fun fact: french protestors literally got grills made that can run in streetcar tracks, so they can make food for themselves while marching. the relatively small amount of food is 2ndary to its effect as a morale booster. now extrapolate from there - ThreadSky

sky.skymarchini.net • 16 days ago

fun fact: french protestors literally got grills made that can run in streetcar tracks, so they can make food for themselves while marching. the relatively small amount of food is 2ndary to its effect as a morale booster.

now extrapolate from there

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spudmonkey.bsky.social•16 days ago

No trolly tracks but...

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2025-06-09/street-vendors-downtown-ice-protests-agua-fresca-milk-teargas

pfish.zone•16 days ago

so what you’re saying is the REAL reason they tore out the streetcars in LA is

alexiterick.bsky.social•16 days ago

I think that's specifically the streetcar drivers' union for when they go on strike.

compliancedivision.bsky.social•16 days ago

"A good tactic is one your people enjoy." -- Alinsky

chocomoomba.bsky.social•16 days ago

We call this the "CGT sandwich", very useful.
Seriously though, you must have the rail workers union in the protests. They are the best. They also have decommissioned professional explosives to warm things up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyf6E2_SkRY

enbyandbi.bsky.social•14 days ago

Another French protest tradition is to sell mojitos from the back of a van 🥰

(That being said, protests are being violently suppressed in France since 2015, and our claims fall on deaf ears)

yellowheader.bsky.social•16 days ago

"If you feed them, they will come."
- James Earl Jones in "Concession of Dreams" (maybe)

stochasticooze.bsky.social•16 days ago

A Streetcar Named Flavor

dremixam.com•14 days ago

You can't say you fully experienced the french way of life until you ate some sausage ("galette saucisse" in brittany) behind the back of the CGT truck (we say, "au cul du camion") during a protest

dustinducane.bsky.social•16 days ago

They burn things, paralyze Paris and fight fight police. The mobile sausage is not the key element of (effective) French protests.

boogerminer.bsky.social•16 days ago

are you trying to say morale is not a key element of effective resistance because that's a hell of a take

robtomshany.bsky.social•16 days ago

If anyone knows about the relationship between food and well-being, it's the French.

rhysneedham.bsky.social•16 days ago

A Protest Marches on its Stomach?

prhomberg.bsky.social•16 days ago

Gotta get some of them Ren Faire mobile pretzel people up at the protests.

forceholy.bsky.social•16 days ago

There were street vendors in the middle of protests of LA.

snowjob.bsky.social•16 days ago

Need to put a Weber on a furniture dolly or get a shopping cart, got it.

chrisd238.bsky.social•16 days ago

It makes for such a great photo, and absolutely having a hot sausy is gonna go down a treat

cherylprice.bsky.social•16 days ago

I live in Paris and have marched against fascism and gotten a free sausage. 13/10 no notes.

hellcatenstein.bsky.social•16 days ago

Interesting, but "2ndary" is evil and hurt my brain.

drkimberlyd.bsky.social•16 days ago

I am taking some beach chairs on Saturday, no place to sit in Denver.

Resist, adapt, overcome.

gienieczko.com•16 days ago

Okay but also the French have so many experience points spent down the Resistance tech tree branch, of course they'll be at the forefront of protest innovation

struthious.bsky.social•16 days ago

another argument for more trams in the US. Preferably center-running

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