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  1. Police destroy part of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

    on-site at the time of the raid were women and children. One woman, using a stick from the fire to defend ... 6am on February 19. They dismantled a recently erected A-frame tin goonji. Most of those sleeping ... herself, found police drawing guns on her. Another woman, who rushed to the goonji to retrieve documents, ...

  2. Afghani refugees: Why they are seeking asylum in Australia

    gunpoint to attend mosques and made beards compulsory for men. The restrictions on women are the most ... in Sydney on three-year temporary protection visas. ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly spoke to them about why they ... fled Afghanistan. Zaher left Afghanistan on September 26, 1999 and Riz left in early March, 1999. Both ...

  3. Build global solidarity

    a ghastly war of terror. In Australia, the racist war on refugees has been unleashed. Those arriving on our ... turn the people of the First World against those of the Third World. Content to erode women ... 's rights when it suits them, they justify their cowardly assault on Afghanistan in the name of defending ...

  4. East Timor is only asking for a fair go

    women are illiterate. The reality of these figures was brought home to me when on my last visit in April ... community was with us once again. I felt so proud on that day that my fellow countrymen and women had ... International Affairs in Canberra on August 2. This is an edited version of her speech. For me as an Australian ...

  5. Trump’s Cuba policy β€˜doomed to fail’

    between Cuba and the US The Cuban government issued a statement on June 16 in response to US President ... rules on individual US citizens travelling to Cuba. Travellers going there for non-academic educational ... respectful dialogue and cooperation on issues of mutual interest, as well as the negotiation of pending ...

  6. Postcard from Kuwait

    up on a popular beach. It had to be exploded by the bomb disposal experts. A month before a young ... Bedouin shepherd boy was killed when he tripped on one. He was walking in the middle of the moving flock. ... is not a very attractive place but apparently it never has been even before the war which has done ...

  7. United States: Socialist conference backs new red-green alliances

    a deepening of the US International Socialist Organization's rethink on feminism were key features of its ... registrations over the conference and many of the attendees were under 30. This was up on Socialism 2013's ... conference. The best-attended featured Amy Goodman, host of progressive radio and TV program Democracy Now, on ...

  8. Israel vows to make south Lebanon 'uninhabitable'

    wounded in the attacks. Israel renewed its war against Lebanon on July 25 with jet fighters striking 10 ... that this was a deliberate war against civilians, designed to drive them from their homes. "We ... want to provoke an exodus from southern Lebanon towards the north in order to put pressure on the ...

  9. Sydney: Socialist conference plans action

    and women’s rights struggles; and on racism in Australia, manifested in refugee-bashing and the NT ... 80-strong Socialist Alliance NSW state conference on May 22 in Sydney. The conference launched Socialist ... Pip Hinman condemned Australian support for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Workshops at the ...

  10. Music as chronicle

    Overflow", attacks the stupidity of war and embarks on a whimsical reminiscing of his school days at ... the Americanisation of culture and the rights of women, workers and indigenous Australians were at the ... second being a children's album), and follows on the impressive Etched in Blue. The years have ...

  11. Port Jackson independent launches campaign

    for Port Jackson, Denis Doherty, launched his campaign for the state elections here on March 3. Around ... environment and justice in areas such as health, education, employment, Aboriginal affairs and women ... community, not splitting it into warring factions. Our approach is community-based. It is for genuine ...

  12. Medicare is 'a right not a privilege'

    and increased spending on war. There has been a shift of resources from health and education to the ... Trades Hall Council secretary Leigh Hubbard on May 14. Hubbard was launching a campaign to defend and ... extend Medicare. Hubbard said people need to "get out on the streets" to defend universal ...

  13. Dave Zirin: Why Serena Williams is today's Muhammad Ali

    Slam title. That is the same number every other active women’s player has collected combined. In her ... be gaining strength. As John McEnroe said, among women, β€œshe could arguably be the greatest athlete ... unjust war, becoming the most famous draft resister in history. His very presence at different points ...

  14. Resistance plans stepped-up activity

    which has published nearly 200 issues since its launch during the 1991 Gulf War. They were treated on ... attracted around 220 people for intensive discussions on the conference theme, "Struggle, solidarity, ... profits. Renato Constantino Junior, president of the Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET) and ...

  15. Palestinians thank Natalie Imbruglia for cancelling Israel show

    her for deciding to be β€œon the right side of history, on the side of the oppressed”. A spokesperson ... apartheid.” Imbruglia has supported various justice efforts, from women’s rights through the Northern Rivers ... call on all artists and academics not to become an accessory to Israel’s attempts at rebranding.” When ...

  16. Peter Hicks: Songs of protest, humour, justice and love

    sorts of songs that Peter Hicks has included on his latest album. Hicks' The Times We've Been ... message. The review of The Times We've Been Through on the Indie-CDs web site hits the nail on the ... themselves to say sorry, they celebrate victories for the gay rights campaign, and make ironic commentary on ...

  17. Algeria 35 years after independence

    Historian BENJAMIN STORA is well known for his writings on Algeria and colonialism, including ... History of the Algerian War (1954-1962), History of Algeria After Independence (1962-1994), and The ... Sources of Algerian Nationalism. He has just published I maginaires de Guerre, comparing the wars in ...

  18. Letter from the US: Black Lives Matter is demand, not a plea

    recited the names of the murdered women. In Ferguson, Missouri, there was a commemoration on August 9 of ... in August to draw attention to violence against transgender women. At least 17 transgender women have ... been murdered this year, the majority women of colour. The demonstrators chanted β€œSay Her Name” and ...

  19. Howard Zinn β€” the people's historian

    involved one of the first uses of napalm. After the war, Howard was able to attend New York University on ... left, died on January 27 at the age of 87. Howard is best remembered for A People's History of the ... program seen by millions of people on The History Channel. There were so many other books. SNCC: The New ...

  20. AFGHANISTAN: Who are Canadian troops defending?

    our troops' morale and Canada's role in the "War on Terrorism". Canadians have ... The following open letter to Canadian PM Stephen Harper was issued on September 8 by Ken Georgetti ... war in Afghanistan until 2009. A July poll indicated that 52% of voters oppose Canadian troops being ...

  21. In brief

    INDIA β€” Villages condemn political killings On October 1, a meeting of several hundred elected ... War Group (PWG). The meeting condemned the state government of Chief Minister Rabri Devi for failing ... Bihar communist leaders. On October 11, Jharo Devi, 52, a CPI(ML)-Liberation member and a leader of the ...

  22. Washington and the Taliban

    Central Asia. Fearing the prospect of the Afghan civil war spilling over into the former Soviet south, ... capital of Almaty on October 21 to discuss the crisis and ways to bolster security along the Afghan ... arresting hundreds in house-to-house searches and subjecting women and children to public humiliation. ...

  23. John Pilger: Corporate media attacks WikiLeaks

    the mould of All the President’s Men” out of its book WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on ... a lawyer, now represents the two women involved. His law partner is Thomas Bodstrom, who as Sweden’s ... documented in an Australian parliamentary briefing in Canberra on March 2. Outlining an epic miscarriage of ...

  24. US socialists continue regroupment

    classes on a range of topics, including the First International, the prospects for third parties in the US ... National Organisation of Women and Latin American Marxism. Each evening there was a feature talk or panel: ... the European Union; Women, Work and Economy in the Caribbean; Rebellion in Mexico; and the current ...

  25. California Greens mark ballot success

    procedures on women's representation are unique to US politics", she said, but "we have a long ... requirements for women's representation in the party has encouraged many activists, like Melanie Williams, ... a theologian, political scientist, peace and women's activist, environmentalist and party coordinating ...

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