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13891 [lbo-talk] non-violence is the most powerful weapon we have -- rank: 46

On 09/11/2011 11:02, shag carpet bomb wrote: > "this isn't about violence, it's about changing the system. If people > cause violence, then they're going to disrupt the narrative. ... > Non-violence is the most powerful weapon we have." Damage to property isn't 'violence'. I think the ...

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Author:	Lenin's Tomb
Date:	Wed Nov 9 03:34:18 PST 2011

13892 [lbo-talk] internal threats -- rank: 46

... think of? - burning down the public library? > beating up the police chief's kids? etc.?) > I've never really liked the ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Wed Nov 9 06:19:58 PST 2011

13893 Cambodia & Quotas & Labor Rights -- rank: 46

[The FT puts a very different spin on this from the WSJ article posted on this a couple months back. The WSJ said "everyone agrees labor conditions have improved." The FT says everyone agrees they haven't, and that Cambodian labor is for not raising the quota until their demands ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Apr 10 03:22:20 PDT 2000

13894 [lbo-talk] non-violence is the most powerful weapon we have -- rank: 46

... the state would use outright violence to defend it. If police assaulted a mass picket, or a demonstration, people would have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 07:04:29 PST 2011

13895 [jonmaasz at hotmail.com: riot anyone?] -- rank: 46

Foreigners of the world unite ! JC Helary ps: what Tokyo governor calls Chinese and Korean foreigners here are in fact (for a big part) descendants of people who were taken here by force during the colonial expansion of Japan in both countries. ----- Forwarded message from john maasz <jonmaasz at hotmail.com ...

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Author:	JC Helary
Date:	Sun Apr 9 19:32:56 PDT 2000

13896 Phila. Inq. on SOA demonstration -- rank: 46

November 23, 1998 >From soldier to protester. To a priest, Army school is the enemy By Richard Jones INQUIRER STAFF WRITER COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Squinting into the midday sun, the Rev. Ray Bourgeois -- Catholic missionary, Vietnam veteran and, until recently, federal prison inmate No. 83274-020 -- smiled wanly as he passed the ...

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Author:	Ronnie Dadone
Date:	Mon Nov 23 09:52:31 PST 1998

13897 [lbo-talk] internal threats -- rank: 46

----- Original Message ----- On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:19 PM, "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: In the case of the Oakland general strike, there's a pretty obvious logic behind the window smashing. The general strike was fairly openly intended to be coercive, that is, to involve forcing ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed Nov 9 10:39:31 PST 2011

13898 American Psycho/Beauty -- rank: 46

[I wonder if those lefties (and flabby liberals) who were so unnerved by _Fight Club_ and unimpresed with _American Beauty_ will have similar feelings about _American Psycho_.] New York Times / Arts / April 9, 2000 The Risky Territory of 'American Psycho' By MARY HARRON (who is the director and co-writer ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sun Apr 9 11:07:10 PDT 2000

13899 "More and More, Europeans Find Fault With U.S." -- rank: 46

[The most cheering, inspiring article I've read in the NY Times in a long, long time -- with special guest star Felix "The Fixer" Rohatyn. You go, EU!] More and More, Europeans Find Fault With U.S. By Suzanne Daley Paris, April 8 -- Just read the title of his new ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sun Apr 9 10:27:16 PDT 2000

13900 DE FABEL VAN DE ILLEGALL [Netherlands]: Earth Foundation Flirts with Nationalism -- rank: 46

From the latest anti-fascist bulletin of Tom Burghardt. Michael Pugliese The tail end of the Reagan-Bush era was accompanied by a realignment of various [right-wing] movement tendencies, marked by the ascension of a group of self-identified "paleoconservatives," who opposed U.S. military intervention abroad and welfare statism ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Apr 9 09:16:11 PDT 2000

13901 [lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland's imminent implosion and the wider effects -- rank: 46

... I am; and it would be foolish to give the police an excuse to bust us because I must "express myself ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Nov 9 14:24:15 PST 2011

13902 [lbo-talk] strategy (was internal threats) -- rank: 46

At 10:22 AM -0500 9/11/11, // ravi wrote: >I see heavy usage of this word, "strategy", here on this list. It's >a word I typically associate with managerial types (hence my earlier >wisecrack) who, unlike GHW, believe in the "vision thing"; so the >heavy use here creates cognitive ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Wed Nov 9 15:35:17 PST 2011

13903 [lbo-talk] non-violence is the most powerful weapon we have -- rank: 46

... now, I was thinking about this. For instance, during the police raid on the OO camp that eventually led to the ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Wed Nov 9 17:08:01 PST 2011

13904 [lbo-talk] BB: fuck shit up, then leave -- rank: 46

... things to know about the Oakland situation: 1. Here, cops police brown people and leave white people alone. OO is largely ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed Nov 9 18:24:08 PST 2011

13905 [lbo-talk] non-violence is the most powerful weapon we have -- rank: 46

Just a note. Why are we bothering to spend so much time "defending" the Black Bloc on this list when actually no one on the list has made a single rational criticism of the Black Bloc. Proyect just vomits up old SWP slanders against SDS & the Panthers & others shudder at how ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Nov 9 18:28:50 PST 2011