"Paris is burning... and I live by the riv-ahhhhh!"

[jack_babalon]

Quite a week for Parisian Guerrilla's who, when not breaking into cultural landmarks in daring renegade maintenace raids, are out rioting the way we do in the States when... oh I don't know.. say a college basketball team wins the play offs... only with "...conventional weapons and hunting gear" thrown in for some serious Rue Cred ('Rue Cred'?).


"Oui too are legion!"

77 police officers hurt in Paris riots

Rampaging youths rioted for a second night in Paris' suburbs, firing at officers and ramming burning cars into buildings. At least 77 officers were injured, a senior police union official said Tuesday.

The overnight violence was more intense than during three weeks of rioting in 2005, said the official, Patrice Ribeiro. He said that "genuine urban guerillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons" were among the rioters.

Which brings me to todays list.

A list of Riots in the 21st Century (so far) - including such notable throw downs with the law such as the 2006 San Bernardino punk riot, the Cartoon Riots, the UK Download Festival Riot and the Montreal riot that went down when The Exploited canceled a show! Talk about "Punks Not Dead"!

Anyway...

2001 - Seattle Mardi Gras Riots, February 2001, (Seattle, WA, USA)
2001 - 2001 Cincinnati Riots, April 2001, (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
2001 - Quebec City Summit of the Americas, April 2001 (Quebec, Canada)
2001 - Banja Luka Riots, May 2001, (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2001 - Oldham Riots, May 2001, (Oldham, Greater Manchester, England)
2001 - Gothenburg Riots, June 2001, (Gothenburg, Sweden)
2001 - Bradford Riot, July 2001, (Bradford, West Yorkshire, England)
2001 - Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest, July 2001, (Genoa, Italy)
2001 - Holy Cross dispute, Summer 2001, (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
2001 - December 2001 Riots, (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2002 - San Salvador Atenco Airport Riot, (San Salvador Atenco, Mexico)
2002 - Post-Godhra Riots, Feb 2002 (Gujarat, India)
2002 - 2002 Urso Branco prison riot, (Rondonia, Brazil)
2002 - Chinese textile worker riot, (Shuikou, Guangdong, China)
2002 - Ohio State University post Michigan football game riot, November 2002, (Columbus, OH, USA)
2003 - Benton Harbor Riot, June 2003, (Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA)
2003 - Maldives civil unrest, September 2003, (Malé, Maldives)
2003 - Riot over bad policy during a SARS outbreak, (Xiandie, China)
2003 - Riot after The Exploited had to cancel a show in Montreal, Canada. October 14, 2003
2004 - 2004 Kosovo riots
2004 - Palm Island riot, (Palm Island, Queensland, Australia)
2004 - Redfern riots, (Sydney, Australia)
2004 - Han-Hui riot, (Henan province, China).
2004 - VEISHEA riot, drunk Iowa State students riot, cancel 2005 VEISHEA (Ames, Iowa)
2004 Urso Branco prison riot,(Rondonia, Brazil)
2004 - Chinese riot in response to a beating, (Guangdong, China)
2004 - Citizens in Benghu riot in response to inflating prices and poor healthcare, (Anhui, China)
2004 - Farmers riot when their land is taken and given to real-estate companies, (Zhengzhou, China)
2004 - Chinese soccer fans riot when a Japanese team wins the final, Beijing, China)
2005 - Dongzhou protest, (Guangdong, China)
2005 - Belize unrest, January 2005, (Belmopan, Belize)
2005 - Macquarie Fields riots, February 2005, southwestern suburb of Sydney, Australia
2005 - Cedar Revolution, February 2005, Lebanon
2005 - Anti-Japanese riots, April 2005, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China
2005 - Riots in response to land taken for a powerplant, (Shenyou, China)
2005 - Riots over excessive pollution, (Zhejiang, China)
2005 - Perpignan ethnic violence, May 2005, (Perpignan, France)
2005 - Maldives civil unrest, August 2005, (Malé, Maldives)
2005 - Chinese worker riot, July 2005, (Xizhou, China). In 2005, the government admitted to 87,000 riots and demonstrations across China.
2005 - 2005 civil unrest in France, October 2005
2005 - 2005 Toledo Riot, October 2005, (Toledo, Ohio, USA)
2005 - Anti-Muslim Riots of Mau October 2005, (Mau, UttarPradesh),India
2005 - Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas, November 2005, (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
2005 - 2005 Cronulla riots, December 2005, (Sydney, Australia)
2006 - Cartoon riots
2006 - 2006 Dublin riots, Feb. 25, Dublin, Ireland
2006 - San Bernardino punk riot, March 4, San Bernardino, California
2006 - 2006 labor protests in France, March-April, Paris, France
2006 - Burj Dubai riot, (Dubai, UAE)
2006 - Hindu/Muslim Aligarh Riots, April 2006, (Aligarh,India)
2006 - Rajkumar death riots, April, (India)
2006 - April 2006 Venezuela prison riot, April, (Venezuela)
2006 - San Salvador Atenco Vendor Permit Riots (San Salvador Atenco, Mexico)
2006 - Shengda Economics, Trade and Management College diploma riot
2006 - Riot after a hospital doesn't treat a patient, (Sichuan, China)
2006 - Download Festival Riots Donnington, UK
2006 - Riot over government response to a whistleblower,(Shandong, China)
2006 - Riot follows after a traffic accident incites violence, (Chizhou, China)
2006 - Riot over a land dispute, (Sanzhou, China)
2006 - 2006 Windsor ethnic violence
2006 - 2006 protests in Hungary
2006 - 2006 Brussels riots
2006 - Copenhagen December Riot
2007 - Anti-immigrant riots, (Madrid, Spain)
2007 - Copenhagen March riots
2007 - Chinese immigrants clash with riot police, (Milan, Italy)
2007 - Gare du Nord riot in Paris
2007 - Riot starts when a company takes over the bus routes and doubles the fares,(Zhushan, China)
2007 - Riot over the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, Estonia
2007 - 2007 Karachi Riots, Pakistan
2007 - Cigarbox-riot May 14, Freetown Christiania (Copenhagen-Denmark)
2007 - G8 Riot Rostock June 3, G8 Conference Rostock, Germany
2007 - Undie 500 student Riots in Dunedin, New Zealand
2007 - Half year anniversary of ungdomshus eviction.(Copenhagen-Denmark)
2007 - 2007 NBA All Stars riot, Aug 5, (Las Vegas, Nevada)
2007 - Muslim-Tibetan riot, (Qinghai, China)
2007 - Labor Day Beach riot, (San Diego, California)
2007 - Muslim-Han riot, (Shandong, China)
2007 - Roma riots, Sofia, Bulgaria
2007 - Venezuelan student riots
2007 - 2007 civil disorders in France, Nov. 25 - (?)

I'm kinda disappointed that there weren't more USA riots listed and the ones that were were sports related. A shame because I kinda imagine issues such as Eminent Domain would go down a little differently if people took to the streets whenever WalMart decided it can take your land away from you and justify it by the amount of sales tax revenue it can generate.

C'mon America lets put the riot in Patriot;)

Comments

[therealmacgyver.livejournal.com]

I was at Download 2007, in the RIP camping so I wasn't directly involved. Ducked out of Maiden early to avoid the crushing as everyone tried to leave the arena. Vans full of riot police were going past, gearing up for war, and all you could hear from the normal camping for hours was "welcome to the Download campsite, please have your armbands in the air ready for inspection" over and over. In my head it was Children of Men over there. No riots this year though (that would have been it for the festival if there had been)