Many took part in a general strike on June 6th.
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Opposition leaders had called a general strike to demand one.
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Catalan trade unions have called a general strike for Tuesday.
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An unprecedented general strike briefly brought Seattle to a halt.
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It called for a general strike in Kashmir on Friday.
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During the general strike, activists encouraged people to stay at home.
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Here's how the story goes: During the general strike on Oct.
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The department is entering its fifth week of a general strike.
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Trade unions rejected the bill and called for the general strike.
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A website, General Strike 2019, appeared, under the AFA-CWA's imprimatur.
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A general strike largely paralyzed economic activity for two days last week.
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There is also a call for a general strike from trade unions.
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The parties called for a general strike and demonstrations across the country.
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Scroll down to see more photos from Tuesday's general strike in Barcelona.
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Many bloody confrontations took place there during the general strike of 1919.
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A general strike largely paralysed economic activity for two days last week.
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On October 1st, Palestinian leaders in Israel called for a general strike.
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The Declaration of Freedom and Change announced a general strike and civil disobedience.
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Another demonstration is planned for Saturday and a general strike on Feb. 21.
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Within weeks, a general strike paralyzed France and challenged President Charles de Gaulle.
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Otherwise they called for civil disobedience and a general strike from April 4.
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Police and paramilitaries in Nicaragua killed ten protesters after a countrywide general strike.
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The opposition movement called off its general strike in order to resume talks.
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The carrier cancelled dozens of flights on Monday due to a general strike.
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A group of CGT demonstrators shouted for a general strike to be called.
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The carrier canceled dozens of flights on Monday due to a general strike.
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The opposition organized a two-day general strike in defiance of the vote.
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Workers at Eni and Saipem will go on a general strike on Jan.
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The country's largest labor union has called a general strike for April 6.
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Palestinians held a general strike, and four protesters died during clashes with Israeli soldiers.
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The next day, the industrial workers in Bucharest went out on a general strike.
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A union leader threatened a general strike if politicians fail to solve the impasse.
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It was about a general strike and was first posted to YouTube in 2012.
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Schools were closed, stores were shut and the public largely observed a general strike.
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That triggered a four-day general strike in the region; all medical operations halted.
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The opposition staged angry protests throughout the country, and called for a general strike.
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A general strike and the biggest manifestation yet is planned for Friday in Barcelona.
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France is currently facing a general strike over proposed changes to its pension system.
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A general strike during the tenure of a caretaker government is unprecedented, experts say.
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All Palestinian factions called for a general strike and protest rallies at midday on Thursday.
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If successful, the protest would mark Brazil's first general strike in more than two decades.
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Pro-independence groups have called for a general strike in the restive region on Wednesday.
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Labour unions in Argentina held a general strike in protest against the government's austerity policy.
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A general strike called for August 5th disrupted the city's airport and mass-transit network.
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Another big march is planned for August 31st and a general strike on September 2nd.
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On Monday, a city-wide general strike also halted certain lines of the underground transportation.
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A two-day general strike was organized by the opposition in defiance of the vote.
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It's quite telling that the general strike is an utterly alien tactic to western protesters.
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A general strike aimed at bringing the city to a halt is planned for Monday.
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The statement from the Women's March indicated the general strike would also include boycotting certain businesses.
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One of those recent efforts was yesterday's general strike, known as A Day Without a Woman.
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The general strike is not a strike of all of the labor force all the time.
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Vagner Freitas, who heads CUT, Brazil's biggest, pro-PT trade union, has threatened a general strike.
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But the post-war Anglican hierarchy, alarmed by the General Strike, remained part of the establishment.
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Before Thursday's scheduled vote, the country's top union called a general strike for the following day.
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This time it was a general strike over his plans to overhaul the country's pension system.
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The latest effort will be "a day without a woman," a general strike called for Wednesday.
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The group previously announced their plan for a general strike but didn't give the date until Tuesday.
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Separatist leaders called for a general strike and protest march to Wani&aposs hometown to honor him.
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On the other hand, another general strike on February 221 didn't draw much participation or media attention.
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The notion of a general strike was first proposed by the writer Francine Prose in the Guardian.
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"You're calling for a general strike at the worst economic moment in the nation's history," he said.
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That story, of a student uprising followed by a general strike, has been told many times before.
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Residents of capital La Paz on Monday took part in a general strike called by the opposition.
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In Palestinian areas, schools were closed, stores were shuttered and the public largely observed a general strike.
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Palestinian authorities called a general strike in protest at U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement about Jerusalem on Wednesday.
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On August 27th pro-democracy protesters organised the first general strike in the territory for half a century.
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The Palestinians held a one-day general strike and called for three days of mourning for the victims.
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The Dalit call for a general strike across the western state of Maharashtra led to largely peaceful demonstrations.
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A general strike of, say, transit workers in smallish European countries like France can definitely accomplish that goal.
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At least seven of those deaths happened Wednesday and Thursday during a two-day opposition-led general strike.
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On July 6th a general strike organised by #ThisFlag was heeded by an unusually large number of people.
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The union was one of the main groups calling for a general strike over the fuel price hike.
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Immigration has led to violent protests and a general strike, bringing the island to a standstill since February.
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On Tuesday, October 3, two days after Catalonia's independence referendum, thousands of Catalans went on a general strike.
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Protest organizers declared a general strike and called on the international community to shun the Transitional Military Council.
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There are calls for a general strike and accusations that protesters are being framed and mistreated in detention.
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A general strike planned for February 17 by Strike4Democracy currently has over 16,000 people declared on Facebook as participating.
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To prove his point and his strength, Mr Pashinian called a general strike paralysing the city and the country.
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Tension in Hong Kong, including ongoing protests and a general strike, is another weight on the market, Cramer said.
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The walkout, the second general strike this year, halted public transportation services, shut down government offices and closed schools.
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Hong Kong's ninth consecutive week of protests disrupted flights at the city's airport amid a general strike on Monday.
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On Tuesday, Catalans plan to stage a general strike, although it is unclear how widely it will be supported.
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In January, airport workers' called for a general strike that helped end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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Five columns of separatist protesters marched from different parts of the region into the city amid a general strike.
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In Gaza, businesses closed doors in a general strike called by the ruling Islamist Hamas group and other factions.
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A general strike of, say, transit workers in smallish European countries such as France can definitely accomplish that goal.
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And on Friday, a nationwide general strike brought anti-Trumpers out of the offices and workplaces to the streets.
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"The general strike has been suspended, not called off," said Chris Uyot, deputy secretary general of the Nigerian Labour Congress.
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Catalan police officers remove demonstrators blocking a road leading to Barcelona during a general strike in Catalonia, Spain, Thursday, Feb.
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Thousands of people participated in a 24-hour general strike organized by the alliance on June 14, emptying bustling markets.
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Most opposition parties have boycotted the talks and called for a general strike on Wednesday to put pressure on Kabila.
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February 17: The Women's March organizers launch 17 days of action you can take leading up to the general strike.
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The Polish public's dismay and anger at this proposal culminated in the Black Monday #czarnyprotest general strike and nationwide demonstrations.
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She returns to dock workers' union drive, the turning point of which was a general strike that lasted 83 days.
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A general strike, where people sacrifice a day of work to show their seriousness, would be a much heavier thing.
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We're covering testimony in the House's impeachment inquiry, a deadly shooting at Pearl Harbor, and today's general strike in France.
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A trade union, Intersindical-CSC, which had called for a general strike in Catalonia, said on Monday it had canceled it.
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Sudan The Sudanese capital of Khartoum, home to 2 million people, was virtually shut down yesterday amid a mass general strike.
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But the call for a general strike would be a return to the streets and a physical jab at the economy.
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Sometimes they express their anger by blocking trains from running, as they did during a citywide general strike on Aug. 5.
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Organizers are also calling for a general strike this Friday in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City.
