Seeing Paris: food, and food for thought, at Nuit Debout

Discussion circles are central to Nuit Debout.  Groups form to discuss ideas about the democracy to come.  What will it be like?  Will it be feminist?  Will it involve work or find a replacement for work as we know it?  Do we need a general strike to get there?  What about the schools?  What good are they when unemployment is 25% (30% in the suburbs)?  Groups form, sit on the ground, and have at it.  Here’s one, about general strike (note the homeless person sleeping under the tent):

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There’s no discussion without food, of course, so there are food tents:

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And discussion everywhere!

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Media, hand-made and technological, too.

There’s a hunger for ideas, a hunger for a new world.

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