{"id":400555,"date":"2019-03-21T01:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/yellow-vest-movement-not-yet-changing-its-color-to-green-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T01:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:12:47","slug":"yellow-vest-movement-not-yet-changing-its-color-to-green-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/yellow-vest-movement-not-yet-changing-its-color-to-green-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">From Paris, L\u00e9a Bouchoucha reports for <strong>Consortium News<\/strong> on two sets of demonstrators, some of whom are mingling while others keep a distance.\u00a0<span id=\"more-34314\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">By <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/tag\/lea-bouchoucha\/\">L\u00e9a Bouchoucha<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">in Paris<\/span><\/strong><br \/><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Special to Consortium News<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Lea.pic_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Lea.pic_-100x100.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-32182\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-32182\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Lea.pic_-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span>ome had hoped the two marches in Paris last Saturday\u2014 one focused on global warming and the other representing the 18<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>straight weekend of Yellow Vest protests \u00a0\u2014 would join forces and help unite environmental activism with social equity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">On March 8, Cyril Dion, a well-known documentary film maker and environmental writer, gave a joint interview to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/societe\/priscillia-ludovsky-et-cyril-dion-on-fait-cause-commune-sur-l-ecologie-et-le-social-08-03-2019-8027766.php\">Le Parisian<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0with\u00a0Priscillia Ludosky, considered one of the founders of the Yellow Vest movement, in which they \u00a0both encouraged protesters to march together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">To an extent that happened. Yellow vests were a common sight in the climate demonstrations on Saturday. And nongovernmental groups \u2014 Greenpeace France, the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, SOS Racisme, Friends of the Earth, 350.org and Alternatiba \u2014 voiced a fusion of environmental and economic demands. \u201cTime to change industrial, political and economic systems, to protect the environment, society and individuals,\u201d was a typical message expressed on one banner.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34319\" style=\"width: 3898px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/01.jpg\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34319\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34319\" alt=\"Participants at climate march included a &quot;Revolutionary Grandmother&quot; at left. (Lea Bouchoucha) \" width=\"3888\" height=\"2592\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34319\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34319\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/01.jpg\" alt=\"Participants at climate march included a &quot;Revolutionary Grandmother&quot; at left. (Lea Bouchoucha) \" width=\"3888\" height=\"2592\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-34319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The climate march included a \u201cRevolutionary Grandmother\u201d at left.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">(Lea Bouchoucha)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The contrasts between the two demonstrations, however, wound up drawing the main<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/2002b876ce0a46a8b0e19c84719c6504\">press attention<\/a>.<\/span> Coverage by outlets such as <em>Reuters<\/em> and the <em>Associated Press<\/em> emphasized how the march on climate change \u2014\u00a0which drew around 45,000 in Paris, according to media estimates \u2014 was peaceful and included movie stars. The smaller Yellow Vest demonstration in the capital, estimated at around 10,000, was marked by rioting and vandalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Some Yellow Vests disagree with violence in demonstrations. But plenty of images have spread on social media that show a few protesters posing proudly in front of vandalized, expensive restaurants and luxury shops along the Champs-Elys\u00e9es Avenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">A strong majority of French \u2014 84 percent of those polled \u2014 condemned the violence in a survey released March 20 by Elabe, an independent consultancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">\u2018Part of the Game\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Stephanie Albinet, who wore a yellow vest to Saturday\u2019s&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/03\/20\/yellow-vest-movement-not-yet-changing-its-color-to-green\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Paris, L\u00e9a Bouchoucha reports for Consortium News on two sets of demonstrators, some of whom are mingling while others keep a distance.\u00a0 By L\u00e9a Bouchouchain ParisSpecial to Consortium News Some had hoped the two marches in Paris last Saturday\u2014 one focused on global warming and the other representing the 18th\u00a0straight weekend of Yellow Vest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}