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This week many businesses made it clear to their staff that they would not be penalised for joining the general strike.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced a general strike and, beginning Tuesday, three days of mourning for those killed in Gaza.
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Charismatic former journalist Nikol Pashinyan led a general strike that saw 100,000 ordinary citizens blockade the streets of the capitol, Yerevan.
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Mr. Guaidó called on Venezuelan workers to begin "rolling strikes" starting Thursday, building to a general strike later in the month.
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More protests are planned in districts across the special administrative region in the coming weeks, including a general strike on Monday.
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The general strike held on Wednesday mostly affected the transportation and education sectors, with schoolteachers and university students joining the strike.
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Demonstrations against him had become the norm, but when a police officer killed a student protester, activists launched a general strike.
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After a general strike and violent protests on November 12th, the president was talked out of reimposing a state of emergency.
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Macron will be hoping to avoid a repeat of a general strike that swept across France for three weeks in 1995.
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If that fails, they'll call for early elections, and failing that, will conduct "a civil disobedience or general strike," the statement said.
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Mr Mélenchon claimed this week that the historically low turnout in the legislative vote constituted a "civic general strike" against Mr Macron.
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Flights were canceled by Hong Kong's largest airline, Cathay Pacific on Monday, as part of a general strike that halted the city.
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Hong Kong shares declined Monday as businesses faced major disruptions amid a general strike aimed at bringing the city to a standstill.
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On Monday, workers from various industries were set to participate in a general strike aimed at bringing the city to a halt.
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Protests started on Wednesday after trade unions rejected the bill, calling on the government to withdraw it and announcing a general strike.
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A general strike last week held in southern Brazzaville was ignored in the north of the city, where Sassou Nguesso is popular.
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Activist groups in the eastern city of Goma had called for a general strike on Monday to protest against the election delay.
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Thousands of people marched through the streets of Managua on Thursday, and the city was paralyzed by a general strike on Friday.
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A fissure in the movement arises when the medical students beg for permission, despite a general strike, to sit for final exams.
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ABUJA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - One of Nigeria's main oil unions, PENGASSAN, said it would join a general strike that started on Thursday.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Pro-independence groups and trade unions in Catalonia have called for a general strike in the northeastern Spanish region for Oct.
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The organizers behind the Women's March, who orchestrated last month's post-Inauguration Day protests, announced a forthcoming general strike on Twitter this morning.
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Women's March announced plans for a general strike last month in the wake of the mass protests that followed President Donald Trump's inauguration.
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" As Rosa Luxemburg, one of the first writers to imagine the general strike, put it: "Freedom is always the freedom to think differently.
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Avi Nissenkorn, chief of the Histadrut labor federation, declared a half-day general strike for Sunday, the beginning of the Israeli work week.
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The unrest has frequently crippled the Asian financial hub's transportation system and last Monday, Cathay cancelled hundreds of flights during a general strike.
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The country's two largest unions called a two-day general strike from Friday, culminating in a demonstration in central Athens on May 8.
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Now, a few members of the community are calling for a "Tor general strike," in part to protest how that investigation was handled.
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They have said that the referendum will be followed by a "zero hour" — on Monday the opposition announced a general strike on Thursday.
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The first US general strike — or one that involved workers from different industries — occurred in Philadelphia in 1835 to call for shorter workdays.
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"I wish I could come out and say, 'Let's have a general strike for every single thing that's going on,'" she tells me.
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On Friday, one of the main labor unions in Catalonia said it wanted to call a one-week general strike, starting next Tuesday.
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The country's main federation of business chambers, FEDECAMARAS, issued a quick statement yesterday distancing themselves from the calls for a general strike today.
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In downtown Gaza City, the streets were quiet, largely because Hamas, the militant group that controls the territory, had ordered a general strike.
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After the San Francisco police killed four workers in a confrontation with striking longshoremen and their allies, local unions announced a general strike.
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Since a general strike began on Thursday, planes have been grounded, mail delivery stopped and schools closed, and trains remain in their depots.
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Ingrid Levavasseur, a nurse and well-known Yellow Vest activist, said she hoped the general strike would bring momentum back to the movement.
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In France, a general strike is carrying on to a second day as public sector workers protest against changes to the pension system.
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Washington (CNN)The organizers of last month's Women's March announced Monday their intention to hold a general strike at a date to be determined.
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The protests came amid a three-day general strike against the cuts which brought public transport to a standstill and shut down media outlets.
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On the morning of a general strike, a five-year-old boy drove a toy car with an Armenian flag through an empty street.
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Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour's comments appear to be in response to an anonymous online call for oil firms to join a general strike on Tuesday.
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The organizers of the Women's March are planning a general strike — A Day Without A Woman — on March 8, which is International Women's Day.
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A major trade union has started the process of calling a general strike and other unions have announced protests set for later this month.
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In social media posts, the Women's March group announced the "General Strike: A day without a woman" will take place on International Women's Day.
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The powerful UGTT labor union has threatened to hold a general strike and has called for protests against plans to freeze public wage increases.
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It's much more challenging to ask for a general strike, where the enemies are broader and more nebulous, than one against a specific company.
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This article comes at the heels of a two-day general strike declared by the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), the country's powerful workers union.
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In Zimbabwe,Evan Mawarire, a pastor who helped inspire a one-day general strike, was arrested and charged with attempting to overthrow the state.
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His union was one of the main groups calling for a general strike after the announcement of the massive fuel price hike in Zimbabwe.
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The disruptions on Monday appeared to have less of an impact than a citywide general strike in August that sank the city into chaos.
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Iraqis flooded the streets of the capital and southern cities in a general strike that bolstered the weeks-long movement demanding a government overhaul.
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In a statement Sunday calling for a general strike, the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions blamed the ongoing crisis squarely on the government.
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After she gave the speech calling for a general strike, a labor historian asked her whether it was too dangerous to talk about publicly.
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The General Confederation of Labour, Argentina's largest trade-union group, has called a general strike for September 25th in protest at the government's austerity measures.
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Trade unions called Brazil's first general strike in 21 years to protest against the government's plans to reduce spending on pensions and liberalise labour laws.
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At home, after a display of belligerent enthusiasm for breaking the General Strike of 1926, he went on to establish cordial relations with union leaders.
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It generated protests, a general strike in Palestine, death threats against British officials and responses by Turkey and Britain that voiced regrets but denied responsibility.
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Catalan civic groups Asamblea Nacional Catalana and Omnium Cultural - whose leaders were imprisoned last month on sedition charges - called for a general strike on Nov.
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More than 14,000 people pledged a general strike on Monday, , as the demonstrations against more Chinese control in the autonomous region enter their ninth week.
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The protest leaders continue to be committed to nonviolence despite another round of attacks by the Sudanese forces on Sunday to thwart a general strike.
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A general strike could not work in Kentucky, a state where many women depend on hourly wages and do not have union protections, she said.
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With a general strike and more protests across Catalonia, politicians in Madrid and Barcelona are feuding over how to maintain control over the region's streets.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's protest and opposition alliance said it is suspending a campaign of civil disobedience and a general strike from Wednesday until further notice.
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Using the abbreviation #J20, some organizers have called for a general strike, while #DisruptJ20 is planning more specific resistance efforts to President-elect Donald Trump.
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The opposition coalition behind presidential candidate Martin Fayulu has called for a nationwide general strike on Friday to protest over the cities' exclusion from the vote.
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In May 1968, what began as a small student-led protest in the suburbs of Paris quickly grew into the largest general strike in French history.
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Trade unions linked to the PT, which is as mired in scandal as government parties, have called a general strike against pension reform on April 28th.
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The day before, thousands of protesters had paralyzed the capital with a general strike, the first mass demonstration of President Rafael Correa's eight years in power.
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Protests against the plan are expected to culminate with a general strike by the country's two biggest unions, representing about 2.5 million workers, on Feb. 4.
