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1021 [lbo-talk] boobs -- rank: 184

> >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > ><http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3> > >The Associated Press reports on Libertarian gubernatorial candidate > >Loretta Nail's hopes that voters in Alabama "will eventually focus on her > >platform" although she is "campaigning on her cleavage." Her campaign is ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Thu Oct 26 12:23:19 PDT 2006

1022 The Jim Crow Five and the Coming Political War -- rank: 184

... the fight against the WTO-IMF, the fight against lawless police brutality, all the way on up to democratic control of the ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Dec 13 12:55:51 PST 2000

1023 [lbo-talk] Mike Davis, seer -- rank: 184

<http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/09/09_414.html> Poor, Black, and Left Behind NEWS: On the fortieth anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the United States seems to have returned to degree zero of moral concern for the majority of descendants of slavery and segregation. By ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 2 15:19:07 PDT 2005

1024 [lbo-talk] Left Behind: Race and the Second Amendment -- rank: 184

dare i say this? charles reports the kind of phenomenon bill cosby was alluding to. spike lee in a CNN interview (ostensibly about his new movie) came out strongly in support of cosby's recent comments -- which he's support since they were uttered. he applauded on the air and stated ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Mon Jul 19 13:03:59 PDT 2004

1025 Cowardice and Courage -- rank: 184

Cowardice and Courage I must say I admire and support the incredible courage of the Iraqi people in their fight against a cowardly enemy. I especially admire their use of the guerilla tactics the American revolutionaries used more than two centuries ago to defeat the Redcoats. The fake surrender and hit ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sun Mar 30 13:19:45 PST 2003

1026 Ifti Nasim Re: Boring Lefties -- rank: 184

... war demonstration the other day, including a Black >minister and police brutality opponent, a young Palestinian guy, a >radical nun who's ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Feb 18 17:35:45 PST 2003

1027 [lbo-talk] soft bigotry... -- rank: 184

[speaking of the soft bigotry of low expectations, there's this provocative piece by the excellent Zeynep T <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=5560>] The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations by Zeynep Toufe May 20, 2004 For the powers-that-be, scapegoating individuals serves as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 19 09:46:36 PDT 2005

1028 [lbo-talk] re: "Third Worldist" political orientation in Great Britain.was: Movements and demoralization -- rank: 184

For what it's worth, here's my $0.02. on this. The only far-left grouping which puts anti-imperialism at the core of its politics is the Revolutionary Communist Group (not to be confused with the late and unlamented organization aka RCT). http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/. (Disclosure ...

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Author:	Steve Palmer
Date:	Tue Aug 1 13:49:14 PDT 2006

1029 [lbo-talk] clarification -- rank: 184

SA wrote: > > shag carpet bomb wrote: > > [clip] > > There's something odd about this position. Both you and Carrol say > you're always encountering people, both sympathetic and not, who, once > socialism is mentioned, very much want to talk about what exactly this > socialism is. So clearly a lot of people *want ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Feb 14 11:00:54 PST 2010

1030 [lbo-talk] Disappearing Genocide - The Media And The Death Of Slobodan Milosevic -- rank: 184

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media March 20, 2006 MEDIA ALERT: DISAPPEARING GENOCIDE The Media And The Death Of Slobodan Milosevic "If we don't know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives. But ...

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Author:	Wendy Lyon
Date:	Mon Mar 20 05:21:53 PST 2006

1031 Catholics file another petition against Pinochet in Brazil -- rank: 184

Today (November, 10) the "Torture Never More" ("Tortura Nunca Mais") organization is petitioning the federal Attorney General to request to the courts the detention of Pinochet as soon as the plane that carries him stops in Brazil (the normal route from Europe to Chile). As I already informed, yesterday a federal ...

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Author:	R.Magellan
Date:	Tue Nov 10 12:02:57 PST 1998

1032 [lbo-talk] What happened to the Occupy movement? -- rank: 184

... did over years with revitalised labour organising, a national anti-police brutality movement and politicised youth and women in micro-enterprises that ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Thu May 24 13:18:12 PDT 2012

1033 Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile -- rank: 184

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> -I don't like this either (from the same interview): >SD: It's a little frightening that left-wing political prisoners are >conflated in the government's eyes with right-wing Moslem >fundamentalists. > >LS: I don't think it's quite ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri May 28 07:26:43 PDT 2004

1034 News and notes today -- rank: 184

... de/luta Campaign for an Independent East Timor Neighbors Against Police Brutality in Chicago in a new action today E mails: Big ...

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Author:	Marko Ajdaric
Date:	Mon Jun 14 06:33:42 PDT 1999

1035 free radical: weekly chronicle of the new unrest -- rank: 184

oh and this site, reverse engineering race, for some hacktivism http://www.mediachannel.org/arts/perspectives/mongrel/front.shtml The New Unrest Issue #1 For the longest time, being on the left has meant being marginal, powerless, and embattled. Since at least the Reagan years, we've been history's losers ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Wed Mar 22 07:09:39 PST 2000