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4561 [lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it -- rank: 72

... Has anyone that youknow of done a study of Black police officers and the extent to which they do and don ... sheer hatred of Blacks _does_ characterize many if not all Police Departments in the U.S. > > There's no doubt that ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Sep 28 15:03:56 PDT 2011

4562 [lbo-talk] Urging PNB to Support Wall Street Protesters -- rank: 72

... Liberty Street. Mitchel Dear Pacifica, Reports are that the NYC Police Department has now made over 60 arrests of non-violent ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Sat Sep 24 17:43:28 PDT 2011

4563 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [SIXTIES-L] Attica rebellion commemorated -- rank: 72

... struggle for justice after Gov. Nelson Rockefeller ordered the State Police to massacre the uprising s participants. Activists joined many demonstrations ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Sep 22 11:14:43 PDT 2011

4564 [lbo-talk] Libya: The struggle for power begins -- rank: 72

The Economist's correspondent in Libya has produced some good eyewitness reports. Below is the latest, on the acceptance by Tripolitans of the new regime ("after decades of people being suspicious of each other, the hardship has created a strange feeling of communal goodwill") and on the forces vying for power ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sat Sep 3 13:53:43 PDT 2011

4565 [lbo-talk] Greg Shotwell on labor leaders and OWS -- rank: 72

... the privilege of bureaucracy. Beware. Infiltrators are more pernicious than police. Occupiers should be wary of trusting union leaders who have ...

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Author:	MICHAEL YATES
Date:	Mon Oct 31 15:31:00 PDT 2011

4566 [lbo-talk] Daily Occupations Report -- rank: 72

... globe. It includes big wins, local organizing efforts, protests/events, police activity reports and calls to action where additional support from ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Sat Oct 29 06:59:35 PDT 2011

4567 [lbo-talk] Thin blue line? -- rank: 72

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:16 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote: > Wojtek: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/nyregion/16-officers-ordered-to-surrender-in-ticket-fixing.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion > <> > <> " About 60 off-duty officers crowded in the main foyer to support ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Fri Oct 28 06:53:29 PDT 2011

4568 [lbo-talk] occupation and situationists was Re: enemy's turf -- rank: 72

Carrol: <> Several of these k inds of time touch on the kind of time Postone <> discusses but none is exactly the same. Postone focuses on the <> measurement of human life in hours worked per day, the measurement of <> that time, and its expression in commodity exchange. But he also has a ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Fri Oct 28 03:44:33 PDT 2011

4569 [lbo-talk] madness in Oakland -- rank: 72

... s staggering. Tear gas, riot gear, flashbombs. Hundreds of armored police descended on the peaceful encampment." FM: Get the JTTF out of the Oakland Police Department as the city of Portland, OR did. Portland has ...

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Author:	Ferenc Molnar
Date:	Wed Oct 26 11:26:19 PDT 2011

4570 [lbo-talk] Jacobin debate up -- rank: 72

... movements the foot soldiers of the elite the blue uniformed police, the mechanisms of control fin

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Author:	Ferenc Molnar
Date:	Wed Oct 19 14:33:11 PDT 2011

4571 [lbo-talk] Meanwhile in Chile... -- rank: 72

... a student movement that began in May. Television footage showed police using water cannons against the protesters, and the office of ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Tue Oct 18 20:21:31 PDT 2011

4572 [lbo-talk] not my revolution, so i'm taking my marbles and i'm going -- rank: 72

Every movement and every "revolution" isn't worth supporting, especially when you know and you can foresee clearly that the fruits of the success of that movement or "revolution" are only going to harm your class and the general humanity for a long time ahead, and if you can understand that ...

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Author:	Evergreen Readers and Writers
Date:	Thu Oct 6 17:46:27 PDT 2011

4573 [lbo-talk] Sasha Lilley interviews David Graeber on OWS -- rank: 72

FYI, it was Worker's World Party that had initially put boots on the ground. Graeber elsewhere describes them as having co-opted the AdBusters call to action. He writes more on this thread at DailyKos. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/03/1022528/-Origins-of-Occupy-Wall-Street-and ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Thu Oct 6 11:04:42 PDT 2011

4574 [lbo-talk] Modern reading comprehension via FB -- rank: 72

... rumors that this was (a) a trap set by the police, (b) an accident that the police seized on, (c) a spontaneous act of civil disobedience with ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Oct 4 10:22:39 PDT 2011

4575 [lbo-talk] Modern reading comprehension via FB -- rank: 72

sounds like what i've typically encountered with demos/actions/whatever. in my experience, there've always been people on board who are more experienced and who, respecting practices of radical democracy, have made sure everyone knows what they're getting into. It terrified me, with a kid riding around on ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Mon Oct 3 06:17:01 PDT 2011