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Greeks rally against education and austerity reforms
1. Wide of protesters, with a large banner reading "No pasaran", a famous phrase often used in wartime when defending a position, meaning "they shall not pass."
2. Close of the banner
3. Various of protesters marching, chanting
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Petrol stations start to run out of petrol in Marseille
Marseille area
1. Various of petrol station on motorway with motorists filling up cars
2. Close-up of sign on unleaded petrol pumps reading (French) "SP 98 and SP 95 unavailable", pan to motorists filling up car
3. SOUNDBITE (French)...
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FRANCE: STRIKING TRUCK DRIVERS BEGIN BUILDING BLOCKADES
Eng/French/Nat
Striking truck drivers were setting up blockades all over France on Sunday night.
Truck company owners rejected a tentative accord on salary issues, prompting the main truckers' union, Force Ouvriere to officially call the...
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Thousands march through Madrid to protest against austerity measures
1. Wide pan of protest, people gathering on Northern column
2. Wide of protesters waving union flags
3. Side shot of protesters walking
4. Wide of head of march, banner reading (Spanish): "To protect our future - Let's go!"
5. Medium of...
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Postal workers are protesting the opening of postal counters in Staples stores that are staffed with retail employees. (April 24)
Postal workers are protesting the opening of postal counters in Staples stores that are staffed with retail employees.
Thursday's protests are planned at 50 locations in 27 states, including Atlanta.
Last year, Framingham, Mass.-based...
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Preview as public sector workers prep to strike over austerity measures
1. Wide exterior of the headquarters of the public sector union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) (translates as the Workers' Commission)
2. Interior shot of CCOO Secretary General, Juan Antonio Olmos, walking through office carrying banners
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Teachers and transport workers strike in government protest
1. Wide of La Paz street
2. Various of residents walking on the streets and riding bicycles
3. Image of the Virgin Mary
4. Students entering school
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Luis Alvarez, teacher's union:
"We are accusing the...
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Trade unions organise flash mob at Colosseum ahead of general strike
Italian trade unions organised a flash mob at Rome's Colosseum on Friday, in preparation for a general strike against government austerity measures scheduled for 18 October.
A few trade unionists entered the Colosseum and hung banners on...
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Latest on the ongoing crisis in Honduras
1. Supporter of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya holding banner reading (Spanish) "24 of July, Mel (ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya) will be back. Out with Micheletti, traitor, and all his pro coup clique."
2. Close up...
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Unions block streets as nationwide petrol strike begins
1. Various of labour protest in Ojoga Park, just outside Lagos
2. Close of protest banner reading (English) "This is our stand. Remove corruption not subsidy."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Olalekan, 31, self-employed businessman:
"Starting...
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A multiracial group of police officers stood with the white officer who arrested a black Harvard scholar and asked President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick apologize for comments union leaders called insulting
HEADLINE: Mass. police unions ask Obama for apology
CAPTION: A multiracial group of police officers stood with the white officer who arrested a black Harvard scholar and asked President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick...
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Philippines - Airline strike enters second day
The Philippine Airlines (PAL) ground crew strike entered its second day on Thursday (23/7) with management expressing confidence that earlier fears the stoppage could topple the ailing airline would not materialise. PAL said its 28...
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RUSSIA: COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATORS HOLD MAY DAY PROTEST
Russian/Nat
Communist sympathisers and Russia's trade unions took to the streets on Friday to celebrate the May Day holiday in two separate Moscow demonstrations.
More than 23-thousand people marched down Moscow's central streets to...
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Commuters suffer as eight hour general strike gets under way
1. Wide shot passengers checking flight information boards at Rome''s Fiumicino airport
2. Close pan of flight information screen showing cancelled flights
3. Mid of passenger checking timetable
4. Screen showing cancelled flights
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REPLAY Workers strike at hotel ready to host US delegation on French leg of Obama tour
1. Wide of exterior of Westin hotel
2. Hotel guests walking through lobby, pan to banner reading (English) "Staff on strike"
3. Hotel staff banging drums and dancing
4. Two female hotel staff banging makeshift drums
5. Close-up of man...
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More than 10 thousand union members in anti-government protest
1. Wide pan of protesters at rally
2. Mid shot of protesters clapping together protest paddles
3. Close up of a protester raising fist
4. Pan of rally
5. Mid shot protesters singing protest song
6. Pan of protesters singing
7. Mid shot...
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FRANCE: UNION LEADERS THREATEN TO WIDEN TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE
Eng/Fr/German
Union leaders in France have threatened to widen the 8-day-old truck drivers' strike to rail and air transport if negotiations failed to reach a result Monday night.
The warning came as drivers continued to block...
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MEXICO: POLITICIAN FIDEL VELAZQUEZ DIES AGED 97
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One of the biggest figures in Mexican politics has died at the age of 97.
Fidel Velazquez, leader of the powerful Confederation of Mexican Workers, died at 1420 GMT in a Mexico City hospital.
Velazquez the oldest leader,...
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Berlusconi meets unions, employers on debt plan, analyst
Rome
1. Mid of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Italian economy minister Giulio Tremonti next to him (third right) in meeting room
2. Wide of CISL (Italian Confederation of Workers'' Trade Unions) secretary-general, Raffaele...
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Europe - 20,000 join massive occupt demo in Germany / Protesters clash with police near parliament in Italy / Tens of thousands take part in anti-austerity rally in Portugal / Thousands protest against bank bailouts in Spain / Police driven back by miners using homemade rockets in Spain / Moody's cuts debt rating of 28 Spanish banks
1. 1. Zoom out from close-up of riot police to wide of march
2. Protesters attempting to push through police lines to reach the Parliament and the Premier's office, riot police pushing back using shields and batons
3. Wide of smoke from...
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Greenpeace protest at French embassy over conrtoversial warship
1. Greenpeace activists getting off a truck
2. Activists unloading trolleys full of garbage bags
3. Close-up of garbage bags, tilt up to activists on the truck
4. Activists unloading the dump, tilt up to activists in truck unfurling a...
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Military, police and unions protest against austerity wage cuts
Police, firefighters, union workers and supporters took to the streets of Thessaloniki on Saturday to protest the Greek government's latest round of austerity cuts.
Greece is struggling to meet budget commitments needed for continued...
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Ford vehicle set alight outside factory in protest at closure
Genk
1. Mid of burning Ford car surrounded by Ford workers in front of Ford factory
2. Close of workers talking (shot through burning car window)
3. Mid of workers
4. Zoom out from close of Ford sign to wide of workers passing by...
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Huge union protest in France over working hours
Members of France's General Confederation of Labour (CGT) marched through the streets of Paris on Wednesday demanding French President Francois Hollande's abandon plans to tamper with the country's 35-hour working week to create new...