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5611 [lbo-talk] re: numbers estimates and sour grapes -- rank: 72

Just flashed on the the hall of mirrors in The Lady of Shanghai scene of Orson Welles... Oy vey, on leftist_rainspotters at yahoogroups, three other San Francisco Trotskyists, two of them friends, said my estimate of 20K for S.F. was at least twice what they thought! Sweet grapes, I ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Oct 26 15:20:48 PST 2003

5612 [lbo-talk] D.C. Rally: Poor Turnout? -- rank: 72

The local news coverage, which usually sucks rhino turd, was very positive. The spin was that this was a 'mainstream' thing that military families were getting into. Soldiers' moms saying their boy didn't sign up to fight for Halliburton or oil companies. The problem at this point IMO is how ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Sat Oct 25 22:03:20 PDT 2003

5613 [lbo-talk] D.C. Rally: Poor Turnout? -- rank: 72

... that 100,000 > people turned out for the demonstration, but police at the scene put the > number much lower, from 10,000 to 20,000. Police no longer issue > official crowd estimates, so the size of ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sat Oct 25 14:40:15 PDT 2003

5614 [lbo-talk] D.C. Rally: Poor Turnout? -- rank: 72

... that 100,000 people turned out for the demonstration, but police at the scene put the number much lower, from 10,000 to 20,000. Police no longer issue official crowd estimates, so the size of ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Oct 25 14:27:15 PDT 2003

5615 [lbo-talk] Greens banned from Parliament after anti-Bush protest -- rank: 72

ABC NEWS ONLINE http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s973743.htm Last Update: Thursday, October 23, 2003. 4:20pm (AEST) Greens banned from Parliament after anti-Bush protest Two Greens Senators have been banned from Parliament for 24 hours after yelling out in protest during US President George W Bush ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Thu Oct 23 01:14:50 PDT 2003

5616 [lbo-talk] Moore on Mumia -- rank: 72

... dogma through loudspeakers throughout the neighborhood, and >> c) kill a police officer during a shootout. I know people who lived >> in ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Fri Oct 17 09:24:16 PDT 2003

5617 [lbo-talk] pervs not welcome in Kenner, Louisiana -- rank: 72

... ORLEANS -- A group has canceled its convention after the Kenner police chief urged local hotels to turn away those associated with ... decried Congemi's action. "We never expected that the Kenner Police Department would interfere with our business practices or discriminate based ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 11 12:21:15 PDT 2003

5618 [lbo-talk] Union activist arrested by UN in E.Timor -- rank: 72

... UN in Dili October 7, 2003 - 2:14PM United Nations police have arrested an Australian union official in East Timor in ... Aviation Services, and on the second day the United Nations police came through and only arrested Mick Killick," ITF Australian coordinator ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Tue Oct 7 04:44:49 PDT 2003

5619 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 72

... the streets for radical protesters, most often anarchists. When the police attack demonstrators simply for exercising their basic rights and otherwise ... a group statement of solidarity for dissent and against repressive police tactics. As I said, the other protestors are the target ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Sat Oct 4 01:12:54 PDT 2003

5620 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 72

... the streets for radical protesters, most often anarchists. When the police attack demonstrators simply for exercising their basic rights and otherwise ... a group statement of solidarity for dissent and against repressive police tactics. The objectives of the black bloc are partially reflected ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Fri Oct 3 21:10:04 PDT 2003

5621 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 72

... these cites to that last post, "Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas, " by Paul Chevigny. http://www.thenewpress.com/books/edgeofkn.htm " Undercover: Police Surveillance in America, " University of California Press by Gary T ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Oct 1 18:51:10 PDT 2003

5622 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 72

... panix.com writes: > Chuck0 wrote: > > >I wouldn't argue that police have to have massive forces to control > >a crowd, but a massive force of police can put a significant damper > >on crowd behavior, i.e ...

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Author:	DoreneFC at aol.com
Date:	Wed Oct 1 17:22:23 PDT 2003

5623 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 72

Chuck0 wrote: >I wouldn't argue that police have to have massive forces to control >a crowd, but a massive force of police can put a significant damper >on crowd behavior, i.e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 1 17:08:15 PDT 2003

5624 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 72

Doug Henwood wrote: > boddhisatva wrote: > >> There were, >> unquestionably, PLENTY of police on the streets of Seattle > > > No there weren't. Their ... been saying. I've been to enough demos, analyzed the police enough, and talked to enough Seattle veterans. that I thought ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Wed Oct 1 16:37:32 PDT 2003

5625 [lbo-talk] Panopticon 2003 -- rank: 72

Then there are tethers, too CB ^^^^^^ A SOBERING BLOW: Random tests keep offenders substance-free September 30, 2003 BY KATHLEEN GRAY FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER "The colors for today are aqua, silver, yellow, lavender and sage. The letter for today is D, like dog," the automated voice told hundreds of callers ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Oct 1 10:55:21 PDT 2003