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March 28, 2011

London: Hundreds of Thousands Protest Austerity Cuts 
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Some 500,000 protesters filled the streets of London Saturday to voice
outrage over government cuts to public spending. Though the protests
were largely peaceful, a small minority of demonstrators clashed with
police and destroyed property. A total of 211 people were arrested.
Union leaders worried the violence would divert attention from the
motivations for the demonstration; namely cutbacks aimed at government
workers.

Protester: "We're marching today to tell the government that we're
against all of the cutbacks they're making. They're too quick, too fast.
All of these people here are local government workers and any one of
these could be out of a job next week thanks to [Prime Minister] Mr.
Cameron."



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