The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 4, 2010 Hundreds of Thousands Protest in Paris over Austerity Cuts ---------------------------------------------------------- Large-scale protests are continuing in Europe against planned budget cuts and sweeping economic reforms. In France, hundreds of thousands marched in Paris Saturday calling on President Nicolas Sarkozy to drop plans to raise the retirement age from sixty to sixty-two. .