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2221 [lbo-talk] Quick question on U.S. hate crime stats by state -- rank: 129

... to the different policies of the recording authority (i.e. police authority) towards hate crimes. Hence those police authorities that prioritise hate crimes report them more assiduously than ... time, attitudes towards hate crimes has changed. In the 1980s, police authorities were resistant to the idea that there was a ... distinctive. In the 1990s, corresponding to changes in the law, police authorities in the UK began to record specific hate crimes ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Apr 24 14:06:15 PDT 2010

2222 [lbo-talk] Iran - International Protests Against HomophobicPersecution -- rank: 129

Yoshie - The most that you can say about the case of Asgari and Marhoni is that the evidence is conflicting. Were their hanging an isolated incident, the Iranian clerical regime might be given the benefit of the doubt in this regard. Their case is not, however, unique - as the article below ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Wed Jun 28 21:59:55 PDT 2006

2223 WSJrnl story on executed Chinese worker -- rank: 129

Another good Journal piece on working conditions (utterly divorced from political conclusions, of course). Randy Boss's Murder Opens Window Onto Worker Unrest in China By PETER WONACOTT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL XIANNING, China -- On a misty October morning, Xu Yudong set out to visit his former boss ...

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Author:	RE
Date:	Fri Jun 21 07:24:48 PDT 2002

2224 Anarchists or agents provocateurs? -- rank: 129

does it strike anyone else as ridiculous that the handful of spray-painters and window-breakers are being blamed for the state of martial law in downtown seattle? as if the prevention of wto gatherings by *peaceful* means such as blocking of intersections and formation of human chains would have been ...

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Author:	Steve Perry
Date:	Thu Dec 2 08:30:30 PST 1999

2225 [lbo-talk] NY Daily News breaks blackout of Occupy Wall Street protests -- rank: 129

... nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/24/2011-09-24_police_clashes_with_protestors_calling_for_greater_financial_reform_at_union_squ.html Police clashes with 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters as hundreds march on ... for greater financial reform and social equality clashed fiercely with police in Manhattan Saturday. Scores of arrests were made as hundreds ... witnesses said they saw up to 50 people getting arrested. Police created a roadblock at E. 12th St. and University Place ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Sat Sep 24 20:12:22 PDT 2011

2226 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 129

... can >occasionally be pressured domestically for reforms of that same brutality, >they can also occasionally take actions that on net are an improvement on >the general brutality that lies at the regime of global capital. <snip> >Do ... can and should undertake a *civilizing mission* to "reform" the brutality of global capital that it imposes ("actions that on net are an improvement on the general brutality that lies at the r

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Sep 21 08:20:09 PDT 1999

2227 China's black market in Women -- rank: 129

< http://www.nytimes.com > June 25, 2001 Harsh Chinese Reality Feeds a Black Market in Women By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL GAOSHI, China - When a man offered Feng Chenyun temporary work in another city, she jumped at the chance. Barely literate and desperately poor, Ms. Feng had two children, 10 and 16 ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sun Jun 24 21:04:11 PDT 2001

2228 Fw: Anarchists or agents provocateurs? -- rank: 129

... follow the lead of their left elders when the "peace police" call on the crowd to not trash Niketown or Starbucks ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Dec 2 08:10:32 PST 1999

2229 Fwd: Condemn PNG Government killing of protesters -- rank: 129

Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:00:13 +1000 From: DSP <intl at dsp.org.au> Dear Comrades, On Tuesday June 26 the Papua New Guinea government shot dead three students and wounded 17 others who were protesting against the IMF and World Bank, which is forcing a harsh privatisation regime ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 27 06:32:09 PDT 2001

2230 Breathing While Black -- rank: 129

... the Second Circuit: "A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that police officers in Oneonta, N.Y., did not violate the Constitution ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Fri Nov 5 00:50:30 PST 1999

2231 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy.... -- rank: 129

I'm overposted as of this one, so I guess I'll have to leave any future responses to others. It is worth noting - as I did to colleagues who decided the China reference was some sort of counterfactual to the gun problem - that the guy in China was far less ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Mon Dec 17 12:37:42 PST 2012

2232 RE: [lbo-talk] Mädchen in Uniform -- rank: 129

... of the Treasury, U.S. Customs Office, FBI, and state police bomb squads. EOD techs also assist in planning and enforcing ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Mon Jan 30 13:08:42 PST 2006

2233 [lbo-talk] Occupy Crackdowns Coordinated With Federal Law Enforcement Officials -- rank: 129

... night's move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one ... with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies. The official, who spoke on background to me late Monday evening, said that while local police agencies had received tactical and planning advice from national agencies ... this official, in several recent conference calls and briefings, local police agencies were advised to seek a legal reason to evict ...

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Author:	Ferenc Molnar
Date:	Wed Nov 16 11:41:16 PST 2011

2234 FW: Glogovac -- rank: 129

... Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to locate and interview the police officer identified in the report as "Lutka," who may have ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Jul 27 12:19:21 PDT 1999

2235 The People's Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 129

... to want to be defended >against your neighbours, by the police. But the real danger comes from >the police, not your neighbours. > >Breaking the state's monopoly on violence ... I agree with your premise (real danger coming from the police), but not with the conclusion (armed citizens as antidote to ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon Apr 26 09:25:07 PDT 1999