ALBANY — Four New York lawmakers have not appeared at the state Capitol at all this year, including two 89-year-old legislators whose attendance has been limited by serious, long-term health problems.

The 10 members of the New York Senate and Assembly with the most absences since January also include a Republican serving in the military who was deployed to the Middle East, a senator who took maternity leave and two longtime New York City Democrats who did not explain their repeated absences.

Although lawmakers may cast votes remotely, they cannot take part in legislative sessions from afar. The 10 most frequently absent lawmakers collectively missed 442 days and each failed to attend more than 37% of the votes held in Albany, according to attendance records obtained by The Post through a public records request.

Together, the lawmakers represent just 5% of the state Legislature but accounted for 39% of all recorded absences since January, the records show.

Two of the four lawmakers who never appeared in person — Assembly members Vivian Cook, a Queens Democrat, and David McDonough, a Nassau County Republican — are both 89, dealing with ongoing illnesses and serving out their final year after deciding not to seek reelection.

Assemblyman Brian Maher, an Orange County Republican and Navy reservist, missed the entire legislative session while deployed to the Middle East from November 2025 through last month. He said prolonged absences by elderly lawmakers underscore the need to consider term limits.

“People will say elections are term limits. We know they’re not. We know that incumbency brings a lack of an even playing field,” said Maher, who is running unopposed this year.

McDonough has not appeared in Albany in at least two years, despite winning reelection in 2024 with 65% of the vote, according to a Newsday analysis published in February.

The seven-term lawmaker announced the following week that he would not run again. He remains in office while state Senate staffer Shannon Fredericks campaigns to succeed him. McDonough joined proceedings remotely on eight occasions, the records show.

Cook, who first won her Assembly seat in 1990, entered rehab in March, Assembly Majority Leader Crystal People-Stokes, an Erie County Democrat, announced on the chamber floor. Cook has been coping with an undisclosed illness and participated remotely only once.

Rochester state Sen. Samra Brouk, a Monroe County Democrat, was absent while on maternity leave. She was listed as excused through late April and used the Senate’s remote voting option for much of the rest of the session.

Brouk announced on Instagram that she gave birth in late December. She voted remotely on 24 of the session’s 64 days and is considered heavily favored to win reelection.

Questionable absences

State Sen. Sam Sutton, a Brooklyn Democrat, and Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, also a Brooklyn Democrat, did not respond to requests for comment about their attendance records.

Sutton, 77, won a special election in May 2025 to fill a vacant Senate seat. He missed 36 days and never participated remotely, according to the records. He and Brouk, who was only weeks away from giving birth, were the only senators absent on the first day of the legislative session.

The records show Sutton sometimes missed entire weeks and often appeared just one or two days during the standard three- or four-day workweeks lawmakers spend in Albany during the roughly six months of the year when the Legislature is in session.

Bichotte Hermelyn, who previously headed the Brooklyn Democratic Party before resigning amid a bitter internal power struggle, missed 23 days, including nine days when she was absent from the Capitol but could have participated remotely.

Medical and family crises…

The Senate Mental Health Committee, which Brouk chairs, has not held a meeting this year.

“Dave is 89 years old and will step away having earned the respect of his constituents and his colleagues. Legislative operations have evolved significantly since COVID. Despite limitations, he’s passed legislation, voted on bills, and done important work in the district,” Assembly GOP spokesperson Michael Fraser told The Post.

State Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-Queens), who also represents Cook’s Jamaica, Queens district, said he was in regular contact with Cook during the session, regularly seeking her “decisive” “advice and consent.”

“I think she was still able to serve her community in a positive way during that time,” Comrie said.

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Krueger, 68, told The Post in an interview she has luckily escaped major stroke symptoms and doctors cleared her to return home after only six days in the hospital and without any rehab. The doctors did however stipulate that she remain in close proximity to the hospital for the first 90 days after she was released, keeping her from Albany.

Krueger said, were it not for the bright outlook for her recovery, the 12-term incumbent would’ve seriously considered retirement.

“Pretty quickly, I realized I’m going to be able to keep doing what I need to do,” Krueger said. “‘It’s really OK if you say to me, it’s time Liz,’” she said she told the Democratic clubs in her district.

Afterwards he missed several days, and eventually began tuning into session remotely. Over the year, he accumulated 23 missed days with seven remote days.

The records show Meeks with perfect attendance prior to his daughter’s death. His office didn’t return a request for comment.

