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5311 [lbo-talk] Media Promulgated Illness : Argentina Fights Back -- rank: 72

Argentina's fashion police target rake-thin teens By Mary Milliken Fri Jul 1 ... is known at the "Sizes Law." Officials acting as fashion police will patrol the streets "with measuring tape in hand," said ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Sat Jul 2 22:13:53 PDT 2005

5312 [lbo-talk] Guerrillas kill leading Shi'ite cleric in Iraq -- rank: 72

... majority. Sunni Arabs held sway in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Police said two of the cleric's aides were wounded, but ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sat Jul 2 04:35:11 PDT 2005

5313 [lbo-talk] Punjab: A Piece of My Pind -- rank: 72

OutLookIndia.com Magazine | Dec 20, 2004 PUNJAB A Piece Of My Pind Patiala witnesses a ten-day emotional carnival as visiting Punjabis from Pakistan see a warm smile in the mirror CHANDER SUTA DOGRA When Tanvir Ahmed was told he would be participating in the World Punjabi Conference in Patiala, he ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sat Jan 29 05:04:48 PST 2005

5314 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 72

Actually, there have been a number of threads on this list over the years on "detailed blueprints" for post-revolutionary society , and the several political tendencies you (B) mention have chimed in then. Here, however, the question to Chuck O is narrower than you, B, characterize it below. Not "what is ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Jan 25 14:30:47 PST 2005

5315 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 72

... am still waiting to hear how you defend against the police states that have been so prevalent under real socialism. --- Chris ... how then are we to defend againt the installation of police states under hyper-centralized socialism? At least Chuck's big ...

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Author:	Thomas Seay
Date:	Tue Jan 25 11:35:48 PST 2005

5316 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? -- rank: 72

... if a service is > truly public (whether its unions or police protection). why not? one > could, after some thinking, feel that the police are not a public good > at all, but a means ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Jan 21 08:11:01 PST 2005

5317 [lbo-talk] Grassroots Prison Campaign -- rank: 72

Grassroots Prison Campaign by Dan Horowitz de Garcia August 20, 2004 [This talk was originally given at the Life After Capitalism conference in New York City on August 20, 2004.] All organizers say where they work is rougher than anywhere else. The difference is I’m from the South, so I ...

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Author:	Mike Kramer
Date:	Thu Jan 20 12:26:08 PST 2005

5318 [lbo-talk] honoring Old Glory -- rank: 72

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: Bayreuth police say they are completely baffled. "We have sent out extra ... to catch whoever is doing this in the act," said police spokesman Reiner Kuechler. --- Maybe it was spontaneous generation, a flag ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 18 08:34:51 PST 2005

5319 [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of aSpoiler -- rank: 72

On Jan 13, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > One can think of many causes of that situation, but the root of them > seems > to be grounded in the unusual power of business, which by its very > nature is > anti-democratic. That's obviously a big part of the ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Fri Jan 14 08:00:30 PST 2005

5320 [lbo-talk] James Forman dies -- rank: 72

I think the Making of Black Revolutionaries is the best book written on the Civil Rights Movement/Black Power period. Jenny Brown Washington Post 1-12-05 Civil Rights Activist James Forman Dies at 76; Key Organizer of SNCC By Joe Holley James Forman, 76, who as executive secretary of the ...

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Author:	JBrown72073 at cs.com
Date:	Thu Jan 13 11:52:29 PST 2005

5321 [lbo-talk] Does Al Qaeda Exist? -- rank: 72

Doug wrote: >I did? What I said was that the police approach wouldn't work if it >just meant parachuting the ... that agree to cooperate with Washington decide to use their police or military or anything in-between, that's their business ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jan 12 17:09:48 PST 2005

5322 [lbo-talk] Does Al Qaeda Exist? -- rank: 72

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Doug didn't advocate a "police-first" way. He advocated an invasion by a military force. I did? What I said was that the police approach wouldn't work if it just meant parachuting the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 12 16:21:59 PST 2005

5323 [lbo-talk] Does Al Qaeda Exist? -- rank: 72

... know, because >things obviously never happened in the proper internationalist, >police-first way Doug favored, in combination with change in U ... was your proposal? Do nothing? Doug didn't advocate a "police-first" way. He advocated an invasion by a military force ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jan 12 15:29:45 PST 2005

5324 [lbo-talk] Fwd: The Acehnese deserve better -- rank: 72

Tony Reid is a respected historian of Acheh. ------------------------------------- The Straits Times, Singapore 04 January 2005 The Acehnese deserve better After more than a century of misery, it is time to make amends in Aceh By Anthony Reid FOR THE STRAITS TIMES THE magnitude of the devastation visited on Aceh on Dec ...

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Author:	kjkhoo at softhome.net
Date:	Tue Jan 4 09:28:17 PST 2005

5325 [lbo-talk] Nepal's first gay weekly -- rank: 72

... community that alleges persecution by family members, employers and even police. The Blue Diamond Society complains that its members are rounded up by police and beaten up. It is currently facing a case filed ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Mon Jan 3 15:05:01 PST 2005