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3511 [lbo-talk] More on OEO and CAP -- rank: 92

... until then, local welfare officials, who Piven dubbed the "Poverty Police", simply refused to grant claimants even their legal entitlements..'' Bill ...

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Author:	(Chuck Grimes)
Date:	Mon Feb 25 16:24:49 PST 2008

3512 [lbo-talk] More on OEO and CAP -- rank: 92

My understanding is that Chuck's war on poverty -- which I had relatively little to do with -- was strangled in the crib in 1967 with the passage of the Green Amendment, which moved control of local anti-poverty programs from independent African-American activists to local government officials, the latter urban ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Mon Feb 25 17:14:47 PST 2008

3513 [lbo-talk] More on OEO and CAP -- rank: 92

But I think the most important point that Piven made was that the the whole point of all this "empowering" of activists was to divert them from activities that led to revolution, into activities within the system. In her book I think she might have suggested that this was a traditional ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Mon Feb 25 17:39:28 PST 2008

3514 TradVals scandal -- rank: 92

... in-Law's Apparent Suicide By MARTIN VAN DER WERF Police investigators plan to question George C. Roche III, the suspended ... believe it was anything other than a suicide," Hillsdale (Mich.) Police Detective Brad Martin said of the October 17 death of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 10 07:55:31 PST 1999

3515 150,000 at antiwar demo in Rome -- rank: 92

[via the Debate list] From: "Franco Barchiesi" <f_barchiesi at hotmail.com> To: debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za Subject: DEBATE: ROME - 150,000 MARCH AGAINST THE WAR!!! Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:43:20 +0200 The following article is from "La Repubblica" (Rome, mainstream centre-left newspaper, circulation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 08:43:11 PST 2001

3516 The Globalization Movement: Points of Clarification By David Graeber -- rank: 92

>From Jo'burg, comrade Chuck, this is what I'd say is fatally flawed about this rap: a) failure to recognise the durability of the nation-state form (and its potential merits for poor and working people who make concrete demands for social change, and for their protection from the ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Sun Nov 11 00:19:14 PST 2001

3517 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 92

... of rough illegal groups who, when unions faced off against police and army forces, have been called in by workers to ... by union forces having their heads bashed in by the police, but some workers aren't saints and have looked for ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Feb 1 14:23:26 PST 2006

3518 [lbo-talk] Slave labour that shames America -- rank: 92

... pickers had a nasty, untreated knife wound on his arm. Police would learn later that another man had his hands chained ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Thu Jan 3 04:04:47 PST 2008

3519 [lbo-talk] Iraqi Insurgents Are Very Effective...Against Domestic Targets -- rank: 92

... they've proved themselves to be devastatingly effective against the police and national guard units of the new Iraqi state who ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Tue Apr 26 14:03:48 PDT 2005

3520 [lbo-talk] school uniforms -- rank: 92

Jon Johanning wrote: > On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > Yes, but -- Brian has a point. If you _want_ to and put some effort > into it, you can entertain yourself without the 50+ channels -- just > go to IFC (for example). Or better yet, turn off the ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Tue Aug 26 06:52:49 PDT 2003

3521 [lbo-talk] Stomping Out the Reds/Go Blue -- rank: 92

... of Michigan State University by the CIA to train Vietnamese police, and a year later scooped up another big smelly one ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Aug 27 16:52:25 PDT 2003

3522 the new great game -- rank: 92

[C. Tilly's thesis on State's as organized crime gone bigtime seems to be gaining even greater relevance] The new 'Great Game' Torture, treachery and spies - covert war in Afghanistan America may be carpet-bombing Afghanistan. But the real battle for power is being waged with bundles of cash ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sat Nov 10 17:00:27 PST 2001

3523 Political Repression under Liberal Democracy Re: Nancy Oden: Screwing the Greens? -- rank: 92

... San Francisco when the FBI proposed that the S.F. Police Department join a proposed "Bay Area Counterterrorism Task Force,"

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Fri Nov 9 23:59:27 PST 2001

3524 The Globalization Movement: Points of Clarification By David Graeber -- rank: 92

http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/09/2216253&mode=nocomment&threshold= THE GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT: SOME POINTS OF CLARIFICATION -- By David Graeber A great deal of nonsense has been written about the so-called antiglobalization movement—particularly the more radical, direct action end of it—and very little has ...

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Author:	Chuck Munson
Date:	Fri Nov 9 20:12:16 PST 2001

3525 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind thesub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 92

On 8/31/07, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: > >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > > > >On Aug 31, 2007, at 3:27 AM, B. wrote: > > > > > Until hearing Doug speak of the "working class > > > surliness" of the 1970s on his radio show, I'd never > > > actually thought of the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Aug 31 16:48:59 PDT 2007