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11296 Fwd: (50 Years) WB cancels Barcelona meeting because of protests -- rank: 46

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 01:51:26 -0400 The World Bank announced on Saturday that it was cancelling its Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, due to be held in Barcelona in late June. It has chosen to do this rather than face large ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 21 06:59:25 PDT 2001

11297 [lbo-talk] Americans respond to $4 gas: drill drill -- rank: 46

... theoretical one (with a capital 'T'). > Well then, what about 'police state'? I have only ever visited the US > once in ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Fri Jul 4 04:04:48 PDT 2008

11298 Take Back The Campus -- rank: 46

The latest -- an attempt to mimic Horowitz! TAKE BACK THE CAMPUS Are you tired of male-bashing and victimology? Have you had your fill of feminist "Ms./Information"? Have you been mislead by factually challenged professors? TAKE THIS TEST: Campus feminism is a kind of cult: as early as freshman orientation ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Sun May 20 09:48:19 PDT 2001

11299 J D Bernal; Scientist as Revolutionary -- rank: 46

http://www.frontlineonline.com/fl1810/18100860.htm EXCELLENCE Scientist as revolutionary The life of J.D. Bernal is a testimony to the commitment that a scientist must use his knowledge and technique only for human welfare. S. CHATTERJEE SOMETIME in 1940, two men disembarked at a railway station in the English ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sat May 19 19:06:52 PDT 2001

11300 WB cxls mtg -- rank: 46

Saturday May 19 1:45 PM ET World Bank, Fearing Violence, Scraps Spain Meeting MADRID (Reuters) - The World Bank on Saturday said it had canceled a conference on how to fight poverty due to take place in Spain next month because of concerns anti-globalization groups would try to disrupt theevent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 19 15:38:16 PDT 2001

11301 Nathan's Dean weighs in -- rank: 46

Just in from Yale - on today's op-ed page: NEW HAVEN -- Last year, in a dramatic reversal, the National Labor Relations Board held that graduate teaching assistants at New York University are "employees" and affirmed their right to form a union and to bargain collectively with the university. After being ...

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Author:	Michael McIntyre
Date:	Sat May 19 08:04:56 PDT 2001

11302 [lbo-talk] For the global right to migrate! Solidarity without borders -- rank: 46

http://www.recht-auf-migration.de.vu/ For the global right to migrate! Solidarity without borders Against racism, social exclusion and the surveillance state A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of migration. Whether they were called, had to flee or simply came, migrants have been living here for years. 1993 ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Fri Jul 4 12:37:38 PDT 2008

11303 [lbo-talk] Growing moderatism in academia -- rank: 46

... specifically to clamp down on campus radicalism. While his direct police state methods failed miserably, adding gasoline to fire, his reactionary ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Jul 4 18:49:57 PDT 2008

11304 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 46

... that "Jack Straw, the Home > Secretary, was slow-handclapped by police officers." Is this a very > British way of expressing disapproval ...

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Author:	Daniel Davies
Date:	Fri May 18 09:38:59 PDT 2001

11305 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 46

... that "Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, was slow-handclapped by police officers." Is this a very British way of expressing disapproval ...

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Author:	Erik Empson
Date:	Fri May 18 09:21:38 PDT 2001

11306 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 46

... that "Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, was slow-handclapped by police officers." Is this a very British way of expressing disapproval ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 18 07:30:20 PDT 2001

11307 [lbo-talk] Americans respond to $4 gas: drill drill -- rank: 46

Woj writes: "As to the US being a police state - a few days ago NPR run a program on ...

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Author:	Joanna
Date:	Fri Jul 4 20:33:31 PDT 2008

11308 [lbo-talk] Americans respond to $4 gas: drill drill -- rank: 46

>Also,if you like a mystery, he is probably the most mysterious American writer of the 20th century.  May be, Traven was not so american at all. When his first books have been published in the 1920s in german in Germany in the publishing houses of the unions and the ...

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Author:	moominek at aol.com
Date:	Sat Jul 5 07:07:58 PDT 2008

11309 US vs USSR -- rank: 46

... like the x-USSR - the same nomenklatura system, the same police state practices, the same claims to ideological superiority, and above ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Wed May 16 17:07:25 PDT 2001

11310 judicial tyranny (off topic) -- rank: 46

Off thread comment (it's too long and convoluted to intervene in, and I lack the legal-technical background (but not the interest) - suffice to say J & W seem to be talking past one another at this point.) The similarities between the USA and the ex-USSR are (were) much greater ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed May 16 16:57:07 PDT 2001