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Security and preparations for students' demonstration, analyst
Paris, 23 March 2006
1. Pan from Eiffel Tower to National Assembly building
2. Wide shot of the National Assembly with police vans parked in front
3. Police vans
4. Police standing with National Assembly in background
5. Newspaper...
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Thousands attend union demo in Paris
1. Wide of demonstrators gathered in Denfert-Rochereau square
2. Man putting union stickers on lion statue
3. Wide of demonstration
4. Close-up of balloon with General Confederation of Labour (CGT) union logo
5. General Confederation of...
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WORLDWIDE: MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS UPDATE
Russian/Nat
All across the world people took to the streets to commemorate May Day.
May Day marchers fought pitched battles with police in South Korea.
Elsewhere rallies to mark the Labour Day holiday ranged from orderly pageants to a...
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ISRAEL: TEL AVIV: STATE EMPLOYEES BEGIN STRIKE
Hebrew/Eng/Nat
Sixty thousand Israeli state employees began striking Thursday morning in solidarity with staff at Bezeq, the telephone company, who are fighting moves towards privatisation.
Communication workers are disgruntled at not...
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Preview of guest workers programme to be worked on by Bush & Fox
Irvine, California, August 29, 2001
1. Wide shot of undocumented Mexican farm workers
2. Medium shot of a Mexican farm worker
3. Wide shot of workers
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Juana Gonzalez, undocumented Mexican farm worker. "In Mexico...
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Brazilian police dispersed subway workers early on Monday in a central commuter station, with union officials threatening to maintain a work stoppage through the opening match of the World Cup in the city this week. (June 9)
Brazilian police dispersed subway workers early on Monday in a central commuter station, with union officials threatening to maintain a work stoppage through the opening match of the World Cup in the city this week.
Authorities are...
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Funeral of slain union leader
1. Casket being carried out of temple amid music
2. Woman with joss sticks praying
3. Procession with banners, wreaths and photos
4. Mourners carrying photograph of slain union leader Chea Vichea
5. Poster of Chea
6. Low angle shot of...
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Students, teachers hold nation wide strike protesting govt reform bill
1. Wide of Visconti highschool
2. Banner reading, in Italian, "occupied"
3. Pan down from flags to school students in front doorway
4. Mid of students
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) VOX POP Marco, student:
"I put on a plaster (band-aid) which...
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SOUTH KOREA: SEOUL: SUBWAY WORKERS CALL OFF STRIKE
Korean/Nat
South Korea's subway workers have called off their eight-day strike over proposed layoffs, even though none of their demands have been met by the government.
Union leaders told some 2-thousand-200 workers still holed up at a...
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Greek civil servants walk off job, march at start of two-day strike
Greek civil servants walked off the job on Tuesday at the start of a 48-hour public sector strike, the second two-day strike in as many weeks, to protest against job cuts required for the country to continue receiving international...
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National 24-hour strike begins over austerity measures
Members of Portugal's two main trades unions were picketing outside bus depots, hospitals, and waste collection points in Lisbon on Tuesday night as calls for a general strike from midnight began to take effect.
Metro stations shut their...
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Highlights of rallies in Europe and Asia
Rostok, Germany
1. Wide of pro-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) demonstration
2. Pan of NPD demonstration
3. Wide of anti-Nazi demonstration
4. Demonstrator carrying an anti-Nazi flag
5. Wide shot of demonstrators running away from...
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SYND 7 8 74 SPOKESMAN FOR FREEDOM OF TRADE UNIONS
Spokesman for freedom of trade unions presents banner
1) interior conference, spokesman presents representative with Trade Union banner
3) Representatives pose for press with banner
4) representative: SPEECH (English) ... this represents...
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Senators begin probe which could lead to removal of governor
1. Wide shot congressmen meet with members of Popular Assembly of Oaxaca's People (APPO)
2. Mid of congressmen
3. Mid of members of APPO and Teachers Union
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alma Delia Santiago, member of Teachers Union:
"This is...
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Mining unions call for President Zuma's help to end ongoing strikes
Negotiations restarted on Thursday after several weeks of workers' strikes that have brought South Africa's north-west mining belt to a partial standstill.
At a site near the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana where 34 miners were gunned...
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Rush to board last buses before transport strike begins
1. Dozens of people trying to push their way onto the last Bus 64 before strike starts
2. Mid of women standing next to bus with (Italian) "Out of Service" on information screen
3. Wide of people standing at bus stop
4. SOUNDBITE:...
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INDIA: BOMBAY: ELITE POLICE UNIT OPENS TO VOLUNTEERS
Eng/Hindi/Nat
An elite police commando unit in India's financial centre, Bombay, has opened itself to volunteers for the first time, and two women are among the first batch of police to apply.
The unit was created recently to try to...
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Uncertain future for France's biggest toymaker
Lavans-Les St Claude - December 3, 2007
1. Wide shot of Plastic Valley - Zoom into valley
2. Sign Lavans-Les-St Claude and Smoby HQ in background
3. Smoby headquarters
4. Smoby reflection in puddle
(PLEASE NOTE - the children are the...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: THOUSANDS TAKE PART IN TRADITIONAL MAY DAY RALLY
Russian/Nat
Thousands of trade union members have been taking part in a traditional May Day rally in Moscow.
Boris Yeltsin joined in, too... even though he has avoided similar events in previous years.
But this time, he is fighting to...
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WRAP Interior Min meets union leaders, more protests
AP Television
Oaxaca, Mexico - 4 October, 2006
1. Mid of objects being thrown onto a fire with man repairing fence in background
2. Mid of protesters walking in streets
3. Mid shot of teacher with carpet and other things
4. Close up...
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Street scenes in Oaxaca as police surround city
1. Federal Police in riot gear running in formation across street
2. Wide of people watching helicopter flying over Oaxaca City
3. Federal Police extinguishing fire on barricade
4. Federal police and armoured trucks at barricade
5. Line...
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Cathay Pacific pilots vote to continue work slowdown
18 July 2001
1. Cathay Pacific pilots walking along street to meeting
2. Various of pilots climbing steps and entering venue of extraordinary general meeting
3. Establishing shot of John Findlay
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Findlay,...
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30,000 teachers protest against new social security law
1. Various of demonstrators
2. Mid of teacher holding a banner which reads in Spanish: "Oaxaca claim justice."
3. Various of demonstrators
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Bernabe Jimenez, Section 22 spokesman:
"We demand to repeal the ISSTE...
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Greeks brace for new general strike over austerity as EU leaders prepare to meet
16 October 2012
1. Wide of Giorgos Ierodimos, 85-year-old pensioner, and his wife sitting at cafe
2. Medium of Ierodimos' hands picking up a bread ring, cutting it, handing over some to wife and eating some
3. Close-up of receipt reading...