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4591 [lbo-talk] Occupy as Ritual Suicide Cult -- rank: 72

I actually just came from an Internet & Democracy talk at UC Berkeley and walked past the Occupy circus as it was preparing for the Occupy Cal GA group-think. I commended the group to watch the All Watched Over By Machines Of Love and Grace, I actually had a speaker completely ...

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Author:	Nicholas Roberts
Date:	Thu Nov 17 19:31:47 PST 2011

4592 [lbo-talk] The 99%: A Community of Resistance By Angela Davis -- rank: 72

The 99%: A Community of Resistance The Occupy movement's exhilarating potential lies in forging a unity that can make a new majority of the old minorities By Angela Davis Guardian (UK) November 5, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/15/99-percent-community-resistance Angela Davis ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Nov 17 10:26:47 PST 2011

4593 [lbo-talk] Quan: just trying to help them separate from the anarchists... -- rank: 72

... professed an interest in “separating from anarchists,” implying that her police action was helping this somehow. Interestingly, Quan then essentially advocates ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Nov 15 11:06:40 PST 2011

4594 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin on AJE on Bluestocking panel -- rank: 72

... really nifty thing to do for the people who oppose police but want civil society to do the job in the ... policing each other's behavior during protests! Don't use police, just use the nifty "civil society" approach! woot! any

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Nov 15 09:12:51 PST 2011

4595 [lbo-talk] Lau on Oakland's GS and aftermath -- rank: 72

... the general vibe is one of solidarity, describing the "peace police" as a "rightest deviation" at OO. http://lareviewofbooks.org/post ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Mon Nov 14 08:04:31 PST 2011

4596 [lbo-talk] black bloc theory: derived from Weathermen -- rank: 72

... possibility exists that the Black Blocers are neither protesters NOR police. >Picking up on another thread, I'm tickled to see ... cops dressed in BB regalia. The problem is that when police dress up in black and bust windows, fuck shit up ...

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Author:	Slacker Faction
Date:	Fri Nov 11 13:24:28 PST 2011

4597 [lbo-talk] Penn State -- rank: 72

... Schultz and Paterno to have reported the charges to the > police. Personally, I'm not happy with *any* requirement to report *anything* to the police. No matter how awful. -- -- Michael J. Smith mjs at smithbowen ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Thu Nov 10 14:44:29 PST 2011

4598 [lbo-talk] Penn State -- rank: 72

... it was "distraught" and "traumatised". Did he go to the police? No, he went directly to Joe Paterno's home. Paterno ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Thu Nov 10 14:14:09 PST 2011

4599 [lbo-talk] non-violence is the most powerful weapon we have -- rank: 72

... pitched at least eight tents next to Sproul Plaza before police in riot gear broke through a line of protesters encircling ... Armstrong, a graduate student who was hit several times by police wielding batons. "We intend to stay and re-establish our ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Nov 9 19:43:12 PST 2011

4600 [lbo-talk] internal threats -- rank: 72

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > I think you are reading something into Harris's comments that just > isn't there. I've seen the "cowardly" thing thrown around, and that's > not what Harris is doing here. I wouldn't ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Wed Nov 9 15:12:28 PST 2011

4601 [lbo-talk] BB: fuck shit up, then leave -- rank: 72

... protest manual. By then, the scene had devolved into chaos. Police closed in on the crowd gathered at and around Frank ... clamor. A fire truck arrived to put out the fire. Police fired tear gas and bean bags, hit protesters with batons ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 09:13:53 PST 2011

4602 [lbo-talk] Faces of the Tea Party (revisited): 'Occupy' protesters are 'mad at the wrong people' -- rank: 72

The Tea Partier below poses accurately the critical binary , bankers/government. Then indirectly demonstrates that the Occupations shift of protest/"mad" focus from government to bankers is revolutionary by announcing that her focus is the the opposite of the Occupation's. The Tea Partier articulates clearly the prime opposition between the ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Nov 9 05:32:17 PST 2011

4603 [lbo-talk] more communization! -- rank: 72

... right to protest, and I know it's usually >>the police that start these things." I can also see the logic ... right circumstances. It's the >>deliberate escalation of conflict with police that seems stupid. It seems obvious that tactics need to ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Tue Nov 8 21:09:11 PST 2011

4604 [lbo-talk] internal threats -- rank: 72

shag writes: "you (Mike Beggs) are that guy in 1768, standing at the town square, complaining that the liberty pole was ineffectual at bringing down King George." I think that shag & Eric have provided ample information that it was _not_ the Black Bloc, in this case, that violated democratic legitimacy, since ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Nov 8 16:52:27 PST 2011

4605 [lbo-talk] internal threats -- rank: 72

you are that guy in 1768, standing at the town square, complaining that the liberty pole was ineffectual at bringing down King George. --- This is my comment at Malcolm's blog post: Last time you wrote on this topic, I commented: "Over the years I've read or heard many variations ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Nov 8 16:04:04 PST 2011