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Catalan civic groups Asamblea Nacional Catalana and Omnium Cultural - whose leaders were imprisoned last month on sedition charges - have called for a general strike on Nov.
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The marchers plan to reach Barcelona on Friday, when supporters of independence and local labour unions have called for a general strike and demonstrations in Catalonia.
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French Guiana has been swept by social unrest in recent days, with protests and a general strike, less than a month before France holds presidential elections.
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Many shops in East Jerusalem were shut throughout the day following a call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for a general strike across the Palestinian Territories.
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A general strike on Wednesday had relatively limited impact, and the two main Catalan parties said that they would not campaign together in next month's election.
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MUMBAI, India — Mumbai, India's bustling commercial hub, came to a standstill on Wednesday as protesters called for a general strike and thousands took to the streets.
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But when news of the impending Rowlatt legislation became public, Gandhi immediately expressed his opposition and called for a nationwide general strike on April 6, 1919.
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And when the 1926 General Strike is mentioned, it's solely to allow Violet to quip that her maid was "rather curt" with her at the time.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese business group called off a three-day general strike that was to begin on Thursday, state news agency NNA reported on Wednesday.
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Mr. Abbas was unusually succinct, speaking for barely eight minutes, saying that protests would go on and that there would be a general strike on Tuesday.
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We're covering President Trump's challenges in Europe and the U.S., a general strike that threatens to paralyze France and a climate report on the hottest decade.
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Many private sector workers also heeded opposition calls for a general strike, with opposition politician Andres Velasquez estimating that 60 percent of the workforce had participated.
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In another sign tensions would endure beyond the vote, secessionist groups and trade unions in Catalonia called a general strike for Tuesday, La Vanguardia newspaper said.
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A rare general strike on Monday halted traffic and shuttered shops across the territory, which has endured both peaceful marches and violent clashes for two months now.
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Washington (CNN)Washington felt the pinch of the nationwide "Day Without Immigrants" demonstrations Thursday, with government institutions, including the Capitol and Pentagon, affected by the general strike.
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In Barcelona, an estimated 55,000 people gathered in the streets, with a group chanting "no more repression" and "general strike" outside the office of the European Commission.
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FARMERS ACROSS India joined in a countrywide general strike earlier this month to protest against what a representative called the government's "failure to address rural distress issues".
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Young people who took time off school to protest on Friday urged adults to heed calls by climate activists for a global general strike on Sept. 20.
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In Baqaa, home to more than 150,000 people, many shops heeded calls by local activists for a general strike to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's plan.
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The budget draft also includes a public sector wage freeze, in protest at which the UGTT union - the country's biggest - has called a general strike for Thursday.
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Protesters have called for a general strike on Monday and urged people to block public transport, although such calls in the past have often come to nothing.
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On Monday protesters tried to enforce a "general strike" in response to Mr Chow's death by blocking streets and railway lines and throwing petrol-bombs at trains.
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Israel's main labor federation has threatened to hold a half-day general strike on Sunday, the start of the Israeli work week, in protest at the layoffs.
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Its union hall was the organizing space for the General Strike of 1934, home to the first women's union, and a venue for underground art and theater.
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Mr. Guaidó is trying to maintain the momentum by calling for strikes in public entities and private companies this month that would culminate in a general strike.
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A general strike on Wednesday had relatively limited impact, and the two main Catalan separatist parties said that they would not campaign together in next month's election.
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There had been some disruption to people's schedules, particularly on Tuesday, when a general strike closed most tourist sites and transport links, and delayed several international flights.
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KINSHASA, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Opponents of Congolese President Joseph Kabila began a general strike on Tuesday to demand he steps down when his mandate expires in December.
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The next month, after additional mass protests and the threat of a general strike, the company backed down, recognizing the union and agreeing to rehire the strikers.
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A general strike already disrupted cities across Brazil in April when unions marshaled resistance to Mr. Temer's proposals, which would curb pension benefits and overhaul labor laws.
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An anonymous call for a general strike has gone largely unheeded but the leadership faces another test - an online call for a "March of 20 Million" this Friday.
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On Monday afternoon, Avianca Brasil's pilots and aircraft crew said through their union that they would hold an indefinite general strike on Friday, citing recurring delays in payroll.
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A general strike took place in Manbij, a town in the Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, where Russian forces now occupy a base once held by the Americans.
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Protests during the weekend's general strike briefly turned violent on Sunday when hooded youths pelted the police with firebombs and stones outside the Parliament building in central Athens.
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In light of recent events, and in response to Corporate's inaction, we are organizing a "sick out" general strike to protest Walmart's profit from the sale of guns.
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At the age of 17, Busby participated in the General Strike of 1926, an event which he would come to acknowledge as helping to shape his life philosophy.
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The Palestinian Authority has called for a general strike and Hamas has declared a new "intifada," or uprising, in response to the Trump administration's new shift in policy.
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In light of recent events, and in response to Corporate's inaction, we are organizing a 'sick out' general strike to protest Walmart's profit from the sale of guns.
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More demonstrations are planned across Hong Kong in coming weeks, including a general strike on Monday and a protest against what demonstrators say is sexual violence by police.
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BEIRUT, Nov 27 (Reuters) - A Lebanese business group called off a three-day general strike that was to begin on Thursday, state news agency NNA reported on Wednesday.
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San Francisco was the heart of the state's labor movement, ever since the longshoremen's union led the 1934 general strike that shut down the city for four days.
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Speaking to supporters in the capital city on the same day, Guaido said a series of staggered strikes would start from Thursday — eventually culminating in a nationwide general strike.
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The general strike is inspired by a women's strike waged in Iceland in 1975, during which women nationwide refused to work, cook and look after children for a day.
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On March 8, Spain became a global reference for calling a general strike against discrimination, sexual abuse, and violence, as well as massive protests in more than 100 cities.
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Thomas Marshall, who works in an e-commerce division in San Bruno, California, called for a sick-out general strike in the message he wrote with two co-workers.
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On Wednesday, demonstrators blocked dozens of roads and railway lines across Catalonia as part of a general strike protesting the recent jailing of former members of the regional government.
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In Venezuela, Mr. Levitsky recalls, polarization between the leftist Mr. Chávez and the opposition boiled over into a coup and a general strike against him, both of which failed.
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On Monday, protesters blocked entry to Iraq's main commodities port while schools and government offices in many southern cities were shut in response to calls for a general strike.
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Brazil grapples with first strike in 20 years Violence erupted in Brazil in April, when protesters and the police clashed in the country's first general strike in two decades.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's main public sector union called off a general strike planned for Wednesday in protest at construction-site deaths, saying the government had agreed to approve safety standards.
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But Dias has not yet deployed the biggest weapon in his arsenal – a general strike to fully halt production of Silverado and Sierra pickups, vital to the Detroit automaker's profitability.
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The news comes as a general strike on Monday plunged Hong Kong into fresh chaos, paralysing transport and bringing the city to an unprecedented standstill for much of the morning.
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Criticism of Israel Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas convened an emergency government meeting on Monday afternoon and announced a general strike and three days of mourning, both to start Tuesday.
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Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam warned that the city was on "the verge of a very dangerous situation" as a general strike and coordinated protests paralyzed the city Monday.
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Opposition leaders, addressing protesters massed along the capital's broad main highway, promised to increase the pressure on Mr. Maduro's left-wing government with a 12-hour general strike on Friday.
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This option would be "very unlikely", said Cristóbal, especially in the wake of the police violence towards Catalan citizens that occurred last week, which prompted a general strike on Tuesday.
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In response, trade unions are threatening a general strike as the list of permitted activities includes producing tractors and manufacturing tobacco products, activities they argue should not be considered essential.
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The Palestinians observed a general strike on Tuesday in protest against Mr. Pence's visit, and there were minor clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces at some familiar flash points.
