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2596 [lbo-talk] Pepper spray cop gets even more trivial than usual slap -- rank: 119

... using pepper spray against protesters on Sept. 24] When imperfect police officers are caught and punished, they sometimes receive a form ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Oct 27 09:18:23 PDT 2011

2597 Draco lives in the US -- rank: 119

Political inmates in Turkey have been killing themselves for years to protest F-type prisons which are resort hotels compared to Supermax: TAYAD says that F-type prisons, which are basically cell-type prisons common in the West, will allow guards to brutalize inmates more easily and will cut off social ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Sat Jan 12 05:05:30 PST 2002

2598 [lbo-talk] Nepal detains five former ministers -- rank: 119

... killed and thousands wounded in the crackdown. State radio said police had picked up former home minister Kamal Thapa, former foreign ... for 90 days and they are being held at a police academy in Kathmandu,"

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed May 17 18:01:16 PDT 2006

2599 [lbo-talk] Re: cuffing granny and then some -- rank: 119

... in the dirt. How vicious and ugly can the Portland police get? Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner ...

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Author:	MICHAEL YATES
Date:	Wed Apr 28 21:58:17 PDT 2004

2600 LA protest & UCLA parking incident -- rank: 119

>From another list -- one ugly development. marta ========UPDATE! WORSE THAN WE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT!==================== [from CISPES-L.A.] This situation, reported in the post below, is worse than we originally thought. Reports are coming in from folks who read it.] A couple who actually spoke at the rally returned to the ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Oct 1 21:05:30 PDT 2001

2601 Fw: Cuba: Beating and Incarceration of Human Rights Activists Condemned -- rank: 119

... rights activists and independent journalists who were arbitrarily detained by police in March, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter ... of a reporter who had been physically attacked by the police earlier in the day while he was traveling to a ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Apr 28 11:05:51 PDT 2002

2602 the "costs of confrontation" -- rank: 119

... he lost his spleen and a kidney. That same month, police in Papua New Guinea shot 17 university students—killing three ... have significantly upped the ante in the escalating war between police and protesters at global summits. "It's definitely a wake ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Thu Jul 19 12:42:39 PDT 2001

2603 [lbo-talk] who really runs Iran? -- rank: 119

  Interesting material. As an outsider I find it difficult to know what is happening behind the scenes but it would seem observers in Iran have the same difficulty.    In his speech I was surprised to find Khameni praising Rafsanjani lavishly and lambasting Ahmadinejad for accusing Rafsanjani's relatives of corruption ...

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Author:	northsunm at yahoo.com
Date:	Sat Jun 27 08:12:59 PDT 2009

2604 Judge Denies March Permit, Feb15 Protest Goes On -- rank: 119

... the same reason, and so > feeling more effective.] Amen. The police have screwed themselves, because protest permits are one of the ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Feb 10 20:50:55 PST 2003

2605 [lbo-talk] 500 Block Downtown Nashville Streets -- rank: 119

Nashville City Paper Protesters block off downtown streets By John Rodgers March 21, 2006 A group of about 500 protesters, demanding more dollars for home-based health care services and an audience with Gov. Phil Bredesen, blockaded several intersections around the state Capitol Monday, disrupting downtown traffic for at least seven ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Tue Mar 21 15:07:52 PST 2006

2606 [lbo-talk] Headshot - New International Procedural StandardsAdopted -- rank: 119

... are there only two alternatives, i.e., (1) having the police let him > > go or (2) having the police act as prosecutors, judges, juries, and > > executioners all wrapped up ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Fri Aug 5 09:28:12 PDT 2005

2607 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts -- rank: 119

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1751807.php G8 Mission Protests: A setback, not a victory by Local anarcho-communist Saturday, Jul. 09, 2005 at 11:20 AM What happened in the Mission on Friday night was fucked up. As a participant in the action, what I saw was a ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jul 10 09:19:13 PDT 2005

2608 [lbo-talk] Eighth Buddhist beheaded in Muslim south Thailand -- rank: 119

... beheaded a Buddhist clothes vendor in southern Thailand on Wednesday, police said, the eighth decapitation in 18 months of separatist unrest. Police said the 43-year-old victim had been sitting outside ... up in a plastic sack, the shop's owner told police. "When we got there, we saw the dead body lying ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Jun 22 13:34:31 PDT 2005

2609 [lbo-talk] yesterday's demo: the wicca version -- rank: 119

RNC Update 9 An Incredible Day By Starhawk Three quarters of a million people marched today in New York City. That's NPR's estimate. The New York Times estimated 500,000, but called it "The biggest protest ever at a political convention, the most emphatic ever, the biggest protest NYC ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 30 08:30:36 PDT 2004

2610 [lbo-talk] When is private property NOT? -- rank: 119

>Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com >Sat Jun 25 10:39:55 PDT 2005 <snip> >Legalese infuriates many US citizens because they can't always tell >where/when/if mendacity begins with such jargon laden discourse. Lots of legal documents are difficult for most Americans to decipher (otherwise lawyers go out ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Jun 25 15:27:13 PDT 2005