Auditioning for the next job…

• Assemblyman Alex Bores (D-Manhattan), missed 31 session days, exactly half of those as he vied in the highly competitive Democratic primary for the 12th Congressional District primary to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY).

He was sixth for most missed votes. Bores ultimately lost that race and will vacate his seat, but defended his absences noting that he would often skip Mondays, when lawmakers traditionally pass less controversial bills.

He also said he passed 10 bills in Albany this year, despite his race.

“They want to see you at their local events and at their town halls and at their debate and forums and you kind of half to juggle,” he said of his constituents.

A spokesperson for the former aide to Nadler and later Gov. Kathy Hochul, declined to comment. 

The two-term Assemblyman was crushed by leftist Democratic Socialists of America comrade Aber Kawas, who is expected to easily win the Astoria district. Per attendance records, Raga was tied for ninth place, missing 37% of days.

Serving our country…

• Assemblyman Brian Maher (R-Orange), an active New York Naval Militia reservist was deployed to the Middle East in November of last year, only returning from what became an active military theater last month.

While active duty military service obviously meant he would not be able to participate in session, even remotely, that did not stop him from regularly communicating with his staff. That included calls with his chief of staff he said had to be cut short because income enemy fire.

“I had to get off the phone because there was an incoming ballistic missile and we had to give to the nearest bunker,” Maher told The Post.

He said one of his first calls after learning of his deployment was to state Sen. Mark Walczyk (R-Jefferson), an army reserve captain who was deployed for nine months in January 2024.
“Our constituents appreciated the fact that I was getting back to them,” he told The Post. “Dven though I was where I was,” he added.

Of the 214 lawmakers included in the analysis, 61 had perfect attendance, according to the records.

They include lawmakers from across the state, including Long Island Assemblyman Tommy John Schiavone (D-Suffolk) and Southern Tier Assemblyman Joe Sempolinksi (R-Stueben).

Two Assembly members who faced — and ultimately lost — fierce primaries were amongst those with perfect attendance; Robert Smullen (R-Montgomery) and Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Queens).

Rajkumar told The Post she has no regrets of her priority to ensure she was in Albany for the duration of the session.

“Showing up is the job. You don’t take a day off from the people who elected you, not even to campaign, and not even when you lose,” Rajkumar said.

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) — Expanded early voting begins Monday at dozens of suburban Cook County locations and in all 50 Chicago wards. County officials are also introducing new technology intended to make voting more efficient and give voters greater transparency.

More than 10% of registered voters in suburban Cook County are expected to cast ballots by mail this year. Although email ballot tracking is not new, officials said the updated system will provide more detailed information about each ballot’s progress.

Starting Monday, expanded early voting will be offered at 56 suburban Cook County locations. Voters will also find smart ballot drop boxes that, through the new technology, can track ballots throughout the process and provide detailed U.S. Postal Service updates.

“There are more than 200,000 mail ballots sent out, and we track six categories of that,” said Dheeraj Patri, chief technology officer at KNOWiNK.

Cook County Deputy Clerk for Elections Ed Michalowski said the system is designed to show voters where their ballots are at each stage of the process.

“What’s good for the public is they have confidence where that mail ballot is going, all the way down to our carrier route and back to our office,” Michalowski said.

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Enhanced mail ballot tracking is one of several election upgrades in Cook County this year. Officials also unveiled software that can show when voters check in, monitor activity at polling places and identify locations that may require attention.

Officials said the technology could also help counter misinformation circulating online.

“There will be misinformation and disinformation, but we are tackling it one step at a time,” Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon said.

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A viral image claiming to show an elderly couple stripped and robbed during France’s latest riots has been flagged as either generated or altered using artificial intelligence.

Shared on Sunday, the photograph appeared to show two elderly people dressed only in their underwear, surrounded by several men wearing black clothing.

The picture was viewed more than one million times on X and circulated among several police unions as rioting spread across France over the weekend.

However, an analysis by this newspaper identified multiple inconsistencies suggesting that the image was created with artificial intelligence.

French media reports have also concluded that the photograph was produced using AI.

The image contains several obvious visual anomalies. Two of the alleged rioters appear to share the same pair of legs, while the elderly woman seems to have a missing finger.

In addition, the faces of two figures in the background appear to have been blended together, while another person seems to be missing the lower half of their body.

Specialist analysis software also detected a watermark indicating that the photograph had been generated or edited using generative AI.

