DEMONSTRATIONS IN PORTUGAL - MARCH 12TH 2011 by Kameraphoto (50 images)
In the Portuguese capital, about 200,000 (organizers and local media say at least 200,000 people took to the streets in Lisbon, around 80 thousand in Porto and thousands in other cities.) demonstrators carried banners with slogans calling for a policy change to reverse rising unemployment, poor working conditions for young people and the fall in living standards. Peaceful demonstration We have seen in the news a crescendo of interest on today's demonstration,and how it could go.In the end,...
more »In the Portuguese capital, about 200,000 (organizers and local media say at least 200,000 people took to the streets in Lisbon, around 80 thousand in Porto and thousands in other cities.) demonstrators carried banners with slogans calling for a policy change to reverse rising unemployment, poor working conditions for young people and the fall in living standards. Peaceful demonstration We have seen in the news a crescendo of interest on today's demonstration,and how it could go.In the end, despite the announcement of more hard and harsh measures to bring the budget deficit under control, despite interest rates in Government debt reaching historical maximum in financial markets, all of it went peacefully in Lisbon, Oporto and the other cities.
If the international press was hoping for tears, blood and smashed windows of stores, nothing of that sort resulted. The peaceful demonstrations were organized by a group of Internet users who calls himself "Precarious Generation", mainly through social networks. In his blog, they say they have no links with any political party.
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