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| | List of riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 1991 - 1991 Washington, DC riot in D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood, May 1991, (Washington, D.C. 1991 Moscow August Putsch, GKChP (ГКЧП) riot, or August Coup Attempt, or August Putsch, 19-21 August 1991, (Moscow, Russia) | | | Riots and civil unrest in the United States | | | 2005 - 2005 Toledo Riot, October 2005, (Toledo, Ohio, USA) |
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| | Timeline Washington DC |
| | Reagan in the Capitol Rotunda of Washington DC. | | | 2000 Apr 15, An estimated 600 people were arrested in Washington DC prior to the meeting of the IMF and World Bank. | | | 1861 Oct 23, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C. for all military-related cases. |
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| | Timeline Washington DC |
| | Reagan in the Capitol Rotunda of Washington DC. | | | 1997 Dec 4, In Washington DC Eric Butera (31) was robbed and beaten to death while assisting police in an undercover investigation of a triple murder. | | | 2000 Apr 15, An estimated 600 people were arrested in Washington DC prior to the meeting of the IMF and World Bank. |
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| | Washington, DC, Winter/Spring 1999: Renascence |
| | Washington Post revealed that it had come into possession of a copy of an internal DCFRA strategy document detailing a move to essentially hoodwink Congress into thinking that it was time to restore full self-government to the District of Columbia. | | | There is no incentive for prisoners to remain, as the DC Council rescinded the ability of Superior Court judges to issue pretrial surety bonds, in a 1994 attempt to reduce crowding at the DC Jail. | | | Washington is, after all, not a city of the poor and powerless; it is instead a city of the rich and the powerful. |
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| | Getting Started in Washington, DC |
| | DC has more in common with underdeveloped countries than the rest of the United States. | | | There is nothing finer for a lawyer than to be a lawyer in DC. | | | It's like the third world over there, but they do have teeth, and DC laws are very favorable to tenants. |
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| | Washington, DC: Not a Pretty Site (or sight) |
| | DC Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Agency ("the Control Board") Chairman Andrew F. Brimmer, acting pursuant to the Act, directed Mayor Marion Barry to take no steps affecting personnel, contracting nor any of the nine major City of Washington agencies placed under the Control Board's jurisdiction by the Act. | | | Washington DC is simultaneously starving to death, bleeding to death, gangrenous and consumed with cancer. | | | Washington Post, stands revealed as being completely unable to regulate the inspection or licensing of child-care facilities. |
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| | JessicaGary |
| | And less than 1,000 arrests for housebreaking" (Civil Disturbances In Washington 30). | | | An article published in 1969 in the Washington Post stated, "Today the Negro wage earner makes 53 percent of his white brothers salary, while in 1953, the figures were 59 percent." The African Americans of Washington, D.C. did not only making very little progress, they had actually gone backwards. | | | Militancy in the pursuit of civil rights proved to be a considerable force within the ghetto, and the movement also spread internationally to third world countries. |
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| | H-DC Discussion Network |
| | Washington Terminal RR created to provide switching services for station owners (BandO and PRR) and tenants from the south (Chesapeake and Ohio, RFandP, Southern, Atlantic Coast Line, and Seaboard). | | | Emancipation debate intensifies when abolitionists free 77 Washington slaves and spirit them away on a boat, The Pearl, only to be stopped and the slaves recaptured. | | | Supreme Court rules that Thompson's Restaurant in DC cannot exclude African Americans because of an 1872 municipal law. |
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| | List of riots: Information From Answers.com |
| | 1968 - 1968 Democratic National Convention riot, ( Chicago, Illinois, USA) | | | List of riots is mentioned in the following topics: | | | It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer) |
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| | Street Fighting Man -- D.C. Riots 1968 |
| | And damage was to be heaviest in Washington. | | | A short while earlier, the Reverend Walter Fauntroy, vice chairman of the Washington City Council and an official of Dr. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, had come to the SCLC Poor People’s Campaign office immediately adjacent to the drugstore in response to a call that an angry crowd was gathering. | | | In February, 1968, when a photograph of Dr. King posing with Carmichael was published by The Washington Post, there was annoyance in Dr. King’s camp that it had happened; but Dr. King, himself, just smiled. |
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| | European Drug Policy: Analysis and Case Studies - NORML |
| | Moreover, (5) they are held responsible for preventing any public disturbance or nuisance on or in the vicinity of their premises. | | | Provisions of the rules forbid advertising, sale to minors, and limit the amount of cannabis permitted to be sold at one time. | | | Known as the coffee shop rules' enacted in December 1991, owners must now adhere to five rules set forth by the State: they are not to (1) advertise, (2) trade in hard drugs, (3) sell drugs to minors, or (4) sell drugs in quantities of more than 30 grams. |
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| | USCCB - NAB - Mark 14 |
| | New American Bible Copyright © 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC. | | | 3211 4th Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20017-1194 (202) 541-3000 | | | Neither this work nor any part of it may be reproduced, distributed, performed or displayed in any medium, including electronic or digital, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. |
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| | Baseball's Coming Back to Washington (washingtonpost.com) |
| | © Copyright 1996- The Washington Post Company | | | Look back at a visual history of the Washington Senators. | | | Baseball Returns to D.C. Bud Selig announces that the troubled Montreal Expos will move to Washington, returning baseball to the nation's capital for the 2005 season. |
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| | DC info |
| | George Washington personally selected the site of the nation's permanent capital in 1791, and the government was officially transferred there in 1800. | | | Washington's first great period of development took place following the Civil War. | | | Washington has a temperate midlatitude climate with mean temperatures of 3 deg C (37 deg F) in January and 26 deg C (79 deg F) in July. |
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| | A16 Case Study from Return of Street Fighting Man |
