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4726 [lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American -- rank: 72

... organized homeless group], refusing to adequately deal with the Kiwane police killing [in the presence of the police chief, a cop - who had already killed an unarmed citizen ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Sat Apr 17 19:40:05 PDT 2010

4727 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Moyers interviews Andrew Bacevich -- rank: 72

... how the US should have responded, he outlines an international police system. I assume the sort used to track down other ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Apr 11 12:45:20 PDT 2010

4728 [lbo-talk] The State -- rank: 72

The police are what prevents the state from being anti-capitalist? Maybe ... asking how the state enforces its capitalist writ. Yeah, obviously - police, army, etc. I was asking what ensures that the state ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Sep 29 12:33:41 PDT 2009

4729 [lbo-talk] The State (Was: Ralph loves the nice plutocrats) -- rank: 72

... s one: > > http://blogs.newamericamedia.org/images/392.jpg The police are what prevents the state from being anti-capitalist? Maybe ... asking how the state enforces its capitalist writ. Yeah, obviously - police, army, etc. I was asking what ensures that the state ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Mon Sep 28 15:14:47 PDT 2009

4730 [lbo-talk] Surrender! -- rank: 72

Have y'all been watching the police state in Pittsburgh? Awesome display. We are well and truly ... people -- especially those who are too slow to escape a police rush. Even if there was the kind of grassroots action ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Sat Sep 26 19:58:52 PDT 2009

4731 [lbo-talk] Doris Walker and Ann Gagan Ginger -- rank: 72

Doris was Prez of the NLG in the 1940s, first woman to head a major bar association. I saw her at NLG 70th in 1997, she was 90-something, we gave her an award. She told the following story: She was from Texas, where everyone has a nickname. Hers was Dobby ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Sep 23 21:51:22 PDT 2009

4732 [lbo-talk] Doris Walker and Ann Gagan Ginger -- rank: 72

I was asked about Doris Brin Walker and Ann Gagan Ginger today, and I had completely forgotten them. I didn't know them. They were two radical Berkeley lawyers who made important contributions to civil rights, human rights, keeping government honest, stopping the endless stream of legal and physical abuse coming ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Sep 23 18:19:25 PDT 2009

4733 [lbo-talk] Hoh's resignation letter -- rank: 72

Here's a link (posted on pen-l) to a news story on a ex-military, foreign service officer who resigned in protest over the Afghanistan war: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html Go down to the fourth paragraph and click on the letter ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu Oct 29 12:44:14 PDT 2009

4734 [lbo-talk] Blacks versus Africans in the Bronx -- rank: 72

... on West African immigrants in the last two years, the police interviewed 17 Africans in the neighborhood and filed 11 criminal ...

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Author:	Somebody Somebody
Date:	Mon Oct 19 14:20:47 PDT 2009

4735 [lbo-talk] There doesn't seem to be a lot of community involvement -- rank: 72

... the lifeless figure was a dummy and didn't call police. By Seema Mehta and Martha Groves October 17, 2009 The ... was part of a Halloween display and didn't call police. Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday with ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Sat Oct 17 16:39:01 PDT 2009

4736 [lbo-talk] From another thread -- rank: 72

Assuming that college writing would be sophomoric is an interesting comment on the American tradition of college as an extension of adolescence though. I think that was one focus in the French Theory book Chuck Grimes is reading. Maybe he can chime in. Dennis Claxton --------------- (The above was some other thread ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Nov 25 16:23:14 PST 2009

4737 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 72

... another socially, each of us: students, faculty, staff, homebums, activists, police, chancellors, administrators, bureaucrats, investors, politicians, faculty/ staff/ homebums/ activists/ police/ chancellors/ administrators/ bureaucrats/ investors/ politicians-to-be. That is, we ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Fri Nov 20 04:20:29 PST 2009

4738 [lbo-talk] Poll rout leaves India's communists a spent force -- rank: 72

I will enter the fray in view of my contempt for the CPI(M). It was my intent to enter the conversation about 'India's Hindu Party Reflects on Election Drubbing' but this aspect of the election outcome, I think, is the more significant. Also, sorry for the double-posting. It ...

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Author:	Politicus E.
Date:	Tue May 19 06:04:00 PDT 2009

4739 [lbo-talk] Anarchist Cookbook 2? -- rank: 72

... the AC would have > to emphasize > urban tactics, especially counter-police techniques for > mass formations. > Importantly, a new edition should review ...

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Author:	X
Date:	Sat Mar 28 20:28:27 PDT 2009

4740 [lbo-talk] Anarchist Cookbook 2? -- rank: 72

[WS:] What I had I mind was something slightly different - namely using the means that avoid direct confrontations with the security apparatus. Such confrontations, e.g. picket lines, demos, or riots are largely ineffective, even if large numbers of people show up (which is seldom the case.) Direct confrontations typically ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Sat Mar 28 15:15:51 PDT 2009