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Teachers protest as foreign leaders begin arriving for NAFTA summit
Hundreds of protesters marched towards the Mexican city of Toluca on Monday, where the North American leaders' summit will take place later in the week, calling for education reforms to be repealed.
The protest was planned to coincide...
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Teachers block main approach to airport over education reform
Teachers angry over the passage of a sweeping national education reform partially blocked the main approach to Mexico City's airport on Thursday.
Hundreds of police guarded the airport to prevent the members of a dissident teachers'...
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Thousands protest after govt approves private license for high speed railway network
Tens of thousands of Labour union members and their supporters gathered at a massive rally in Seoul on Saturday after the government approved a high-speed subsidiary line in the state-run railroad.
Rail union members and railway workers...
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Teachers strike for fourth time this school year to protest job cuts
1. Wide shot of demonstration
2. Mid shot of protesters singing
3. Close-up of banner reading: "We cannot be cut"
4. Wide shot of head of the protest
5. Wide shot of protest
6. Close-up of banner reading: "Danger. Privatisation of...
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Public sector workers strike against austerity measures
1. Mid of banners reading (Portuguese) "They rob the people and sink the country"
2. Close of protest banner advocating strike action
3. Close of sign outside Passos Manuel School reading announcing that the school is shut due to...
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Alitalia workers continue to protest while govt scrambles to save airline
1. Demonstrators holding banner reading (Italian) "Stop temporary workers in Alitalia Company"
2. Protesters and Alitalia crew waiting in front of Ministry of Welfare
3. Pilot in uniform
4. Various of policemen in front of Ministry of...
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Italy - Budget Meeting Whilst Strike Threatens
The cabinet of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi approved a
deficit-cutting budget vital to its credibility early Wednesday
(28/9), but the success was soured by the threat of a general
strike.
Union Leaders Sergio Dantoni,...
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Trucks continue to block highways as drivers ignore gvt threats
1. Various shots of highway near the town Fiano Romano, lines of trucks
2. Group of truckers standing around police car
3. Danish trucker opening truck filled with meat
4. Various of meat hanging inside truck
5. SOUNDBITE: (German)...
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Ceremony to transfer power to new Prime Minister
1. Exterior of presidential palace
2. Various of government officials and trade union officials gathered for ceremony
3. President Lansana Conte (in green) walks into room holding hand of Kouyate (in white)
4. Government officials...
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Teachers take to streets of capital in protest at austerity measures
1. Various of protesters gathered in Lisbon's Marques de Pombal square before start of march
2. Close of black flag reading (Portuguese) "Teachers struggling"
3. Various of protest
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Joao Correia, Natural Sciences...
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Teachers protest over wage cuts due to austerity measures
1. Wide of teachers at demonstration
2. Mid of teachers walking holding banners
3. Close-up of placard reading: (Spanish) "No to budget cuts"
4. Close-up of placard reading: (Spanish) "RIP public schools"
5. Mid of protesters
6. Mid of...
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WRAP Adds Paris protests to London protests against M&S closures
1. Thousands of demonstrators march towards Marks & Spencers (M&S) headquarters in London
2. Pan from policeman to Belgian demonstrators
3. French demonstrators taking part in protest
4. Pan from Belgian protestors...
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GERMANY: BIGGEST UNION THREATENS ALL OUT STRIKE
German/Eng/Nat
Germany's biggest and most powerful union is threatening an all out strike unless employers meet its demand for a pay rise by today (Tuesday).
IG Metall is calling for a 6 per cent increase and if it doesn't get it, the...
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Iraqi journalist union leader attacked
1. People gathered inside hospital, head of Iraqi Journalists' Union Shihab al-Timimi being carried in on stretcher surrounded by media
2. Long tracking shot of people inside hospital, medics attending to al-Timimi, zoom in on...
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Greece braced for more strikes against austerity measures
1. Close up of posters calling for strike with parliament building in background
2. Mid of poster reading (in Greek) "48 hour strike"
3. Close up of poster on lamp post
4. Wide of people in Syntagma Square in central Athens
5....
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General strike over spending cuts causes chaos
1. Traffic outside parliament
2. Greek national flag on top of parliament
3. Constitution square
4. People at pedestrian crossing
5. Poster on lamppost reading in Greek "Thursday, 2 April general strike. Join us in the struggle"
6....
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City workers are striking across South Africa demanding more pay
1. Mid of female protester pouring rubbish onto a street of Johannesburg
2. Protesters outside Johannesburg municipality office
3. Wide protesters singing and dancing behind a truck which is blaring out music
4. Sign reading "No 15%,...
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European unions protest plans to privatise European rail network
1. Wide pan protest to banner reading: (English) "No to EU rail privatisation"
2. Wide of banner reading (English): "National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport workers."
3. Setup shot of Steve Todd, RMT UK, from Liverpool
4....
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Protest outside parliament against government austerity measures
1. Protesters from KNSB, one of the Bulgaria's largest trade unions, walk in procession carrying flags and chanting slogans
2.Protesters silhouetted as march passes Prime Minister's office
3. Close as miner blows vuvuzela in front of the...
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Protesters burn tyres, police crackdown, reax, workers' strike
1. Wide of municipal workers marching towards the Nelson Mandela Bridge
2. Mid of protesters
3. Protesters crossing bridge
4. Protesters marching, one demonstrator emptying rubbish bin
5. Various of protesters emptying rubbish bins
6....
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TEACHERS AND STUDENTS STRIKE OVER PLANNED AUSTERITY MEASURES
Teachers and students from every level of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, erecting makeshift tombs at university campuses to symbolise what they claim will be the death of...
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Teachers protest ongoing job cuts
1. Wide of teachers marching behind large banner
2. Mid of big balloon
3. Wide of protest
4. Mid of demonstrators with flags
5. Set up shot of music teacher Thibault de Barsony
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Thibault de Barsony, 32, music...
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GERMANY: METALWORKERS STRIKE SPREADING
German/Nat
Germany's first metalworkers strike since 1984 spread to eleven more plants today (Wednesday) taking the total to 33 and increasing pressure on employers to meet the union's demands.
The six-day-old strike by IG Metall,...
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FINLAND: HELSINKI: EU SUMMIT ENDS
English/Nat
European Union leaders have disbanded from the summit in Helsinki, declaring the talks a success.
While arguably the largest breakthrough at the summit was granting Turkey a candidacy for membership, progress was also made in...