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In protest at the jailings, Catalan civic groups Asamblea Nacional Catalana and Omnium Cultural — whose leaders were imprisoned last month on sedition charges — called for a general strike on Nov.
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Civil unrest is erupting around the world: More than 500,000 people rallied in Barcelona amid a general strike after Spain sentenced Catalonia's former separatist leaders to prison this past week.
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A general strike by a broad range of workers threatens to paralyze the country for several days, calling into question President Emmanuel Macron's apparent triumph over the "Yellow Vest" movement.
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The group behind the Women's March in Washington on Thursday shared details of their planned "General Strike: A day without a woman," scheduled for Wednesday, March 8th, International Women's Day.
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FRANCE FACED acute disruption on roads, railways and schools again today after massive participation on the first day of a rolling general strike against upcoming pension reform on December 257th.
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Once on campus, they began preparing weapons and fire bombs, and blocking key adjacent roads that prevented people from getting to work in an effort to engineer a general strike.
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The powerful UGTT labor union threatened on Thursday to hold a general strike and called protests against the government's plans to freeze public wage increases, which it warned could trigger protests.
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New York Magazine wrote that the president of the AFA, Sara Nelson, called for a "general strike" by labor unions—though stopped short of calling for one specifically by aviation workers.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's largest union announced a one-day general strike on April 6, increasing pressure on President Mauricio Macri's center-right government six months before mid-term congressional elections.
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Protesters in Sudan called off a general strike and agreed to resume talks with the junta that took charge after the fall of the country's dictator, Omar al-Bashir, in April.
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Ada Colau, the left-wing but non-secessionist mayor of Barcelona, backed a regional general strike on October 3rd called to protest against police violence and "in defence of democratic liberties".
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On June 25th a general strike called by the General Confederation of Labour, the largest trade-union grouping, in protest at the government's economic policies, brought the country to a standstill.
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Tensions between the masked adventurers and police officers came to a head when the police staged a general strike in protest of the vigilantes, whom they argued were threatening their jobs.
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The octogenarian "President" of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, fresh from a trip to Chile where he was photographed kicking a soccer ball, called for a general strike and three days of mourning.
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Services on some train and subway lines were disrupted early on Monday, with traffic snarled and riot police deployed near stations and shopping malls after protesters called for a general strike.
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A general strike has been called by pro-separatists and unions in Catalonia for Tuesday in protest at what they see as a violation of their rights following the police crackdown.
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French labor unions and teachers joined a 21999-hour general strike in support of the students, bringing the nation to a grinding halt but failing to topple President Charles de Gaulle.
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The upheaval reached its apogee with a general strike in June that paralyzed Shanghai, then China's leading industrial center and the world's sixth-busiest harbor — and also partly under foreign control.
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On Monday, when Congress reconvened, tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the bill, and the country's largest union federation called a general strike that paralyzed the country's airports.
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The strike is also meant to rally Palestinians, who have carried out numerous protests in support of the prisoners and plan another general strike in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
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"The economic bodies have decided unanimously to call for the implementation of a general strike to close all private institutions in the country on Thursday, Friday and Saturday," the statement said.
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In England, police had been put on alert in January and February when calls arose for a general strike, followed by the initiation of a "Hands-Off Russia" campaign in London.
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On December 5, as Macron's government proposed raising the retirement age and consolidating the country's dozens of pension systems into one universal standard, a general strike was launched against the government.
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But, like Mr. Trump, the French leader returned home on Thursday to a serious mess: in Mr. Macron's case, a general strike over his plans to overhaul an overextended pension system.
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And when President Emmanuel Macron of France heads home, he faces his own test: a general strike over changes to the pension system that could paralyze the country for days. 3.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left Unsubmissive France party, who won a seat in Marseille, declared that the low turnout rate constituted a "civic general strike" against the new president.
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And in the wake of the referendum, a group of chefs signed a statement saying that they were joining the general strike held two days to protest the violence that had occurred.
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Washington (CNN)The organizers of the Women's March on Washington have set the date for their general strike, dubbed "A Day Without A Woman," for March 8, which is International Women's Day.
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In Chile, the peso lost 0.4%, while stocks shed 3.34683%, ahead of a central bank meeting as the country braces for more protests and a general strike by state workers on Wednesday.
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LIBREVILLE, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Gabon's opposition leader Jean Ping called on Monday for a general strike to protest against what he said was a fraudulent re-election victory by President Ali Bongo.
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Several central trade unions in India have called for a countrywide general strike on September 2 to protest against what they called "anti-worker and anti-people policies" of the Indian government.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians called a general strike for Monday in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in support of an Israeli-Arab protest against Israel's Nation State Law.
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But this year, grassroots activists around the world are planning something more radical — a women's general strike, both to oppose President Donald Trump and to make a big push for women's equality.
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Protesters have also called for a general strike on Monday and for people to block public transport, although when such calls have been made in the past they have come to nothing.
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More than 100 flights have been cancelled out of Hong Kong after a large number of airport employees called in sick in apparent participation in the general strike, Hong Kong media reported.
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Leopold III, who surrendered Belgian forces to the Germans, lived in exile after the war, then faced opposition and a general strike when he returned to Belgium in 1950 and subsequently abdicated.
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The protest is part of a global general strike led by 2966-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg taking place ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit on September 23806.
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The general strike, however, was a mitigated success for the independence movement, with the authorities reporting that less than half of government employees had heeded the call to stay away from work.
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But not so for the unions, who do still have some power left -- albeit far from the power they had in past decades, when a general strike could paralyze the entire nation.
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"In order to work, a general strike has to actually stop something from functioning," said Todd Gitlin, a former president of Students for a Democratic Society who has written about political movements.
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There were millions of people who took part in Friday's global general strike around the world, according to 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who helped organize the day of demonstrations.
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Despite President Emmanuel Macron's call for a "truce" during the holidays, the three-week general strike that has crippled transportation in France and already hurt its economy has now upended people's plans.
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The Women's March may be the most high-profile announcement of a general strike during the Trump presidency so far, but many others -- often on the political left -- have also called for strikes.
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Residents and local media said shops and offices were closed for a general strike in Ben Guerdane, the site of an Islamic State attack last year by militants crossing over from nearby Libya.
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ABUJA, May 17 (Reuters) - Nigerian labour unions representing millions of workers have been blocked from staging a general strike in protest at government plans to increase petrol prices by up to 67 percent.
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The UGTT, the country's main labor union with 900,000 members, also called for a general strike to protest against plans to freeze the increase in public wages, which it warned could trigger protests.
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The president of a union representing nearly 50,21625 flight attendants is renewing calls for a general strike if lawmakers aren't able to reach a funding deal on Friday to keep the government open.
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"In light of recent events, and in response to corporate's inaction, we are organizing a 'sick out' general strike to protest Walmart's profit from the sale of guns," Marshall said in an email.
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As protesters fled underground last week, fearing arrest, their leaders changed tack, calling for a general strike and a campaign of civil disobedience in an effort to pressure the military to back down.
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Earlier in the day, hundreds of people gathered in the town of Mytilene on Lesbos as part of a general strike to protest at government plans to create the new closed migrant facility.
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Congo's main opposition bloc was not immediately available for comment but has already called a general strike for Wednesday to press President Joseph Kabila to leave at the end of his mandate in December.
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Announcing the news on social media, the Women's March organizers said the general strike would be called "A Day Without A Woman" and would ask people to "unite again", as they did in January.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the United States abdicated its role as a mediator in peace efforts, and Palestinian secular and Islamist factions called for a general strike and rallies on Thursday to protest.
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The CGT has staged protests in recent weeks but April 6 would be the first general strike in Argentina since Macri took office in December 2015 promising to attract investment and restore economic growth.
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But on Monday, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, Sara Nelson, advocated for private sector workers to enact a general strike in solidarity with those unable to protest in the public sector.
