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2986 Our friends in Algeria -- rank: 106

... intended to discipline its members involved in violent acts. The police were not looking for an "unknown" group and evidence pointed to Pagad's G-Force group. Police were not looking beyond this group. It was now a ...

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Author:	Russell Grinker
Date:	Tue Sep 12 00:47:11 PDT 2000

2987 Melbourne report, WTO troubles -- rank: 106

... into Seattle-style violence as anti-capitalist demonstrators clashed with police. The success of demonstrations last November in scuppering vital trade ... At least eight people were taken to hospital, including two police officers, as protesters tried to prevent delegates entering the Crown casino. Police reported that there were 1,500 demonstrators, although the organisers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 12 14:08:35 PDT 2000

2988 [lbo-talk] The public pension bomb -- rank: 106

... states nationwide have shortchanged the retirement programs that cover teachers, police, and other public employees; now the stock market plunge has ...

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Author:	Steven Robinson
Date:	Tue May 12 21:53:43 PDT 2009

2989 The Mahogany King's Brief Reign (behind the Fiji Coup) -- rank: 106

New York Times 14 September 2000 The Mahogany King's Brief Reign By JOSEPH KAHN SUVA, Fiji - This South Pacific archipelago is best known for its fine-grained white beaches and cloudless vistas of cobalt sea. But a cockscomb range of steep-sided mountains divides the main island of Viti Levu ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Sep 14 07:26:26 PDT 2000

2990 geek -- rank: 106

... sub-categories in the population. First, the mass of the police (who in my clas

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Sep 14 12:35:22 PDT 2000

2991 I've been gassed, therefore I am -- rank: 106

full article http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-09/prague180900.shtml Protest generation vows to grab reins of power as they prepare for battle of Prague Anti-globalisation campaigners attend training camp as bankers and ministers gather for IMF meeting By Justin Huggler in Dolni Slivno 18 September ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Sun Sep 17 20:43:43 PDT 2000

2992 Lazare responds -- rank: 106

>Pointing out the mistakes was not a matter of pride, but a >matter of irritation. Unlike Ronald Reagan, I do not think facts >are stupid things and I think that if someone is going to write, >they ought to know what the hell they are talking about. If >they get ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Sep 19 00:18:26 PDT 2000

2993 Fwd: (50 Years) Prague report -- rank: 106

... just left a standoff on a bridge in Prague between police and demonstrators (a bridge fortunately very near a center with ... and when I left the demonstrators had not broken through police lines. But let me back up a few steps. At ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 13:08:59 PDT 2000

2994 Seattle, finally -- rank: 106

... conflagration. I led the march to the pier. When the police stopped us, I told the owner of the restaurant on ... Italian dishes and he let us go ahead through the police line. The Santa Barbara police seem very nervous and ready to over react. Once we ... there was a big ruckus on-campus -- bus loads of police and the like. That night, the bank burned. Lots of ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Mon Dec 6 14:55:45 PST 1999

2995 Prague -- rank: 106

... tear gas in the Muzeum metro area more than 1000 police are moving in. Three arrests have been reported. UPDATE 20:55 Appeal for gathering at Soukalova Police station to document people arrested today. We have unconfirmed reports of arresties with broken limbs. UPDATE 20:55 Police are using tear gas on aproximately 300 demonstrators in the ... the Muzeum metro station has apparently had its windows destroyed. Police are moving in.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 13:21:45 PDT 2000

2996 Fwd: (50 Years) Prague report -- rank: 106

... just left a standoff on a bridge in Prague between police and > demonstrators (a bridge fortunately very near a center with ... and when I > left the demonstrators had not broken through police lin

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Tue Sep 26 15:00:59 PDT 2000

2997 undercover cops -- rank: 106

... s Progressive Review] JEREMY W. STEELE, MICHIGAN STATE NEWS: University police used an undercover officer to investigate a student activist group ... for Economic Justice, an officially registered campus group, said MSU police Officer Jamie Gonzales posed as elementary education junior Samantha Volare ... officer after she was seen on campus in uniform . . . MSU police Assistant Chief Jim Dunlap said in a written statement that ... Wolfensohn to speak at commencement could spur violence from protesters . . . Police have a sordid history of targeting political activist groups with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 3 15:54:06 PDT 2001

2998 [lbo-talk] Thoughts from the brink -- rank: 106

http://dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/the-newspaper/columnists/thoughts+from+the+brink Pakistan Dawn Thoughts from the brink By Irfan Husain Saturday, 07 Mar, 2009 | 06:23 AM PST | PAKISTANIS have become so accustomed to terrorist attacks that they are almost incapable of shock when fresh ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Mon Mar 9 03:04:34 PDT 2009

2999 [fla-left] [news] Protesters lock main gate at Navy bombing area on Vieques (fwd) -- rank: 106

forwarded by Michael Hoover > Protesters lock main gate into > restricted Navy bombing area on > Vieques > > [Beneath this article: "Puerto Ricans hope to boost independence > cause"] > > Ivan Roman > San Juan Bureau > > Published in The Orlando Sentinel on Dec 7, 1999. > > SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Angry protesters on Vieques locked the > main gate ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Wed Dec 8 09:24:59 PST 1999

3000 cinncinati -- rank: 106

... say the resulting double standard is racist, but the individual police > officers who directly perform the actions that lead to these ... double > standards usually are not. The results of inquiries into police behavior in LA, NYC, Des Moines, Chicago, and most southern cities seem to answer this assertion. > > A police officer may, off-duty, be a full-on social materialist ... that blacks are the > exploited class makes them, from a police officer's standpoint, more > dangerous. One of the deeper hip ...

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Author:	Stannard67 at aol.com
Date:	Thu Apr 12 17:44:03 PDT 2001