students on strike!

Yesterday I experienced another first in my life...my first time being a part of a strike! Students at universities across France are currently striking in protest of a new law that the French government is close to passing called the First Job Contract, in which any new hiree under the age of 26 can be fired without reason within the first two years of working for a company. Thursday afternoon there was a large assembly during which the student body government voted to declare a strike from Friday morning until Monday at noon. I was unsure what this meant until I came to campus yesterday morning to work on a paper and found all the entrances to the building where I have classes barricaded with desks and chairs! There was also a manifestation outside my dorm with lots of angry "revolutionary" types protesting this law...always something exciting happening in Angers!