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The ban, announced Thursday toward the end of an opposition-led general strike that shuttered some businesses nationwide for two days, begins Friday and continues through Tuesday, interior and justice minister Néstor Reverol said.
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The "International Women's Strike" might still end up working more like a protest or a boycott than a bona fide general strike, Elisabeth Clemens, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, told Vox.
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Its allies among trade unions and social movements are considering roadblocks and perhaps a general strike—especially if Mr Temer were to pursue the measures needed to stabilise the economy, which they dub "neoliberal".
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Why it matters: The shooting occurred as demonstrators "blocked roads and scuffled with riot police officers," some of whom fired tear gas during a general strike across the city, per the New York Times.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese business grouping that covers much of the country's private sector called on Monday for a general strike, according to a statement from the group, amid protests and worsening economic conditions.
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Calls by the opposition and other activists for a general strike marked a retreat from initial plans for pro-democracy marches on Tuesday after the powerful Roman Catholic Church withdrew its support last month.
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In 2012, the official in charge of Catalonia's interior department, Felip Puig, and a Mossos police chief, Sergi Pla, resigned after a crackdown on a general strike resulted in a demonstrator losing an eye.
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Various other rallies were planned for later in the day and pro-independence labour union confederation IAC announced a general strike in Catalonia on Friday against labour laws which unions say infringe workers' rights.
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The general strike, which follows other stoppages last year, comes after an apparently conciliatory move from the president, who freed dozens of activists on Friday to ease months of tension in its minority regions.
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The citywide action marked the first general strike of the twentieth century; it was also one of the last (save for Oakland, California, which mounted admirable if short-lived efforts in 24 and 2500).
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Pashinyan, addressing tens of thousands of supporters in a square in the Armenian capital, said that starting from Wednesday morning, his supporters would launch a general strike and block roads, railways stations and airports.
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Calls for a general strike and for protesters to surround the Legislative Council building on June 12, in a final effort to block the bill from being read by lawmakers, raced across messaging apps.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas at protesters in multiple parts of Hong Kong on Monday after a general strike hit transport and the city's Beijing-backed leader warned its prosperity was at risk.
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Police on Monday fired tear gas at protesters in the former British colony after a general strike hit transport and the city's Beijing-backed leader, chief executive Carrie Lam, warned its prosperity was at risk.
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Tunisia's powerful UGTT union has threatened to hold a public sector general strike over plans to freeze wages, and various groups including lawyers, teachers and pharmacists are threatening to strike this week against new taxes.
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TUNIS, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Tunisia's powerful UGTT union has cancelled a planned public sector general strike after reaching a deal with the government on salary increases covering the next two years, officials said on Wednesday.
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Quiroga, who also said the truck driver had been drinking alcohol, said port workers in the region would adhere to a national general strike called by the CGT, Argentina's main umbrella union, on April 6.
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Like Holiday, plenty of girls found their way to the stage, seeking an outlet for the performance of freedom, of femininity and sexuality: Dancing was "another elaboration of the general strike" against servitude, confinement, oppression.
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The shooting on Monday came as pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong blocked roads and scuffled with riot police officers across the city as part of what had been billed as a citywide general strike.
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BUENOS AIRES, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Argentina's largest umbrella union, the CGT, called on Friday for a 24-hour general strike next month in a sign opposition is growing to free-market reforming President Mauricio Macri.
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Catalonia's independence drive has led to an exodus of businesses from the region amid upheaval such as a general strike called by pro-independence campaigners on Wednesday to protest at the imprisonment of Catalan politicians.
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In France, restaurants became convinced that clean-shaven waiters were less likely to contaminate the food they served, and a 1907 bill to ban mustaches led to a general strike among the Parisian server class.
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Palestinians in Gaza held a general strike Monday and mosques called for people to head to the border to join in the protests, with buses outside mosques ferrying thousands of people to 12 protest sites.
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Protesters have called for a general strike on Monday but the city appeared to return to relative calm with shops open, trains operating and workers making their way to offices across the global financial hub.
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The clashes came amid a three-day general strike led by Greece's largest union that brought much of the country to a halt, as government offices shut down, schools closed, and public transport didn't run.
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The protest affected all of San Francisco: after employers broke the picket line, and at least two people were killed by police, more than a hundred thousand people across the city staged a general strike.
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Now the same groups that organized the march are proposing a general strike — "a day without a woman" — to show that women continue to oppose him and that the world would be lost without them.
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Fatah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions called a general strike for Thursday, urging residents of the West Bank and Gaza to join marches in every city, and officials said the Palestinian schools would be closed.
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The idea behind a women's general strike is that if women refuse to do all of their typical work for a day, it will force people to notice how important and underappreciated that work is.
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Following that success, a senior engineer at the company, Liz Fong-Jones, has raised over $100,000 in funding to put towards a general strike, and has vowed to quit Google if changes aren't made by February.
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ABUJA/LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian union defied a court ban to launch a general strike on Wednesday in protest at a planned hefty increase in fuel prices, though many businesses and government offices opened as normal.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Protesters in Argentina clashed with police during marches over government austerity measures on Thursday as labor unions challenged President Mauricio Macri in the first general strike since he took office 16 months ago.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - A one-day general strike in Democratic Republic of Congo shut down most businesses in the capital on Tuesday, raising pressure on President Joseph Kabila to quit power when his mandate ends in December.
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"You can only stretch the rubber band so far until it breaks," said Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, who publicly called for a general strike during the U.S. government shutdown.
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KINSHASA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Opposition leaders in Democratic Republic of Congo called for a general strike next Tuesday to press President Joseph Kabila to step down when his mandate expires at the end of the year.
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The idea behind a women's general strike is that if women refuse to do all of their typical work for a day, it will force people to notice how important and under-appreciated that work is.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's powerful UGTT labor union threatened on Thursday to hold a general strike and called protests against the government's plans to freeze public wage increases as part of measures to control the budget deficit.
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Tomorrow marks another moment of unity among women in the Trump era: The organizers of the Women's March are planning a general strike called A Day Without A Woman, which will fall on International Women's Day.
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Douglass himself coined "Lessons of the Hour" as his title for a powerful speech in 21865 during what W. E. B. Du Bois called "the general strike against slavery," also known as the American Civil War.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo briefly detained a prominent opposition leader on Sunday, the government said, two days before a general strike to pressure President Joseph Kabila to step down from office.
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FUNDAMENTALS * CHILE COPPER: Most of Chile's copper miners said they had maintained their operations on Tuesday, albeit with some delays and sporadic unrest, amid calls for a general strike and a fresh day of social protests.
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The general strike stretched into the new year and the transport strike became the longest in national history, heavily affecting public transportation in the nation's capital and elsewhere and forcing Parisians onto bikes and into cars.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese police deployed heavily across the capital Kinshasa on Monday as opposition calls for a general strike after a breakdown in talks with President Joseph Kabila's allies last week raised fears of renewed violence.
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The call for the art world to cease operations "to combat the normalization of Trumpism" was first signed by hundreds of artists, critics, and others in solidarity with nationwide calls for a general strike on Friday.
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Seeking to appeal to Maduro's traditional base among the working class, Guaido said on Wednesday he would consider a proposal from public workers to call for a series of stoppages leading up to a general strike.
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Usually the point of a general strike is to do something so disruptive that daily life grinds to a halt and society can't help but pay attention to your grievances, experts on social movements told Vox.
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A general strike and campaign of civil disobedience called by the opposition resulted in Khartoum being brought to a standstill earlier this week, in an attempt to encourage the Transitional Military Council to transfer power to civilians.
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ATHENS, May 5 (Reuters) - Greece's largest sector private union GSEE called a general strike on May 6-7 in protest at pension and tax reforms being debated in parliament, a source at the union said on Thursday.
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Clashes between students and police in the streets of Paris were followed by a nationwide general strike, which brought the country's economy to a halt for two weeks and ultimately forced President Charles de Gaulle into retirement.
