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...been closed for the past two weeks. At issue this time, though, are not the heady concerns of '68: the Vietnam War, or the ideas of socialism and free love. The 2006 rallying point is a new law, backed by Villepin, to reduce France's chronic and debilitating youth unemployment, which has rarely fallen below 20% since 1983 and currently stands at 22% - and at more than 40% in the poorer neighbor-hoods that exploded in bitter rioting last fall. His plan: a "first employment contract" that allows employers to fire workers under the age of 26 within two years...
...closed for the past two weeks. At issue this time are not the heady concerns of 1968: Vietnam, Mao, Foucault and free love. The rallying point is far less stirring: a law backed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin that is meant to reduce France's chronic and debilitating youth unemployment, which stands at 22%--and at more than 40% in the poorer banlieues that exploded in rioting last fall. The new law allows employers to fire workers under age 26 within two years of hiring them-- without cause and with no obligation to shell out severance payments. Making...
...pound because he refused to euthanize the unclaimed animals. Moko and Flama’s relationship, which may be more than platonic, is complicated by Rita’s sexual advances towards Moko. Suddenly, an adolescent paradise becomes a lotus-eater limbo with all four lingering between youth and adulthood. Through the activities in this small Mexico City apartment shot in black and white, Eimbcke shows us that we might have our most introspective and colorful discoveries in this limbo. Each of the dreamers’ tales unfolds in grand yet disquieting terms. “Duck Season?...
...report first outlines the status of sex trafficking in the country today, citing the U.S. Department of Justice’s own estimate that “293,000 American youth are currently at risk of becoming victims of commercial sexual exploitation,” as well as discussing the 14,500 to 17,500 foreigners who are trafficked into the U.S. for the sex trade each year. Of these foreigners, 80 percent are women and 50 percent are minors...
...proving a rallying point for opponents of the conservative government, which is looking tired and tattered just over a year away from presidential elections in May 2007. Sorbonne history student Leonard? Roche, 22, says the measure will make it even easier for French employers to deny job security to youth who already spend years shuffling between unpaid internships and short-term contracts. "The opposition is growing, and not just among students," he says...