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2191 [lbo-talk] Preparing for a hurricane? -- rank: 129

... violence but there may be other groups who will or police actions may provoke violence. Is there any publicity in the ... up all over Montebello, Que., this week as residents and police braced themselves for a meeting meant to break down barriers ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Fri Aug 17 06:39:28 PDT 2007

2192 SJP at Berkeley -- rank: 129

I wrote to all the vice chancellors; here is the reply from one of them. Comments? Joanna _________________________ Thank you for writing to express your concerns about recent events surrounding Students for Justice in Palestine. These are the facts. 1. Approximately one year ago, SJP occupied Wheeler Hall, a large academic building ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Wed Apr 24 14:01:49 PDT 2002

2193 Superceding liberal democracy -- rank: 129

--- Charles Brown <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote: > > This gets stupider and stupider. There were no > contemporary marxist states > with Jefferson's America, so any comparison is > puerile. > CB: What is your reasoning that a comparison of non-contemporaneous states is puerile ? It seems like a non-sequitur ...

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Author:	Cian O'Connor
Date:	Wed Mar 6 10:22:53 PST 2002

2194 Superceding liberal democracy -- rank: 129

... prospect of direct democracy run by consensus or a Khrushchevite police >state attractive, the former, though, more than the latter. > >^^^^^^^^^ > >CB ... what you propose. You are the >one who proposes a police state, i.e. a liberal state which has a much >longer and worse history of being a police state than Marxist states. >Jefferson presided over a slaveowning , land grabbing liberal police state >that was lasted for a couple of centuries, and ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Mar 5 14:13:29 PST 2002

2195 more sweatshop actions -- rank: 129

... into Ward's office. Almost two hours into the demonstration, police officers gained entrance to the office through a door on ... tried to push their way in, they were met by police officers spraying a chemical agent in their faces through the ... grabbed a nearby fire extinguisher to spray back at the police through the door crack. Approximatel

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 07:56:51 PST 2000

2196 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 129

... the surreptitious firing of pachinko balls with slingshots made the police go insane and look like fools (even though a couple ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Fri Oct 3 13:55:38 PDT 2003

2197 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 129

Hi, It is a rule of thumb in police misconduct litigation that a police failure in crowd control (and most other situations) is generally ... train, supervise, and deploy force, rather than the ratio of police to crowd. This may not fit people'e preconceived politial ... to properly train and supervise is a common allegation in police abuse lawsuits. See, for example, the legal newsletter Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report, (which I helped start in my basement); and the manual, Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation. -Chip Berlet -------------- next part -------------- A ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Thu Oct 2 19:23:00 PDT 2003

2198 Cop Shows & Althusser's Law (was Re: surplus and other stuff) -- rank: 129

... lines'? a brit cop show, very dark, about an > > internal > > police investig. unit who never get their man (who are always ... of injustice, and > 'human' cops, but about the ambiguity of police work and the concept > of police itself - a state with police is to some degree a police > state... If you haven't seen that thread in *Homicide ... the detective > couldn't break his alibi, but because the police officialdom has > made it impossible for her to pursue ...

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Author:	Paul Henry Rosenberg
Date:	Tue Feb 2 15:40:00 PST 1999

2199 Cop Shows & Althusser's Law (was Re: surplus and other stuff) -- rank: 129

... lines'? a brit cop show, very dark, about an > > internal > > police investig. unit who never get their man (who are always ... of injustice, and > 'human' cops, but about the ambiguity of police work and the concept > of police itself - a state with police is to some degree a po

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Feb 3 10:25:17 PST 1999

2200 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 129

... follows: ______________ Thu, 2003-10-02 at 02:26, boddhisatva wrote: > police incitement. The London Metropolitan Police use about 600 officers to > patrol soccer games city-wide ... protests, where the past couple of years have seen 3000 police to control crowds of around 5000. Indeed, the main crowd ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Thu Oct 2 17:09:18 PDT 2003

2201 FT on ruthless violence -- rank: 129

[Wilkinson says "No-one should object to peaceful protests," so evidently he doesn't know about the mayor of NYC, who's put concrete barriers around City Hall Park and put an end to the demonstrations and press events that used to go on there, and keeps a tight lid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 08:25:33 PDT 1999

2202 Genovese -- rank: 129

... was bad. I said it was brutal. The queston of brutality vs consent is exactly what is at issue here. Your ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sat Oct 14 14:51:53 PDT 2000

2203 "bombing Serbs not helping Albanians" -- rank: 129

... Kosovo continued on the 45th day of NATO airstrikes, Serbian police at this Yugoslav border post made no sec

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 08:07:20 PDT 1999

2204 [lbo-talk] India Arrests Suspected Ringleader in New Delhi Bombings -- rank: 129

... the Indian capital late last month has been arrested, the police said Sunday, asserting that the suspect has links to a ... the eve of important Hindu and Muslim festivals. The Delhi police chief, K. K. Paul, told reporters here Sunday afternoon that ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Mon Nov 14 04:06:22 PST 2005

2205 Peaceful, joint Arab/Jewish demonstration organized by Ta'ayush violently turned away at Bethlehem roadblock -- rank: 129

... Atinsky, Indymedia Israel Aug.10, 2002 JERUSALEM - The Israeli Border Police and Army violently attacked a group of approximately 700 Arab ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Aug 10 11:52:42 PDT 2002