The blockages of roads with dams by the protesters gave a strong visibility to the movement, but prevent the holding of large gatherings.
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The call for a “general strike” to protest against the immunization obligation of caregivers and the sanitary pass, launched in Guadeloupe on November 15, continues to expand in the overseas communities. After Martinique, Monday, November 22, an intersenynical announced a disengagement in several sectors in French Polynesia, Thursday, November 25, relying on similar claims: At first, the reintegration of the employees suspended for refusing to be made Vaccinate against COVID-19, before the opening of negotiations on broader social issues, including increase in salaries and purchasing power.
In French Polynesia, the movement mobilizes little, for the moment, in the public service: less than 1% of the employees of the education and the Polynesian administration went on strike – a rate a little more important is found in the private sector. In Martinique, the General Confederation of Labor of the Island assured that “more than 1,500 people” participated in the initiated strike, since Monday, by the unions. The magnitude of mobilization is also at the center of the discussions in Guadeloupe, where the authorities challenge the protesters the right to speak for the whole population.
“There is a recalcitrant minority that can not take a whole island hostage, a violent minority that can not prevent women and men from being treated,” said the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal, during the minutes of the Council of Ministers, Wednesday, in a reference to dams erected on the roads of Guadeloupe and disturbing traffic for a week. “The services of the State continue to mobilize relentlessly to quickly reach the return to the calm to which aspires the vast majority of Guadeloupéens”, also announced the prefecture of the archipelago, Thursday, stating that ten arrests had taken place during the night.
“Okay on the bottom, not on the form”
In fact, the “general strike” amputated by the protesters does not exist in Guadeloupe. If part of the economic activity is disrupted by dams, mobilization is much less massive than the popular movement against expensive life, in 2009. “The dams prevent people from joining the protests,” says Eric (who n. ‘did not wish to communicate his last name), Resident of Baie-Mahault came to participate in the first “General Marche” organized since November 15th.
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