{"id":389238,"date":"2018-12-15T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-yellow-vest-insurgency-whats-next\/"},"modified":"2018-12-15T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T07:47:08","slug":"the-yellow-vest-insurgency-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-yellow-vest-insurgency-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yellow Vest Insurgency: What\u2019s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Paris, France, April 2017: Macron Unveils Assault on Workers\u2019 Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Paris, France, December 2018: A potential worldwide insurgency of the working class starts in France as Yellow Vests occupy the streets.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some 75% of the French back the <em>gilets jaunes. <\/em>And this support has held up despite the violence.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The French Yellow Vests Insurgency may or may not grow into a major threat to the established order; nobody knows for sure how it will play out.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the undertone has been obvious for some years. Once the world publicly recognized a division between the 1% and everybody else, the stage was set for flare-ups, like the Yellow Vest Insurgency movement, as tens of thousands of people dressed in bright yellow vests hit the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Why would tens of thousands of people wearing bright yellow vests, similar to roadside workers, hit the streets? Answer: They\u2019re pissed off!<\/p>\n<p>And, where do tens of thousands of the yellow vests come from? In 2008 France passed a law requiring all motorists to have high-visibility vests in vehicles as a safety measure should the driver need to exit a vehicle on a roadside. Therefore, everybody with a vehicle in France has a yellow vest.<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that, over the past three decades, neoliberal globalization set the table for dissolution of the middle class as wages around the world collapsed into a SE Asian vortex of slave labor. This is the heart of the matter behind the Yellow Vest movement, albeit sparked by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/12\/the-yellow-vest-insurgency-whats-next\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, France, April 2017: Macron Unveils Assault on Workers\u2019 Rights. Paris, France, December 2018: A potential worldwide insurgency of the working class starts in France as Yellow Vests occupy the streets. Some 75% of the French back the gilets jaunes. And this support has held up despite the violence. The French Yellow Vests Insurgency may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}