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How to Make a Slumlord Repair Your Jan31_cover.qxd 02.01.07 2:30 AM Page 1 Issue #98, February 1 – 21, 2007 THEINDYPENDENTA FREE PAPER FOR FREE PEOPLE Where Is Everybody? p8 ANTIWAR ORGANIZERS TALK ABOUT HOW TO ESCALATE A MOVEMENT FRANK REYNOSO DISASTER HOW TO MAKE A CAPITALISM SLUMLORD REPAIR BISEXUALITY STRIKES THAILAND YOUR APARTMENT ROCKS! p12 p4 p14 www.indypendent.org • nyc.indymedia.org COMMUNITY CALENDAR february Please send event announcements to Center for Study of Working Class Life. FRI FEB 9 Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham [email protected]. Stony Brook Manhattan, Snacks: 7pm • $3 Lincoln & the Triumph of Antislavery 401 Park Ave. So. (28th St), 2nd Fl. Film: 7:30pm • $2 Politics by Jim Oakes ONGOING 631-632-7536 VIDEO NIGHT AT FREEDOM HALL: Cooper Union Great Hall, Buddhist Meditation Classes: MILITARY MYTHS exposes tactics 7 E. 7th St bet. 3rd & 4th Ave. In 4 boroughs. 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