🚨 France: Students and Unions Call for a Mobilization on Saturday to Defend Purchasing Power

📢 Student and high school organizations have called for a day of action on Saturday, October 17, focused on purchasing power and in solidarity with the Yellow Vests movement.

💰 “We will not give up or back down. We urge you to join the Yellow Vests movement,” declared Ryad Rani, president of the Union Syndicale Lycéenne. FAGE President Suzanne Nijdam is hoping for “announcements, a check, a budget” from the government as the budget is currently being debated.

🗣️ “On Saturday the 17th, wherever our demands are being voiced, we will be there,” said Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of the SNES-FSU teachers’ union.