The original version circulated on social media was identified as having been created with Google Gemini. A seemingly clearer version of the image was linked to OpenAI’s artificial intelligence technology.

Both versions contained an invisible digital watermark known as SynthID, which is embedded in images generated by AI.

Major technology companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have signed up to Google’s service, which is designed to help users determine whether an image has been created using artificial intelligence.

The image emerged after French media reported that an 80-year-old couple had allegedly been robbed and left almost naked by rioters at Place de la Republique, a major square in Paris.

Local media outlets also noted, however, that Paris police had not yet confirmed the reported incident.

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Earlier, President Emmanuel Macron rejected an offer of resignation from his interior minister. Instead, he instructed him on Monday to end the barricades and looting and to be open about intelligence failures, as France tried to recover from the weekend’s unrest.

The unrest came after weeks of student demonstrations, accompanied by occasional outbreaks of street violence. The turmoil has shaken France six months before its next presidential election, while mounting pressure over a weak economy and rising debt continues to grow.

Concerns about divisions within Mr Macron’s fragile government, alongside apparent shortcomings in security planning, are expected to unsettle investors further. The tensions come as ministers seek to pass a crucial budget bill aimed at bringing the country’s finances under control.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets over the weekend to protest what many described as declining and dysfunctional public services. Demonstrators said citizens were increasingly being left to cope on their own amid intense cost-of-living pressures.

In many places including the capital Paris, Marseille and the city of Lyon, peaceful protests were quickly hijacked by rioters, leading to scenes of vandalism and chaos. 

France deployed 60,000 police and other security forces on Saturday, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told France Inter radio, but acknowledged that wasn’t enough to control violent crowds in ‘certain cities’.

Mr Macron’s presidential office, the Elysee, said on Monday that Mr Nunez, a former Paris police chief, offered the president his resignation following the riots.

Mr Macron refused but urged Mr Nunez to urgently come up with new concepts ‘to put an end to the barricades and looting,’ the Elysee said.

It added that Mr Nunez also needed to ‘ensure transparency regarding the failures in foresight and intelligence that led to the violence’.

Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin, a longtime Macron ally, echoed the president’s calls on Monday, telling France 2 television there were intelligence failures that left the state vulnerable in the face of what he called ‘extreme-left’ rioters it had underestimated.

An Arizona man accused of planning a mass-casualty attack on a Jewish or Muslim place of worship allegedly possessed a notorious bomb-making guide associated with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, prosecutors say.

Matthew Bjornholt, 27, has been charged with felony making a terrorist threat over the alleged plan to target a religious site.

Maricopa County prosecutors say Bjornholt described a violent scenario involving firearms, explosives and an accomplice who would shoot people left alive after the initial attack.

At Bjornholt’s first court hearing Friday, prosecutor Stephen Garcia requested a $500,000 cash bond, arguing that the defendant posed an immediate threat to the public, FOX 10 reported.

Garcia told the court that Bjornholt allegedly developed detailed plans to attack a house of worship. The prosecutor also said investigators found a copy of “The Anarchist Cookbook,” which includes bomb-making instructions and has long been associated with McVeigh, the convicted Oklahoma City bomber.

According to Garcia, Bjornholt called the book his “Bible.”

Prosecutors allege the proposed attack would begin with bomb detonations, followed by an accomplice using firearms to “pick off people.”

Authorities later recovered three firearms and ammunition during a search of Bjornholt’s home.

Defense attorney Chad Schell disputed the prosecution’s account, saying the case rests entirely on unverified allegations from a former acquaintance who was angry with Bjornholt, FOX 10 reported.

Schell characterized the tipster as a “homeless alcoholic” who had briefly stayed at Bjornholt’s home before being asked to leave late last month.

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The attorney said federal authorities examined the allegations weeks earlier. According to Schell, the FBI searched Bjornholt’s residence on Sept. 29, and Bjornholt cooperated by turning over his electronic devices and providing their passwords.

Schell said federal investigators found no evidence of terrorism or bomb-making supplies and declined to bring federal charges. County authorities assumed control of the matter roughly two weeks later, he said.

“There is no evidence he’s a danger to the community. What is the evidence that he’s a danger to the community? Some hearsay statements from some dude — that my client kicked out of his house two days before September 29,” Schell told the court.

“Again, the FBI served a search warrant, got all of his electronic devices. He gave them access, gave him his passwords to those devices. They went through all of those electronic devices. They didn’t see anything about terrorism. And FBI cut him loose,” he continued.

