As I write, outside my window, like the boom of a military drum, smoke bombs explode with startling regularity, sending their wispy white content, pushed and spun by Normandy’s winds, over the heads and between the legs of the crowd in the street. Shrouded by the mist that quickly scatters, the paving stones clatter with the movement of the upbeat motley crew of marchers, studiously impassive passersby, and police officers, who, on black-booted foot or white-and-blue motorcyc

Google has seen significant activism this year. Employees first wrote petitions in opposition to Project Maven, a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, followed by walkouts after the reporting by The New York Times of Google’s mishandling of sexual misconduct by executives and their lucrative exit packages that followed. Some Google employee demands called for an end to forced arbitration and the appointment of an employee representative to the company board of