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and ain't i a woman: Greenham Common women inspired many
respected and valued. Women's Peace Camp poem. On September 9, the last of the women protesters at ... criminalise peaceful protest. On July 6, 1993, the Women's Nuclear Test Ban Network, which included some ... Greenham Common women have been one of the high points of the anti-war, anti-nuclear and women ...
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Syria: Women of Afrin call for global support
causing widespread civilian casualties. Marking International Women’s Day on March 8, women ... abridged and edited for clarity below. The original can be read here. *** Kurdish women march on ... on Twitter. Syria March 9, 2018 1172 Women from four parts of Kurdistan took to the streets in Afrin ...
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Pakistani socialist: 'We are fighting for women's liberation'
鶹ӳ Radio on Melbourne community station 3CR in March about the fight for women's liberation ... in all this? The “War on Terror” was the brainchild of the US, of course, and we are still dealing ... Imperialism & war Socialism Feminism Democracy Economy Environment Elections Agriculture Sarah ...
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Let Iran's national women's team play!
change from the outside.” Given the way women’s rights have been used as a red herring to justify war on ... Islamophobia. On June 5, moments before Iran’s women’s team was due to take to the pitch and play in an Olympic ... who bans the hijab proposed in 2004 that women players wear “hot pants” on the pitch to boost the ...
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The failings of Westminster: Scott Morrison’s shadow government
in a country that tolerates secret trials (only revealed by accident), raids on journalists and the ... “The Governor-General signs an administrative instrument on the advice of the prime minister.” Whether ... the statutes permit ministers to confer power on others. What was unusual was that such powers are ...
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Malalai Joya: We must oppose all violence against women
the brutalities going on against women by extremists. She wanted to wake up the women of the rural ... Imperialism & war Feminism Malalai Joya Malalai Joya is an Afghan feminist and democracy ... crime of organising for women's rights. * * * Once again we see a crime against women by ...
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10 new political albums that sum up 2020
BARFBAG — LET'S STOP A WAR Deliberately released on election day was the short, sharp new album from ... Politic, who released their new album, Short-Sighted People In Power, just days before the election. On it, ... stylings with Ennio Morricone theatrics and spaghetti western sound effects on their new EP. On "Dump ...
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Australian-made component found in downed Azerbaijani military drone
Imperialism & war Middle East Peter Boyle military drones Turkey's war on Kurdistan ... attacks on the Armenian community in Nagorno Karabakh and also in the Libyan civil war. “The ... urgent letter on November 6 to Australian company Microair Avionica, which manufactured a component found ...
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and ain't i a woman?: Women pollies opposed to violence?
on terrorism". Surely war is the most grotesque example of violence against women. Similarly, ... have opposed Bush's war on Afghanistan, a war which has already killed hundreds of civilians, many ... , making them frightened to go out after dark on their own." Violence against women goes beyond the ...
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IRAQ: A war based on US lies
worked on the US war plan who told him that there isn't a "single confirmed biological or ... capitalise on the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York to justify its war on Iraq by trying to link Saddam ... Washington's concerns that Iran might win the Iran-Iraq war. On March 24, 1984, the day the press reported that ...
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Socialist Alliance stands with Sri Lankan movement
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Thousands of people overcame a heavily-armed military and police on July 9, to ... inspiration for all those struggling for a better world. Rajapaksa fled the country before resigning on July ... resign. Wickramasinghe declared a state of emergency on July 13, sparking fears of repression. This ...
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Rojava’s women’s revolution under threat in Afrin
Kurdish) held a women-only demonstration through the city centre on February 9. The marchers expressed their ... as targets and spoils of war. The video released on the internet depicting the mutilation of ... abuses of international law and war crimes, we believe that women’s international solidarity will be our ...
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International Women's Day marked by huge strike in Spain, global protests
women went on strike and marched in Spain on March 8 in support of a call for an international women ... on the poor in the name of the “war on drugs”. In South Korea, hundreds of protesters rallied in ... Feminism Workers & unions Kerry Smith International Women's Day (IWD) About five million ...
