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Flashmobs!

Flashmobs!

Flashmobs!

Or , clever social protests.

After the General Assembly voted the end of the University-block, a small group of students decided to get creative. After many brainstorming sessions, we decided to invest the Public Space using the concept of flash mobs.

Act Up France calls these actions 'Zap'.

At 4.45 today, a group of an estimated 80 people entered the Virgin Megastore downtown. Some were dressed as clowns, some appeared to be normal customers. At 5, someone whistled and everyone suddenly fell down to the floor, wearing signs saying 'Precarity kills' or 'Youth want real work contracts'...

Security seemed to freak out a bit, but what could be done? We were harmless. The press was quickly called, and a journalist from Ouest France took many pictures. I won't mention the number of customers who, amused, took an awful lot of picture with their cell phones.

After 15 minutes, we all got up and left as if nothing had happened.

We're reconducting it somewhere else this week end. It's efficient, quick, media-friendly and highly symbolic. To me it's the perfect 21st century type of social protest.