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Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters on Monday as a general strike plunged the Asian financial hub into fresh chaos, paralyzing transport and bringing the city to an unprecedented standstill for much of the morning.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A general strike in Argentina on Thursday that brought transportation to a standstill cost the flagship carrier Aerolineas Argentinas around 120 million pesos ($7.83 million), the company's chief executive, Mario Dell'Acqua, said on Friday.
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On Friday, a court also sentenced three activists, arrested hours before a general strike in February to demand that Kabila leave power when his mandate expires this year, to one year in prison, the United Nations said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian secular and Islamist factions on Wednesday called a general strike and midday rallies to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that he has recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, they said in a joint statement.
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Such moves were likely to turn the boisterous separatist street celebrations that greeted the independence declaration on Friday into mass protests, with one Catalan labor union already calling on workers to stage a general strike on Monday.
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"In light of recent events, and in response to Corporate's inaction, we are organizing a 'sick out' general strike to protest Walmart's profit from the sale of guns," said the letter, which Marshall also provided to CNN.
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ATHENS — Hundreds of thousands of Greeks walked off the job on Wednesday, heeding the call of labor unions to join a 1803-hour general strike to protest a new round of austerity measures nearing approval in Parliament.
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Unions representing tens of thousands of employees in both the public and private sector have also called for a general strike on Wednesday after their demands for the bill to be scrapped were rejected by the government.
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The team has expressed sympathy for the secessionists: FC Barcelona joined a regional general strike on October 2, halting practice for the day in solidarity with those who protested the use of police force during the referendum.
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A general strike that usually takes place across East Jerusalem and the West Bank was expected to be observed widely this year, to mark 70 years since Nakba, and small clashes have taken place in the West Bank.
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A day before a planned general strike and massive street demonstrations in the bankrupt U.S. territory, Ricardo Rossello, 40, said he respected the wishes of Puerto Ricans and would not seek a second term in November 2020 elections.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's main protest group called on Monday for civil disobedience and a general strike as meetings with the country's military rulers failed to provide any breakthrough on the formation of a joint civilian-military transitional council.
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The U.N. statement comes days after three Congolese activists, arrested hours before a general strike in February to demand that President Joseph Kabila leave power when his mandate expires this year, were sentenced to a year in prison.
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The opposition is organizing an unofficial referendum on Maduro next weekend, after which they are promising "zero hour", a presumed reference to an escalation of tactics that could include a general strike or march on the presidential palace.
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The call for a general strike across the western state of Maharashtra led to largely peaceful protests, but life in many parts of Mumbai was disrupted with Dalits pelting buses with stones and deflating tyres in some areas.
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LAGOS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A spokesman for Nigeria's state oil firm said on Thursday he has seen no evidence that a nationwide general strike by the country's main unions has had any impact on the state's oil operation.
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Droves of protesters filled public parks and squares in several Hong Kong districts on Monday in a general strike staged on a weekday to draw more attention to their demands that the semi-autonomous Chinese city's leader resign.
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On Saturday, Nigeria's two main labor unions called for an indefinite general strike from Wednesday unless the government reverses its plan to increase the price of petrol, which many rely on for power generation as well as transport.
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On Saturday, Nigeria's two main labour unions called for an indefinite general strike from Wednesday unless the government reverses its plan to increase the price of petrol, which many rely on for power generation as well as transport.
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The Sudanese Professionals Association, which helped lead the protests that toppled Mr. al-Bashir, has ordered supporters to avoid confrontation with the security forces during the general strike, which they say will last until the military cedes power.
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Across all sectors and factions, Palestinian civil society has been galvanized, and a General Strike followed by a "day of rage" have been called in the West Bank and Gaza for Thursday, April 27 and Friday, April 28.
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The rain-soaked procession capped a few days of striking calm in Hong Kong, with little of the skirmishing between police and protesters that had marked previous weekends as well as a general strike on Monday, August 5th.
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For months now, workers across the country have been planning a May 1 General Strike across industries, with a focus on immigrant, low-wage, and subcontracted workers, in protest of Trump's administration's policies and in support of labor rights.
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The struggle of these young women — some were as young as 12 — was invoked by the artist Molly Crabapple when she put a match girl in her poster for the General Strike called by Occupy Wall Street in 2012.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Unionized workers at Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, said they will start a general strike on Saturday to press for higher wages as they negotiate a new contract.
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Recent anti-Trump protests have included a "general strike" on Friday, a day after thousands of immigrants across the United States stayed away from work and school to highlight the contributions of foreign-born residents to the U.S. economy.
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ABUJA, May 22 (Reuters) - A Nigerian union that defied a court ban to launch a general strike in protest at a hefty increase in fuel prices has suspended the industrial action after five days, its president said on Sunday.
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BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - A general strike called by pro-independence campaigners in Catalonia closed shops and severed transport links on Wednesday, as the region's deposed leader lost political momentum after failing to seal an electoral pact with another party.
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The general strike was also used by civil rights activists in the mid-20th century—the key political moment of the civil rights movement, the March on Washington, was as much an economic movement as one for civil liberties.
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British student activists are now preparing for their next big school strike on July 19 - and what they hope, in September, will be the largest general strike in Britain since 1926, pulling in adult members of the public too.
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It's because of the general strike, which was announced during a protest march last Wednesday, as part of the opposition's redoubled efforts to knuckle down on President Nicolas Maduro after his government canceled efforts to hold a recall referendum.
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In the Kabylie region, the fiercest arena of the 1990s civil war between the state and Islamist insurgents, almost all businesses and government offices are closed in a general strike in support of the protesters and against the election.
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ATHENS, Greece – Greece&aposs largest labor unions are staging a general strike against plans to extend austerity measures, in a 24-hour protest that is disrupting flights, public transport and services, closing schools and leaving hospitals running on emergency staff.
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Every year on March 2100, people around the world raise awareness about International Women's Day, and this year is set to be no different, with the organizers from the Women's March on Washington planning a general strike for that very day.
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The account she runs, Gender in China, received a notice prohibiting it from posting for 30 days after it translated an op-ed in support of calls for a general strike in the US on March 8, International Women's Day.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's main opposition alliance on Saturday rejected talks with the government of President Joseph Kabila over elections that were due to have been held in November but have been delayed and called for a general strike on Tuesday.
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Workers at Chile's state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, said late on Tuesday they would join the general strike called by state unions, raising the specter of a slow-down in copper output from the world's top producer.
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Spain's two biggest trade union federations, the General Union of Workers (UGT) and Workers' Committees (Comisiones Obreras), distanced themselves from calls by pro-independence groups and trade unions in Catalonia on Sunday for a general strike in the region on Tuesday.
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PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Trinidad and Tobago's Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU) on Thursday threatened a general strike if the island's government does not rescind a decision to shut down the country's lone oil refinery, operated by state-run Petrotrin.
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Q & A ATHENS — Greek workers walked off the job on Friday, heeding a call by the country's labor unions to join a three-day general strike to protest a new round of austerity measures including new pension cuts and tax increases.
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"In light of recent events, and in response to corporate's inaction, we are organizing a 'sick out' general strike to protest Walmart's profit from the sale of guns," Thomas Marshall, who works for Walmart's e-commerce division, wrote in the email.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Much of Caracas and other cities slowed to a Sunday crawl on Friday as many Venezuelans heeded the opposition's call for a general strike, a step in its campaign to force a referendum to remove President Nicolás Maduro.
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Embraer reaffirmed its full-year operating targets, counting on a rebound in commercial and executive jet deliveries, as well as the launch this week of a geostationary satellite that was delayed by a general strike in French Guyana last month.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestine Liberation Organization called a general strike across the West Bank and Gaza on Tuesday in response to the deaths of Gazans killed by Israeli troops at a border protest, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Monday.
