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| Anti-nuclear protests held in five French cities |
| 2007-03-18 |
| Thousands of Much better to spend all your dough buying oil from those nice Arabs... Organizers put the number of protesters in the western city of Rennes at 30,000 to 40,000 - a figure that could not be officially confirmed. The collective Get out of Nuclear put the number in Lyon and Toulouse at 10,000 and claimed another 5,000 protesters in Lille, in the north, as well as in the eastern city of Strasbourg. The simultaneous protests organized by the collective, made up of hundreds of associations, was a way to get the issue in the eye of candidates in the April-May two-round presidential elections. Only the Greens party, whose candidate is Dominique Voynet, is resolutely opposed to the third-generation European pressurized-water reactor, or EPR, technology that aims to use 17 percent less fuel. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Dude, electricity is like sooo evil. It was invented by dead white guys, you know. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-03-18 19:17 |
| #1 Take every anti-nuke Protester's name and address. After the protest, go to their homes and permanently disconnect their electricity, (France uses Nukes to power their grid). |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-18 17:53 |