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3031 Fw: SNET: [Fwd: Inauguration protest summary] -- rank: 106

Let me straighten out a few things. This is an unattributed excerpt from L.A. Kauffman's recent article, titled "Free Radical Guide to the Inauguration Protests." Kauffman is a freelance journalist who has been writing about protests since Seattle. She's not affiliated with the IAC, which is pretty clear ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Jan 8 10:59:55 PST 2001

3032 [lbo-talk] Elections -- rank: 106

... immigrants and same sex marriages, but rejected >> collective bargaining for police officers in Montgomery county >> http://www.gazette.net/article/20121107/NEWS/711079527/1007/montgomery-county-police-lose-effects-bargaining&template=gazette >> >> This goes with my earlier ... to understand what it was about. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) previously had the right to negotiate the "effects" of ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Nov 7 15:20:57 PST 2012

3033 Greenspan, Fischer -- rank: 106

... trying to supress information about Fischer's past. Before the police files mysteriously diappeared and some archival material can no longer ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Thu Jan 11 05:43:54 PST 2001

3034 [lbo-talk] racial disparity in drug jailings narrowing? -- rank: 106

Washington Post - April 14, 2009 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041401775.html > Number of Black Americans in State Prisons for Drug Offenses Declines By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer For the first time since crack cocaine sparked a war on drugs 20 years ago ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 14 11:16:21 PDT 2009

3035 Catholic Workers Arrested by "Sergeant at Arms" for "Contempt of Parliament" -- rank: 106

... in prayer. He spoke to a growing crowd of tourists, police and passers-by looking down on the scene from the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jan 17 20:40:12 PST 2001

3036 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 106

... think so, anecdotally. At the same time the level of police misconduct and prosecutorial abuse is shockingly high, and state appellate ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Apr 7 22:08:41 PDT 2009

3037 Kosova Redux -- rank: 106

Seth writes; >Then there's Chris Burford's suggestion that NATO "should have been aiding >the KLA from the beginning in return for assurances that the KLA would avoid >anti-democratic excesses. Only the KLA had the armed force on the ground >among the Albanian population to have imposed effective state ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jan 25 22:32:43 PST 2001

3038 How's this for organizing? -- rank: 106

< http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=81637 > Three million in strike against Mugabe 'tyranny' By Basildon Peta in Harare 04 July 2001 Zimbabwe ground to a standstill yesterday when almost three million workers staged a largely peaceful strike in defiance of President Robert Mugabe, who branded ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Tue Jul 3 19:05:36 PDT 2001

3039 Fw: (en) Bolivia - Anarchists Occupy Government Buildings (ca) -- rank: 106

Joe R. Golowka JoeG at ieee.org Anarchist FAQ - http://www.anarchistfaq.org "Every advance in history, from ending slavery and establishing democracy to ending formal colonialism, has had to conquer the notion at some point that it was impossible to do because it had never been done before...If you ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Wed Jul 4 09:36:09 PDT 2001

3040 Christian love -- rank: 106

... to recapitulate, to Kevin Dean's posting data on gross > brutality in a Christian school in Missouri. Nor did I "trash ... Chip accused me of doing. I pointed out that the brutality in the school > was only one aspect of Christianity, and ... a criticism in any of this. Class society entails extreme brutality -- and various ideologies will emerge to justify that brutality. Platonists of various sorts will then turn this upside down ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Jul 7 15:21:40 PDT 2001

3041 Christian love -- rank: 106

Did I say that Christianity "caused" anything specific? No. I imagine that we can all agree that causality is very complex and needs careful examination in any instance. Instead, from the start of this thread I was trying to make the point that Christianity is a broad, diverse, multifarious phenomenon. Hence ...

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Author:	Christopher Rhoades D˙kema
Date:	Sat Jul 7 19:52:20 PDT 2001

3042 Nepal General Strike -- rank: 106

AFP simply sticks to the facts: Thursday July 12, 1:49 PM (Singapore) Maoist strike cripples Nepalese capital KATHMANDU, July 12 (AFP) - Nepal's capital came to a grinding halt Thursday as a nation-wide strike called by Maoist rebels took effect. Almost all shops were closed and there were few ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Thu Jul 12 01:57:04 PDT 2001

3043 Nepal update -- rank: 106

... army action against the CPN(Maoist). It looks as if police and army do not have any clue where to look ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Fri Jul 20 02:08:43 PDT 2001

3044 [lbo-talk] Montreal rally marks 100 days of student strike -- rank: 106

... their supporters took to the streets each night, clashing with police. The Quebec government's emergency law, Bill 78 passed on ... authorities in advance. [...] At Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport, police are stopping and searching some vehicles, and there is a heightened presence of police at the airport terminal. Police would not say if the increased visibility is tied to ...

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Author:	mep
Date:	Tue May 22 12:23:51 PDT 2012

3045 [lbo-talk] Elephant memory ... -- rank: 106

Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > Fuck da police, as they say. > Indeed. Left response to police was settled once and for all at > Haymarket. Not worth ... country is on your side; if you're in the police, you know that nobody is on your side except other police. History fans out there can let us know whether there ...

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Author:	Joanna
Date:	Thu Sep 4 20:57:24 PDT 2008