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A woman's place is in the struggle: Women resisting occupation
Amnesty International has just published a disturbing report on the plight of women in Iraq. The ... report reveals how sanctions, war and occupation have wiped out years of advances made by Iraqi women ... . Two years of war and occupation have driven women into the home, seen their jobs disappear and their ...
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Feminists discuss sexism, racism and war
war on women. Guest speakers at the conference included two women campaigners from East Timor, three ... women Balgoa elders from central Australia and Aleyshia Manning, who spoke on the issue of intersex and ... on the devastating impact the apartheid wall and Israeli militarism is having on women in Palestine. ...
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Geelong working women’s conference to feature leading union activists
War on Workers, will include Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Women’s Officer Lisa ... precarious work, underemployment and their effects on women will include Emma Kerin, an organiser with the ... Unemployment Workers Union will discuss the impacts of underemployment and precarious work on women. There will ...
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Bolivia: Indigenous Women’s Day honours Aymaran resistance leader
Imperialism & war Indigenous Economy Latin America & the Caribbean David T. Rowlands At ... 5 was officially designated International Indigenous Women’s Day. Since then, September 5 has been ... in La Paz, now the capital of Bolivia, on September 5, 1782. During the early 1780s, the highlands of ...
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Trans advocate: ‘Bill Shorten is wrong to quash inclusive birth form’
Government services minister Bill Shorten decided on July 21 to end a trial of a Medicare form that used ... parent” was swapped out for “mother” at three hospitals on Services Australia’s digital forms. Only 1100 ... parents had participated in the trial. It appears Shorten is being influenced by the culture wars against ...
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Water for Rojava
Imperialism & war International solidarity Peter Boyle Water Turkey's war on Rojava ... Rojava is a society based on a grassroots democratic, women's liberationist paradigm in which all ... “Nowadays, the Rojava Revolution is under attack, but not only by war,” warns Ercan Aybogan, a Kurdish ...
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‘Squatters in their own land’: Adelaide’s Aboriginal Tent Embassy 1972
President of the Aboriginal Women’s Council claimed on October 10 that some “disapproved of it and were ... Yerta/Adelaide Truth-telling starts not with truth, but with memory. Memory throws light on the unseen demons ... July 1972? A book on this important event was self-published in 2014. The 1972 Adelaide Aboriginal Tent ...
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Bosnian women call for peace and justice
Bosnian women call for peace and justice By Jennifer Thompson Sydney — Speaking at a meeting on ... women and children particularly have been targeted in the war. Coupled with a call for the establishment ... of a war crimes tribunal was her call to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia-Hercegovina so that the ...
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‘Proud to have shone the spotlight on Gaza’, says solidarity boat captain
Among the 13 women on the Zaytouna-Olive were Irish Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mairead Maguire, New ... on October 5. It was towed to the port of Ashdod, and the women jailed and then deported. Israel has ... to tell the stories of the women, men and children who were waiting for Zaytouna to arrive on the ...
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An incomplete, yet valuable insight into the Communist Party of Australia
had more than 22,000 members. The CPA faced contradictions during the latter stages of the war. On one ... Asia & the Pacific Books & music History Imperialism & war Socialism Jim McIlroy Books ... his doctoral studies at Cambridge University. His first major project on return to Australia was ...
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John Pilger: The hidden history of women in Australia who rose up
Victorian property and propriety. In fact, Mary was the youngest member of a gang of wild women, mostly ... sickness and despair. I know what she looked like on arrival because, some years ago, I discovered an ... nothing to sleep on, only boards and stone and straw, and filthy wool full of ticks and spiders. All the ...
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Women's right to choose under attack
Women's right to choose under attack By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya There is a stealthy war being ... waged against women in Australia, a war that threatens to erode most of the reproductive rights and ... assisting the prime minister on the status of women, responded to a question in parliament about future ...