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6556 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:	Dace
Date:	Fri Feb 25 11:52:00 PST 2000

6557 Chomsky responds to Angela -- rank: 72

This is little more than a repetition of previous posts, but I repeat in case Chomsky misses the sense in which I differ from his position and account of the "Australian-led peacekeeping force". A final post on this for a while, unless anyone finds it all too incomprehensible. Dear Noam ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Wed Feb 23 09:51:25 PST 2000

6558 Black Picket Fences -- rank: 72

Black middle-class woes need attention, book says problems too, prof says February 20, 2000 By William Brand STAFF WRITER BERKELEY -- Growing up, as an African American kid in a big Midwestern city, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy watched what happened to her childhood friends with fascination and dread. Many went to ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Tue Feb 22 18:12:18 PST 2000

6559 Chomsky trivia -- rank: 72

Michael, I don't know how far back the lbo archives go. Ok, so "taking the decision to hold the election as a given, the violence that predictably followed, the independence that ensued, and the weakening of Indonesia's military that resulted at least in part from the same crisis, do ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Sun Feb 20 02:07:44 PST 2000

6560 Yet more sixties nostalgia -- rank: 72

And if you highlight the "foolish" expectations of the 60s era, that's what I criticize. And I get accused of being a conservative, yet I am only conservative on tactics and strategy because I think those foolish expectations - what a number of friends from the era call their "collective insanity ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:04:56 PST 2000

6561 Cops, etc -- rank: 72

Kate Hinchcliff wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > >The less cops, prison guards, & soldiers we have, the better. The more > >money spent on cops, prison guards, & armed forces, the less money we have > >for schools, health care, etc. It's a zero-sum game. Moreover, the more > >individuals have law enforcement jobs, the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:12:37 PST 2000

6562 What Workers Think & Objectivity (was Re: Cops Etc) -- rank: 72

... the working class, eh? what makes them >different? that they police for the state? almost anyone who works in any >sort ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 16 23:30:50 PST 2000

6563 Cops, etc -- rank: 72

Kate: >>The less cops, prison guards, & soldiers we have, the better. The more >>money spent on cops, prison guards, & armed forces, the less money we have >>for schools, health care, etc. It's a zero-sum game. Moreover, the more >>individuals have law enforcement jobs, the more likely the war on ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 16 17:34:23 PST 2000

6564 Zaps -- rank: 72

Wall Street Journal - February 14, 2000 U.S. Sees Rebels Posing A Threat to Mexican Vote By JOSE DE CORDOBA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MEXICO CITY -- Mexican security officials are publicly confident about their ability to keep the peace during this pivotal presidential election year. But in Washington ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 14 22:25:33 PST 2000

6565 Fw: Marx on Suicide book party in NY Feb. 20 -- rank: 72

At 11:56 14/02/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Book Party for _MARX ON SUICIDE_ > >Eric A. Plaut and Kevin Anderson, editors of a new book, _MARX ON >SUICIDE_, will discuss the work and the contemporary issues to which it >speaks at a book party on Sunday, February 20. The party ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Feb 14 16:51:01 PST 2000

6566 Farrell on Cooper -- rank: 72

... as savior, hero, political prisoner and innocent victim of a police conspiracy. Impolite, maybe. But let's not over-react here ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 13 14:25:01 PST 2000

6567 Moon Pie (& Mexico) -- rank: 72

Carrol: >Now you really don't have to consult Lacan to know that sitting >together eating donuts and chatting is better than standing >around in the dark watching four or five strangers do a bad >job of singing freedom songs. Still, saying one is better than the other means you have ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sun Feb 13 11:26:01 PST 2000

6568 French don broke Ben Barka's neck, says agent -- rank: 72

8 February 2000 French don broke Ben Barka's neck, says agent By Brian Love PARIS: A former counter-espionage agent has broken decades of silence to describe the Paris kidnapping and ``accidental'' killing of Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka in the the 1960s. Antoine lopez, a 76-year-old French ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Fri Feb 11 05:28:27 PST 2000

6569 A Zizekian on Zizek on Haider -- rank: 72

Doug wrote: > There's a big difference between an organized mass movement like the anti-apartheid movement, and the bleatings of Clinton and Blair and liberal editorialists (not to mention the Israeli government, which has a lot of nerve criticizing anti-immigrant/racist politicians). Such bleatings only add to the allure ...

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Author:	kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Date:	Thu Feb 10 17:24:21 PST 2000

6570 Fwd: Gap vandalized for alleged sweatshops -- rank: 72

... suspect has yet to be identified, according to a Madison Police Department report. According to the report, prior to this incident ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Wed Feb 9 08:46:52 PST 2000