Democracy Now

Karla Gomez

Social movements

MW 5:30-6:45

Macedonian Police Fire Tear Gas & Rubber Bullets at Refugees

What the police have done is not correct, throwing tear gas to the refugees won't stop them If anything what they are doing is prompting more violence. 10,000 migrants and refugees that have been stranded on the Greek border, according to the article this has been happening since February after a series of border shutdowns across the Balkans closed off their route to Central and Western Europe. Those that are hurt are even children with head injuries caused by rubber bullets. Many of the Greek refugees have nowhere to go they are stuck. My opinion is that children do not have the fault of what is going on, many of these people just want to escape the bad place they were in. It's sad to see that this is occurring, what has the world come to. It's not safe anymore anywhere.

Nuit Debout: Nightly Labor Protests Continue in France

  This article, discusses the protest France is doing against a new law that would weaken the worker protections. What this movement is trying to increase the working conditions against the liberal economy, who wants to give full power to the companies and the head of the companies. People have been protesting since March 31, each night in Paris, but the French labor say that this will only lead to worse working conditions and more layoffs. My big questions is why can't people negotiate, with the people. Instead they want to layoff and worse the conditions. This is not helping the economy. Companies just want to take over and give lousy conditions to people, they truly do not care about there employees that is very sad to see this happen. In every country this is happening, not just France even here in the United states this conditions are happening , there is no justice nowhere.