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3871 Conspiracy Theory as Waste of Time -- rank: 92

Oh, God, please spare me from another discussion on conspiracy thinking... A few years ago I sat on a conference panel with G. William Domhoff and Holly Sklar talking about the work of C. Wright Mills. We all marveled at how an overarching conspiracy theory of history completely undercut all of ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Fri Jan 14 04:59:50 PST 2000

3872 Cooper on Mumia -- rank: 92

[Here's a piece bound to make Marc Cooper even more friends than he's earned in the Pacifica wars. From this week's New York Press.] For a Mumia-Free 2000 by Marc Cooper I make no New Year's resolution. Instead, I have a simple plea: Oh Lord ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 08:02:24 PST 2000

3873 [lbo-talk] repression -- rank: 92

... book begins with her arrest and torture by the SA police. Under just passed emergency laws, she can be held for 90 days with no rights whatever. What the police did to her and countless others was part of a long history of modern police practice. I don't know all the history of this ...

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Author:	MICHAEL YATES
Date:	Sun Apr 3 16:44:03 PDT 2011

3874 Sleeper on Diallo -- rank: 92

But it surely is racism to generalise from the high correlation of non-white skin with violent crime to any non-white person is likely to be a violent criminal. This is not taking rational precautions in a violence-prone neighbourhood, it is out-and-out racism. Even if this argument ...

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Author:	Ken Hanly
Date:	Mon Feb 28 12:30:33 PST 2000

3875 Sleeper on Diallo -- rank: 92

... To affirm this, many New Yorkers got themselves arrested at police headquarters, ceremonially but no doubt sincerely. Had he been white ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Mon Feb 28 11:27:02 PST 2000

3876 Mumia: Dozens Arrested in Court Protest -- rank: 92

... former radio journalist sentenced to death for killing a Philadelphia police officer. Supreme Court and city police officers led away protesters who sat in the street or ... and radio journalist, was convicted of fatally shooting a Philadelphia police officer in 1981 after the officer s

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Feb 28 08:59:56 PST 2000

3877 Recovering the Global Grass Roots in the Antiwar Movement -- rank: 92

Recovering the Power of the Global Grass Roots in the Antiwar Movement By Cindy Milstein The global day of antiwar protests on February 15 was remarkable for several reasons. First and foremost, of course, was the fact that some 12 million people came out in over 600 cities spanning every continent ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Wed Mar 12 17:07:08 PST 2003

3878 Diallo demo -- rank: 92

Police Academy Training 101 It's a Wallet, Not a GUN Come help educate the police cadets! The New York Police Academy Monday, February 28th, 2000 5:30 p.m. on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 27 17:11:18 PST 2000

3879 Violence in the Maluku, Indonesia -- rank: 92

>From Asia-Pacific Network: 27 January 2000 MALUKU: WHILE ELEPHANTS FIGHT, THE PEOPLE OF MALUKU DIE The chain of sectarian conflict in Maluku now spreading throughout Sulawesi, Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara and Java has been triggered and fed by a number of provocateurs paid by the Suharto family and several ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Sun Feb 27 04:18:15 PST 2000

3880 suicide note -- rank: 92

... current view is that the suicide note was a fake.] Police say threatening e-mail probably wasn't sent by gunman ... 1999 6:29 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Police on Saturday discounted what had appeared to be the suicide ... was contained in an e-mail that was received by police Thursday or Friday, days after two gunmen turned Columbine High ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Apr 25 09:37:51 PDT 1999

3881 Three Arrests at Buffalo Anti-War Rally -- rank: 92

... been charged Saturday with disorderly conduct after a clash with police during an anti-war protest that began at Bidwell and ... began to march from that location to Gates Circle, but police say they didn't obtain the proper permit. The trouble ... began when protesters who were blocking traffic refused to move. Police say that if protesters had obtained the proper permit, the ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Sat Mar 15 21:29:51 PST 2003

3882 lbo-talk-digest V1 #7572 -- rank: 92

... Two Chechen policemen were also wounded when rebels attacked a police patrol in the village of Gikalo, on the outskirts of ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Mar 16 04:35:27 PST 2003

3883 Russian takes on Iraq -- rank: 92

... the rally was not authorized by Moscow authorities, the city police told Itar-Tass on Friday. The police said that the rally gathered about 30 people. The Greenpeace ... the environmental organization were detained and taken to the central police station for interrogation, the source said. Two of the rally ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Wed Mar 19 03:52:12 PST 2003

3884 Dear Raed Blog -- rank: 92

... crowded. A couple of hours after I wrote that two police cars were standing near gas stations to keep things in ... in gas stations but today it is back to the police cars. There is a rumor that they will open the ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Wed Mar 19 09:27:06 PST 2003

3885 Riot-struck northern Nigeria tense before prayers -- rank: 92

... big mosques will be under combined surveillance by soldiers and police to prevent any problems," police spokesman Tamimu Bindawa told Reuters. Moslems are due to begin ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Sat Feb 26 06:42:05 PST 2000