Video, with sound, by Danielle Ameden in Paris:

"Aujourd'hui, dans la rue" --> "Today, on the street"

3 secs mpg | Real Media | Windows Media

The soundtrack is dance music.
18 secs mpg | Real Media | Windows Media

A strong voice: Roughly, "Everybody stop working, Let's have a general strike."
14 secs mpg | Real Media | Windows Media

Danielle also has a new post up about yesterday's demonstration (Paris Manifestations: Marching with a Mission):

Against the advice of the U.S. Embassy and my program director, I was waiting there on the sidewalk at Nation to meet them, and watched for two hours as the manifestants streamed past. When I arrived around 3:30, the streets were empty and calm. An hour later, the circular place was flooded with the protestors and a sea of spectators. I left around 6:45 as the last manifestants were marching towards the place. According to news reports, some angry protestors moved back to the site of Thursday night's riots, Place de la Sorbonne.

...Yesterday morning, my host mother said to me, “the (French) government has been a bastard for months,” by not listening to the people. To get the government's attention, people are engaging in protests, which are mostly peaceful, where they draw power from numbers. An estimated 500,000 people marched across France in protest against CPE yesterday, in cities like Lyon and Marseille. Here, unlike in the U.S., the people actively and unrelentingly challenge legislation. The matter of CPE has riled up the French enough that it seems the law might be overturned....

We used Dropload to pass the video from Paris to Providence. I downloaded FX Video Converter -- 30 day trial -- and it was simple, fast and intuitive at converting the avi files to other formats.