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2506 Drug war comes to SA -- rank: 119

... the British Foreign Office and handed to the South African police. The report, submitted late last year, suggests that poor border ... the top of the drug-peddling world. Senior South African police sources said this week the British report is based on ... route from South Africa. The proposed new laws will give police and the Department of Home Affairs powers similar to the ...

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Author:	Russell Grinker
Date:	Sat Feb 19 01:42:00 PST 2000

2507 ACTION Not Division Some Thoughts on Tactics for A16 by Brian Dominick -- rank: 119

... that was so much as damaged by anyone but the police. What kind of riot is it when nobody smashes car ... key to Seattle's media success. What good does confronting police do unless the police over-react and engender sympathy and outrage? Police are just as happy to put a bunch of hippies ...

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Author:	D.L.
Date:	Fri Apr 14 07:35:28 PDT 2000

2508 ROTC goes plainclothes -- rank: 119

... entrances to the ROTC building were found smashed early Friday, police off

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 12:13:27 PST 2003

2509 Hispanics Targeted in Fake Drug Cases -- rank: 119

... Jan 2002 DALLAS (AP) — Hispanics may have been targeted by police in narcotics cases based on fake drugs, their attorneys allege ... is working to dismiss 59 cases, some involving two undercover police narcotics officers, who have been placed on administrative leave, and ... Wright called the cases ``the epitome of racial profiling.'' ``The police knew they were picking on people that would be deported,'' he said. Dallas Police Chief Terrell Bolton has said

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Mon Jan 21 08:42:23 PST 2002

2510 [lbo-talk] Re: Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day -- rank: 119

The police official, who lead the initial investigation and interrogation of the ... attack Kruger's thriving elephant herds face a new cull Police confusion heightens US sniper spree fears Israel vows to assassinate ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Aug 31 08:59:00 PDT 2003

2511 [lbo-talk] Good activistists -- rank: 119

http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071203/METRO02/712030396/1411/METRO02 Raging Grannies honk off Ferndale Peace activists fight city over right to urge sympathetic drivers to toot horns Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News FERNDALE A close inspection of Nancy Goedert's picket sign shows she encourages passing ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Dec 5 08:01:24 PST 2007

2512 Walden Bello on WTO Summit: -- rank: 119

Here is what happened at a Bay area anti-WTO event. It was very well thought out in the abstract. We decided to hold the event at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA, north of Berkeley and Oakland. This is about the poorest area in the region along with perhaps East ...

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Author:	C P
Date:	Sat Nov 10 18:39:55 PST 2001

2513 WSJ on A16 (cont.) -- rank: 119

Wall Street Journal - April 14, 2000 MF Protesters Prize Intensity Over Numbers BY HELENE COOPER and MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- As this city hunkers down to host the weekend's Evils of Globalization protest party, one thing is already clear: The activists here won ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 14 10:10:00 PDT 2000

2514 [lbo-talk] the London looting is anti-politics for the Internet Age. -- rank: 119

the London looting is anti-politics for the Internet Age. Social networks and smart mobs have replaced civil disobedience and politically radical social movements. Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales in a Rand libertrarian financier pornographer) replaces reading. YouTube replaces the documentary film. Nicholas Carr (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) wrote a book called ...

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Author:	Nicholas Roberts
Date:	Mon Aug 15 21:05:35 PDT 2011

2515 FW: World Bank, Bolivian Water Privatization and Martial Law -- rank: 119

>From those evil nationalist inside the Beltway critics of free trade. mbs ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ global economy network Campaign for America's Future http://www.ourfuture.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ April 14, 2000 Attached below is a media backgrounder on the struggle and government violence in Bolivia surrounding privatization of the public water system. Last year ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Apr 14 14:04:46 PDT 2000

2516 NYC die-in; 140 arrested -- rank: 119

Anti-War 'Die-In' Snarls New York NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested more than 140 protesters who lay down in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 08:57:12 PST 2003

2517 [lbo-talk] The next chapter in the Patriot Act -- rank: 119

The next chapter in the Patriot Act By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/The+next+chapter+in+the+Patriot+Act/2010-1071_3-5650840.html Story last modified Mon Apr 04 04:00:00 PDT 2005 If you thought the congressional debate over Terri Schiavo was intense, wait until the ...

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Author:	Bryan
Date:	Mon Apr 4 06:10:34 PDT 2005

2518 Mayday riot vs. global K'ism -- rank: 119

... UK newspaper, The Guardian: - Will Woodward Monday March 6, 2000 Police are getting ready for the possibility of rioting in London ... to the City of London, and there were clashes between police and protesters at London's Euston station on November 30 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 9 13:04:27 PST 2000

2519 Fwd: Bolivia, Bechtel & World Bank -- rank: 119

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ global economy network Campaign for America's Future http://www.ourfuture.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ April 14, 2000 Attached below is a media backgrounder on the struggle and government violence in Bolivia surrounding privatization of the public water system. Last year World Bank economists told Bolivia that "no public subsidies" should be allowed ...

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Author:	TRox51 at aol.com
Date:	Fri Apr 14 14:49:38 PDT 2000

2520 [lbo-talk] Cop work (was Message from Louis Proyect) -- rank: 119

... him go for state park ranger instead. Safer job. > > > > > > Joanna > > > > > > >Police work appears dangerous only because of the many traffic injuries > >and fatalities. Take away traffic deaths and police work is quite safe. > > I'm no fan of the police, but I recall a remark Studs Turkel made in, I > believe, Working about police doing chores that most people wouldn't want to > do ... with a shotgun blast paramedics hauled him away, not the police. When I was a paramedic myself I hauled away man

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Author:	jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Date:	Fri Feb 11 22:21:33 PST 2005