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33661 Reuters on S11 -- rank: 1000

Sunday September 10, 9:35 pm Eastern Time Five injured in protests at "Business Olympics" (UPDATE: Updates throughout) MELBOURNE, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Five people, including two policemen, were injured on Monday as thousands of anti-corporate activists protested outside the World Economic Forum's Asia Pacific meeting at a Melbourne casino complex. Police estimated about 1,500 demonstrators filled the streets around the Crown Casino hotel to voice concerns about the impact of globalisati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 21:19:48 PDT 2000

33662 Melbourne report -- rank: 1000

<http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=502> 'Protesters win first round' by BY SUSAN PRICE 12:32pm Mon Sep 11 '00 phone: (02) 9690 1220 glw at greenleft.org.au MELBOURNE - Ten thousand people have blockaded all entrances of the World Economic Forum's Crown Towers venue, forcing the Victorian leader of the opposition, Denis Napthine to concede the "protesters have unfortunately won the first round". (September 11, 2000, 11.30am) MELBOURNE - Ten thousand people ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 21:08:19 PDT 2000

33663 Philly cops: seeing Red -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >"What is the Maldon Institute and Who is John Rees?" Speaking of Rees, you know anything about my old Party of the Right boss, Grover "Rocky" Rees, who picked federal judges for Reagan, and who also spent some time as governor general of American Samoa, which he promised to make the most pro-life jurisdiction in the world? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 19:20:02 PDT 2000

33664 Australian consulate occupied in NZ -- rank: 1000

[more from Scoop] 11 September 2000, 1:35 pm Article: Alastair Thompson Newsflash: Protestors Occupy Australian Consulate General Protesters have occupied the Australian Consulate General office in Auckland. The protestors have been asked to leave, and most media have now left the foyer of the Australian Consulate General Office, where a peaceful protest of around 35 people is taking place. Earlier the protestors marched down Queen Street, obstructing traffic. There was no police presence either ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 19:04:08 PDT 2000

33665 Fwd: Melbourne Protestors Keep Delegates Out -- rank: 1000

S11 Protestors Keeping Delegates Out Monday, 11 September 2000, 11:34 am Article: Guy MacGibbon http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason The World Economic Forum in Melbourne may not be able to go ahead today, with thousands of protestors blocking the entrances to the venue for the forum, preventing bus loads of delegates from entering, Green MP and protestor Nandor Tanczos said. Speaking from the S11 protest group outside forum venue, the Crown Casino, Mr Tanczos said most of the delegates have not been ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 19:02:00 PDT 2000

33666 Philly cops: seeing Red -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Chuck0 for pointing this out.] Philadelphia Inquirer - September 10, 2000 Rumors had troopers seeing Reds during the GOP convention State police based their suspicions of protesters on information supplied by a right-wing group. By Craig R. McCoy and Linda K. Harris INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS The cold war is long over but Pennsylvania State Police were still on the lookout for communists and Soviet sympathizers among the demonstrators protesting last month's Republican National Convention ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 18:38:03 PDT 2000

33667 Independent on Russian fraud -- rank: 1000

[Wonder if our glorious press will do anything on this? From Johnson's Russia List.] The Independent (UK) 11 September 2000 Million people 'invented' for Russian election By Helen Womack in Moscow Ballot papers were burnt, voters bullied and entire electorates invented in large-scale fraud perpetrated during Russia's presidential election in March, The Moscow Times newspaper has claimed. In its weekend edition, the respected English-language daily said its journalists had gathered enough evidenc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 17:48:20 PDT 2000

33668 social engineering -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Not for nothing did G. Bush Senior ridicule Dukakis for reading books >about "Swedish social planning." Land use planning, actually, I think it was. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 11:36:28 PDT 2000

33669 electoral politics -- rank: 1000

[David McReynolds, Socialist Party candidate for president, asked me to run as an elector in New York State - i.e., if he should win, I would have been a member of the electoral college, ha ha. My acceptance of the nomination was rejected because I sent it by fax, so it didn't have an original signature. An email I just sent to the executive director of the New York State Board of Elections, Thomas R. Wilkey. From their postal practices, you'd almost think they were happy to reject me.] To: twil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 9 16:40:49 PDT 2000

33670 Russian election fraud -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Moscow Times September 9, 2000 And the Winner Is? The Moscow Times has documented enough falsification in the March 26 presidential election to question the legitimacy of the vote. Yevgenia Borisova reports from Dagestan, Saratov, Tatarstan, Ingushetia, Bashkortostan and Moscow, and by telephone from Novosibirsk, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kabardino-Balkariya and Mordovia. With additional reporting by Gary Peach from Kaliningrad, Nonna Chernyakova from Vladivostok and M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 9 10:33:23 PDT 2000

33671 Chavez: "investors are arriving from around the world" -- rank: 1000

Business Week - September 18, 2000 Venezuela: "Investors Are Arriving from Around the World" President Hugo Chavez speaks out on Venezuela's ''peaceful revolution'' They call him Hurricane Hugo -- and with good reason. Since taking office as President of Venezuela in February, 1999, Hugo Chvez, the paratrooper turned politician, has swept away much of the old political order. The parties that once dominated the scene have been reduced to bit players as Chvez and his supporters have ass ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 8 16:19:49 PDT 2000

33672 McReynolds & GLBTs -- rank: 1000

From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 21:50:22 EDT This will be sent to the Gay/Lesbian press - if you have your own contacts in the GLBT community or media, please forward this to them. David McReynolds Open Letter to the LGBT Press Those of us signing this statement share two things in common - we are part of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender community and we know David McReynolds, the Socialist Party's candidate for President in the current election. We have differences - some of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 8 11:02:38 PDT 2000

33673 London biz warms to Livingstone -- rank: 1000

[from the weekly MORI digest] >London business warms to Ken > >London's businesses have become more confident in the effects of Ken >Livingstone's performance as Mayor since he was elected, according >to the latest London Monitor survey by IDA for the London Chamber of >Commerce and Industry in conjunction with the Evening Standard. More >than three in five businesses, 63%, think that he will work either >very well (8%) or fairly well (55%) with London's business >comm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 8 12:03:02 PDT 2000

33674 edit an alternative weekly! -- rank: 1000

Someone wrote me for names of candidates to edit a major metropolitan alternative weekly. Interested partie please contact me offlist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 8 12:27:59 PDT 2000

33675 progress in economics, an ongoing series -- rank: 1000

"An Economic Analysis of the Peter and Dilbert Principles" BY: JOAO RICARDO FARIA University of Technology, Sydney Department Finance and Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=231650 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.business.uts.edu.au/finance/research/wpaper s/wp101.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When URLs wra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 8 11:48:26 PDT 2000