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421 Key activists were earmarked by police -- rank: 240

... 04/front_page/target04.htm Key activists were earmarked by police Protesters say their leaders were arrested not for what they did, but for what they might do. Police deny this. By Craig R. McCoy ,Thomas Ginsberg and Emilie ... the world's media shone a bright light on Philadelphia police clearing masses of protesters from blockaded streets this week, police were carrying out a much less public - and much more ... demonstration leaders. Eyewitnesses accounts and video taken by demonstrators document police moving in to swiftly arrest at least two such leaders ...

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Author:	Tom Wheeler
Date:	Fri Aug 4 12:14:05 PDT 2000

422 panopticon NYC -- rank: 238

Domestic Spying Pressed Big-City Police Seek to Ease Limits Imposed After Abuses Decades Ago By ... far more perilous world than once imagined, New York's police commissioner wants to toss aside a decades-old federal court decree governing the limits on police spying and surveillance of its own citizenry. City officials argue ... to the unsavory days of old, when New York's police department acquired a reputation for police "black bag" break-ins and spying on political dissidents. It ... In Chicago, officials have already weakened a court decree limiting police spying. In San Francisco, officials have reversed their own ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Nov 28 20:50:27 PST 2002

423 [Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] The Lawrence Inquiry: One Year On] -- rank: 238

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BRC-NEWS] The Lawrence Inquiry: One Year On Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:59:39 -0400 From: Art McGee <amcgee at igc.org> Reply-To: info at irr.org.uk To: brc-news at lists.tao.ca http://www.irr.org.uk/lawrence/siva.htm Institute ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Apr 7 15:08:37 PDT 2000

424 [lbo-talk] Big Brother says: NO MORE ALMANACS ALLOWED! -- rank: 238

... around anymore! Jesus Christ! Actually, the Federalization of the local police forces is really scary. Not to mention the targeting of ... Qaeda manual -- the Farmer's Almanac. "The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that ...

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Author:	Steven
Date:	Mon Jan 5 20:43:05 PST 2004

425 Work-Prison -- rank: 237

... in a university basement and arranged for the Palo Alto police to "arrest" nine student volunteers. They were stripped, searched, deloused ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Wed May 8 08:13:30 PDT 2002

426 [lbo-talk] UC Davis: Occupy Mrak Hall -- rank: 237

... fee hikes, the continuing privatization of the university, and the police brutality in Berkeley, students at UC Davis marched on an administrative ... yesterday at 2:30 p.m. While, in the past, police have arrested occupiers who remain after the building closes at ...

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Author:	Jordan Carroll
Date:	Wed Nov 16 09:09:34 PST 2011

427 [lbo-talk] Bush's Election-Year Dilemma in Iraq -- rank: 237

BUSH'S ELECTION-YEAR DILEMMA IN IRAQ By Jack A. Smith (First of two articles) The White House is in a panic, fearing that the failing occupation of Iraq may ignite a domestic political conflagration during this election year ‹ and the recent capture of former President Saddam Hussein offers scant relief ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Tue Jan 6 16:58:53 PST 2004

428 Not on TV: SRI LANKA: A Statement by the AHRC Calling for UN Involvement -- rank: 237

... civilizing mission, for then 'something must be done' to 'stop brutality.' I hope Sri Lankans will be able to stay off ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Sep 25 08:46:13 PDT 1999

429 sweatshop kids update -- rank: 237

Hmmm. How about the rest of the story? It's interesting that the anarchists get blamed for the split. Their interest in seeing the student movement stay decentralized and nonhierarchical is a wise one. You think that everybody would understand the strength of the networked, affinity group approach. After all, it ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Fri Sep 29 13:51:40 PDT 2000

430 L.A. Dems Race-Bait Each Other -- rank: 237

Nathan Newman wrote: >What I say? That white-dominated Green politics should not throw stones. >When the Green legislator in Oakland was elected to the state legislature, >the white Green candidate succeeded partly by gaining the support of white >Oaklanders opposed to her black opponent. And there was some pretty racist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 4 10:36:44 PDT 2001

431 working class -- rank: 237

Some people even exclude cops from their >>definition of working class. > >Cops are, like scabs, traitors to the class: > This is silly. THey're mostly just working class people who want a civil service job with decent pay and benefits. The working classis not organized and self-conscious enough right now ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Sun Jun 30 06:49:02 PDT 2002

432 [lbo-talk] Re-engineering Balochistan 1 -- rank: 237

OutLookIndia.com Web | Dec 22, 2004 PAKISTAN Re-engineering Balochistan With the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) relatively secured, it is now Balochistan's turn -- the military crackdown is clearly slated for intensification. KANCHAN LAKSHMAN The stage for escalated, and possibly extraordinary, violence has been set in Balochistan. Addressing the media ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sun Jan 2 04:40:27 PST 2005

433 Students Rally for Palestinians -- rank: 237

... Berkeley, including pro-Israel demonstrators who shouted their disapproval while police kept watch. After the rally, campus police arrested 79 pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed into a classroom ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Apr 10 07:17:32 PDT 2002

434 51 news and notes this weekend -- rank: 237

... Tasmania: workers fight against first employer lockout Australia: The Internet Police under fire San Francisco: 6,000 march against U.S ...

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Author:	Marko Ajdaric
Date:	Sat Jun 12 04:10:24 PDT 1999

435 [lbo-talk] Nepal -- rank: 237

... to > > villagers suspected of aiding Maoists to the King's police, military, > > and civilian supporters -- have perished in Nepal in its ... who are living in a country whose government unleashed messianic > > brutality -- > > [clip] > > Well, I was referring to Maoism in practice in ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Apr 25 14:27:39 PDT 2006