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6751 Oakland highlights -- rank: 72

>Of course nothing we say on this list about this "will make the slightest >difference," but that's probably true of everything we say on this list. > >Doug Doug, discussions on this list can make a difference. There are lurkers who are well connected in the black movement and I ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Sat Jan 9 19:15:59 PST 1999

6752 Malcolm X and SNCC -- rank: 72

Rakesh wrote: "Oh, heck, here is a little more of the reply." KL: Is this the academic equivalent of strip tease? Must we toss coins on the stage? Rakesh: "1. My main focus remains the criticism of the NOI in terms of things its leaders, Malcolm X included, actually do and ...

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Author:	Apsken at aol.com
Date:	Mon Jan 4 18:16:02 PST 1999

6753 So what's the deal in China, Henry -- rank: 72

This was posted on another list, but it started with Paula. Brian: With all due respect, you have to get out of your tunnel vision of what free information is and how it has been distributed in the Western world for the past century and today. This issue has been discussed ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Fri Jan 1 21:45:09 PST 1999

6754 in the news -- rank: 72

Doyle Saylor wrote: > Doyle: > Some people are, but you know training helps. And respect helps, and good > wages, and a host of things that make for dignity when one works. > Patronizing someone is not in everyone, and it is not done away with by > making someone a pseudo boss. I have ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Feb 28 14:37:48 PST 1999

6755 Suck on Cockburn/Hitchens -- rank: 72

Suck's twisted take on Cockburn/Hitchens http://www.suck.com/daily/99/02/18/ Speaking of restroom poetry contests, the most fragrant new fallout from Christopher Hitchens' self-imposed Sidneygate has been a flash point in the Anglo-Irish Cold War Hitchens has long waged against The Nation colleague Alexander ...

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Author:	Peter Kilander
Date:	Thu Feb 25 20:12:57 PST 1999

6756 Butler, Nussbaum, Paglia -- rank: 72

... who are always complaining about those fellow workers on the police depts. beating them until (in one mother's description) something ... coming out of his (her son's) mouth after the police had released him. Or perhaps we should instead all unite ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Feb 25 15:38:06 PST 1999

6757 Hate crime -- rank: 72

... ask whether it is seen as a hate crime or police violence. it's from http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu ... British citizen who secretly recorded his encounter with the British police. Policeman: You know what happens in your country...They take ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Wed Feb 24 08:29:37 PST 1999

6758 Slavery gets headlines -- rank: 72

You don't have to look too far to find abuse of domestic workers in the US Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur Section: International News Date: February 19, 1999, Friday, BC Cycle 13:19 Central European Time Length: 1276 words Copyright: Copyright 1999 Deutsche Presse-Agentur Headline: RPT FEATURE: Slave labour not ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Fri Feb 19 23:55:38 PST 1999

6759 Mindspring censorship; abortion -- rank: 72

... most >of the time we're all good subjects and police ourselves. Indeed. And coming back to the subject of abortion, I'd say that we police ourselves and become good subjects by arguing with the Right ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Feb 8 15:07:53 PST 1999

6760 Rule of Law 101 (Re: Hitchens Turns GOP stool pigeon -- rank: 72

Dear Nathan, I wouldn't make too much out of this "he-said-said-he" between two pals like Hitchens and Blumenthal. It smells like a money making opportunity for both of them, not to mention getting a footnote in the history of the affair. It's part of getting old ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Sun Feb 7 16:43:48 PST 1999

6761 Rule of Law 101 (Re: Hitchens Turns GOP stool pigeon -- rank: 72

Okay, I'll try to pull responses to Doug, Alex and Peter into one post. I'll divide my points into three broad areas: Monica as victim, Offensive character assassination vs. the right to a criminal defense, and finally the broader point of lesser-evilism (which ties back to Monica as ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sun Feb 7 16:53:18 PST 1999

6762 cop shows, postmodernism and all that -- rank: 72

... before yesterday. They were stopping a john who solicited a police decoy prostitute. The john turned out to be john dillinger ... politics where the street >vendor was gunned down by the police on Friday. I don't know anything about the Bronx ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sun Feb 7 09:29:28 PST 1999

6763 Cop Shows & Althusser's Law (was Re: surplus andotherstuff) -- rank: 72

>>> <d-m-c at worldnet.att.net> 02/02 1:54 PM >>> At 04:10 PM 2/1/1999 -0500, you wrote: >On empirical evidence, Prof. Frithjof Bergman once pointed out in a class on philosophy of science, that social sciences are sometimes plagued by a tendency to make statements ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Feb 2 12:08:17 PST 1999

6764 How can we stand in solidarity with Brazil and Argentina? -- rank: 72

I answer below to a dialogue under the same subject that took place in another international list which I am not a subscriber to. I think that you will find some interesting information about the present Brazilian situation. It is also a good example of a plague that is not specifically ...

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Author:	R. Magellan
Date:	Tue Feb 2 00:31:07 PST 1999

6765 Fwd: Inside Giuliani’s Shadow Government-Newsd ay -- rank: 72

[Of considerable interest to students of Rudyism, but also a great study of how the American ruling class propagates itself.] Newsday - December 27, 1999 PUBLIC OFFICE, PRIVATE FUNDS / LITTLE-KNOWN ENTITY GIVES PRIVATE MONEY TO MAYOR'S PROJECTS. BY: By Dan Janison. STAFF WRITER. Staff writer Robert Polner contributed to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 08:25:24 PST 1999