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Workers shout slogans and hold a banner reading " Employment, pensions, united across Europe" , during a demonstration against austerity, in Marseille, southern France, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. With rampant unemployment spreading misery in southern Europe and companies shutting factories across the continent, workers around the European Union sought to unite in a string of strikes and demonstrations on Wednesday, with strikes and protests planned in Italy, Greece, Portugal, France and Belgium. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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Demonstrators clash with policemen in riot gear during a protest against Italian Government austerity measures in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Workers across the European Union sought to present a united front against rampant unemployment and government spending cuts Wednesday with a string of strikes and demonstrations across the region. Protesters clashed with police in various demonstrations in Rome, Milan, Turin, Padua and Brescia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Protesters carry a banner reading "Resist the measures" during a union protest outside Parliament in Athens on Nov. 14, 2012. Workers across the European Union sought to present a united front against rampant unemployment and government spending cuts with a string of strikes and demonstrations across the region. (Associated Press)

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A protester covers her head in a plastic bag, meant to show that austerity measures are suffocating Greeks, outside Parliament during a union protest in Athens on Nov. 14, 2012. Workers across the European Union sought to present a united front against rampant unemployment and government spending cuts Wednesday with a string of strikes and demonstrations across the region. (Associated Press)

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A protester sits in Gran Via street during a general strike in Madrid on Nov. 14, 2012. Spain's General Workers' Union said the nationwide stoppage — the second this year — was being observed by nearly all workers in the automobile, energy, shipbuilding and constructions industries. (Associated Press)

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GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina (right), have advised 15 of the country’s largest defense contractors to follow the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Supporters of "Vote Yes on B in Los Angeles," the condom-use-in-porn measure on the November ballot led by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, hand out voter information and free condoms on Los Angeles' famed Sunset Strip on Oct. 27, 2012. (Joe Kohen/AIDS Healthcare Foundation via Associated Press)

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Greek riot police officers, right, push the last remaining protesters off the street, following an anti-austerity rally in front of the Parliament in central Athens, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. Thousands of protesters converged on the Greek capital's main square outside the Parliament on Sunday evening, as lawmakers debated the 2013 budget, which includes pension and salary cuts demanded by the country's international creditors in order for them to approve the next vital batch of rescue loans. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)