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36556 latest from Philly -- rank: 1000

<http://phillyimc.org> BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, August 2nd, 2000 3:00pm Police have been seen sending arrest squads to the area around 16th, 17th, Market, and Chestnut. 2:55pm Medics have reported having their bags dumped at the Roundhouse. 2:45pm Sixty riot police are converging on 6th and Race. 2:35pm Tactical teams of men in fatigues have been sigthed at 7th and Arch. 2:27pm At 12th and Race, police cornered IMC reporters, prevented them from reporting, tried to disable their camer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 2 13:08:15 PDT 2000

36557 Army in Philly -- rank: 1000

[gotta watch those vegan youth - you never know who's packing a nuke!] Wired News - August 1, 2000 Army Battle-Ready for Convention by Declan McCullagh PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Army is prepared to respond to disruptions ranging from civil disobedience to nuclear explosions at the Republican National Convention, a confidential government document says. The terrorism response plan includes flying giant C-5 Galaxy cargo planes loaded with military gear into Willow Grove Naval Air Station, about 25 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 2 09:46:02 PDT 2000

36558 another riposte to Moore -- rank: 1000

[via Katha Pollitt, forwarded with author's permission] Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:17:31 -0400 From: Polly Rothstein <wcla at wcla.org> I disagree with Moore's diatribe. He's wrong on his facts, which puts everything he says with authority in question. . Roe v. Wade is still on the books (mainly because of the consistent and unwavering support from the Reagan-appointed Justice O'Connor. O'Connor thought up the vague "undue burden" standard under which Roe now barely survives. She ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 2 09:28:32 PDT 2000

36559 Dutch reading email? -- rank: 1000

InfoWorld Scoop - August 1, 2000 DUTCH E-MAIL SNOOPING? Posted at Aug 01, 2000 07:37 AM Pacific REPORTS THAT INTELLIGENCE agents have been intercepting e-mail traffic have added urgency to the debate about electronic snooping in the Netherlands, where a pending bill would broaden the government's power to monitor communications. The newspaper De Volkskrant said Monday that the Internal Security Service (Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst, or BVD) had monitored e-mail messages between an unnamed Dutc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 2 09:39:51 PDT 2000

36560 SF Examiner column on Phillyyy -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >They cops would have overreacted, like Seattle, but then Philadelphia has >a curious understanding of brotherly love. Like I've said before, the Seattle cops "overreacted" because they were outnumbered and incompetent. The Philly cops, like the DC cops, were neither. That doesn't mean that they're not brutal, it's just that they're more effective at maintaining state control of the streets. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 16:12:45 PDT 2000

36561 SF Examiner column on Philly -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >does this mean that the left would have done better to smash a few >windows? There were - are - so many cops there, that might not have been a good idea. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 15:43:34 PDT 2000

36562 SF Examiner column on Philly -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Examiner - August 1, 2000 The story was in the streets By Stephanie Salter /EXAMINER COLUMNIST PHILADELPHIA - The only time during the five-hour protest march that I had to restrain my self from hurling a bottle or rock was near the end, when three buffed guys from NBC News cruised past in a golf cart. "It figures," one guy shouted to another. "We show up and the party's over." With two grandmothers named Judith from Philadelphia - and thousands of young demonst ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 14:29:06 PDT 2000

36563 reponse to Moore -- rank: 1000

[Katha Pollitt sent me several responses to Michael Moore's piece, some her own, some the forwarded comments of others. - Doug] KP: >yes, this is the line of all the boys now. I spend hours every week >keeping up with abortion law and politics -- it is much more >complicated than whether or not Roe v Wade is overturned. For example, >the reason attacks on abortion clinics ,which he identifies as the major >threat, have gone down is because of Clinton -- enforcing existing laws &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 13:32:48 PDT 2000

36564 WTO boss Moore talks to young socialists -- rank: 1000

[The PR offensive continues...] <http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spmm_e/spmm33_e.htm> WTO NEWS: SPEECHES - DG MIKE MOORE Malmo, July 26th 2000 In Praise of the Future International Union of Socialist Youth Festival It is good to be able to speak with you. It is over 25 years since I last spoke at the IUSY conference here in Malmo. It will probably be another 25 years before I am invited again. I believe the WTO and other global institutions should be made accountable to their owners, the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 13:07:05 PDT 2000

36565 tales from Philly -- rank: 1000

<http://www.phillyimc.org> Tuesday 3:55: Arrest are being made at 13th and Locust. One officer told an IMC journalist to "take a walk." 3:53: The Clown Block is gathering a crowd at 16th and Springgarden, preparing to move through the city. 3:47: At the Ministry of Puppetganda (41st and Haverford), a banner was dropped announcing "Puppetering isn't a crime! Free the Haverford 70!" Police are on the roof of the building, shining spotlights and pointing cameras at the spa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 12:59:03 PDT 2000

36566 Coke wants the protest kids to drink Coke -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - August 1, 2000 Douglas Daft: Global chief thinks locally By Richard Tomkins The anti-globalisation movement has gathered a fair rag-bag of supporters in the past year or two. Now meet the latest recruit: Douglas Daft, the new chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola. "Think local, act local" has become the catchphrase of the man tasked with turning the company around after one of the worst years in its history. Mr Daft is the first to acknowledge the paradox. "T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 12:13:43 PDT 2000

36567 Republicans fulminate -- rank: 1000

[for some reason the FT gave this raver a column] Financial Times - August 1, 2000 Radical Republicans warm up for Philadelphia Establishing a bunker mentality is vital to fire the tax haters, gun lovers and rabble-rousers who help form GOP policy [by Amity Shlaes] George W. Bush has declared that the Republican convention will exemplify the new compassionate conservatism, and Philadelphia's orchestrators are executing the commands to a W. A sweet-but-bland speaker lineup prominently features th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 12:12:29 PDT 2000

36568 Moore: GOP no threat to abortion -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] "Ain't Fallin' For That One Again" Originally posted at Grassroots.com by Michael Moore I think the first time I remember hearing this political urban myth was in the 1976 presidential election. Somebody told me the reason I had to vote for Jimmy Carter was because if Gerald Ford was elected, women would lose their right to chose to have an abortion. Abortion had been legal for only three years at that point. It was considered a great victory, one we all wanted ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 1 09:03:22 PDT 2000

36569 Fwd: RE: The Week -- rank: 1000

[Bounced bec it came from non-sub'd address. In pre-emptive response, I'd say that openness and liberalization are very different from independence; the U.S. wants an economically open & liberalized, but one still politically subordinate to the U.S. Armed forces and independent foreign policies are very different from creating U.S.-style financial and labor markets.] From: "Mark Jones" <jones118 at lineone.net> Doug Henwood wrote: > So where do you detect this U.S. opposi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 13:52:13 PDT 2000

36570 The Week -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >BTW, one reason why such a scenario (Euroland neoliberalism run amok) is >unthinkable is because the US would never permit such a thing. Gee, that's not the way I read U.S. intentions. You can hardly open a U.S. publication without reading about the urgency of European "liberalization"; a U.S. politician hardly opens his or her (equity requires me to say that, but I can't think of any women who've actually said this) mouth without urging the same. The U.S. has ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 13:13:13 PDT 2000