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Harvard College Library – Americas, Europe, and Oceania Division

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Organization Type: Colleges & Universities

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Western Languages Division, Harvard Colleague Library

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Independence March (Poland) Collection at the Harvard Library

Archived since: Aug, 2019

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Subject:   Politics & Elections Society & Culture,  Spontaneous Events

The Yellow Vests Movement collection at Harvard Library

Archived since: Aug, 2019

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The yellow vests movement or yellow jackets movement (French: Mouvement des gilets jaunes) is a populist, grassroots political movement for economic justice that began in France in October 2018. After an online petition posted in May had attracted nearly a million signatures, mass demonstrations began on 17 November. The movement is motivated by rising fuel prices, a high cost of living; it claims that a disproportionate burden of the government's tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes, especially in rural and peri-urban areas. The protesters have called for lower fuel taxes, a reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a minimum-wage increase, the implementation of Citizens' initiative referendums, as well as the resignations of President Emmanuel Macron and the government. The protests have involved demonstrations and the blocking of roads and fuel depots in France, some of which developed into major riots and attacks, described as the most violent since those of May 1968. The movement has received international attention, and protesters in many places around the world—some with similar grievances, others unrelated—have used the yellow vest as a symbol.

Subject:   Society & Culture,  Spontaneous Events ,  Government

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