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  1. Religious fundamentalism and male violence

    the Brahmanic higher castes. In Father, Son and Holy War, I am also showing women who are oppressed by ... manhood has meant that your honour depends on being aggressive. Women are property and become part of the ... Film maker ANAND PATWARDHAN participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement as a student in the US ...

  2. Protests erupt across Britain as MPs debate Trump's state visit

    American agenda, and that led us into a really disastrous war. Two million people marched on the street. ... Trumpism and anti-Trumpist protests Nearly 2 million Britons have signed a petition calling on President ... Trump’s official state visit to be canceled. On February 20, thousands of protesters gathered outside ...

  3. Revolt by the poor shakes Iran

    hostile to the West. The latest protests have centred on economic injustices, but the slogans and demands ... vigil in Tehran. However, the 2009 protests were very focussed on Tehran, whereas the current protests ... said 90% of detained protesters are under 25, Firat News Agency reported on January 2. The protests ...

  4. Inessa Armand:

    administrator, and she continued to work on women's liberation. Armand edited the Bolsheviks' ... speculated about love affairs on the revolutionary left. It has been Inessa Armand's ill-fate, however, ... up philanthropic organisations such as the Moscow Society for Improving the Lot of Women and carried ...

  5. Inquiry into forced adoptions

    Australia between the 1940s and ’80s, supporting a motion by Greens Senator Rachel Siewert on November 15. ... adoption policies,” Siewert said. β€œThere is no doubt that many women were treated very badly as a result of ... adoption have been mounting on the wake of campaigns for justice for the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal ...

  6. Sixty years of apartheid Israel

    speak-out was organised by the QPSC, Fair Go for Palestine and the Stop the War Collective. On May 15 in ... Arabic)", Fay Waddington from the Queensland Palestinian Solidarity Campaign told a speak-out on May 15. The ... across the West Bank, on land which is supposed to form part of the Palestinian state, illegal ...

  7. After the election, where do we go?

    more years of Coalition government attacks on workers, refugees, women, the environment and our civil ... traffic in its history β€” even higher than at the peak of the movement against the war on Iraq. October ... Since Howard's federal election victory on October 9, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekl y's website has ...

  8. Britain: Austerity, cuts worsen crisis

    Prentis said: β€œAs public sector job losses gather pace, the number of women out of work will keep on ... World War Two have been wiped out. β€œThat trend is set to continue and worsen.” Guardian.co.uk said on ... cuts, is intensifying the effects of the crisis on the British people. Austerity measures are worsening ...

  9. No pride in Australia's homophobic anti-refugee policies

    displaced by war, poverty and climate change than at any point in recorded history. The current number of ... refugees has exceeded those displaced by World War I and World War II combined. About 60 million people ... became refugees in 2015 alone. Many refugees fleeing war and poverty are lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...

  10. β€˜All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’

    Farm. In Australia, we’ve declared war on some inequalities, like those contained in the Marriage Act, ... while we acquiesce to, tolerate, ignore or accept many others. Just like the animals on Orwell’s Manor ... government’s postal survey on equal marriage β€” and it is a hard lining to see sometimes β€” it is that equality ...

  11. One woman and her car

    up in your face later on. Donna Jackson is the founder and director of the Women's Circus, which ... performed at the Beijing Women's Conference last year and lead singer of the Sharons, Melbourne's ... set in a garage. As Jackson works on rebuilding her car, she describes her fascination with big, fast ...

  12. AFGHANISTAN: Behind the facade of 'democracy'

    were crushed or dismantled during the Goliath versus David war against one of the poorest countries on ... US$8 billion Washington shelled out on this dirty war. The revolutionary government was defeated in ... sold as commodities. Under the cover of the "war on terror", the Pentagon has quietly ...

  13. Green candidates in state election

    Greiner government policies on women's services at first hand and demands that community facilities ... women's, peace and environment activist and single mother Carole Medcalfe, Illawarra Greens candidate for ... transport in the region. A worker at the Wollongong Women's Centre, Medcalfe has seen the impact of ...

  14. The scourge of Labor nationalism

    worst β€” it wasn't real racism. And anyway, we have to focus on the positive achievements of our ... ways. The wealth of the Australian investing class is founded on the blood of thousands of Aboriginal ... people and their stolen lands; on the blood and sweat of Pacific Island slaves chained on the sugar ...

  15. Nicaragua: Washington threatens reprisals as poor make gains

    key role on the community level. The FSLN leadership, including the president, has made women ... Caribbean Felipe Stuart Cournoyer John Riddell In a fit of petulant anger, the US government lashed out on ... personal take on the situation. The interview is abridged from JohnRiddel.wordpress.com. * * * US Secretary ...

  16. The gagging of dissent

    '60s, clandestine surveillance of "citizens objecting to the Vietnam War, demonstrating on behalf ... Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy By Lewis H. Lapham The ... Penguin Press, 2004 178 pages, US$19.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When the US went to war against Iraq, ...

  17. Abortion access under threat

    after night on television has been the diligence of the Wichita police in protecting the right of women ... planning. On the other hand, there were heroic battles being fought by women working in clinics under ... guaranteed the right of women to choose abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, would almost ...

  18. OKINAWA: Thousands protest against G8 summit

    the massive permanent US military presence on the southern Japanese island, women's rights ... advocates held an International Women's Summit to Redefine Security, anti-debt campaigners demanded the ... for a "National Missile Defence" scheme, to the stance to be taken on debt relief for the ...

  19. Memoir of a soldier of conscience

    treatment were squashed, however, as was Mejia's hope to put the morality of the war on trial as well. ... Mejia's decision to quit the war. Mejia's case resolved to whether he got on a plane on a certain ... against war, speaking out, with the authority of experience, against the hard men and women, the brutal ...

  20. All the wrong conclusions

    anti-war movie, then skip Stop-Loss. No overt political stance on the war is taken by director and ... bodies of two women and a child on a blood-soaked mattress. The image is one of the film's few ... impact that their service afflicts on their community and loved ones at home. Yet without a critique of ...

  21. Radio highlights

    army during the Vietnam War. Jill Emberson reports on an International Women's Development ... its future. ABC Radio National, Friday, November 4, 7.10pm. Education Report β€” Wasting Money on Bad ... the studios. Channel Four News is unlike anything in Australia; it has a news agenda firmly focused on ...

  22. The machine that killed Hendrix

    out in favour of the radical anti-racist Black Panthers and criticised the US war on Vietnam. He ... (about the plight of Native Americans) and the visceral anti-war tone poem β€œMachine Gun”. Hendrix spoke ... considered him a dangerous subversive and targeted him for surveillance and harassment. Forty years on from ...

  23. What really happened in 10,000 BC?

    a need to limit the number of births because of being on the move, there was an incentive for women to ... supplies more abundant, making it possible for hunter-gatherer bands to be less on the move and begin ... plants and to hunt animals. That specific form of cooperation depended, above all else, on what people ...

  24. A woman's place is in the struggle: Soldiers of the revolution

    1969 and sent to the Con Dao prison, known as "hell on Earth". More than 500 women were ... Vietnamese women who devoted their lives to the victory of the Vietnamese Revolution and to building a more ... enemy troops in France from 1946 to 1954, where she narrowly avoided arrest on many occasions. After the ...

  25. UNITED STATES: 'The poor will not be disappeared'

    allies were very visible, and very vocal, in the streets. Women, the disabled, children, people of ... Philadelphia's Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a key organiser. On July 31, opening day of the convention, KWRU ... Unity 2000 coordinated a mass rally of thousands on the Franklin Plaza in the heart of Philadelphia on ...

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