Schell also maintained that Bjornholt legally owned the three guns. He argued that Bjornholt’s civil rights had been restored after he completed a sentence on a drug conviction connected to a closed first-degree murder case. The murder charge was later dismissed for lack of evidence, according to the attorney.

The ammunition recovered from the residence amounted only to ordinary magazine loads, Schell said.

Fox News Digital has requested comment from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and FBI Phoenix.

Although prosecutors pointed to Bjornholt’s criminal record while seeking a higher bond, the judge said the state’s initial evidence depended substantially on hearsay. The judge set bond at $100,000, FOX 10 reported.

The court nevertheless determined that prosecutors had presented sufficient probable cause for the case to proceed.

Authorities have not said whether the alleged plan focused on a particular house of worship or identified a specific accomplice.

Bjornholt is scheduled to return to court on Oct. 22 for a status conference and then later for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 26.

As France’s intense student demonstrations fused with a nationwide revolt on Saturday, communist leader and academic Vijay Prashad hailed the unrest in a message that connected protests across three continents.

“Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires,” Prashad posted on X, borrowing a line from the British punk band The Clash: “Let fury have the hour, anger can be power.”

Prashad’s significance stemmed not only from his comments but also from his position. He serves as executive director of Tricontinental Ltd., a nonprofit financed by American-born Marxist technology billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai.

His message reflected the way France’s riots have been folded into a broader international narrative of rebellion — a phenomenon resembling “Chaos, Inc.” It is amplified by a transnational network of communist and socialist organizations spanning Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and North America.

A News Media investigation identified 54 organizations and movements involved in France’s October student protests or connected to their broader network of supporters and international amplifiers. The groups include communist parties, revolutionary socialist organizations, labor unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates, Palestinian-solidarity groups and international media outlets.

Only 16 of the 54 organizations in the October protest ecosystem — roughly one in three — are student or youth groups, including communist youth organizations and a Muslim student association. The other 38 consist of adult-led communist groups, labor unions, political parties, revolutionary-left organizations, advocacy groups and international propaganda outlets.

Among them are Gilets jaunes, or “Yellow Vests,” a radical far-left group that joined other organizations in leading protests this weekend, and La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed, a far-left socialist political party.

From the beginning, far-left socialist and communist organizations helped organize and promote France’s student revolt. They used complaints about school conditions as a launching point for a wider political campaign targeting capitalism, government austerity, policing and military spending.

France’s unrest is also providing momentum for the expansion of what can be described as Chaos, Inc.

News Media learned that an international coalition of 28 communist and socialist youth organizations and groups is mobilizing students and young people for a coordinated strike across 12 European countries under the slogan “Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!” The coalition is calling for walkouts, demonstrations, assemblies, blockades and occupations.

Organizations linked to the Singham network are among the international groups amplifying the unrest. They include Tricontinental, named after a 1966 communist convention in Havana, Cuba; CodePink; and BreakThrough News, a New York-based media outlet that promoted coverage of the French protests under the headline “ANTI-MACRON PROTESTS ROCK FRANCE.”

BreakThrough News published a montage of chaotic scenes from Montpellier, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Saint-Étienne. The footage showed activists surrounded by smoke, Palestinian flags above crowds, black smoke rising from fires and police striking demonstrators with clubs. Dramatic music accompanied the video, which also featured politicians from La France Insoumise.

In an interview with BreakThrough News, Jodie Evans — Singham’s wife and co-founder of CodePink, a far-left group he funded — promoted a November campaign in Washington against U.S. military spending.

Evans directly pointed to youth demonstrations overseas, including those in France, Spain and India, while encouraging Americans to join CodePink’s campaign.

“I want people to look at France, Spain, and India,” Evans said as she urged Americans to take to the streets.

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News Media compiled a “Who’s Who Guide to Chaos Inc. in France,” identifying the 54 organizations in the international network promoting protests and riots in France through direct organizing, participation, public solidarity or media amplification.

