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211 a critique of the march on Sandton/Peoples' Strike -- rank: 368

>The nature of the type of actions being proposed (which I have heard >explained in detail and which would be better left off the internet) >basically limits participation in the September 27 protest against the >WB and IMF to what I call "professional activists:" people who are >well-experienced >with ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 7 20:16:54 PDT 2002

212 FW: Reports from arrested protestors -- rank: 368

... the roundhouse By Rolando de Aguiar Conditions within the Roundhouse, police headquarters at 8th and Race Streets are degrading. As of ... p.m., detainees had not eaten in 10 hours, while police had suspended bathroom privileges. R2K media received a call this ... reduced, the sanitary conditions continue to worsen. Around noon yesterday, police raided the Ministry of Puppetganda at 41st and Haverford. The ... were packed aboard a 36 person "school bus, painted with police colors" and driven from West Philadelphia, to the Roundhouse, then ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Wed Aug 2 13:56:42 PDT 2000

213 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: [SIXTIES-L] Former Black Panthers in Prison Need Your Support] -- rank: 368

... charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Similar charges were thrown out back in 1975 after ... the evidence used to indict the men was extracted by police torture. Two of the men have been held as political ... families. A ninth man is still being sought by the police. These men, known collectively as the San Francisco 8 (SF ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Aug 6 08:51:22 PDT 2007

214 cinncinati -- rank: 368

... 12, 2001 1:22 PM Subject: cinncinati > wojtek writes about police response in Cincinnati: > > "That seems to be a rational response ... over-armed > population: shoot first, ask questions later. Bitching about 'police > brutality' misses the point that this society first needs to be ... I used to live in a country where only the police were armed (Romania). It > was not good -- though, I did ... a result, grow up with a healthy fear of > the police. I was also trained by the cops (to be a ...

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Author:	Noam B. Ascher
Date:	Thu Apr 12 17:00:52 PDT 2001

215 Mexican Campus Protests Turn Radical -- rank: 359

... liked the photo which showed a line of about 15 police vehicles that had been torched and ended up as burned ... so-called leaders asking for "peace," its obvious that the police have no interest in "peace." Chuck0 "Peter K." wrote: > > Mexico ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sat Feb 26 11:30:09 PST 2000

216 Spreading rumors -- rank: 359

... even get me started about some of the claims of police "brutality" coming out of recent actions. Nobody ever said that going ... picnic. Some of the things that have been characterized as "brutality" are ridiculous. I've spent the night in jail after a police riot and the cops threatened me with all kinds of ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Oct 2 13:24:32 PDT 2000

217 Denzel Washington -- rank: 359

... the film is that it is a harsh condemnation of police brutality-- it starts off with Denzel promoting the idea that liberal ... And then the whole story gets flipped, as the true brutality of Alonzo comes out. The end story goes a bit ... s a harsh story that reveals that this kind of police brutality is not supported by the community either. Denzel is not ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Wed Mar 27 20:29:03 PST 2002

218 [Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] Making a Crime of Class] -- rank: 359

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Making a Crime of Class Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 20:05:59 -0400 From: Adolph Reed <reeda at newschool.edu> To: brc-news at lists.tao.ca http://www.igc.org/lpa/lppress/lpp54_classprison.html Labor Party Press July 2000 Two Million Behind ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Jul 6 18:18:51 PDT 2000

219 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Exporting American Values -- rank: 359

[in case we forgot...] New York Times - May 8, 2004 Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S. By Fox Butterfield Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, ta kes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 12:18:13 PDT 2004

220 [lbo-talk] Occupy the hood: A black perspective on occupy wallstreet -- rank: 359

Thanks for saying what I was trying to say, only much better. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- nice analysis. I still don't see the worth of the remark however. It's a remark that expects blacks to act a certain way - become involved in OWS because it's in *their* interest particularly ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Thu Dec 15 11:57:52 PST 2011

221 Cincy Uprising -- rank: 359

... wrote: >1. Gun ownership can't explain racial profiling and police >brutality, unless perhaps you are arguing that blacks are more likely ... my argument. >3. The best way to decrease racial profiling, police brutality, _& >the number of cops killed while on the job_ is to decrease >unemployment, to raise the median wage, & to police less. You miss the point I'm trying to make ... trying to move away from voluntaristic and moralistic 'explanations' of police behavior so popular among many lefties, and try to ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Apr 12 14:57:19 PDT 2001

222 [lbo-talk] Comrade Coleman Young -- rank: 359

Coleman A. Young 1918-1997 Coleman A. Young is one of the most important African-American political pioneers in history. He was one of the first black mayors of a major U.S. city Young's life story features a series of many "firsts", each of which created opportunities for others ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed May 25 07:19:49 PDT 2016

223 [lbo-talk] Occupy the hood: A black perspective on occupy wallstreet -- rank: 359

nice analysis. I still don't see the worth of the remark however. It's a remark that expects blacks to act a certain way - become involved in OWS because it's in *their* interest particularly - whereas the speaker would never hold himself or white leftists to the same expectation that ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Thu Dec 15 04:05:39 PST 2011

224 [lbo-talk] Iraqi government tortures political opponents -- rank: 351

... hrw.org Iraq: Torture Continues at Hands of New Government Police Systematically Abusing Detainees BAGHDAD -- January 25 -- Iraqi security forces are ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Jan 25 16:02:22 PST 2005

225 Guess What's Going On In School! -- rank: 351

Alright! Sounds like the high school I wish I went to! Instead I went to one where I was elected the one most likely to join a Tibetan monastery even though I was an atheist... Michael Pugliese Guess What's Going On In School! May 16, 2001 by: Phyllis Schlafly While ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu May 17 18:12:52 PDT 2001