that changed the world for a whole century. And we didn't had anything about that in medias? Well, yes, french-german TV Arte broadcasted Battleship Potemkine.
Why this silence?
Certainly this is not good to celebrate people who revolted against the power of the happy few rich families. For what? Redistribute wealth to everyone? Are you crazy? Rich need more money to have more money to... redistribute it? You know they don't want to avoid the fisc, they are in an hurry to save what they need to survive!
So that was a week during which I would have appreciate to see more celebrations where people could have shown they are thinking about what are their lives and what is the system in which we live.
A lost hope.
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