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  1. Hiroshima Day commemorated

    By Tom Kelly The 49th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bomb on the Japanese city of ... Hiroshima was commemorated in a number of Australian cities on August 6. The occasion served to highlight ... on behalf of Brisbane's Murri community, spoke about the crimes committed against the ...

  2. Cinema anti-Paradiso

    realities of the 20th century. History has not been kind. Dictatorships, foreign occupation, civil war ... country in 1941-45, and the subsequent civil war (1946-49) left the country in ruins. Few films of quality ... concentrated on the raw poverty and squalor of lives on the fringes of the city. His next film, The Ogre of ...

  3. The myth of ethnic crime

    "outside". After a spate of sexual assaults on women in south-western Sydney in 2000, many of them carried ... Sarah Stephen Drunken brawls marred this year's Australia Day fireworks show on Perth's ... waterfront, with groups of intoxicated young men chasing each other down the city streets bent on violence. ...

  4. AFGHANISTAN: US bombs kill more than September 11 toll

    declaration that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children due to US-sponsored sanctions were "on balance... ... worth it" were evoked on January 8 when the US envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, touched down ... Pakistan and a pro-Western government has been installed. Massacres On December 21, as many as 65 people ...

  5. We are all Muslim β€” Defend civil liberties

    attacks on identifiable Muslim women, whose right to go about in public without fear is reduced. The day ... we have been subjected to a media frenzy. The early morning police raids on homes in suburban Sydney ... and Brisbane on September 18, resulting in 15 people being detained without charge and two arrests, ...

  6. So do they deserve it because they're Middle Eastern?

    for a succession of sexual assaults in the city's south-west. On one side, led by Carr and the ... Daily Telegraph, is the beginnings of a lynch mob; on the other are the ethnic communities of Sydney, ... who are calling the campaign racist. On August 23, three adolescents were convicted in the Sydney ...

  7. Student candidates target education cuts

    Women’s and Queer officer bearers on every UWS campus. β€œCurrently, there is a Women’s room and a Queer ... relevant”, Sanders said. β€œOur weekly stalls opposing Abbott’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, calling for ... β€” will run two activists for positions on the council and campus paper editors for 2015. Both are first ...

  8. Looking out: Sexism and racism

    I have come to realise that in a host of ways dictionaries wage a kind of intellectual war on women and ... column will know that on March 11 β€” in reference to the American Heritage Dictionary's four ... a passage taken from her speech to the New York legislature on February 18, 1850: "The prejudice ...

  9. Support a treaty with indigenous Australians

    members of the stolen generations. The Howard government is intent on further abrogating the rights of ... minister Philip Ruddock announced on November 25 that he will consider changing federal government policy ... while they await decisions on their immigration applications. The announcement was uncritically ...

  10. Sarajevo's mayor: 'Lift the embargo!'

    total in Sarajevo now are about 360,000 people. There were nearly half a million before the war. There ... relatively calm for Sarajevo compared to the earlier situation. In the first two years of the war, there were ... the war in Sarajevo was the targeted destruction of the family. But then they attacked the two ...

  11. 'It's a massacre': Regime attacks protesters

    is a criminal of war. This is a mass murder of an innocent people, unarmed innocent people, of women ... Cairo, with millions more across Egypt, on February 1 to demand on end to the US-backed dictatorship of ... Hosni Mubarak, the regime responded with a violent assault on protesters continuing to occupy the ...

  12. Politics at the grassroots in South Africa

    Solidarity (WASAS) group visited South Africa on a work and study brigade. The group ran workshops with ... groups β€” the ANC Women's League, the South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) ... in Johannesburg, and the advice desk for women at Durban's Westfield University, which dealt ...

  13. John Pilger: Labor-Liberal refugee policies β€˜barbaric’

    a harsh gulag on the most isolated islands on Earth. Women and children sent to equatorial Manus Island ... have waged a propaganda war on refugees, in alliance with a media dominated by Rupert Murdoch. Vast, ... lives of men, women and children. Some drown, others are banished without hope to malarial camps. ...

  14. The real leadership crisis

    the anti-war movement. Some Crean supporters have pointed to policy differences on other matters, ... more liberal posture on war and refugees is an adjustment to the broad mass movements that emerged ... "shoulder-to-shoulder" with George Bush and Tony Blair. As we know, Simon Crean's opposition to the war was weak. As ...

  15. Piping for the 'Covert Battalions'

    to racist policies on refugees to military build-up. Indeed the main source of his concern stems from ... the 60% voter turn-out in the most recent UK election, "the lowest since women got the ... view". He nonetheless cautions Blair against using the present war as an opportunity to appear ...

  16. Putting people back into history

    concrete root in Thompson's life during World War II. Like many anti-fascists on the left, Thompson ... are about to be deluged with ruling class propaganda on the 50th anniversary of the end of that war ... Reviewed by Phil Shannon Edward Thompson has inspired many on the left with his spicy brand of Marxist ...

  17. Western Sahara activist: Our resources are being stolen in broad daylight.

    Saharawi nomadic culture because women are highly esteemed as the basis of society. I will not dwell on the ... population have lived in refugee camps on the border with Algeria while the remainder living under Moroccan ... Saharawi forces, part of a peace process that would supposedly lead to a referendum on independence, ...

  18. When Ploughshares met the US Air Force

    By Bergen O'Brien and Reihana Mohideen On January 1, 1991, Sue Franknel and Bill Strait (US ... state. This protest against the looming Gulf War earned each of them a year in prison. "Griffiss had ... bombers on 10-minute alert. According to Ciaron, this had been the case since the 1950s. At seven B-52 ...

  19. Population policy: no answer to environmental problems

    Beazley on August 3 responded to the focus on immigration occasioned by Pauline Hanson and One Nation by ... population". The Greens have been remarkably quiet on the immigration and population debate. Yet immigration is ... the rest of the world. In 1996, there were around 19 million refugees fleeing war, famines and ...

  20. Rojava revolution pushes radical democracy

    Women’s Defence Units (YPJ). In an interview with Dutch site Tenk, Muslim spoke to Jonas Staal about the ... They are afraid of our system. We have created, in the middle of the civil war in Syria, three ... self-rule is our daily revolution. Women, men, all strands of our society are now organised. The reason why ...

  21. Aboriginal leader condemns army 'racist clowns'

    today, dressed in the appalling costume of the Ku Klux Klan. In the aftermath of the US Civil War and ... thousands of innocent men, women and children whose only crime was the fact that their skins were ... dehumanise people on the basis of race or ethnicity has become too ready a currency within the national ...

  22. Socialist Alliance for Darebin

    Timorese people and against war and racism. He is also a member of the Democratic Socialist Party. Natalie ... the International Women's Day collective. Zirngast campaigned against the Jabiluka uranium mine ... involved in the Socialist Alliance campaign contact Jackie on 9486 5472 or email ...

  23. Living famously

    influence amongst high school students. Resistance high school members on 40 schools around the country will ... women's rights; in solidarity with the Indonesian democratic movement; against voluntary student unionism ... resolved that it would organise actions around the issues of the day: from the next Gulf war to defending ...

  24. Beyond Deep Forest

    describe both emotional and practical aspects of everyday life as well as passing on history and legends. ... β€” from hunting and fishing, through war songs and drinking songs, to dances that spell out the roles and ... obligations of women and men. July 17, 1996 238 Culture ...

  25. Letters to the Editor

    (Write On, GLW #747), I too would like to see more women choosing not to present themselves as sexual ... down on April 7, clearly in preparation for the sell-off. This, together with propaganda that the ... David Walters (Write On, GLW #747) takes me to task for arguing against nuclear power as ...

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