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1. Mexico: US and corporations key factors behind most violent year yet

   Democracy Tamara Pearson North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) War on drugs US imperialism ... The comment lacked awareness of the already disastrous outcomes of the so-called “war on drugs” in ... Transnationals and the “war on drugs” With the onset of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993 ...

2. Feminists to march against war and racism

   have called a rally and march to oppose war and racism on International Women's Day 2002. ... protest, which will be held either on or around March 8. The collective encourages all women opposed to war ... BY ANGELA LUVERA SYDNEY — Citing racist attacks on women perpetrated since September 11, feminists ...

3. Afghanistan: Failing war breeds poverty

   Imperialism & war Anti-racism International solidarity Democracy Tony Iltis War on Afghanistan ... women and girls, linking Afghan youths to the outside world and so on. Along with the ubiquitous ... (2001–2021) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Taliban Northern Alliance drones bombs On August 19, ...

4. Looking out: (Un)declared wars

   (Un)declared wars As if it was not enough that women are being discriminated against in almost ... every aspect of society already, now most of the world's media are waging an undeclared war on ... not disseminating that kind of sexist misinformation, they are focusing on women infected with AIDS ...

5. IWD: 'no sexism, no war!'

   IWD: 'no sexism, no war!' Erin Cameron, Melbourne On March 6, 250 people attended an ... International Women's Day march under the banner "Women against war, racism and sexism". ... the Philippines, told the rally that women would be marching in the Philippines on IWD to demand ...

6. Campaign for justice for 'comfort women'

   women" of World War Two. "Comfort women" were used by Japan's military forces for sexual ... in China with other young women. At the end of the war, the women were abandoned by the Japanese ... a resolution calling on the Japanese government to apologise and provide compensation to the "comfort ...

7. The marginalisation of women in the post-9/11 US

   against US President George Bush's "war on terror" but hers is a limited view. Best known ... for her 1991 book Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women, Faludi presents a feminist ... experience of race and class as it impacts on women's (and men's) experiences. Faludi points out ...

8. Women protest against IR attacks

   Linda Waldron, Melbourne "Stop the war on our unions, civil liberties and working ... people's rights!" was the theme of the March 8 International Women's Day (IWD) demonstration at ... to child maintenance payments, would negatively affect working women. Yorta Yorta activist Monica ...

9. White Australia has a Black History

   Frontier Wars �鶹ӳ�� Fighting Fund Invasion Day gets me thinking about white representations of ... leading role in the Pinjarra Massacre of 1834 — one of the deadliest assaults on First Nations people in ... armed men including soldiers and police, attacked a Bindjareb Noongar camp on the Murray River, 85 ...

10. 'Comfort Women' in long fight for justice

    war. "The cases are on behalf of individual women. And because the cases are hard, we have to be ... files on the "comfort women" at the end of the war. Several top Japanese state officials and ... of these women in the war zones was controlled and administered by the military, the Department of ...

11. Noam Chomsky: ‘There are plausible regional settlements for Ukraine and China’

    affairs. This could lead to a US-China war. But there are critical global issues on which the US and China ... framework of US power. This is a battle that has gone on since World War II. The old Atlanticist vision of ... US Army. Inset: Noam Chomsky. Photo: Pip Hinman Noam Chomsky The United States, war on two fronts and ...

12. Cuba's fighting women

    the rebels and everyone else". As the revolutionary war wore on, the women's platoon became ... "More disciplined." On September 4, 1958, at the height of the revolutionary war against the brutal ... 13 women, was the first women's combat unit to serve in the revolutionary war and helped lay the ...

13. A woman's place is in the struggle: New women's movement in Iraq

    reported on March 8 that hundreds of women protested in Baghdad against the adoption by the IGC of a new ... Houzan Mahmoud wrote in the London Guardian on March 8: "It is now almost a year after the war ... leave the house." The devastated health system is also increasing pressure on women, who are forced ...

14. Zagreb women establish centre

    escalated by the war, have fallen most heavily on women: women have fewer job retraining opportunities than ... War Victims, have and continue to create herstory in this part of the world. On the other hand, since ... neither war nor peace, some of the rights achieved by women are jeopardised. The lack of democratic ...

15. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism

    Abu Akleh and the police attack on mourners at her funeral are not incidental to Zionism, but integral ... the town on the Palestinian West Bank where the killing took place on May 11, is earmarked for ... Bulgaria, for instance, won independence following a Russian–led war in 1877–78. For the other end, in ...

16. Muslim-bashing won't advance women's rights

    "We'll start listening to Howard and Costello on discrimination and violence against women when, for ... emphasised that while the sheikh's comments on violence against women are plain wrong and criminalise ... imperialist wars on the Middle East, and we were proud to receive greetings at our recent national conference ...

17. Brisbane launches Women of Steel

    people attended the Brisbane launch of Women of Steel: Gender, Jobs and Justice at BHP on September 17 ... mainly migrant women took on The Big Australian and won. Queensland Council of Unions Secretary Ros ... interviewed as part of her research. Older women remembered that during World War II women had been employed ...

18. Empty promises: pursuing women's votes

    occasionally. On International Women's Day 1992, aware that his lack of popularity with women could cost ... feminism in the US in the early 1970's. In The Undeclared War Against Women, Susan Faludi writes of ... Feminists", raved the Australian, "PM to Wage War on Sexism", trumpeted the Sydney Morning Herald. ...

19. How suffragette Muriel Matters fought for women’s — and working class — rights

    of “Votes for Women” leaflets on his head from a chartered air balloon trailing streamers in the ... suffragists as “those dreadful women”. Police had banned leafleting on the streets, so the WFL had taken to ... an Adelaide music celebrity when his views on women turned out to be unenlightened. In London, ...

20. ... and ain't i a woman?: Women and revolution: myth and history

    liberation of women. War and civil war increased demands on the working class, and the economic burdens fell ... Women and revolution: myth and history On the eve of the 82nd anniversary of Russia's 1917 ... new social order. The Women's Department's funding was diminished on the false notion that ...

21. INDONESIA: 'International Women's Day is not just a celebration'

    BY DITA SARI [The following statement was issued on March 8 by Dita Sari, chairperson of the ... Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI).] International Women's Day is not just an annual ... even until this last second, prosperity, justice and equality for women, especially workers, ...

22. New documentary celebrates Indigenous and working-class leader Bill Onus

    a war hero who gained work on the trams but was driven out by racism. The film was also linked to a New ... a WWII Army uniform walking down a street and talking with some Aboriginal women in a doorway. There are ... working as a conductor on a Melbourne tram, an Aboriginal man demonstrating culture to Aboriginal youths ...

23. Right-wing coup plotters undermine democracy in Peru

    from the war in Ukraine. Peru imports about 75% of the oil it consumes and relies predominantly on ... came to power on a leftist platform with the support of Peru’s poorest and most marginalised people. In ... state officials; introduce a referendum on a new constitution and Constituent Assembly; and implement ...

24. The backlash against women's rights

    By Tracy Sorensen A solitary foot soldier in the war against women's rights reached the front ... government. It includes the attacks on women's studies and "political correctness", the outrage ... further into their newspapers.) Hostile reactions to the women's movement are hardly new. From its ...

25. The trade in Asian women

    By Karen Fredericks The planned launch of War of the Sexes, a book on how to find and marry ... countries also. The same forces which leave many women little choice but to place their names on the books ... on their own development, their citizens will remain super-exploited, and women and children will ...

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