WHO’S WHO IN FRANCE’S ‘CHAOS INC.’ NETWORK

STUDENT UNIONS AND YOUTH GROUPS (16)

1. – Les étudiant·e·s d’Alsace — The Students of Alsace: A Strasbourg-based student federation affiliated with FAGE that posted about the early October mobilization while describing itself as politically independent. It coordinated protests in Strasbourg on Oct. 17 with an Instagram post that said, “MOBILISER,” which means “MOBILIZE.” Another post invited activists onto the streets with the message, “LE COMBAT CONTINUE,” or “THE FIGHT CONTINUES.”
2. Étudiants Musulmans de France (EMF) — Muslim Students of France: A Muslim student association involved in student representation and campus solidarity whose social-media activity appears in the protest research; its exact Oct. 17 role remains unconfirmed.
3. Fédération des associations générales étudiantes A national student federation that joined calls for student mobilization against the “extremely violent repression” of youth. It shared footage of its members marching on Oct. 17, with the hashtags #manifestation #genz #17octobre.
4. Fédération Syndicale Étudiante A left-wing student organization whose activists appeared in demonstrations and announced “Democratic and Antifascist Vigilance Committees,” linking high-school grievances to the treatment of anti-Israel activists and union members. On Saturday, it posted videos with its trademark solid red flags. One message read: “In Bordeaux, protesters invade the house of the mayor! On October 17, the whole country is on a standstill. Everyone is mobilizing for better living conditions, and against cutting the budget for public service! In Bordeaux, we hear echoing in the protest: Only one solution, the Revolution! The mobilization of the 17 continues: let’s block everywhere in France!”
5. Interfac Île-de-France — Regional Student Coordination: A student coordination organization among Oct. 17 organizers involved in discussions over demonstration routes in Paris.
6. Les Lycéens! — The High School Students!: A high-school student organization active in the early school blockades.
7. Renouveau lycéen — High School Renewal: A high-school student organization identified in coverage of the October school mobilization.
8. Rassemblement pour l’égalité et la démocratie Jeunes — Youth for Equality and Democracy: A youth civic and political organization associated with organizing support for students in Seine-Saint-Denis; its specific Oct. 17 role has not been independently established.
9. Solidaires Étudiant·e·s — Solidaires Students: A left-wing student union that supported the high-school movement and helped connect university students with the October demonstrations.
10. Union Étudiante — Student Union: A national university student union that helped mobilize students for the Oct. 6 demonstrations and encouraged participation in the broader movement.
11. Union nationale des étudiants de France (UNEF) — National Union of Students of France: One of France’s established student unions, it was among the organizers of the Oct. 6 nationwide demonstrations.
12. Union syndicale lycéenne (USL) — High School Students’ Union: A French high-school student union that helped organize the initial school blockades and October demonstrations before publicly supporting students joining the Oct. 17 Yellow Vest mobilization.

COMMUNIST, MARXIST, TROTSKYIST AND REVOLUTIONARY-SOCIALIST ORGANIZATIONS (11)

1. An international communist organization whose French publication Le Bolchévik called on labor unions to mobilize in support of the school protests.
2. A communist publication associated with the Organisation Communiste de France; separate organizational participation in the October 17 protests has not been established.
3. A political movement whose elected officials supported student blockades, including lawmaker Louis Boyard, who waved a Palestinian flag alongside students at Paris-Est-Créteil University.
4. A revolutionary anti-capitalist party that urged continued mobilization after the Oct. 6 protests.
5. Organisation communiste révolutionnaire — REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST: A communist organization identified in the wider research whose precise legal identity and direct October protest activities require additional verification.
6. Parti communiste français (PCF) — French Communist Party — COMMUNIST: Party leader Fabien Roussel publicly supported student demonstrators in Paris alongside communist elected officials and activists as demonstrators carried party flags.
7. Parti des Indigènes de la République (PIR) — Party of the Indigenous of the Republic — DECOLONIAL POLITICAL MOVEMENT: A political organization that defended the student revolt and circulated imagery of protesters outside Lycée Paul Éluard holding a Palestinian flag.
8. Parti de l’égalité socialiste — Socialist Equality Party — TROTSKYIST: A French socialist organization that called for workers’ action committees and broader mobilization in support of the student movement.
9. A British revolutionary communist organization that published an article connecting the French student revolt to opposition to capitalism, imperialism and support for Palestine.
10. Révolution Permanente — Permanent Revolution — TROTSKYIST: A revolutionary socialist organization and publication that reported on university blockades and encouraged solidarity between high-school and university students.
11. An international socialist publication that covered the French school blockades and placed them within a broader argument about austerity, militarization and capitalism.

