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6541 (fr) Ecuador rises against IMF / levanta-se contra FMI -- rank: 72

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Ecuador Ecuador seems to be blowing up - economic crisis, strikes, protests. Does anyone know what's going on? Doug ###################################################### From: "sinbad" <parky01 at pathcom.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 Subject: [controle_omc] Ecuador en Lutte conte Le ...

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Author:	magellan at netrio.com.br
Date:	Mon Jan 17 11:11:37 PST 2000

6542 Luxemburg Liebknecht March success -- rank: 72

... 15th, was successful, with 80,000 demonstrators and 2,000 police. This would appear to vindicate the PDS leadership's line of having dialogue with the police about the earlier ban, but going ahead this Saturday, (in ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Jan 15 13:34:53 PST 2000

6543 fwd: "Seattle: The First U.S. Riot Against 'Globalization'?" -- rank: 72

From: Loren R Goldner <lgoldner at world.std.com> by way of aut-op-sy 1/13/00 Seattle: The First U.S. Riot Against "Globalization"? Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the U.S. between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Sat Jan 15 08:05:26 PST 2000

6544 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 72

... conspiracies - COINTELPRO > > That wasn't a conspiracy, it was basic police work. What's gained by > calling it a conspiracy? Cops ... danger, *if and ONLY if* one sees it as "basic police work" and NOT some special conspiracy. In fact, conspiracy theories ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Jan 14 15:40:07 PST 2000

6545 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 72

>>> Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> 01/13/00 04:17PM >>> Charles, to make a long story short -- where did you get the idea that I (or others) believe in gov't honesty? &&&&&&&& CB: Well, in this discussion, that is pretty much the other side of the coin of maintaining ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jan 13 14:32:00 PST 2000

6546 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 72

... reasonable doubt that JFK was killed by a government secret police hit SQUAD,not a single person. I'm not sure ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jan 13 10:18:35 PST 2000

6547 On Cultural Privilege -- rank: 72

At 07:05 AM 1/13/00 -0600, Michael Cykana wrote: >>Prisoners per 100,000 persons: >> >>Russia 685 >>US 645 >>China 115 > > >As of midnight Dec. 31, a new study says, there were 1,982,084 adults in >U.S. jails and prisons. That's 725 inmates for every 100,000 ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Jan 13 08:31:30 PST 2000

6548 Self-abolition of historical materialism -- rank: 72

... is very complicated, and we have a long history of brutality and conflict that won't go away anytime soon. Tell ... hope that humans can exist without exploiting classes, and even "brutality and conflict." Historical materialism holds that class struggle is the ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Jan 11 11:35:34 PST 2000

6549 Revolution Number 9 -- rank: 72

... think tankers and policy makers to hash out consensus and police the parameters of acceptable discourse/policy options. I do remember ...

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Author:	Mattcapri at aol.com
Date:	Fri Jan 7 12:10:26 PST 2000

6550 Moluccas -- rank: 72

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Russell Grinker wrote: > There seems to be potential for the Timor precedent to allow Western > interference here - once again on alleged humanitarian grounds. This > could be a major threat to Indonesian sovereignty. In the short run, I think the situation here is very different. The government ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Jan 3 23:22:48 PST 2000

6551 Sleeper on Diallo -- rank: 72

... how the verdict did call >into question the rules of police conduct. I forgot about its content (the >points weren't ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Feb 28 11:12:38 PST 2000

6552 Sleeper on Diallo -- rank: 72

... how the verdict did call >into question the rules of police conduct. I forgot about its content (the >points weren't ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Mon Feb 28 09:35:25 PST 2000

6553 Brutal Verdict -- rank: 72

... occasion to lash out at "people > > who protest against the police, and blame them for > > every ill in society." > > "Not one ... streets. They need to take them back from the violent police. << Chuck0 >> Homepage: http://flag.blackened.net/chuck0/home/ Mid-Atla

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sat Feb 26 11:32:44 PST 2000

6554 Brutal verdict -- rank: 72

... in the Diallo trial is a clear indictment of standard police procedure in Giuliani's New York. > I found it curious ... to sadism and superstition that Diallo was attacked by the police -- he was mistaken for some kind of drug dealer, was ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Sat Feb 26 08:43:35 PST 2000

6555 freedom of assembly, Rudy style -- rank: 72

... as > we walked up the hill toward Iowa Street. The police were incredibly > polite. They took great care not to hurt ... I got the feeling that the bad old days of > police riots were over forever. Perhaps what's changed is that ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Fri Feb 25 13:05:42 PST 2000