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616 History of Rising Repression in Kosovo -- rank: 206

What is remarkable about Kosovo is how long the ethnic Albanians refused to turn to violence, led for many years by leaders dedicated to nonviolence. It was only after repeated attempts to democratically gain autonomy (note not from Yugoslavia but originally only from Serbia) was repressed by Serbia leadership that violent ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sat Mar 27 17:40:43 PST 1999

617 [lbo-talk] News Ltd to Queensland cops: shut up! -- rank: 206

... 21132002-7583,00.html Editorial: The law applies to all, police included The Australian January 29, 2007 Queensland police should not strike to protect their own QUEENSLAND Police Union official Denis Fitzpatrick should calm down and shut up ... Doomadgee on Palm Island in November 2004. Mr Fitzpatrick says police are "incensed" by what he calls "political interference". But what ... is Mr Fitzpatrick's stand-over style. To suggest that police could strike because the union does not like the prospect ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Mon Jan 29 19:42:42 PST 2007

618 Fwd: ACTIVISTS BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS, SPRAYED ARRESTED IN ACTIONAGAINST POLICE RESTRICTIONS ON PROTEST -- rank: 206

... Message -------- Subject: ACTIVISTS BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS, SPRAYED ARRESTED IN ACTION AGAINST POLICE RESTRICTIONS ON PROTEST Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 16:47 ... Kate Cooper (917) 374-3807 ACTIVISTS ARRESTED IN ACTION AGAINST POLICE RESTRICTIONS ON PROTEST; DOZENS INJURED; PRESS CONFERENCE CALLED FOR TOMORROW ... 2001 - Sixty activists were arrested this afternoon by New York Police while performing a "snake march" along the sidewalks of the ... while dozens of others were beaten and pepper-sprayed by police. Police told the People's Law Collective, an anarchist legal collective ...

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Author:	Chuck Munson
Date:	Sun Feb 3 14:07:08 PST 2002

619 [fla-left] [news] Police build up anti-riot forces in US cities (fwd) -- rank: 206

... http://www.wsws.org > > After the WTO protests in Seattle > > Police build up anti-riot forces in US cities > > By Shannon Jones > 14 March 2000 > > City governments and police officials around the US, concerned > that the demonstrations against the ... revival of a protest movement, > are drawing the conclusion that police powers need to be beefed > up. Preparations include increasing training ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Mon Mar 20 14:45:22 PST 2000

620 Protecing the City of London from Riot -- rank: 206

Two police reports published yesterday shows a serious degree of alarm about ... grave are the implications that the report by the Metropolitan Police clearly implies that the City police, who just look after the City of London, (one of ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jul 29 00:06:13 PDT 1999

621 FW: [Article] ENS, Japanese Police Raid Greenpeace Ship -- rank: 202

... jp> To: <CIR at listbot.com> Subject: [Article] ENS, Japanese Police Raid Greenpeace Ship Date: 2000 5 13 ( ) 9:29 AM So who is really breaking the law? ============================ Environment Japanese Police Raid Greenpeace Ship and Office TOKYO, Japan, May 11, 2000 ... office in Tokyo were raided this morning by the Japanese Police seeking evidence against the four Greenpeace activists arrested on Tuesday. Three men and one woman are still in police custody after they climbed the building next to the tower ...

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Author:	Jean-Christophe Helary
Date:	Fri May 12 19:53:40 PDT 2000

622 [lbo-talk] Police force often the only hope for jobless Iraqis -- rank: 202

Reuters.com FEATURE-Police force often the only hope for jobless Iraqis Sun Jul ... in the world. It was time to join the Iraqi police force. "I have submitted an application to be recruited into the police, it's the only job I can get," Jamil said ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Aug 3 09:20:08 PDT 2005

623 Philly cops: seeing Red -- rank: 202

... Rumors had troopers seeing Reds during the GOP convention State police based their suspicions of protesters on information supplied by a ... WRITERS The cold war is long over but Pennsylvania State Police were still on the lookout for communists and Soviet sympathizers ... last month's Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. In state police affidavits justifying a raid on a West Philadelphia warehouse used ... and leftist parties and from sympathetic trade unions," the state police declared in the affidavits. "Other funds reportedly come from the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 10 18:38:03 PDT 2000

624 Denver's "Criminal Extremists" -- rank: 202

... Friday, March 22, 2002 in the Los Angeles Times Denver Police Spied on Activists, ACLU Says by Julie Cart DENVER -- The American Civil Liberties Union charged Thursday that Denver police illegally searched a local activist group's office and confiscated ... to recent disclosures that an intelligence unit of the Denver police has maintained files for years on protest groups. The so ... and include information gleaned from public rallies and meetings. The Police Department admitted it has files on about 3,200 individuals ... aspect of criminal intelligence.Group Labeled 'Criminal Extremists' "The Denver police have no legitimate interest in keeping permanent files on peaceful ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Fri Mar 22 07:54:42 PST 2002

625 Eyewitness account of nonviolent action at WTO -- rank: 202

WTO report from Peter Bergel: A committed activist named Peter Bergel has published the Oregon PeaceWorker (www. teleport.com/~opw) for some years, and has just sent this post from the streets of Seattle. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 06:38:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: Peter Bergel's WTO Report Dear ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Wed Dec 1 17:11:49 PST 1999

626 [lbo-talk] free speech in Bush's America -- rank: 202

... Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up "free speech zones" or "protest zones," where ... the poor, they made so many of us." The local police, at the Secret Service's behest, set up a "designated ... a mile from the location of Bush's speech. The police cleared the path of the motorcade of all critical signs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 7 09:38:47 PST 2004

627 [lbo-talk] Chicago police tortured report finds -- rank: 202

... The wonders of the American 'justice system.' SR) Inquiry Finds Police Abuse, but Says Law Bars Trials By Jodi Rudoren The ... Wednesday that scores of criminal suspects were routinely brutalized by police officers on the South Side of Chicago in the 1970 ... in court at least three cases of torture by the police, involving five former officers, and that they had found credible ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Wed Jul 19 22:44:24 PDT 2006

628 Urgent appeal -- rank: 202

... are still under extreme pressure from the RCMP and Vancouver Police and they have been evicted from their apartment, have no ... he suffered at the hands of the RCMP and Vancouver Police, they are trying to arrest FRank again on an old ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Thu Sep 17 10:15:27 PDT 1998

629 [lbo-talk] Land confiscation in East Jerusalem -- rank: 202

... Rapoport Jewish settlement organizations, criminal Palestinian elements, the Israel Border Police, the attorney general, the Interior Ministry - all have a role ...

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Author:	Bryan
Date:	Sat Mar 5 03:19:43 PST 2005

630 Fwd: Total Police State Security Plan for Times Sq.-NY Times -- rank: 202

[cf. the 1,200-member Seattle Police Department] New York Times - December 26, 1999 Safir Describes Security ... to keep Times Square's millennial celebration safe. Eight thousand police officers -- a force larger than most municipal police departments around the country -- will be assigned to an area ... Times Square about half the size of Central Park. The police plan to tow every car parked on the streets anywhere ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 26 08:32:27 PST 1999