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6241 Maude Barlow on Quebec -- rank: 72

... march and the penetration of the wall. We witnessed unbelievable police aggression and acts of great courage. Like all of you ... demonstrators, or people dressed as demonstrators, throwing objects at the police and vandalizing some media vehicles. I was bombarded with media ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sun May 13 17:27:56 PDT 2001

6242 OECD tax harmonization "rumors" was Re: Tomothy McVeigh on Iraq -- rank: 72

... graced our television screens in the 1970s has the Honolulu Police Department attracted this much attention. The department's warnings that ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sat May 12 00:19:17 PDT 2001

6243 Missing in Action -- rank: 72

... confuse the American public. Many working class whites support >the police murder of black people. Does that make disapproval of >police a ruling class view? > >I remain utterly baffled by what ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 10 06:44:12 PDT 2001

6244 Speaking of Bob Kerry -- rank: 72

http://www.frontlineonline.com/fl1809/18090760.htm The Ho Chi Minh saga GOVIND TALWALKAR Ho Chi Minh by William J. Duiker; Hyperion, New York; pages 695; $35. 'HALF Lenin, half Gandhi', this is how William J. Duiker describes Ho Chi Minh, father of the new Vietnam. Professor Duiker has written several ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Fri May 4 23:07:10 PDT 2001

6245 May Day "violence is our enemy" -- rank: 72

Ian Murray wrote: > I'd like to see some examples of this "left-opportunism." I gather that > Burford is referring to anarchist elements such as the black bloc, who > simply operate on the principle of self-organization. If Burford bothers > to do any research on the black bloc, such as talking ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Tue May 1 08:50:00 PDT 2001

6246 Missing in Action -- rank: 72

... confuse the American public. Many working class whites support the police murder of black people. Does that make disapproval of police a ruling class view? I remain utterly baffled by what ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue May 1 06:56:08 PDT 2001

6247 "Practicalities" of Reparations (was Re: Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers) -- rank: 72

... is suing LAPD for humungous bucks. Given out of control police, the lights going on and off, many here feel like ... with the Democratic Convention, when the city was occupied by police and blocked off streets, and feeling that the citizens better ...

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Author:	Bob Morris
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:49:46 PST 2001

6248 Jury Duty -- rank: 72

At 10:36 PM 3/29/01 +0000, Justin wrote: >A criminal case where the defendant had no attorney? Had he insisted on >representing himself? Yes, but it was clear that he could not speak coherently, let alone defending himself. My not guilty decision was based solely on the presentation by ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Mar 29 15:22:48 PST 2001

6249 Jury Duty -- rank: 72

... was shot to death in her living room by the police. Her husband, daughter, and brother are suing for wrongful death ... They then proceeded on to attitudes and opinions about the police and the latino community. One particularly odd question was, who ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu Mar 29 11:33:13 PST 2001

6250 "Theft" of Free Newspapers (was Re: Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad) -- rank: 72

... has no such status. In San Francisco, a Chief of Police lost his job after he had his police confiscate a whole run of free newspapers which had an ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Mar 28 12:32:52 PST 2001

6251 John McMurtry on FTAA/WTO -- rank: 72

THE FTAA AND THE WTO: THE META-PROGRAM FOR GLOBAL CORPORATE RULE by John McMurtry, PhD. Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada The "Free Trade Area of the Americas" (FTAA) is the latest major campaign for the occupation of the planet by the global corporate system. Like ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Tue Mar 27 07:48:00 PST 2001

6252 DN Redux -- rank: 72

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Did others hear Bessie Walsh's interruption of the Democracy Now broadcast >this morning? From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:31:48 -0500 Bessie Wash interrupts 3/26 Democracy Now Broadcast to portray activists as violent ------------ Pacifica executive director ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 10:57:45 PST 2001

6253 Brown students trash Horowitz -- rank: 72

... something at him, and he would > stop and ask the police to arrest the hecklers, which they didnt do. after > maybe ... minutes he decided to stop speaking and said if the police didnt > arrest everyone he would leave. they didnt so he ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Mar 19 20:51:52 PST 2001

6254 Brown students trash Horowitz -- rank: 72

when i was at the university of texas in the middle of the fight to save affirmative action, and at the height of the student protest movement there, the university's well-funded libertarians brought horowitz to campus to try and counter our momentum. his talk was pretty candid, and the ...

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Author:	David Hill
Date:	Mon Mar 19 19:41:04 PST 2001

6255 Peter Singer and Redeeming Characteristics -- rank: 72

> Gordon says: > > >Marta Russell: > >> The hopeless sufferers (as you call them) have been killing themselves > >> for centuries without getting the medical profession involved. > >> ... > > > >Yes, but from what I've read, they often mess up the job and > >wind up alive and worse off than they were before-- it's > >harder ...

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Author:	John Mage
Date:	Sun Mar 18 15:09:38 PST 2001