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Iran: Socialist feminists show solidarity with women’s struggle
most Iranian socialists and socialist organizations opposed the protests and called on women to stop their ... separate our opposition to US imperialism and any imperialist war drive on Iran, from our support for the ... represent the most radical dimension of women’s struggles. Given the global nature of the assault on ...
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Women march to reclaim the night
down on Victoria Bridge for a minute's silence to honour those women who had been violated in war ... in Iraq and the Middle East, and of the horrific US war on Afghanistan. Hamid argued that "women ... for women and men to campaign against the war on Afghanistan. Other speakers described the local ...
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The women who made 'herstory' at Pine Gap
Australia, in the 1970s), was spearheaded by anti-nuclear and anti-war women activists, some of whom attended ... Pip Hinman Remembering Pine Gap: Women's Peace Camp, November 1983 An exhibition from the ... archives of Jesse Street National Women's Library NSW Parliament House, Sydney Until September 24 The ...
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Attacks on Kurds reveal Turkey's Western-backed terror hypocrisy
reveals the West's “War on ISIS” as a lie. US State Department spokesperson John Kirby told a July 27 ... the PKK, and therefore terrorist. In welcoming Turkey into its “war on ISIS”, the US ignored recent ... targeting them.” Iran Iraq Syria Turkey United States Kurdistan July 31, 2015 1063 War on PKK cartoon. World ...
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Bosnian women refugees in Australia
will feature a panel of women refugees speaking on their experiences both before and during the war ... will be hosting a meeting organised to allow Bosnian women survivors of the war to speak about their ... Bosnian women refugees in Australia The International Women's Development Agency in Sydney ...
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Defending Afrin means defending democracy and women’s liberation
ճܰ’s war on Afrin is an attack not only on Kurdish self-determination, but on democracy and women ... genocidal politics dominating the region. On International Women’s Day (March 8), Kurdish women launched ... in northern Syria, for the first time, a system is being constructed which is based on women’s equal ...
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'Comfort women' survivors to hold rally
abuses suffered by hundreds of thousands of women during World War II. An estimated 200,000 women in were ... war. Anna Song, campaign coordinator of the Friends of Comfort Women in Australia group, told Green ... from sexual slavery during war. It will also demand that the issue of "comfort women" is ...
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US peace activists, leftists oppose Iran war
veterans, labour organisations and leftists in the United States have come out against a US war on Iran. ... Anti-war rallies will be taking place across the US and Canada on January 25, as part of a global day of ... trillions more dollars. “Trump promised to end endless wars, but this action puts us on the path to another ...
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Turkey launches genocidal invasion of Rojava
Middle East Tony Iltis Turkey's war on Kurdistan The horrific violence that has been ... to make good on its commitments … Instead, now we have been betrayed,” Ahmed said. Syrian civil war ... joined them in the assault on Raqqa with the specific mission of rescuing enslave Yazidi women and ...
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Turkish state moves to ban Peoples' Democratic Party
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Turkey's war on Kurdistan ճܰ’s pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic ... 1301 Turkey: Women defy ban to march on IWD International peace delegation warns of ‘deterioration of ... following statement on March 18. * * * The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is under a ferocious attack by ...
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Welcome ‘Greenslide’ holds a promise to change politics
a “direct threat to our national security”. Even on election night, as it became clear that the Greens were ... introduce “Star Wars”. The huge Palm Sunday peace marches were a product of this social movement ... and women. People’s expectations that progressive reforms can be won are high after booting the ...
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Rallies call for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan to be released
Anti-racism Democracy Imperialism & war Peter Boyle Terrorist listing Democratic confederalism ... Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Gadigal Country/Sydney On the 23 rd anniversary of the abduction and ... members of parliament and other prominent people called for his release on humanitarian grounds and to ...
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and ain't i a woman?: Winning allies in the fight for women's liberation
only does the persecution of refugees and war impact disproportionately on women, these struggles also ... and ain't i a woman?: Winning allies in the fight for women's liberation On ... women's liberation on the march (including male supporters), some separatist feminists boycotted the ...
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The radical history of International Women’s Day
on their “success”. These events can make us forget that IWD has a radical socialist history of women ... International Women’s Day was born. On March 18, 1911, on the 40th anniversary of the Paris Commune, the first ... suffrage. A million leaflets calling for votes for women were distributed throughout Germany on the day. In ...
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Women reclaim the night
march. The theme of the rally was "Stop the war on women at home and abroad", with the specific ... demands of "No war on Iraq"; "Stop domestic violence against women"; "End ... of the march was on ending sexual violence against women, although no specific demands were raised. ...
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When radium killed women for profits
instrumentation during World War I. Because of their nimble fingers, teenage and young women (and girls, some as ... industrial poison, unregulated by business-friendly governments, destroyed countless US women’s lives. ... their new jobs. Paid on a piece-work basis, the more dials (and thus more radioactive radium) they ...
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Sri Lankan student leader says diversity strengthens the people’s movement
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on July 9, the people’s movement in Sri Lanka continues. Rajapaksa fled the ... Wickramasinghe became president through an interparliamentary election on July 20, mostly with the votes of ... Minister from 2015‒19, when an insider-trading deal on Treasury Bonds led to the loss of public funds. ...
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Why the Taliban won
collapsed and the mujahideen entered Kabul. The new rulers imposed severe restrictions on women. Their ... women. Women were still confined to the home. Girls’ schools usually existed only on paper, not in ... Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes By Anand Gopal Picador, New York, 2014 This book, published seven ...
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International Women's Day
On March 8, demonstrations to mark International Women's Day took place across the globe, ... many focusing on opposition to war and occupation. Palestinians and Israelis joined together at the Ar ...
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Greens MP Adam Bandt in parliament debate on Afghanistan: Bring troops home now!
Imperialism & war Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) War on ... Afghanistan (2001–2021) Ngunnawal/Canberra On October 19, Sydney Stop The War Coalition activist Marlene Obeid ... the bi-partisan pro-war line of the major parties was shamefully re-affirmed, on October 20 the sole ...
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United States: First Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court
disparities” throughout federal and state judiciaries. Gresko noted that “the history of Black women serving on ... three women on Pennsylvania's highest court are all white.” Standing up US history is full of ... Following a deadlock on the Judiciary Committee, the United States Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown ...
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The fight for justice for Aboriginal women
efforts to keep track of women who have died as a result of family or domestic violence. On the basis of ... these, I started my own list counting the number of dead Aboriginal women and I ran that on my blog for ... able to identify certain victims as Aboriginal women on the basis of my own community knowledge. It ...
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UNITED STATES: Bush backs religious right against women
team have escalated the war on women's rights, most notably in the sphere of reproductive choice. ... allow states to expand family planning services for poor women (announced on July 20), have reimposed ... While Bill Clinton did nothing to reverse the right-wing backlash against women, and introduce some ...
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Sri Lanka: A victory for a non-violent people’s movement
on July 9 with President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa's offer to resign. On this historic day, ... costs of essential consumer goods. The night before the main mobilisation, police enforced a curfew on ... claiming the curfew was “blatantly illegal and a violation of the fundamental rights of the people”. On the ...
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A woman's place is in the struggle: Militarism and violence against women
"war on terror" began. According to the January 24 Denver Post, women soldiers who have been ... 1991 Gulf War by the US Department of Veteran Affairs found that 7% of women reported sexual assaults, ... Sydney, over 500 women gathered to mourn women raped in war. After being denied permission to join the ...