In this episode of Coffee with Comrades, we’re goin’ international. In the first edition of this two-part series, we speak with our American comrades at Inhabit and our new friends from France about Les Gilets Jaunes/The Yellow Vest Movement!
We discuss the origins of Les Gilets Jaunes/The Yellow Vest movement, decentralization, Paris vs. the French countryside, blockading roundabouts, popular assemblies, leaderless rebellion, “non-lethal” weapons, galvanizing common people who take to the streets for the very first time, the potency of symbols, and the efficacy of revolutionary violence.
Resources:
- Horizon: https://medium.com/@inhabitglobal/horizon-7bf3cf7b3ae3
- “The Counter-Insurrection is Failing” https://communemag.com/the-counter-insurrection-is-failing/
- A Vest That Fits All: https://communemag.com/a-vest-that-fits-all/
- Yellow Vest Diaries: https://communemag.com/yellow-vest-diaries/
- Macron and French Centrists don’t have answers as Yellow Vest protests head into 10th week: https://theintercept.com/2019/01/15/yellow-vest-gilet-jaune-protests-france/
- Ten Lessons from the Yellow Vests: https://itsgoingdown.org/ten-lessons-from-the-yellow-vests/
- The Faces & Voices of the Yellow Vests in France: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/14/voices-of-the-yellow-vests-we-are-just-here-calmly-getting-tear-gassed/
- Yellow Vests: Taking the Disorder Further: https://itsgoingdown.org/yellow-vests-take-the-revolt-further/
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Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie
Interlude: “Gilet Jaune” by Dinor Rdt
Outro: “Tensions Sociales (Freestyle Gilet Jaune)” by D.ACE
