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Search results for "riots" ...
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Fruit of Labor: The Banana Business is Rotten, So Why Do People Fight Over It?
The Wall Street Journal reports that "For more than a century (bananas) have provoked riots and coups. Troops have been dispatched to protect them. Now they are at the center of a bitter trade war between the U.S. and Europe. Any business worth fighting for so fiercely must be great, right? Guess again. Banana farming is a brutal business, from the sprawling plantations of Latin America to the struggling plots of the Caribbean islands. .... Are the U.S. and European trade warriors crazy?"
Tags: Bananas; trade war; third world economy; quotas; tariffs
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Trouble on 12th
For the past two years, 12th Avenue, across from the Ohio State University, has been the scene of numerous riots. Autumn 1996 started no differently with drunken students versus police, with fires, violence and arrests. Long investigates the origins of the problem.
Tags: Alcohol
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Just how dangerous is Los Angeles
Violence in L.A. has dropped in recent years. Since the riots there has been a change in attitudes about violence, according to some residents. Police are now trained in social skills and problem solving. The article looks at volunteer programs that might have contributed to the decrease in crime.
Tags: Bank robbery; Rodney King; earthquake
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On March 10, the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya erupted on a series of riots aimed at halting the operations of Freeport-McMoRan, a New Orleans-based mining company that runs the world's largest gold mine and third-largest copper mine on the western half of the island of New Guinea. The Progressive looks at this uprising and its causes and possible effects. (June 1996)
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The Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star interviews Melvin Moore, the black man who was convicted of looting a store during the rioting and looting that occured at the Greekfest gathering at Virginia Beach in 1989. A series of articles notes that there are inconsistencies in the story of the key witness for the prosecution and that there is evidence whioch supports Moore's claim that he did not loot any stores. Interviewed were a number of people who concurred with Moore's claim that he was beaten by a police officer and that there was evidence of police tampering with evidence. Nov. 11, 14, 15, 1990.
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New York (NY) Magazine takes a look at the conditions inside Rikers island prison. The powerful article chronicles the story of how the inmates run the jail and how correctional officers are frightened and intimidated by the inmates. The attempts by the Guiliani administration to cut funds to the prison system and to increase the number of inmates is not seen as an antidote by those who work in the system. Most officers liken the atmosphere within the prison to that of the 1990 situation in which inmates rioted; Rikers is seen as a bomb waiting to explode, Oct. 14, 1994
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Village Voice (New York) investigates the efforts of black activists to organize effectively in the aftermath to the Crown Heights riots; finds that the oppurtunity offered then has been squandered because of violent differences in opinions and options, Aug. 18, 1992.
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WSYX-TV (Columbus, Ohio) runs a lengthy series on how inadequate prison construction contributed to the death toll of a riot; also tells how prison officials placed a gag order on prisoners and refused to release parolees who were witnesses, keeping one man past his sentence until his death, May - December, 1993.
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Los Angeles Daily Journal reveals that a high-profile law center in the city of Los Angeles that was defending a man charged in the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny during the city's riots had been founded by a twice-convicted scam artist who used young, inexperienced lawyers to bilk millions of dollars from federal inmates and their families, Nov. 18, 1992. * CA Stevenson Guccione
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Village Voice (New York) details a racial riot at Arizona State University that went mostly uncovered by the Arizona press and was entirely missed on the national level, Sept. 26, 1989.
Tags: Ridenhour