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Last week, Mr. Colom and other farmers were participating in a general strike called across the region, and the tractorada was lending its mechanized mass in support of independence and to denounce the police violence that had followed the vote.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — Protest leaders in Sudan have agreed to end the general strike that brought Khartoum to a standstill this week and are willing to resume power-sharing talks with the ruling military council, an Ethiopian mediator said on Tuesday.
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But labor unions, which tend to be weak in Hong Kong, have called for different sectors of society to take turns holding strikes of an hour or two on Monday, including a general strike by many businesses early Monday afternoon.
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SAN JUAN, P.R. — Thousands of demonstrators joined a general strike in the capital of Puerto Rico on Tuesday that ended in mayhem after the police fired tear gas and pepper spray to end a tense standoff with some of the protesters.
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KINSHASA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Congolese authorities vowed on Monday to punish state employees who skip work or show up late on Tuesday, when opposition parties plan a general strike to pressure President Joseph Kabila to step down late this year.
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Paris (CNN)The one-day general strike that was supposed to shut down France last Thursday is now stretching at least into next week as President Emmanuel Macron perseveres in his efforts to drag his nation into the 21st century.
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Since then, the idea of a general strike has mostly faded into nostalgic revery and wishful fantasy amid the dismal conditions of rampaging late capitalist inequality and plutocratic exploitation, as labor organizers battle the collapse of basic wage and job protections.
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SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India and Pakistan resumed barter trade at a border crossing in Kashmir on Tuesday, an Indian official said, but tension in the contested region continued with a general strike and more fighting between Indian security forces and separatists.
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Meanwhile, France is facing a general strike; the United Kingdom is having a general election this week; Bolivia, home to 7 percent of the Amazon rainforest, a major reservoir of carbon, saw its previous government ousted in a military coup.
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Activists had called for a "general strike" a day after thousands of immigrants across the United States stayed home from work and school during "A Day Without Immigrants" to highlight the contributions of foreign-born workers to the American economy.
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A Day Without a Woman, which organizers have dubbed a "general strike," is intended to draw attention to the often invisible or underappreciated work that women do for society and the economy, and to protest President Trump's record on women.
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If you want to participate in a "general" strike in solidarity with other workers or to prove a political point, you're on your own, and you may or may not have a job when you come back the next day.
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KINSHASA, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo arrested a prominent opposition leader on Sunday, the United Nations said, two days before a planned general strike that will call for President Joseph Kabila to step down from office this year.
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BUENOS AIRES, April 6 (Reuters) - Argentines protesting against government austerity measures and demanding higher wages brought the country to a standstill on Thursday as labor unions challenged President Mauricio Macri in the first general strike since he took office 16 months ago.
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This protest comes after the police and workers clashed last week in Syntagma Square, the main square of Athens, during a general strike which united groups from different professions—lawyers, artists, accountants, doctors, seamen, and casino workers—all affected by recent austerity measures.
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HONG KONG, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Hong Kong was bracing for major disruptions to business on Monday as a general strike threatens to paralyse parts of the Asian financial centre, with more than 100 flights already cancelled, amid a broader anti-government campaign.
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Buoyed by the spectacle of Extinction Rebellion bringing parts of London to a standstill, climate campaigners in the United States are finalising plans for a general strike this autumn effectively encouraging adults to follow the example of children in the school strike movement.
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Brazil's largest oilworkers union federation FUP said it will debate a walkout and is exploring with other unions a plan for a general strike to oppose Rousseff's impeachment which they fear will undermine labor rights and hand over Brazil's oil to foreign multinationals.
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The Chinese-controlled city has been rocked by months of protests against a proposed bill to allow people to be extradited to stand trial in mainland China and a general strike aimed at bringing the city to a halt is planned for Monday.
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CONAKRY, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A general strike in Guinea will not curb production of bauxite, the country's top producer said on Tuesday, even though miners have announced their support for a nationwide walkout to push for higher wages and lower fuel prices.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's main protest group called on Tuesday for a general strike, saying two late-night negotiation sessions with the military had failed to reach a deal on how to lead the country after the overthrow of former president Omar al-Bashir.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Congress was on track to pass a pension reform measure on Monday, even as stone-throwing protesters rushed police outside the capitol building and the country's main union called a 24-hour general strike in opposition to the proposal.
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Buoyed by the spectacle of Extinction Rebellion bringing parts of London to a standstill, climate campaigners in the United States are finalizing plans for a general strike this autumn — effectively encouraging adults to follow the example of children in the school strike movement.
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Washington also weighed in with its concerns about last week's poll that gave leftist Morales his fourth term in office, while main opposition rival Carlos Mesa called for a general strike in the capital of La Paz on Monday to protest the result.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam maintained that she has no plans to resign in the face of a turbulent pro-democracy movement that held a general strike Monday, leading to more than 100 flight cancellations and major traffic disruptions.
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SANTIAGO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Most of Chile's copper miners said they had maintained their operations on Tuesday, albeit with some delays and sporadic unrest, amid calls for a general strike and a fresh day of social protests, unions and management teams told Reuters.
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But, I'm keenly aware of the fact that the only way that you can really run a general strike, and the only way you can really affect change, are actually both one and the same: by finding where you can bring people together.
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In Black Reconstruction (1935), Du Bois showed that African Americans freed themselves by their "general strike," as he called it, in which half a million enslaved human beings crossed Union lines out of slavery, at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861.
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BUCHAREST, July 15 (Reuters) - Workers at ADM's North Star Shipping grain silos in the Romanian Black sea port of Constanta on Monday said an indefinite general strike scheduled to start on July 15 had been averted after reaching an agreement over wages.
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Palestinian factions called a general strike on Thursday throughout the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Palestinian areas of Jerusalem and for rallies to be held at midday (1000 GMT) in protest at Trump's move, raising the chances of violent clashes.
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Direct action protests also took place in seven districts: Admiralty, Sha Tin, Tuen Mun, Tseun Wan, Wong Tai Sin, Mong Kok and Tai Po. Organizers also called for a general strike at Disneyland and the airport, both on Hong Kong's Lantau Island.
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One day she's being a good comrade and calling for a general strike and the redistribution of wealth, the next she's claiming to have run 100 meters in 5.97 seconds, absolutely obliterating the world record held by Usain Bolt (Look out, Tokyo 2021).
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When pushed, she said that calls for a general strike in February were insufficiently organized, and that the Women's March on Washington, which had its first protest the day after Inauguration Day, will ideally become anchored in a larger strategy for change.
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BEIRUT, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Lebanon's banks will not join a three-day general strike slated to begin on Thursday, the Association of Banks in Lebanon said on Wednesday, distancing itself from industrial action intended to press politicians to form a new government.
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"We can try to push the movement to the next level and increase our efforts for a general strike," said Michael Chan, an organizer at the Catering and Hotel Industry Employees General Union, who was manning a booth encouraging people to sign up.
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With such a broad turnout, the labor movement believes it may achieve a repeat of the general strike of 1995, which shut down the country for weeks and forced President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Alain Juppé to abandon a similar pension reform.
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KINSHASA, May 20 (Reuters) - Three Congolese activists, arrested hours before a general strike in February to demand that President Joseph Kabila leave power when his mandate expires this year, were sentenced on Friday to one year in prison, the United Nations said.
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Additionally, for those looking to support the general strike, the Women's March on Washington has three specific action items on how to do so: women take the day off from work, only shop at "small, women- and minority-owned businesses" and wear red in solidarity.
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In addition, the group has organized a general strike on March 8, called A Day Without A Woman, which expects to see women take the day off from work, avoid shopping and/or wear red, to highlight women's importance in work, society and the home.
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" She also questioned whether removing women's voices from the media, even just for a day, is useful: "Not to say that a general strike is a bad idea, but it's more complicated in an industry where women's voices are often ignored to begin with.
