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ISSUE #53 (August 2008):
"TOMPKINS SQUARE RIOT:
1988=2008"
• 20 YEARS AFTER THE TOMPKINS SQUARE POLICE RIOT
• TOMPKINS SQUARE RIOT MEMORIES -- First hand experiences and memories of the Tompkins Square Police Riot of August 6, 1988 [Please send us your story about what you experienced, what you witnessed and/or what happened to you that night]
• AFTER GENTRIFICATION: ARISTOCRATIZATION? NY State Supreme Court Upholds Total Eviction of Lower East Side Tenement for Landlord's "Personal Use" as Five-Story Mansion
• LOWER EASTSIDERS SAY "NO" TO MASS EVICTIONS: Demonstrators Hit Conversion of Tenement to Private Mansion
• DIE HARD, YUPPIE SCUM: Yuppie Interlopers Get A Warm Reception
• RENT GUIDELINES BOARD AGAIN SAYS: "DEATH TO NEW YORKERS!!"
• LOWER EAST SIDE REZONING PLAN: Real Estate Machine's Not-So-Secret Agenda
• ELIOT'S MESS: The $200 Billion Bail-Out for Predator Banks and Spitzer Charges Are Intimately Linked
• JESSE'S NUTS ABOUT OBAMA: In a cutting remark, Jesse Jackson claims Barack Obama's nuts, exposing a "vas deferens" between the two politicians
• JOSÉ CAN YOU SEE? BUSH'S TROJAN TACO -- Secret North American Union meeting with Canada + Mexico
• TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK BAG SEARCHES END AFTER COMMUNITY MOBILIZES
• ROOKIE KOP ASSAULTS CRITICAL MASS BIKE RIDER
• NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC HOUSING DEFENDERS FACE TERROR CHARGES
• NEW ORLEANS: Big Oil vs Big Easy
• INVESTIGATE 9/11 -- NY State ballot initiative to create truly independent commission to investigate the events of September 11, 2001
• OPUS DEI: DELIVER US FROM EVIL -- Vatican's private paramilitary counterinsurgency exposed
EDITORIALS:
• MORE ON THE DELUSION OF DEMOCRACY
• A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TOMPKINS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD REVOLT
OBITUARY: