Students in France are entering a third week of protests over the state of the country's education system, and Hyperallergic has gathered 15 photographs by press photographers tracing how handmade signs and street barricades became the movement's visual language. What began as a protest at one underdeveloped high school in Paris last month has swelled into nationwide strikes involving students, staff, parents, and activists. The grievances span crumbling infrastructure, teacher shortages, underfunding, and overburdened schedules. France's interior ministry says more than 6,000 people have been arrested, the overwhelming majority of them minors. As the government begins considering negotiations with students, police have injured demonstrators at many protests: the mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, was tear-gassed while shielding students from riot police, a 15-year-old lost a hand to a police stun grenade that the interior ministry has since suspended, and Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said over 215 teenagers and 85 school staff have been hurt. The images, taken in Paris, Toulouse, and Bordeaux between October 6 and 8, show a protest culture fluent in both wit and fury. Young demonstrators stand on the Monument to the Republic with a blue smoke flare under a placard reading Levez Vous, or Rise Up. Trash cans, used to block school entrances from the smallest suburbs to the heart of Paris, have become their own emblem of resistance. A placard at the Paris-Pantheon-Assas blockade redraws the classic school-crossing sign to denounce violent policing, while another, quoting a May 1968 poster, shows a silhouette of President Emmanuel Macron covering a young person's mouth under the words Be young and shut up. The wordplay is distinctly French. One student holds a sign translating as Smile, you're being gassed, a reference to tear gas. The children's character Barbapapa appears beside a pun on a profanity. A cigarette-pack-shaped placard fuses a Marlboro spoof with the phrase fascism kills. In Toulouse, high-school students depict far-right lawmaker Marine Le Pen as the devil. A sign reading Less repression, more education was photographed in Bordeaux, and marchers to the Place de la Bastille carried a placard reading The revolution begins with our courage, its red letters individually spelling our rage.