MUSLIM STUDENT AND PRO-PALESTINE ORGANIZATIONS (2)

1. Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP) — French Jewish Union for Peace: A Jewish peace and Palestine-solidarity organization that publicized “support for high school students” who joined protests in early October.
2. A French Palestine-solidarity organization whose protest-related social-media activity appears in the research, although direct organization of the October 17 demonstrations is not established.

LABOR UNIONS, TEACHERS’ FEDERATIONS AND FARMERS (12)

1. CGT Éduc’action — CGT Education: The education-sector organization of the General Confederation of Labour that joined union mobilization calls.
2. CFDT Éducation Formation Recherche Publiques — CFDT Public Education, Training and Research: A public education and research union that joined education-sector statements supporting the school movement.
3. Confédération générale du travail (CGT) — General Confederation of Labour: One of France’s major national labor confederations that supported the October school mobilizations and joined the Oct. 17 cost-of-living protests.
4. Confédération nationale du travail (CNT) — National Confederation of Labour — ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST TRADITION: A revolutionary-syndicalist labor organization that endorsed the student movement, declaring that students were right to revolt.
5. Confédération paysanne — Peasant Confederation: A farmers’ union that called on agricultural workers to join Oct. 17 protests, linking rural economic grievances with the national mobilization.
6. Fédération syndicale unitaire (FSU) — Unitary Trade Union Federation: A major education and public-sector union federation that supported the school mobilization.
7. Force Ouvrière’s education federation, which joined calls supporting high-school demonstrations.
8. Force Ouvrière (FO) — Workers’ Force: A national labor confederation whose education affiliates joined calls supporting high-school students.
9. SUD éducation — SUD Education: A left-wing education union that joined mobilization calls involving students and education workers.
10. Syndicat national des enseignements de second degré (SNES-FSU) — National Union of Secondary Education: A major secondary-school personnel union that supported strikes and demonstrations in solidarity with students.
11. A left-wing labor federation whose regional branches promoted Oct. 17 demonstrations and strikes after earlier student solidarity mobilizations.
12. A national trade-union federation whose education organizations supported the school movement.

HUMAN-RIGHTS, PARENTS’, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC-JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS (11)

1. The French section of Amnesty International that reported on police treatment of minors during the school protests.
2. An economic-justice organization that linked protest grievances with opposition to austerity and restrictions on civil liberties.
3. A climate-mobilization network that encouraged participation in Oct. 17 protests and connected environmental concerns with household economic pressures.
4. An international environmental activist movement whose imagery appeared in photographic coverage of the French demonstrations.
5. Fédération des conseils de parents d’élèves (FCPE) — Federation of Parents’ Councils: A national parents’ federation that called on members to demonstrate and announced participation by its national board in Paris.
6. A radical far-left French protest group revived around fuel prices and the cost of living whose Oct. 17 demonstrations converged with the student mobilization.
7. A professional drivers’ coalition that promoted participation in the Oct. 17 mobilization, including a gathering at Place de la Bastille.
8. Les Soulèvements de la Terre — Earth Uprisings: A radical environmental movement that celebrated the student revolt and called for an antifascist uprising.
9. A French civil-liberties organization that publicized support for students and criticism of police repression.
10. Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples (MRAP) — Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples: An antiracism organization identified in earlier coalition activity around the student demonstrations.
11. A French antiracism organization included in coalition activity supporting the school movement.

INTERNATIONAL AMPLIFIERS AND ADDITIONAL OCT. 17 ORGANIZERS (2)

1. A New York-based outlet that reported on French student demonstrations and previewed their participation in the October 17 cost-of-living mobilization.
2. A France-based Indian diaspora organization that connected French and Indian youth protests through its social-media messaging. It has partnered with the SIngham network’s People’s Forum for an event.

THE NEXT MOBILIZATION: NOV. 20 EUROPEAN YOUTH STRIKE

1. A British socialist organization that advertised the Nov. 20 strike and connected opposition to war with campaigns involving universities and Palestine.
2. An international socialist organization that endorsed the Nov. 20 action and connected opposition to militarization with criticism of capitalism.
3. The international organizing coalition announced plans in August for coordinated Nov. 20 student walkouts and demonstrations across Europe under the slogan “Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!”
4. A British socialist party whose October commentary linked France’s student revolt with wider European mobilization and the forthcoming strike.
5. A British socialist student organization that promoted the Nov. 20 strike and sought to connect student opposition to military spending with wider socialist campaigns.
6. A British anti-war organization that promoted the youth strike and encouraged demonstrations opposing military spending.