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Lawyers Syndicate protest corruption, bread queues

Posted on By 3arabawy

From the Daily News Egypt:

The Lawyers’ Syndicate’s freedoms committee announced yesterday that it was launching legal action in the case of a man who died while queuing for state-subsidized bread, as part of its efforts in combating corruption.
The committee organized a protest Wednesday against corruption and political detention outside the Syndicate’s headquarters in Cairo. Holding up placards reading “No to the political detention of lawyers” and “No to a government of businessmen,” protesters chanted “The people want freedom” and “No to corruption, no to political detention” during the two-hour protest.

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Greece on STRIKE!

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I love the Greeks!

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through Athens and Thessaloniki to protest against government social security reforms as a general strike shut down schools, hospitals and all public services.
Port workers and air traffic controllers joined the protest on Wednesday, the second 24-hour general strike in the last two months.
The move forced authorities to cancel all flights to and from Greek airports, and all regular ferry routes to the country’s islands.
Buses, trains and the Athens metro were running for only a few hours during the day.
Journalists went on strike, cancelling all news bulletins and current affairs programmes for the day.
Dentists, lawyers, construction workers and civil servants also left their jobs.
Greece’s two main labor unions called the strike to protest against the conservative government’s efforts to reform Greece’s debt-ridden and fractured pension system.