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In 1969, she performed her "General Strike Piece," which consisted of the following directions: GRADUALLY BUT DETERMINEDLY AVOID BEING PRESENT AT OFFICIAL OR PUBLIC "UPTOWN" FUNCTIONS OR GATHERINGS RELATED TO THE "ART WORLD" IN ORDER TO PURSUE INVESTIGATIONS OF TOTAL PERSONAL AND PUBLIC REVOLUTION.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's leading labor federation announced plans on Tuesday to stage a one-day general strike on June 25 to protest against government economic policies, raising pressure on President Mauricio Macri as he moves to speed up spending cuts to balance the budget.
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It was her call for a general strike, delivered during her acceptance speech for the 2019 AFL-CIO MLK Drum Major for Justice Award on Sunday, January 20, that was widely credited for jump-starting the endgame of President Donald Trump's brutal five-week shutdown.
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And even though the tallies cannot be independently verified and are regarded as invalid by Spain, the Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, now claims that he has the authority to have the regional parliament declare independence, and independence advocates have called for a general strike.
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Never mind that the movie is set in 1927, a year still tense with the after-effects of the 1926 General Strike, the spillover from Ireland's new status as a free state, and a world of unrest from the rest of the British Empire.
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The "Day Without a Woman" protest and general strike on March 8 has apparently attracted a lot of interest among teachers in Alexandria City Public Schools in Virginia, Prince George's County public schools in Maryland, and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district in North Carolina.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Piñera issued an apology and proposed a set of social reforms, but demonstrators remained in the streets setting barricades and union leaders called for a two-day general strike, while human rights organizations denounced the use of excessive force by the security forces.
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BARCELONA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of pro-independence supporters from across Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia are expected to pour into Barcelona on Friday, as unions called for a general strike on the fifth day of protests following the jailing of nine separatist leaders.
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It is both a very wealthy city with fairly liberal politics — ranging from socially liberal businesspeople to a democratic socialist on the city council — and a high level of union penetration and a history of disruptive labor activism that goes back to its 1919 general strike.
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The violent incidents on Monday inflamed an already tense atmosphere in the city, as demonstrators called for a general strike in response to the death Friday of 22-year-old protester Alex Chow, who fell from a one-story parking lot during a police operation last week.
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HONG KONG, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Hong Kong police said on Sunday they arrested more than 20 people after violent clashes with anti-government protesters overnight, as the Chinese-controlled territory braced for more protests and a general strike aimed to bring the city to a halt.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A general strike disrupted cities around Brazil on Friday as unions marshaled resistance to austerity measures proposed by the scandal-ridden government of President Michel Temer, reflecting his struggle to persuade voters that his proposals to overhaul pension systems and labor laws are necessary.
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So far, though, they have shown no sign of coalescing into a single, more potent movement, just as France prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 anti-establishment revolt and general strike that transformed the nation by pushing the government to adopt more progressive social policies.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian-held Kashmir was hit by a general strike on Sunday called by the separatist Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to mark the anniversary of the death of a Kashmiri man who was executed for his part in an attack on India's parliament in 2001.
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And although the Greek Parliament has narrowly approved a bill overhauling the debt-ridden country's pension and tax systems, workers in Greece started a three-day general strike on Friday, protesting austerity that has cut household incomes by a third, with around 25 percent of Greeks still unemployed.
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KINSHASA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The streets of the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo were quieter than usual on Tuesday at the start of a one-day general strike aimed at putting pressure on President Joseph Kabila to quit power when his mandate ends in December, witnesses said.
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In recent days, Amazon warehouse workers in Queens, New York, sanitation workers in Pittsburgh, and poultry plant workers at Perdue Farms in Georgia have all walked off the job, demanding greater protections from coronavirus, and leading to calls for a "general strike," or mass strike action across the country.
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PARIS — A general strike and widespread protests over high crime and economic hardship paralyzed French Guiana on Monday, as the government struggled to quell growing unrest that has disrupted travel, closed schools and thrust one of France's often-overlooked overseas territories into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.
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One of the busiest cities in sub-Saharan Africa came to a halt on Tuesday, as a daylong general strike paralyzed Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo — part of an opposition effort to persuade President Joseph Kabila to step down later this year, after 240 years in power.
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One of the busiest cities in sub-Saharan Africa came to a halt on Tuesday, as a daylong general strike paralyzed Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo — part of an opposition effort to persuade President Joseph Kabila to step down later this year, after 15 years in power.
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The behavior of local police officers may come into focus soon, but it is the actions of the region's civil servants that should be watched closely when they return to work, if a general strike called by a local union for Monday does not bring the city to a halt.
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The monarch's televised address came at the close of a daylong general strike in Catalonia, as well as road blockades and a mass rally in downtown Barcelona, to protest Sunday's police crackdown on voters as they took part in an independence referendum that had been declared illegal by Spain's constitutional court.
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Labor and immigrants' rights activists, criticizing Mr. Trump's detention and deportation agenda, had called for a general strike on May 1, also known as May Day, to emphasize the overlap between the concerns of unauthorized immigrants — on whom farms, restaurants, construction projects and other industries depend — and those of workers.
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The general strike, which has garnered support from the Women's March, was to bring attention to "the enormous value that women of all backgrounds add to our socio-economic system -- while receiving lower wages and experiencing greater inequities, vulnerability to discrimination, sexual harassment, and job insecurity," according to the Women's March website.
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In solidarity with calls for a general strike protesting the inauguration of Trump as the 45th president of the United States, a coalition of artists and critics last month issued an invitation to cultural institutions to participate in an "art strike," an interruption of business as usual on January 20, 2017, and beyond.
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By Dave Sherwood and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Chile braced for more protests and a general strike by state workers on Wednesday, despite President Sebastian Pinera's pleas for forgiveness and announcement of ambitious reforms to quell unrest that has rocked the country and led to at least 15 deaths.
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Shares were also battered on Monday, with plummeting Hong Kong equities weighing on the overall market, said Gerry Alfonso, director at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was 2.70% lower in afternoon trade as the city faced major disruptions, with a general strike paralysing parts of the Asian financial centre.
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The case: In New York, five Russian anti-war activists were arrested under the 1917 Espionage Act for printing and distributing 5,000 leaflets that criticized the US's role in World War I. They also advocated for a general strike, and had put out a call to arms if the US intervened in Russia.
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What the pioneering civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois called the "general strike" of slaves changed the outcome of the war, forcing a reluctant Lincoln administration to move toward the Emancipation Proclamation and then the 13th Amendment, all while slowing the Confederate war effort by undermining the labor force and thus the economy.
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Various flights into and out of the region are cancelled Friday due to a general strike called by pro-independence unions and five marches of tens of thousands from inland towns are expected converge in Barcelona's center on Friday afternoon for a mass protest with students to and workers who are on strike.
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Protesters launched what they described as a general strike last week in response to the death of a Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) student, after he fell near a protest, and began attempting to shut down major roads, disrupt subway transit and otherwise ramp up the pressure on the government.
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Two days after the Catalan referendum on independence — which the government in Madrid declared illegal but, it went ahead anyway — thousands of people took to the streets for the Vaga General, or general strike, to protest the shocking acts of police brutality carried out by Spanish police officers who wanted to stop the vote.
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Despite Lam's suspension of the bill, activists have called for a general strike on Monday until the government pulls the proposed amendment altogether, according to the AP. "We encourage all the public to carry on the campaign," said Bonnie Leung of the pro-democracy group Civil Human Rights Front, according to the news service.
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On May 4, a day after World Press Freedom Day, the Journalists Syndicate publicly adopted a number of resolutions calling for, among other things, the dismissal of the state's interior minister, an apology from the president, the release of all journalists from imprisonment for publication crimes, and a general conference to discuss a general strike by all journalists.
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Shares were also battered on Monday, with plummeting Hong Kong equities weighing on the overall market, said Gerry Alfonso, director at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dived 2.9% to close at its lowest level since January as the city faced major disruptions, with a general strike paralysing parts of the Asian financial centre.
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