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  1. PAKISTAN: Birth of a new peace movement

    Rawalpindi on November 6, demanding an end to the US bombing of Afghanistan and denouncing the terror of ... in the peace rally were women. Protesters came from all over Pakistan, including far-off places of ... a working-class district where the majority works on the railways. Slogans chanted and painted on banners included ...

  2. UNITED STATES: Democrats dumped in California recall vote

    applause for his sharp attacks on the Democrats and Republicans, the war, the 2001 USAPATRIOT (Uniting and ... problems, too. In addition, the disastrous war in Iraq also weighs on people's minds. These are the ... rounded off. Schwarzenegger was very careful through the whole campaign to avoid taking positions on most ...

  3. Young people changing Nepal

    war on Iraq. Resistance's constant activities around the climate change crisis are helping to ... soldiers receive. For women, the options have been even bleaker. The only work available for young women is ... sex work, mostly in India. Many young women and girls are either tricked into prostitution and sex ...

  4. Assange, Manning: Media stoops to personal attacks

    pressure on July 13 and published the full version of the internet chat logs between Manning and Adrian ... Lamo, the person who informed on Manning to the FBI. Wired published excerpts of the chats last year, ... the logs casts doubt on the US Department of Justice's efforts to prove Assange conspired with ...

  5. UNITED STATES: Stars and Stripes: a symbol of imperialist domination

    Brian Wilson, a Vietnam War veteran who became a peace activist, wrote an essay on how he changed his ... mainstream parties. But many protests against the US war drive have included people carrying the flag, too. ... On a protest march in Washington, DC, September 30, a leading member of the Washington Peace Union ...

  6. Oppenheimer: father of the Atomic bomb

    Boy" and "Fat Man", the first atomic bombs to be used in war, to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... on Jewish scientists in Germany (Oppenheimer was of German-Jewish origin), the fascist menace in the ... Spanish Civil War, the economic depression in the US, and Oppenheimer's romantic involvement with ...

  7. Loose cannons

    suspected guerrilla fighters in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, evacuating women and children, then leveling ... "The US military's code name for a crackdown on resistance in Iraq [Operation Iron Hammer] was ... also used by the Nazis for an aborted operation to damage the Soviet power grid during World War ...

  8. PAKISTAN: Apology demanded for military atrocities

    Ali Khan, president of the Democratic Women's Association. Tariq said that military officials ... carried out looting and plundering of state assets at an unprecedented level during the war β€” as confirmed ... atrocities committed against the Bangladeshi people be put on trial. BY FAROOQ SULEHRIA August 30, 2000 418 ...

  9. The forgotten Iraqi refugees

    and Amnesty International's Middle East Watch, circulated on January 25 by Saman Karim from the ... Arabia, at the Rafha camp. They have been living there since 1991, after the second Gulf War. They have ... and women equally. 3. The Saudi government should provide the refugees with the permits and ...

  10. Against state racism [France]

    against 116,000 in 1993. But how can we be proud of our refusal to welcome men and women from Algeria and ... Bosnia, driven from their country by war and terrorism? Many of us will never forget the state racism for ... passed on December 20 includes under anti-terrorist legislation "aiding the entry, movements or ...

  11. Bougainville solidarity

    in your fight against Rio Tinto (CRA-RTZ). The people on Bougainville have suffered terribly because ... 1969 the women of Bougainville with their babies laid down in front of bulldozers to stop the mining of ... independent island. In eight years of war up to 15,000 Bougainville people and approximately 1000 Papua New ...

  12. A pre-emptive strike against refugees

    more and more refugees. They've voted for Bush's next war on Iraq even while locking up and ... ounce of human solidarity feels the same. The horrible flight from war, captured in that TV footage, is ... President George Bush on June 1 announced a new military doctrine of Β“pre-emptive strikeΒ”. He told West ...

  13. Cuba captures US-based terrorists

    nuclear war ended with a pledge by the US government that it would not invade Cuba nor encourage those who ... disappeared along with the Soviet Union. On the night of December 29, three counter-revolutionary terrorists ... communiquΓ© asking people to intercede on behalf of the captured terrorists "whatever the cause or ...

