Honored for their renovation strategy. Since the first blockade at a lycée in Créteil on Sept. 21, students demanding smaller classes and sounder buildings have barricaded hundreds of schools a day and, by the education minister’s count, left 24 of them burned or ransacked. The repair bill is currently running at an estimated 20 to 30 million euros, which, even in France, buys a lot of drywall and paint.
“Yes, there is a bit of violence, but it’s not everywhere.”
Source: Student protester, Paris, on Democracy Now, Oct. 6, 2026
Photo: FreCha via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Previous honorees
- James Carville Nov 13
- Scott Galloway Nov 12
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Nov 11
- Robert Garcia Nov 10
- Elissa Slotkin Nov 9
- California Voters Nov 8