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13936 WB notes its enemies -- rank: 46

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] AFTER SEATTLE, PROTEST REBORN. The last time opponents of global capitalism confronted the ranks of domestic law enforcement¾in Seattle, Nov. 30 to Dec. 3¾the results were clouds of tear gas, volleys of rubber bullets and the makings of a mass ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 3 12:04:47 PDT 2000

13937 [lbo-talk] Leftist Italian Economist on How The Italian & European Left Was Destroyed -- rank: 46

... grotesque attempt to shift the blame away from the Italian police and government, quite the contrary. As Davies says, "Genoa tells ...

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Author:	Voyou
Date:	Sun Nov 13 20:09:49 PST 2011

13938 [lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland: Pre-dawn raid clears Frank Ogawa Plaza -- rank: 46

... ET Occupy Oakland: Pre-dawn raid clears Frank Ogawa Plaza Police have moved into a camp set up by Occupy protesters ...

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Author:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Mon Nov 14 09:17:17 PST 2011

13939 L.A.LaborNews - The China Syndrome - meltdown in the movement (fwd) -- rank: 46

This is a useful contribution, not simply because I agree with the text, but because it doesn't resort to simplistic characterizations of the AFL-CIO as a monolothic entity, with all troops goosestepping to the same tune. Note the discussion of the Asian desk if you are wondering what I ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Sun Apr 2 23:35:41 PDT 2000

13940 [lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland: Pre-dawn raid clears Frank Ogawa Plaza -- rank: 46

... ET Occupy Oakland: Pre-dawn raid clears Frank Ogawa Plaza Police have moved into a camp set up by Occupy protesters ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon Nov 14 09:29:21 PST 2011

13941 [lbo-talk] Berkeley City Councilmember to UCB -- rank: 46

... the eyes of authority committing violence. Anyone who says the police need an excuse from violent behavior is an ignoramus. Carrol

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Nov 14 15:32:34 PST 2011

13942 [lbo-talk] Berkeley City Councilmember to UCB -- rank: 46

... 11/14/2011, Carrol Cox wrote: >Anyone who says the police need an excuse from violent behavior is an >ignoramus. They ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Nov 14 17:40:43 PST 2011

13943 [lbo-talk] Berkeley City Councilmember to UCB -- rank: 46

... 11/14/2011, Carrol Cox wrote: >Anyone who says the police need an excuse from violent behavior is an >ignoramus. They ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Nov 14 17:57:13 PST 2011

13944 [lbo-talk] GA at Foley Square at 6a,n, -- rank: 46

... media were arrested = new york times reporter among them 6. police helicopters were forcefully keeping news helicopters from getting overhead footage ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Nov 15 04:09:14 PST 2011

13945 [lbo-talk] GA at Foley Square at 6a,n, -- rank: 46

... media were arrested = new york times reporter among them 6. police helicopters were forcefully keeping news helicopters from getting overhead footage ...

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Author:	farmelantj at juno.com
Date:	Tue Nov 15 05:53:52 PST 2011

13946 [lbo-talk] Berkeley City Councilmember to UCB -- rank: 46

... the eyes of authority committing violence. Anyone who says the police need an excuse from violent behavior is an ignoramus. Carrol ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Nov 15 06:15:48 PST 2011

13947 Poland's Glossy Capitalism Displays a Darker Underside -- rank: 46

[From today’s NY Times] Poland's Glossy Capitalism Displays a Darker Underside By Roger Cohen Warsaw -- In the entrance to the offices of his growing movement, called Self-Defense, Andrej Lepper displays a framed quotation from Pope John Paul II: "It is unacceptable to claim that after the fall ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Sep 30 07:29:19 PDT 1999

13948 reparations -- rank: 46

In message <s7f2032d.033 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >Charles: I don't think the Marxist position is that most of what is obvious is >false consciousness, is it ? I realize there is the famous quote from Marx on >the ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 29 18:28:49 PDT 1999

13949 News and notes for Sep 30, A Luta Cont'inua -- rank: 46

... drug Redux Mbeki follows his teachers: calls workers for ''cohabitation'' Brutality in media can cause boys to equate violence with masculinity ...

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Author:	Marko Ajdaric
Date:	Thu Sep 30 02:22:52 PDT 1999

13950 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin on AJE on Bluestocking panel -- rank: 46

I wasn't really following this thread until shag's last post, which prompted me to read Corey's piece. I think shag's criticism is essentially right, but I'll add a couple of observations: First, I think the whole state / market / civil society framing is really problematic, and in ...

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Author:	lbo83235
Date:	Tue Nov 15 10:31:41 PST 2011