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4531 [lbo-talk] On "whiteness" -- rank: 72

... was-the-motive-self-defense-or-racism), apparently based on police reports, while his family identifies him as Hispanic (and he ... predetermined narratives? Are they just relying on the determinations of police, who would, as I recall the federal categories, classify any ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Mon Mar 19 17:05:26 PDT 2012

4532 [lbo-talk] Public Safety at Zucotti Park -- rank: 72

... near the park. Instead, the whole block was ringed by police cars, perhaps fearing that a lone protester might dare to ... walked down to Wall Street. Again, an enormous number of police guarding the heart of capitalism. Pictures follow: http://michaelperelman.wordpress ...

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Author:	michael perelman
Date:	Sun Mar 18 20:28:41 PDT 2012

4533 [lbo-talk] new frontiers in employee ownership -- rank: 72

Harry Markowitz was one of the two cofounders of SAIC. We economists are great contributors to society. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Eubulides <autoplectic at gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/nyregion/contractor-in-citytime-payroll-scandal-to-pay-record-500-million.html ...

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Author:	michael perelman
Date:	Wed Mar 14 20:01:52 PDT 2012

4534 [lbo-talk] new frontiers in employee ownership -- rank: 72

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/nyregion/contractor-in-citytime-payroll-scandal-to-pay-record-500-million.html March 14, 2012 Contractor Strikes $500 Million Deal in City Payroll Scandal By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM A major government contractor agreed on Wednesday to pay a record $500 million to avoid federal ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Wed Mar 14 19:27:08 PDT 2012

4535 [lbo-talk] Hurray, Hurray for the Very First of May ! -- rank: 72

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/autobiography1.html The first of May arrives, the great 8-hour strike is inaugurated. Forty thousand men are standing out for it in Chicago. Chicago is the stronghold of the movement, and 40,000 more threaten to join in the demand. An 8 ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Sun Mar 11 12:59:54 PDT 2012

4536 [lbo-talk] 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF TH E FORD HUNGER MARCH -- rank: 72

... in four workers being shot to death by the Dearborn Police Department and security guards employed by the Ford Motor Company ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Mar 7 10:29:18 PST 2012

4537 [lbo-talk] More on BB antics and their defenders -- rank: 72

Thinking back to Doug's earlier comment, I think the fear isn't necessarily of violence, but of ungovernability, that ungovernability at times take the form of non-violent civil disobedience (for instance, a lot of the civil rights stuff in the south was really designed to shut stuff down, to ...

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Fri Feb 10 14:56:43 PST 2012

4538 [lbo-talk] More on BB antics and their defenders -- rank: 72

... nytimes.com/2011/09/27/nyregion/wall-street-demonstrations-test-police-trained-for-bigger-threats.html > But to the New York Police Department, the protesters represented something else: a visible example of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 10 09:01:56 PST 2012

4539 [lbo-talk] Rosa on Old Women (Was: Graeber responds to Hedges) -- rank: 72

... always associated with physical confrontation: facing the fire hoses & the police dogs. _That_ courage is clearly achievable by almost all of ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Feb 10 04:45:12 PST 2012

4540 [lbo-talk] State of the Occupations -- rank: 72

I was one of many who on this list and elsewhere who proclaimed loudly within weeks of the first Occupation that already at that time, whether or not the Occupations fizzled out, they were already a complete and unqualified victory for left causes. (I had also claimed, and would repeat now ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Feb 9 09:16:35 PST 2012

4541 [lbo-talk] State of the Occupations -- rank: 72

... massive outpouring of support and the non-interference of the police after the pepper spray incident.* Am I correct in my ...

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Author:	Jordan Carroll
Date:	Thu Feb 9 08:41:51 PST 2012

4542 [lbo-talk] Black Blocs & Other Peerennials -- rank: 72

... collaboration. Do you mean they are fingering protesters to the police? If so, that'd be treacherous; movements should police themselves. Can you provide some evidence of this? http://www ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Thu Feb 9 02:21:55 PST 2012

4543 [lbo-talk] Santa Rita, I Hate Every Inch of You -- rank: 72

... there was a concerted effort on the part of the police to use different tactics. They kettled protesters and did so ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Feb 7 13:52:29 PST 2012

4544 [lbo-talk] A view from the left on gun control -- rank: 72

Much better is to pour arms unrestricted into the population, give them legal cover and political encouragement to take political matters into their own hands with laws like "Stand Your Ground". That way you wind up creating a political culture of atomized, fear-fueled citizens who think they're literally at ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Dec 25 13:02:38 PST 2012

4545 [lbo-talk] US firefighters shot dead -- rank: 72

... the US. Let's say that a full-time federal police officer (b/c you're not going burden state and ... S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> > >>In that way, most of police shooting can be >>blamed on

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Author:	Jason Hecht
Date:	Mon Dec 24 17:43:37 PST 2012