July 13: Laborfest film screening – “Like Lions”
Thursday, July 13th, 6pm Berkeley City College auditorium, 2050 Center St. Berkeley Comme des Lions (Like Lions) is a 2016 French documentary by Françoise Davisse. It traces the struggle of auto workers in a factory in a poor suburb of Paris against PSA (Peugeot Citroën) management’s threat to close their plant. The title comes from the […]
Will This Be A Hot Summer?
Heat waves like last week’s – which hit 66 departments for several days – may happen more often in the coming years, because of global warming. So we might learn a few things from that one… “Situation under control”: really? Despite multiplying alerts, the authorities have insisted that everything was all right. No increase in […]
Let’s Back Up!
Macron will get a majority of representatives ready to go “forward”. Since Sunday night, the news media keep going on and on about this “historical result”. What’s really historical is the abstention rate (51.29%). So the “tsunami” of La Republique en marche (The Republic moving forward) in the House only involves 6.39 million votes (just […]