Photo Gallery Taking to the Streets
The French are kidnapping managers and taking to the streets in protest against the global downturn. But their neighbors in Germany seem curiously unmoved by the economic nosedive -- at least for now.
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Union activists at a Molex factory in Villemur-sur-Tarn, southern France, took deputy manager Marcus Kerriou and another executive hostage earlier in April.
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Cross-border cooperation: French and German employees of tyre manufacturer Continental protest in Hanover during a shareholder meeting on April 23.
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An anti-capitalist demonstration in banking center Frankfurt: So far protests in Germany have failed to attract the masses.
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Taking to the streets can certainly be effective. Protesters in Iceland brought down the government there in January.
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