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January 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Public service employees attend a demonstrate to protest against rampant unemployment and biting austerity measures in Valencia on January 26, 2012
PressTV
Sat Jan 28, 2012
Spanish public sector workers have vowed to stage a mass demonstration in Barcelona to protest against budget cuts hitting key services in the Catalonia region.
Police, firefighters, teachers and hospital staff vowed a mass demonstration in Barcelona on Saturday.
The protest will be marked by the presence of regional police officers, prison guards and firefighters to warn that the austerity measures are undermining security in the country.
Union sources predict that attendance at Saturday’s march could exceed the last one on January 18 which brought thousands of people into the street on a week day. Police gave the figure for that march as 11,000.
On Thursday, Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of several cities in eastern Spain to protest against the government’s austerity measures.
Unions’ leaders called for the protests after the regional government of Valencia, Spain’s most indebted region, announced deep spending cuts to health and education sectors.
Meanwhile, Spain’s unemployment rate has soared to 22.85 percent- the highest in 17 years, which means there are more than five-million people unemployed in the country.
Spain has announced spending cuts of more than 11-billion dollars as well as tax increases to reduce the country’s deficit to avoid seeking a financial bailout like Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
The worsening debt crisis has forced EU governments to adopt harsh austerity measures and tough economic reforms, triggering incidents of social unrest and massive protests in many European countries.
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