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5881 Love & Revolution: The Greensboro Massacre -- rank: 72

On November 3rd, 1979, I was attending an internal meeting of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) in Pittsburgh, PA. That evening we repaired to the the funky living room of our Oakland district headquarters and learned from television broadcast that several anti-kkk activists had been killed or wounded during the ...

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Author:	Thomas Seay
Date:	Tue Nov 26 17:24:07 PST 2002

5882 Bad guys and burdens of proof (Was H Rap Brown) -- rank: 72

At 8:34 AM -0800 26/11/02, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Which ones? I didn't realise I was suggesting >> anything new. Or anything that wasn't already >> established practice. > >For example, having an independent forensics >commission vet all forensics evidence. Or having >judges somehow take over charging decisions. Lots of ...

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Author:	billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Date:	Tue Nov 26 22:09:06 PST 2002

5883 Bad guys and burdens of proof (Was H Rap Brown) -- rank: 72

>Back in the real world, I'm curious why you think that the way justice is purported to be done in America is the "real world" Justin? Presumably the implication is that the way it is done everywhere else is not the "real world"? Fascinating! jks. No, my point is ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Nov 25 23:04:36 PST 2002

5884 Bad guys and burdens of proof (Was H Rap Brown) -- rank: 72

At 7:03 PM -0800 24/11/02, andie nachgeborenen wrote: >jks. Well, thanks, but even the best lawyer can't do much for a lot >of defendants. The best lawyer I ever saw, now the head of Justice >Crim Investigation, was defending a tax fraudster, he was awesome, >it was ...

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Author:	billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Date:	Tue Nov 26 01:09:44 PST 2002

5885 Bad guys and burdens of proof (Was H Rap Brown) -- rank: 72

... of the rule of law, because is > designed to give police the power pressure people to > give up their right to ... That means there is no way to avoid giving the police and the prosecutors that p

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Nov 25 06:55:14 PST 2002

5886 H. Rap Brown (was Re: Corn transcript) -- rank: 72

... lever with the argument that the guns were planted. The police car, unfortunately, was > crushed long before the > trial. Standard procedure, they said. Bummer. Why is the crushing of the police car to the point here? > > >> and the guns 'found' in ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri Nov 22 12:02:10 PST 2002

5887 Contact Information, Etc. Re: Corn transcript -- rank: 72

> > There are journalists, and there are journalists -- journalists who >> stand outside a social movement on which they report, and journalists >> who stand inside it. (Just as there are lawyers who stand outside a >> social movement whose participants they defend, and there are lawyers >> who stand inside it.) I thought that ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Nov 22 09:58:25 PST 2002

5888 H. Rap Brown (was Re: Corn transcript) -- rank: 72

I didn't follow the case in detail. so you know more about it than I do. > > Sure, but the deputy's testimony changed markedly > over time--in ways which > made it obvious that these were not memories but new > constructions. He said > early on that the assailant had grey eyes ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri Nov 22 07:25:16 PST 2002

5889 H. Rap Brown (was Re: Corn transcript) -- rank: 72

>> >So why then did the jury take a different view? >> > >> >Brad DeLong >> >> They believed the surviving cop, although his >> testimony contradicted itself. jks writes: >Not unusual with survivors of traumatic events. Sure, but the deputy's testimony changed markedly over time--in ways which made it obvious that these were ...

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Author:	JBrown72073 at cs.com
Date:	Thu Nov 21 21:32:41 PST 2002

5890 Iraqi general/liberator arrested for war crimes -- rank: 72

... Sam Smith's Progressive Review] RICHARD BEESTON, TIMES, UK - Danish police arrested an exiled Iraqi general tipped as a possible replacement ... by a Kurdish immigrant. Reports from Copenhagen said that the police had charged him with war crimes, violating the Geneva conventions ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 20 15:16:34 PST 2002

5891 Chechen Chief Ashamed of Crackdown -- rank: 72

... disappearing in the republic, possibly seized by Russian servicemen or police, that he's ashamed to look his people in the ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Nov 17 03:40:24 PST 2002

5892 wankers inspire terror panic -- rank: 72

Sydney Morning Herald - November 13, 2002 <http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2002/11/13/FFXVYV83G8D.html> Porn fans trigger terror alert Three men carrying strange-looking documents who took turns locking themselves in the toilets before take-off on a plane leaving Paris for Hong Kong, were thrown off the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 15:39:32 PST 2002

5893 Two Representatives of Chechen 'Elite' Interviewed on Recent Meet ing With Putin -- rank: 72

Two Representatives of Chechen 'Elite' Interviewed on Recent Meeting With Putin Rossiyskaya Gazeta 12 November 2002 [translation for personal use only] Interview with Malik Saydullayev, 'representative of Moscow Chechens and well-known politician and businessman,' and Lema Kasayev, president of the Groznyy Restoration Assistance Foundation, by Timofey Borisov; place and date ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Thu Nov 14 01:45:30 PST 2002

5894 academic freedom at Harvard -- rank: 72

budge wrote: > [o'reilly] is very good on laws, rules, and social pressure to be > brought to bear on "anti-gay" prejudice. they should not be > discriminated against in employment, housing, and certainly > not beat up on the streets. BUT, he also doesn't appreciate > "going out in public and seeing ...

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Author:	/ dave /
Date:	Wed Nov 13 22:03:35 PST 2002

5895 students protest in free afghanistan...warlord gov't shoots back -- rank: 72

>Funny, there's a scene in Rohatyn Mistry's novel that reads just like this, >just read it the other night... steve > > >http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/11/afghanstudents021111 The same sort of thing is happening in Iran. What's Mistry's novel about? http://www.nytimes.com ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Wed Nov 13 07:07:39 PST 2002