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  1. Loose cannons

    against women on their own side. July 22, 1992 63 News ... party's convention in New York. After his speech, Gore waltzed on the stage with his wife and then his ... not mine." β€” US district Judge William M. Hoeveler imposing a 40-year sentence on Manuel Noriega, ...

  2. β€˜Out of the closets and into the streets’: Mardi Gras' radical history

    a packed night at the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-controlled gay bar in downtown New York City on June 28, 1969. ... crowd freed those in the police vans and turned on the Stonewall Inn with the police trapped inside. ... struggle that was challenging the system from all angles. The anti-war movement had caused mass unrest; ...

  3. Corporate media smears WikiLeaks

    ΄‘²υ²υ²Ή²Τ²΅±π’s War on Secrecy. The book’s co-author David Leigh is a former confidant of Assange and has written ... evidence of the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s requests for detailed biographic data on other ... mainstream media outlets have profited greatly from reporting on WikiLeaks’ scoops. But this hasn’t stopped ...

  4. Vietnam's Agent Orange victims call for solidarity

    president and former vice-president of Vietnam Mme Nguyen Thi Binh called on Australia's Vietnam War ... Eva Cheng Even though the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago, the US's saturation chemical ... bombing is still wreaking havoc on millions, including the newly born β€” making them third-generation ...

  5. Solidarity Choir to celebrate 10 years

    back to its traditional owners on October 26, 1985, the women of the Ernabella Land Rights Choir gave ... launching a new CD on Sunday, April 13, with a benefit concert for Tranby Aboriginal Training College. The ... president of the African National Congress, visited Australia on a speaking tour. In Sydney an ...

  6. UN complicit in Sri Lanka genocide

    International solidarity Sam Pari Two years ago, a war without witness was executed by the state ... on a vicious military campaign. While it informed the world it was fighting the Tamil Tiger rebels ... conversations with our relatives in the war zone told us a different story. We watched in horror as images of ...

  7. Student speaks: 'The people of Iraq have suffered enough'

    thousands of young people organising a student strike against the war on March 5. She knows well from ... get involved in the anti-war movement. She will be speaking at the student strike on March 5 in ... Melbourne, as well as the International WomenΒ’s Day rally on March 8. From ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly, February 26, ...

  8. Sri Lanka still unsafe, meeting told

    survive. Many die on building sites, and some women are used as sex slaves. Like the article? Subscribe to ... Action Collective held a public meeting in Melbourne on February 23 to discuss the situation in Sri Lanka ... was acting defence minister in May 2009, in the final days of the war, when the slaughter of Tamils by ...

  9. The Spanish Revolution's 'army of the forgotten'

    Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War By James K. Hopkins Stanford ... fascism on Spanish soil. James Hopkins' compelling new book, Into the Heart of the Fire, follows the ... "recollections of the war have condemned the working class volunteers to historical silence". The ...

  10. Looking out: To this day

    United States' involvement with slavery, the group is right on the money β€” no pun intended. The US ... States undertook the greatest and most devastating war of our history. More Americans were killed in the ... Civil War than in all of the rest of the wars we've fought put together. Those 620,000 dead ...

  11. Cracks in the Empire

    Force, Navy and Marine Corps." The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US gave the pro-war ... dominance under the guise of fighting a "war on terror", while in reality fighting a war on the ... war at 128,000 (55% of those were women or children). There are more than 60,000 Iraqis in US custody, ...

  12. Interview: Tunisia's 'unfinished revolution'

    crimes against the people-- especially putting on trial those who murdered the martyrs of the struggle-- ... attacks on bars, artists and police. Some fundamentalists have been killed in clashes with the police. But ... public institutions. Can you explain the recent protests about women's rights in Tunisia? Since it ...

  13. UNITED STATES: National security or international solidarity?

    programs". For the US, "The private sector is the great untapped frontier in the world war on ... Despite the end of the Cold War, United States military, economic and political intervention ... eighth. Since the 1981 debt crisis, they've dropped to even a 12th or 15th, depending on the ...

  14. Archbishop Tutu: Boycotting Israel is right and moral

    you are doing the right thing. You are doing the moral thing. You are doing that which is incumbent on ... I have witnessed the humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children made to wait hours at Israeli ...

  15. May Day in Australia

    Stuart Martin Each year thousands of workers rally and march on May Day. May Day commemorates the ... worldwide fight by the working class for improved working conditions. On May 1, 1886, Chicago workers led by ... several killed. Four of the workers' leaders were executed by the capitalist courts on November 11, ...

  16. Palestine Human Rights Campaign launched

    Palestine solidarity activists on November 18. The group will provide a coordinating centre for activities ... Rights Campaign which led Palestine solidarity activity in Australia in the 1980s. The PHRC will focus on ... international investigation into the "war crimes" committed by the Israeli state against the ...

  17. Unifying conference sets plans for 2013

    the conference as a special guest, and gave presentations on racism, refugees and the war on terror, ... Pakistan today. β€œThe discourse of the war on terror overshadows the everyday struggles and protests of the ... first Afghan War was responsible for some of the recent religiously motivated violence there, and has ...

  18. Israel's dirty laundry

    December-January war on Gaza were revealed. IDF soldiers described some of the war crimes they witnessed or ... T-shirts. There were no drawings of dead babies, raped women or destroyed buildings on these shirts. March ... society, unlucky to have such "war mongering" and "fundamentalist" neighbours. But ...

  19. Bangladesh students 'united with the people'

    on March 25, 1971, which killed thousands of people. The war was to claim 3 million lives before ... non-students. Large rallies have been held against the finance minister and other government figures. On June 6, ... 2000 Dhaka University students marched on the parliament building, only to be stopped by hundreds of ...

  20. History lessons

    suffered defeat. On this new terrain, the working people now have new opportunities to struggle for their ... a civil administration on part of the territory of Palestine. The struggle for full Palestinian national ... rights continues in the face of Israel's attempts to renege on important elements of the September ...

  21. Latin America solidarity conference planned

    Latin America based on peace and social justice. The Chavez government's withdrawal of its ... earlier this year to Mexico's gigantic street protests against electoral fraud, resistance is on the ... Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network and the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, in Sydney on September 30 ...

  22. The CPA's campaigning history

    included comprehensive plans for post-war society; women and children; Aboriginal people (who had always ... Against War and Fascism, united action in the Egon Kisch case, and lasting cooperation and eventual unity ... policy in the early war years would mystify if the circumstances of the time were not taken into account. ...

  23. Guilty of being Muslim

    step out of the house alone, not a train to the city or anything." Other women now relied on ... Sarah Stephen On June 24, a mosque in Melbourne suffered an arson attack. The following day, ... put on spikes outside the hall and offal was smeared on the walls and floor inside. These two ...

  24. Why activists gather for Resistance conference

    to draw on. Jen Crothers was women's officer at Tasmania University in 1994. She attended her ... written on it β€” green, internationalist, feminist, socialist β€” and so on. I already thought I was ... couple of years the size of the conferences grew very quickly. That was during the Vietnam War, of ...

  25. Thousands attend Invasion Day protests around the country

    country and certainly not on the day when war was declared on Aboriginal peoples β€” a war which saw guns ... Street where the Aborigines Progressive Association first held a Day of Mourning on January 26, 1938. ... respect for Aboriginal Australians. β€œI don't mind Australia Day, but they can have it on January 1,” ...

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