Spain's disabled protest over cuts

Disabled people have taken to the streets of Madrid in the latest protest against broad austerity measures, anger over government cutbacks reducing services, closing disability centres and forcing care workers from their jobs.

Spain's disabled protest over cuts

Disabled people have taken to the streets of Madrid in the latest protest against broad austerity measures, anger over government cutbacks reducing services, closing disability centres and forcing care workers from their jobs.

More than 10,000 people, many in wheelchairs or being led by guide dogs, marched in a demonstration with the slogan “SOS Disability: Save our Rights, Inclusion and Welfare.”

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