Yellow vests movement

Yellow vests movement

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"Mouvement des gilets jaunes" = 91 (Full Reduction)
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The yellow vests movement (French: Mouvement des gilets jaunes, pronounced [ʒilɛ ʒon]), also referred to as the yellow jacket movement in English, is a protest movement that began on-line in May 2018 and led to demonstrations that began in France on Saturday, 17 November 2018

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Yellow vests in French (plural)
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Date protest started in roman numerals
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Yellow vest in French (singular)
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and which rapidly spread to Wallonia, the formerly heavily industrialised southern part of Belgium. The yellow vest was chosen as a symbol, because all motorists had been required by law (since 2008) to have high-visibility vests in their vehicles when driving (as a safety measure should the driver be required to exit the vehicle on the roadside). As a result, reflective vests have become widely available, inexpensive and symbolic. By early December 2018, the symbol had become increasingly common from Europe to Iraq, as widely different groups made use of their high-visibility vests to draw attention to their agendas.

Galvanized by rising fuel prices, the high cost of living and claims that a disproportionate burden of the government's tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes (especially those in rural and peri-urban areas), protesters have called for reductions in fuel taxes, the reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, the raising of the minimum wage, and the resignation of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.

One of the first known demonstrations in France against the taxation of petrol prices dates back to 1933 in Lille. The movement against tax increases also evokes the "poujadism" of the 1950s, which mobilized the middle classes and was articulated around a tax revolt. "Slow-down movements" were also organized in the 1970s. In July 1992, such a movement was set up to protest against the introduction of the points-based permit