“Protest on the weekend? The weekend is made for rest! What’s the point of protesting on a Saturday? ! “Even if Oscar, one of our readers, wonders about the interest of such a program, many French people will take advantage of the weekend to go out in the streets and protest against the pension reform. Unlike Oscar, the vast majority of our readers, having answered our call, sees many advantages.
This is the case of Dominique, 58, who is “scared of losing her job” but who will participate in the March 11 demonstration because she will “not need to strike”. This strike, Stéphanie has already made it three times since the beginning of the protests against the postponement of the retirement age but “it becomes financially difficult, especially in this period”. The 47-year-old school teacher admits: “All I have left is the solution of demonstrating on Saturdays. »
With family
Weekend rhymes with rest. It is also an opportunity for parents to make their children discover the interest of demonstrating, like Dominique, who will take advantage of the protest of March 11 to “take his 8-year-old son”. The atmosphere would be friendlier on weekends, less slippage or violence. For some, it almost becomes a family outing: “I will take the opportunity to go there with all my relatives”, warns Yoan, 25, carer.
In a Lyon procession during the last demonstration on Saturday February 11, Marie-Pierre, a 43-year-old engineer, assured us: “I’m here because it’s Saturday, the week, it’s not possible ” . She had traveled with her three children, to show them “that you have to defend yourself”. For her, as for some of our readers, demonstrating on weekends also serves to raise the citizens of tomorrow.