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"Last June, after leaving the encampment in the center of Madrid, people in the 15M movement would say, “We moved from Sol square, but we know the way back.” The day of action on May 12 this year exceeded the expectations of many people who thought the 15M movement was dead,"

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"Workers at a Chinese factory owned by Foxconn, Apple Inc's main manufacturer, threatened to jump off the roof of a building in a protest over wages just a month after the two firms announced a landmark agreement on improving working conditions."

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"حول يوم شهداء الثورة في تونس، إلى مواجهات عنيفة بين قوات الأمن ومدنيين من حزب النهضة الإسلامي الحاكم من جهة، وآلاف التونسيين في شارع الحبيب بورقيبة، الذي تحظر فيه حكومة النهضة التظاهر،"

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"Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc and his entire cabinet resigned on Monday in hopes of quelling anti-austerity demonstrations that began more than two weeks ago. Demonstrators took to the streets to support a cabinet member who resigned to protest a plan by Romanian President Traian Basescu to privatize parts of the country’s health care system."

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"About three dozen high school and university students have turned to starving themselves to raise the stakes on the government of President Sebastián Piñera. In the more than two months since education protests began in this country, students have organized rallies drawing up to 100,000 people, taken control of dozens of schools around the country, and forced hundreds more to stop holding classes."

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"Spain’s biggest trade unions - CCOC (Comisiones Obreras, Workers Committees) and UGT (Unión General de Trabajadores, General Workers’ Union) - organised a massive clamor against the labour market reforms that the government is planning on February 19."

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"محكمة القضاء الاداري قررت النهاردة تأجيل الدعوى القضائية المقامة من المركز المصرى للحقوق الاقتصادية والإجتماعية وعدد من المصابين، من ضمنهم مالك مصطفى والزميل بدر بنداري وانضم ليهم النهاردة أحمد حرارة وسلمى سعيد، لجلسة 8 مايو 2012.. الدعوى مرفوعة ضد رئيس المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة ورئيس مجلس الوزرا ووزير الداخلية بصفتهم، وبتطالب بوقف تنفيذ القرار الوزاري الخاص باستخدام الأسلحة والذخيرة فى فض المظاهرات"

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"طوفان الغضب الاجتماعي يواصل تقدمه في كافة القطاعات الانتاجية لمواجهة الظلم والفقر والفساد ليشهد اليوم إضرابات كبري شملت قطاع النقل وموظفي الدولة وعمال الصناعة والبترول. الاحتجاجات شارك فيها الآلاف في طول مصر وعرضها الذين طالبوا برفع الاجور وتطهير المؤسسات لتمثل أكبر تحدي يواجه سلطة العسكر والبرلمان الاسلامي."

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" Thousands rallied Sunday in Malaysia against an Australian miner's rare earths plant in the biggest protest yet over fears it will produce radioactive waste harmful to them and the environment.
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A year after the uprising, Egypt's security forces continue to kill protestors with the same brutal tactics used in Hosni Mubarak’s last days in power, Amnesty International said after concluding that riot police used excessive force in policing recent protests in Cairo and Suez.

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"Singled out for blame in the wake of riots that broke out in Athens on February 12, Greek anarchists are eager to show that they “are not mere hooligans”. France24.com takes an exclusive look at the movement on the ground. "

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"Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards packed town squares nationwide Sunday to protest labor reforms that the new conservative government says are necessary to encourage economic growth. Workers fear the measures will allow companies to fire them more easily, exacerbating what is already Europe's highest unemployment rate."

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"The rage displayed in Greek cities against austerity measures inspires all who are suffering for the benefit of banks and the rich"

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"The Greek crisis has now reached the point of a pre-revolutionary situation. On Sunday we saw the biggest demonstration in the history of Greece. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered to protest the reactionary deal before the Athens parliament."

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"Greek police have fired tear gas at thousands of protesters hurling stones and petrol bombs outside parliament in Athens, as lawmakers inside debated a bill packed with more unpopular austerity measures.

Al Jazeera's John Psaropoulos, reporting from Athens, said the protest on Sunday began peacefully but had rapidly descended into violence from both police and protesters."

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"Tonight as the law makers of Greece sit down to put a legal framework on the extortion of society and of people living in Greece, there is a massive increase in street demonstrations. Another form of collective meaning in being created from peoples experiences of poverty and enfoorced insecurity."

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"Noubar Street was one of the main scenes of clashes last week between riot police and protestors in downtown Cairo. It is one of the roads that lead to the Interior Ministry, the beating heart of vengeful security forces."

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" Egyptians were in full protest mode on Friday afternoon, with tens of thousands marching toward the ministry of defense to denounce the military junta in Egypt."

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"اقترب عشرات الآلاف من المحتجين من وزارة الدفاع، فيما مازالت مسيرة مسجد الفتح فى طريقها للوزارة.. ومرت المسيرة منذ قليل أعلى كوبري سراي القبة متوجهة إلى ميدان قصر الطاهرة ثم شارع جسر السويس لتلتقي مسيرات شرق القاهرة في ميدان ابن سندر."

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"بدأت عدة مسيرات فى التحرك إلى وزارة الدفاع عقب صلاة الجمعة ضمت الآلاف فى ما يسمى بـ “جمعة الرحيل “، للمطالبة برحيل المجلس العسكرى وتسليم السلطة والدعوة إلى اضراب يوم غد السبت 11 فبراير، فيما حاول عشرات المواطنين اعتراضهم ووقف خروج مسيراتهم مرددين هتافات ” أعداء مصر أهم، أعداء الدين أهم “. وتكرر الأمر بنفس الطريقة في جميع الأماكن التي خرجت منها المسيرات ."

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