5.01.2002

50 Million Frenchmen and One American Can't Be Wrong

And a million of them hit the streets en masse to protest the right-wing candidate Le Pen today alone. What's interesting is that my sister is out there protesting too! A few days ago my parents had to email her school a permission slip saying she was allowed to participate in protests and miss school. I guess a few hundred kids from another school showed up at hers, and she and a few hundred from her school joined them, and they went to a few other schools before marching down to the City Hall and the train station to rally and make speeches and stuff. Now that's a real cultural exchange!