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6436 American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee -- rank: 72

... unjust > compromise made by the Palestinian Authority, against the local > police) boiled over, and the protest was very militant (the local ... here in Orlando. Scheduled during appearance by Gore & Leiberman, local police and secret service cordoned off demonstrators couple of blocks from ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Sun Oct 8 07:57:37 PDT 2000

6437 The U.S. Moves to Impose a Puppet Regime in Yugoslavia -- rank: 72

Intersting item from www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] The U.S. Moves to Impose a Puppet Regime in Yugoslavia by Michel Chossudvosky and Jared Israel Yesterday we wrote an article analyzing the situation in Yugoslavia. Before we could publish it, our analysis has been confirmed by events. We have confirmed ...

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Author:	Tom Wheeler
Date:	Thu Oct 5 13:23:17 PDT 2000

6438 Spreading rumors -- rank: 72

Hi, Back from the Christian Coalition meeting, where rumors and conspiracy theory are part of the package. Robertson's speech Saturday night claimed the usual conspiracy from modernism, to John Dewey, to the secular humanist homosexual abortionists. Rumor and conspiracy theory are interesting areas of study, but do people REALLY want ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Mon Oct 2 10:36:15 PDT 2000

6439 Trevor Manuel disses Proge protesters, others join in -- rank: 72

Does the World Bank have a position on violent riots by the poor against the World Bank? What a load of crap. They need a better PR firm. We're going to keep winning if they keep turning this crap. In other news, I think we lost our anarchist source inside ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Oct 2 09:53:21 PDT 2000

6440 Trevor Manuel disses Proge protesters, others join in -- rank: 72

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] SOUTH AFRICA'S MANUEL DISMISSES PRAGUE PROTESTERS. South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel dismissed as "alienated young people" the anti-globalization protestors who demonstrated at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Prague last week, reports Agence France-Presse. "They are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 2 09:26:23 PDT 2000

6441 libertarian socialism -- rank: 72

Jesse advocates more direct democracy rather than what he calls "redistributuave justice," because, he says, the latter can always be reversed. Well, so can the former. I am also no great fan of direct as opposed to representative democracy. Read Tocqueville on this, ir Mill on public opinion): direct democracy can ...

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Author:	JKSCHW at aol.com
Date:	Mon Oct 2 08:22:09 PDT 2000

6442 libertarian socialism -- rank: 72

Beaut post, Norman! 'Tis a matter of tradition - nay, principle - on the white-collar radical left to argue abstractions and anachronisms while real social movements either develop or die around us - the developments go unaided by us and the deaths go unremarked until the corpses have long gone rotten (at which ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Mon Oct 2 08:08:46 PDT 2000

6443 libertarian socialism -- rank: 72

non-radical engineer likes the ethics and practicality implied in the jesse exerpt below. it invites two questions: 1. why don't i read more about radicals supporting liberal causes like election finance reform to make 1 voter = 1 vote instead of 1 $ = 1 vote? seems to me that if elections ...

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Author:	Mikalac Norman S NSSC
Date:	Mon Oct 2 07:25:29 PDT 2000

6444 libertarian socialism -- rank: 72

In a message dated 9/30/00 4:57:59 PM Central Daylight Time, JKSCHW at aol.com writes: > You say we need > to think beyond a situation where domination exists, to where there will be > no subordinate and dominant groupsm and Ia gree there too. But none of this > means ...

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Author:	JessEcoh at cs.com
Date:	Sun Oct 1 12:06:20 PDT 2000

6445 FW: N30 Statement (Pls. Forward) -- rank: 72

>From a totally brilliant Filipino organizer who's been an inspiration to many activists in Seattle. Happy anniversary to all those who helped the US get off it's smug imperialist ass and think about the misery we cause to our fellow citizens around the planet. -----Original Message----- From: pa ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Nov 29 18:17:17 PST 2000

6446 Charlatans Left & Right (was Christopher Hitchens from left charlatan . . .) -- rank: 72

... to say, are for the > most part in favor of police state measures, But this is surely only relevant to a ...

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Author:	Daniel Davies
Date:	Tue Nov 28 07:09:14 PST 2000

6447 Charlatans Left & Right (was Christopher Hitchens from left charlatan . . .) -- rank: 72

>And then we had that bullshit in an email to (forget >who) someone on lbo saying that "conservatives are >talking more sense than liberals on a lot of issues, >particularly libertarian". Which I can't think for >the life of me what these might be -- certainly not >drugs, as the ...

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Author:	Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin
Date:	Tue Nov 28 04:47:52 PST 2000

6448 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 72

... currently in the U.S. there is general phenomenon of police discrimination against Black people >and other "darker" people in the ... privilege of whitness is in not being killed by the police. Brutal black cops may take advantage of the vulnerability of ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Nov 27 12:12:20 PST 2000

6449 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 72

... currently in the U.S. there is general phenomenon of police discrimination against Black people and other "darker" people in the ... CB: Not individual attitudes, systematic, institutionalized , collective racism in the police forces of the U.S. It is a racist ideology ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Nov 27 12:52:28 PST 2000

6450 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 72

... thin-blue-line mentality behind those incidents - the cult of police as superheroeas saving society from sundry villains (instead of being ... currently in the U.S. there is general phenomenon of police dis

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Nov 27 10:45:31 PST 2000