  14. A salute to Comrade Bernie Rosen

    Bob Small, who was a returned serviceman from World War I. β€œHe used to organise debates on a Friday ... Bernie battled on as a CPA member throughout the Cold War years, only leaving the party in 1970 in ... envelope. Every letter is an encouragement to his comrades to carry on the struggle and advice on how we ...

  15. Action updates

    police direction. NEWCASTLE β€” A meeting of 10 women on May 13 formed the Newcastle Abortion Action ... Commission. On July 18 the ACTU is bringing a case claiming five days' paid leave to care for children, ... and defines "family" based on the traditional nuclear family. To speak at the hearing, the ...

  16. Dita Sari: 'Is another power possible?'

    centred around issues of neoliberal globalisation, war, peace (or the lack of it), women, racism, health, ... struggle, addressed 6000 people at the World Social Forum on January 17. On returning, she wrote the ... following comment on the conference. Like at previous world social forums, the main themes which emerged ...

  17. Sydney Writers' Festival allows needed stories to be told

    where the audience could ask questions from the floor or via Twitter. On the panel were Samah Hadid, ... move on, there remains an ongoing revolutionary process unfolding in Egypt and the region. Summing up ... women in the uprisings. Who's Afraid of WikiLeaks? Barbara Gunnell, Guy Rundle, Robert Manne, ...

  18. The consequences of blaming Muslims

    of the fear and hatred of Muslims that is being generated by the "war on terror". ... community" for the government's pro-war, anti-civil liberties policies. Reporting on the summit to media ... in the firing line. In recent weeks the government has floated legislation tantamount to a war on ...

  19. 'You can't build anything without enthusiasm'

    Brisbane to speak, we women had the right to sit up on stage with him. We printed our own newsletter. We ... didn't really work. "After the war ended, the men took over from the women and they were sent back ... what was causing the wars and thought, 'Now I will do something about it'. That was when ...

  20. Chileans: β€˜We know what it is like for the Palestinians’

    protest against its war on Gaza. Sanchez addressed the rally on behalf of the Latin American Social Forum. ... Peter Boyle Gadigal Country/Sydney At a rally in solidarity with Palestine in Sydney on August 9, ... very early in this latest attack on Gaza.” Sanchez also pointed to the β€œIn Defence of Palestine” ...

  21. Bad PR

    scores of women worldwide in the 1980s; and Hydro QuΓ©bec on its environmentally devastating James Bay ... relations company Burson-Marsteller (B-M) for five hours on November 29. The demonstrators, activists with ... Friends of the Earth, the Koonung Mullum Forestway Association and the Richmond Action Coalition on ...

  22. Calls for Turnbull to recall radicalisation booklet

    Kit There is a growing chorus of people and groups calling on Malcolm Turnbull to recall and recycle ... culture wars are over. β€œAustralians who care about our incredible natural environment should be ... power, and Mr Turnbull should put a stop to it.” Greens Senator for Tasmania and spokesperson on schools ...

  23. Convergence gathers steam

    from Perth, and others planning to participate include anti-war, women's rights and gay and ... Sarah Stephen Hundreds of people have responded with enthusiasm to the call for a convergence on ... Canberra on November 16 β€” the day parliament opens. This will be the first opportunity to come together in ...

  24. International May Day statement: workers will win!

    migrant workers and their families. For the right to employment on equal terms. Workers are organising ... against deportations, against racism, against discrimination. Workers are organising against wars that are ... out and outsourcing. Workers are organising for the rights of women workers. For better working ...

  25. LEBANON: Palestinian refugees call for support

    war in our region while it cuts urgently needed aid programs to Palestinian women and children and the ... Women's Humanitarian Organisation, when she visited Australia in November. WHO provides humanitarian ... public services, despite paying GST on everything they buyΒ”, Mahmoud explained. A few work, but because ...

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