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6871 Mike Davis, again -- rank: 72

__I S M I K E D A V I S ' L O S A N G E L E S ________all in his head? He's been lionized as a prescient Marxist prophet of end-of-the-continent doom and gloom. But a growing number of critics charge that ...

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Author:	Alex LoCascio
Date:	Mon Dec 7 06:46:53 PST 1998

6872 Fwd: "Freakin Giuliani" review of a new play -- rank: 72

... between various groups of New Yorkers with the Mayor’s police state as a constant presence lurking in the background. The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 4 18:14:17 PST 1998

6873 A cop hits on me -- rank: 72

... old dog!! As far as the class position of the police is concerned I think they are best thought of as ...

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Author:	James Farmelant
Date:	Sat Aug 29 17:10:19 PDT 1998

6874 A cop hits on me -- rank: 72

alec ramsdell wrote: > Louis Proyect writes: > > > What I concealed from her was my Marxist concept of the > > role of the cops in the bourgeois society. When I was > > studying Trotskyist politics in the late'60s, one of the > > things that was drummed into our heads was that cops > > were not part ...

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Author:	Paul Henry Rosenberg
Date:	Sat Aug 29 14:28:39 PDT 1998

6875 Petition for imprisoned socialists in South Korea -- rank: 72

... by the International Monetary Fund. On May 7 hundreds of police swooped down on thr

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Author:	Shelvers at aol.com
Date:	Mon Aug 24 22:42:25 PDT 1998

6876 la revolution -- rank: 72

Doug Henwood wrote: > > Louis Proyect wrote: > > > James Withrow: > > > Well, I live three blocks from where a ghetto begins and if > > > people are going hungry, they're hiding it rather well. > > > > Oh great, an ignorant racist and reactionary on LBO-Talk. Doug takes > > a weekend off and we have to put up ...

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Author:	W. Kiernan
Date:	Mon Aug 24 19:20:42 PDT 1998

6877 Nigeria -- rank: 72

August 23, 1998 The Painful Paradox of Nigeria's 'Self-Imposed Poverty' By ROGER COHEN LAGOS, Nigeria -- By night, many homes here have no electricity. But by day, the street lights across the long bridge connecting Lagos island with the Nigerian mainland are often on, mile after mile of feeble glows ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Sun Aug 23 06:42:26 PDT 1998

6878 Mumia's guilt -- rank: 72

... a third person was driven out of town by the police. Mumia's supposed confession seems pretty clearly to have been ...

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Author:	Gar W. Lipow
Date:	Tue Aug 18 21:38:36 PDT 1998

6879 Testimony of the accused -- rank: 72

On Sun, August 16, 1998 at 14:27:20 (-0400) james withrow writes: >... > Besides the legal distinction of guilty or not guilty, there's >also the real life distinction of guilty or innocent to consider. If >Mumia and his supporters wanted to press the case of his innocence, >rather than the ...

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Author:	William S. Lear
Date:	Mon Aug 17 11:22:07 PDT 1998

6880 under-35s -- rank: 72

Fred Baker produced and directed the legendary documentary "Lenny Bruce Without Tears." The film-maker, like his subject, defies conventional expectations. While Fred Baker has worked both sides of the camera in the film business, and has extensive credits on the Broadway stage and television, what sets him apart from the ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Sun Aug 16 14:28:57 PDT 1998

6881 Mumia's guilt -- rank: 72

... registered to Abu-Jamal was found in his hands and police forensics exper

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Author:	james withrow
Date:	Sun Aug 16 11:27:20 PDT 1998

6882 Homelessness and Hearth in SF -- rank: 72

Notes From the Underground-- from a journalistic wing counter to that of the media mogul-ruled. (Won't see this kind of reportage in SF Chronicle or Examiner). Reprinted from _Street Sheet: a Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness San Francisco_ What Does It Mean to Be Homeless With Your Children ...

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Author:	alec ramsdell
Date:	Sat Aug 15 19:06:13 PDT 1998

6883 Russian Miners -- rank: 72

... local > authorities have learnt the previous lessons and used special police forces > against protesting miners. Hundred of workers were surrounded by ... near Dubrovniki railway station. The miners could not resist armed > police, but have refused to return to work and are standing ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Aug 14 06:14:31 PDT 1998

6884 American assholes -- rank: 72

... APART, >HAVE BEEN SEPARATED BY ARMED U.S. SOLDIERS. KENYAN POLICE HAVE NOT >BEEN ALLOWED TO SET FOOT ON EMBASSY PROPERTY ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 11 13:41:55 PDT 1998

6885 Russian miners' protest -- rank: 72

VOICES FROM THE BRIDGE I have translated some materials published in the last bulletin (July 16) of the Independent Miners' Union published by the Headquarters of the Miners' Picket on the Gorbaty Bridge in Moscow. I believe these materials give a fairly true picture of the peresent ferment within the nascent ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Aug 4 08:21:40 PDT 1998