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13006 Protests to save Shaka Sankofa -- rank: 46

Friends: Demonstrations were held around the country Monday to protest against the impending execution of Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham) in Texas. Shaka is scheduled to die Thursday, unless Gov. George W. Bush intervenes. Shaka’s supporters are demanding a new trial, which they say will prove he did not commit the ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Tue Jun 20 09:38:00 PDT 2000

13007 Fwd: [BRC-ANN] Statement on New York Festival Attacks -- rank: 46

I'm gonna need some help on a new term here, and it's sort of relevant to the stuff on consensus vs. hierarchy .... > >Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit & Transgender >People of Color Communities OK, Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual are fairly straightforward, & Transgender is the same as "transsexual". But "Two ...

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Author:	DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com
Date:	Tue Jun 20 04:21:13 PDT 2000

13008 Burford's post re Yoshie -- rank: 46

... Yugoslavia" there was great resentment of the SErbian dominated federal police force. The dominant decision making body (aside from Tito) was ...

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Author:	Greg Nowell
Date:	Mon Apr 5 15:45:40 PDT 1999

13009 [lbo-talk] FYI & Comment if you Wish -- rank: 46

On 2010-03-11, at 4:27 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Or, perhaps, I am reporting what they tell me, which is that the IRA have been a bunch of thugs for a long time. > > "Actual" means "person who lives in Ireland," as opposed to "non-actual," which means "person of ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Mar 11 04:55:27 PST 2010

13010 [lbo-talk] Workers in U.S. most dangerous industry demand protection -- rank: 46

... Serene"), was beaten violently on Halloween by mask-wearing men. Police officer? Soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan? What sort of job ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Mar 12 06:16:19 PST 2010

13011 more stats -- rank: 46

[More from Sam Smith...] Exactly when and why did the KLA cease being a terrorist organization in the mind of the Department of State? CHOICES If you want to count bodies, the incontrovertible fact is that the US embargo policy towards Iraq has been infinitely more gratuitously deadly than any ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 5 15:36:38 PDT 1999

13012 G Frank on NATO HYPOCRISY IN YUGOSLAVIA -- rank: 46

For me Gunder Frank was most important for his attempts to analyse unequal exchange in the process of uneven development on a world scale, although my impression is he failed because of lack of a sufficiently dynamic model of global value. I did not expect to agree with it, but this ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Apr 5 10:27:32 PDT 1999

13013 [lbo-talk] More on the Hurt Locker as "half-baked Nietzscheanism" -- rank: 46

The social conditions which give rise to organized fascist movements are not currently present in the US, but there is "more than a whiff of fascism" in the culture which is increasingly seeping into Hollywood, notes the other US Marxist film critic worth reading, David Walsh, with special reference to the ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Fri Mar 12 09:51:09 PST 2010

13014 [fla-left] [MUMIA] Federal udge imposes severe restrictions onsupporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal (fwd) -- rank: 46

... contact with children, and submitting to suprise home invasions by police in order to make sure he wasn't drawing any ...

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Author:	Ampersand B. Deutsch
Date:	Sat Jun 17 07:27:11 PDT 2000

13015 [lbo-talk] Parade of the Clueless -- rank: 46

... I saw no sympathy for their politics one the initial police violence subsided a few minutes into the film. On Wed ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Wed Mar 17 15:21:24 PDT 2010

13016 In Defence of the Sophists -- rank: 46

>The anecdote would be better if the speakers were different. In the historical >reality of ancient Athens it was *Socrates* who was the primary spokesperson >for the position that wisdom was above the reach of common folk -- it was >the Sophists whose central doctrine was that ordinary folks, even artisans ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jun 16 13:14:37 PDT 2000

13017 [lbo-talk] teacher union bashing -- rank: 46

Dennis Claxton Because he founded the Museum of Primitive Art? I think dubious art patronage would be trumped by excessive drug laws named after you. ^^^^^ CB: That's part of it "creation of the New York State Council on the Arts. " Hey nowadays everybody points out that Nixon was a flaming ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Mar 19 13:09:19 PDT 2010

13018 whaddya expect from a guy named Bruce? -- rank: 46

... story I heard. Here is the URL for the NYPD Police Benovolent Association. They have all their e-mail addresses for ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jun 16 01:46:27 PDT 2000

13019 whaddya expect from a guy named Bruce? -- rank: 46

... he's a floating fag." --New York Fraternal Order of Police president Bob Lucente on Bruce Springsteen, whose song "41 Shots ...

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Author:	Steve Perry
Date:	Thu Jun 15 11:27:58 PDT 2000

13020 whaddya expect from a guy named Bruce? -- rank: 46

... he's a floating fag." --New York Fraternal Order of Police president Bob Lucente on Bruce Springsteen, whose song "41 Shots ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 15 10:35:20 PDT 2000