| | “Activist still behind bars is no stranger to a jail cell,” John Drake, Washington Times, April 22, 2000. | | | Dozens of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies all around the Washington area were mobilized. | | | The “Mobilization for Global Justice” organizing in Washington, D.C. for the April 16 and 17, 2000 (“A16") direct actions against the IMF and World Bank is an excellent “case study” of the nefarious and negative impact of street fighting tactics on nonviolent action organizing. |
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| | Bibliography |
| | Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice, November, 1993. | | | Washington, DC: Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, October 5, 1993(c). | | | Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, February 3, 1998. |
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| | Guardian My gamble |
| | Citizens of Washington, DC do not have any voting representatives in Congress. | | | I live in Washington, DC now, after nearly 30 years of living in New York City. | | | The Washington Post reported that year that Zaccaro refused to comply with requests for full income and tax disclosures. |
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| | Dan Collison at Talking History |
| | A profile of Washington, DC bail bondsman Mardis Mitchell and bounty hunter Robert Anderson. | | | The 1968 Washington, DC riots and the federal government's response altered the social and political climate of the nation's capitol. | | | This 1988 portrait of Washington, DC is framed against the backdrop of history and drawn from the perspectives of a variety of individuals whose lives were, and are, directly affected by those events. |
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| | Reassigning Tim Russert |
| | The Washington Monthly 1319 F Street N.W. Washington DC. | | | Still, the worst abuses in Washington generally are legal. | | | Matthew Cooper, a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, is the deputy Washington bureau chief of Time magazine. |
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| | Explore DC: Shaw |
| | The Shaw neighborhood, whose focus is U Street, NW between 7th and 16th Streets, is the heart of an African American history and culture that was unique in the United States and rivals that of New York City's Harlem and Chicago's Bronzeville in significance. | | | Shaw became a predominantly African American neighborhood in the early 20th century, as segregation in Washington intensified. | | | Copyright © 2001 WETA, Washington D.C. home |
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| | Bijan Bayne - Washington DC Writer |
| | Not to be outdone, the Washington Senators turned over a new leaf by hiring larger-than-life Ted Williams as manager. | | | Exhibition games held in DC in the 80's and 90's always drew in excess of 35,000, and often more than 40,000 purchased tickets. | | | Washington fans were dismayed, since the franchise was "replaced" by an expansion team of castoffs from big league rosters. |
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| | Margaret Richards - Session 1 |
| | Richards: No. In fact, I can't vouch for this, but I think that I was the first woman hired west of Washington [D.C.] Now, I don't know whether that's true or not, but that's the way I remember it. | | | I mean, he practically didn't use the house during his Washington years. | | | This was because of a politically ambitious county attorney up there at Maryville, which is the nearest town to Claremont, who let it be known that he feared rioting. |
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| | WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA |
| | The FBI's Legal Attache Program is overseen by the International Operations Branch of the Investigative Services Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC. | | | Prior to conducting an international criminal investigation, the FBI must obtain permission from the host country and coordinate with US Department of State. | | | From passage of these laws until 1997, the FBI opened more than 300 extraterritorial investigations, and these cases required the FBI to establish extensive liaison with foreign police. |
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| | Finding Aid to the Personal Papers of Shriver |
| | National Conference of Christians and Jews, Washington DC, February 24 | | | He also oversaw President Richard Nixons visit to Paris in 1969, which marked the first American state visit to France since 1961, as well as President Pompidous state visit to Washington, D.C. in March 1970. | | | In 1947 he moved to Washington, D.C. to help Eunice Kennedy on the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency. |
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| | Washington, DC |
| | On Aug. 22, 1978, Congress passed a proposed constitutional amendment to give Washington, DC, voting representation in the Congress. | | | Washington, D.C. - Washington, D.C., capital of the United States, coextensive (since 1878, when Georgetown became a... | | | The seat of government was transferred from Philadelphia to Washington on Dec. 1, 1800, and President |
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| | Shaw, Washington, DC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Shaw is served by the Shaw/Howard Univ and U St/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo Green Line Metro stations. | | | Shaw grew out of freed slave encampments in the rural outskirts of Washington City. | | | It was named after Civil War Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. |
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| | Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws |
| | Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; March 1993. | | | Washington DC: Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress; May 13, 1992 (Technical Revisions, June 4, 1992). | | | Washington, DC: Institute for Research on Small Arms in International Security; March 24, 1989. |
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| | Addison Scurlock - The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC |
| | In 1900, he moved with his family to Washington, D.C. His father, George Clay Scurlock, who had previously run unsuccessfully for the North Carolina Senate, worked as a messenger for the U.S. Treasury Department, while studying law and later opened a law office on the 1100 block of U Street. | | | Addison was also involved with the D.C. African-American community, and in 1930 he initiated and operated a newsreel on African-American activities for the Lichtman chain of Washington theaters. | | | This highly respected photographer also documented key moments in Washington, D.C. history. |
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| | jacobito's Journal |
| | It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. | | | The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". | | | The response that emancipatory movements are able to make in such circumstances is likely to become increasingly important, and the failure of adequate responses will have very far reaching effects. |
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