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🇫🇷 "I have two passions: the brass band and the revolution." A chant led by marching orchestras has become an anthem of France's protest movement. In Paris on Thursday, several hundred musicians and singers from the Orchestre du Nouveau Monde led the march from Place de la République to Place de la Nation. The orchestra, founded about six years ago, has about 250 members, mostly students, young workers and amateurs, and uses classical music to campaign for social and climate justice. Conductor Étienne Jarrier marked the general strike day on Thursday and urged the movement to "block the country." The orchestra has called for bands to form at protests nationwide under the slogan "Orchestras everywhere, silence nowhere." Organizers say 25 cities answered, including Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Lille. The chant's lyrics: J'ai deux passions (I have two passions), La fanfare, la révolution (The brass band, the revolution). Vive les blocages, les sabotages (Long live the blockades, the sabotage), Les ZAD et les manifs sauvages ! (The ZADs and the wildcat marches!) J'ai deux passions (I have two passions), La fanfare, la révolution (The brass band, the revolution), Se soutenir, construire le rêve (Support each other, build the dream), Que la terre entière se soulève ! (Let the whole world rise up!) teapawt.net/ciancianella/status/21…