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6781 two views on Seattle -- rank: 72

... march joined the sit-downers. It would probably have reduced police violence and maybe discouraged window-breaking. The sit-down would ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Sun Dec 5 09:31:38 PST 1999

6782 TNR Means of Dissent by Charles Duhigg -- rank: 72

TNR | Means of Dissent by Charles Duhigghttp://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/122099/duhigg122099.html December 4, 1999 SEATTLE DISPATCH Means of Dissent By CHARLES DUHIGG Issue date: 12.20.99 Post date: 12.02.99 The extreme ideological gulfs among the estimated 10,000 protesters at the World Trade Organization ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Dec 4 07:55:40 PST 1999

6783 Anarchists or agents provocateurs? -- rank: 72

Angela: doesn't a state of emergency make us all anarchists? if it becomes illegal to possess a gas mask, for instance, isn't it nuts to argue that people should confine themselves to legality? does the principle of self-defense (even max's principle of commensurate justice) vanish in order ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Thu Dec 2 20:41:51 PST 1999

6784 Anarchists or agents provocateurs? -- rank: 72

... How palpable this makes it that the purpose of the police is to protect private property. However, let me say that ... vast majority of the demonstrators were peaceful, that the Seattle police wrongfully attacked peaceful protestors (!), etc. in the same vein. And ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Dec 2 09:24:51 PST 1999

6785 Agent Provocateurs- view from the Right -- rank: 72

... on a lot of speculation from the Left.): > > "So, the police turn a blind eye to the hoodlums and allow them ... in the public's mind even more > draconian and extreme police state tactics against them. > Who is more lawless, the protesters ...

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Author:	Jean-Christophe Helary
Date:	Wed Dec 1 19:26:46 PST 1999

6786 seattle -- rank: 72

[well, brad, for the formation of a New International, of course! there are reports of demos in rome, amsterdam, berlin, in cyberspace (a virtual sit-in for eg)... many more coming through. - Angela] a fwd from the No-WTO list: I'd like to remind people, especially Americans, that this ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Wed Dec 1 18:56:53 PST 1999

6787 Planning; or marx versus lenin versus lenin -- rank: 72

>>> "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> 08/31/99 01:46PM >>> Chaz wrote: >Assuming arguendo that Marx and Lenin are different as you say, in fact and life, Lenin's theory and practice seem more united than Marx's because Lenin's theory was coincident with a revolution and ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Aug 31 13:21:29 PDT 1999

6788 drug-o-nomics -- rank: 72

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:10:36 -0400 (EDT) bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) writes: >"Street-level drug dealing appears to be less lucrative than is >generally >thought." > >As if anybody but them thought it was all those crack head dope >pushers >whose money was being laundered in ...

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Author:	James Farmelant
Date:	Wed Aug 25 03:31:19 PDT 1999

6789 NYT on UK GM dispute -- rank: 72

>From today's NY Times - good line about Blair & Co: "cocky, beholden to big business and subservient to the United States": Britons Skirmish Over Genetically Modified Crops By Warren Hoge Piccotts End, England -- With fields of shin-high wheat, a carpet of white daisies, wild clover underfoot, lazy oaks overhead ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Mon Aug 23 06:47:18 PDT 1999

6790 more anticapitalist riots! -- rank: 72

... The headline in the U.S. edition is much better: "Police predict > more riots against capitalism." What a beautiful thought!] > > Financial Times - August 20 1999 > > LONDON: Police reorganise riot control in City > > Warning of more anti-capitalism ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Fri Aug 20 07:39:25 PDT 1999

6791 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 72

At 09:32 19/08/99 -0400, Carl wrote: >> >What in god's name would a "revolution" in the U.S. look like?... > >> Have we forgotten that the City of London was stormed on June 18th? >> Why do we forget this? > >I haven't forgotten, Chris. It presented Brits as an ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Aug 19 15:32:11 PDT 1999

6792 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 72

At 10:51 18/08/99 -0400, Doug wrote: >What in god's name would a "revolution" in the U.S. look like? The >masses storming the White House and the floor of the NYSE? My >scenario involves fairly classic political work by parties, unions, >and other organizations. I really don ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Aug 18 23:07:54 PDT 1999

6793 gentrification -- rank: 72

At 10:49 AM 8/18/99 +1000, Angela wrote: > >Wojtek wrote: > >> The homeless are a minority by numerical standards, and they are not >> responsible for most social problems that working class faces. > >not responsible for _most_ of the problems? what problems would they be >responsible for? For the most part ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Aug 18 09:09:09 PDT 1999

6794 ethnic re-cleansing -- rank: 72

[Two articles for the price of one! For some reason, The Independent has stopped including bylines on its website.] Independent (London) - August 17, 1999 UN EVACUATES SERBS FROM KOSOVO [no byline provided] The United Nations in Kosovo is moving hundreds of Serbs out of the province because of the increase ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 09:40:28 PDT 1999

6795 gentrification -- rank: 72

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >2. Public spaces. There are no public spaces in suburban sprawl - >everything is private, including shopping malls. Tha means that security >guards have every right to kick you out, if they do not lik eyou behavior >(e.g. if you distribute Mumia Abu Jamal literature or sell alternative ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 09:04:59 PDT 1999