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4066 [lbo-talk] On Dusty Corner, Laborers Band Together for More Pay -- rank: 92

July 14, 2006 On Dusty Corner, Laborers Band Together for More Pay By STEVEN GREENHOUSE AGOURA HILLS, Calif., July 12 The black Lexus stopped just yards from a large, shady oak tree, and eight copper-skinned Guatemalan men rushed over. For a minute, the woman in the car and the men ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Sat Jul 15 04:51:50 PDT 2006

4067 [lbo-talk] UC Davis -- rank: 92

... removing non-violent student, faculty, staff, and community protesters by police on the UC Davis campus.” Further, given the demonstrable threat posed by the University of California Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to the safety of ... and the institution of an ordinance against the presence of police forces on the UC Davis campus, unless their presence is ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Nov 22 04:10:10 PST 2011

4068 [lbo-talk] Boots Riley on non-violence civil disobedience -- rank: 92

... large here precisely because our actions have teeth. If the police blockaded at the port- we would have had 2 choices ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Nov 22 05:27:02 PST 2011

4069 [lbo-talk] Beyond Iraq - Nigeria riots kill 138 - Also:Nigerian Oil Politics Backgrounder -- rank: 92

Found sitrep files... Nigerian 'Civil War' Backgrounder - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1/1/2005) In June 2003, the Pentagon announced substantial redeployment of troops from Germany to Africa and to the Caucasus. Jane's Ed Blanche quoted the Pentagon as saying the decision was "driven by the increasing importance that ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Thu Feb 23 09:48:56 PST 2006

4070 [lbo-talk] Jury duty -- rank: 92

... meth. The problem she had was that > she felt the police lied and tampered with some of the > evidence to strengthen ... of believing in his guilt, in order to > punish the police for lying and altering evidence? I'm > curious what others ...

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Author:	W. Kiernan
Date:	Wed Nov 15 03:35:55 PST 2006

4071 Kosovo, D.C. -- rank: 92

Mad&Bright Remarks to Kosovar Albanians at Peace Conference Got this thru Kosova Crisis Center News and Information <mentor at ALB-NET.COM> which politely ask to read and distribute; hope this is the wrong place to join the Albright cheering squad... Yet, isn't she sexist about reducing women's ...

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Author:	elena
Date:	Thu Sep 16 02:06:15 PDT 1999

4072 Baltimore primaries -- rank: 92

... major local newspapers), while Lawrence Bell was endorsed by the police and f

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Sep 15 08:54:03 PDT 1999

4073 global riot! -- rank: 92

Sunday Times (London) - September 12, 1999 ANTI-CITY ANARCHISTS PLOT GLOBAL RIOT Mark Macaskill and Jessica Berry ANARCHISTS who masterminded this summer's riot in the City of London are planning a second protest to target banks and financial institutions, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed. Militant groups including Reclaim the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:22:44 PDT 1999

4074 [lbo-talk] bureaucrats with weapons -- rank: 92

It's definitely worth reading the whole thing, but this part is especially interesting given recent events: <quote> A constant staple of 1950s American situation comedies, for example, was jokes about the impossibility of understanding women. The jokes (always of course told by men) always represented women’s logic as fundamentally ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Fri Nov 25 06:07:19 PST 2011

4075 [lbo-talk] bureaucrats with weapons -- rank: 92

There is no doubt about it: the most universally under-rated text in European literature is Mansfield Park. It dramatizes, in a way no critic up to the last few decades has recognized, precisely the situation described in shag's post. The heroine, Fanny Hill, has been sneered at, along with ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Nov 25 07:05:22 PST 2011

4076 [lbo-talk] Jury duty -- rank: 92

... meth. The > problem she had was that she felt the police lied and tampered with some > of the evidence to strengthen ... of believing in > his guilt, in order to punish the police for lying and altering evidence? > I'm curious what others ... preponderance of the evidence." And if you're convinced the police tampered with the evidence, then you have perfectly good grounds ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Nov 14 19:47:51 PST 2006

4077 [Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] Race-ing Justice: The Prison-Industrial Complex] -- rank: 92

... and >workshops, black people examined the destructive impact of the police, the >courts and the prison system upon

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Author:	Russell Grinker
Date:	Wed Sep 8 12:14:17 PDT 1999

4078 [Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] Race-ing Justice: The Prison-Industrial Complex] -- rank: 92

... and workshops, black people examined the destructive impact of the police, the courts and the prison system upon the African-American ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 08:46:07 PDT 1999

4079 Invention of the white race -- rank: 92

... WASPS) still uses "paddy wagon" >idiomatically, unselfconsciously, and unreflexively for police prisoner >transport van--a linguistic relic of a time before ... no dogs or Irish allowed" tradition, partly by joining the police force (and partly by forming political machines, etc.) In fact ... that institution never changed, except that a bias toward the police hiring even more "sons of Erin" arose. Of course, there ...

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Author:	James Devine
Date:	Thu May 28 08:22:30 PDT 1998

4080 East Timor and Kosovo -- rank: 92

On 06 Sep 1999 Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> wrote: CHRIS. Why should the boundaries set by colonial countries, Portugal and the Netherlands, half a world away, have any legal or moral authority? Why should the border between east and west Timor be any more sacred than the border ...

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Author:	magellan at netrio.com.br
Date:	Mon Sep 6 19:11:57 PDT 1999