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  1. Women's Embassy opens in Darwin

    during the Gulf War. When the Women's Embassy took over from DRAW, it decided to function on the ... Women's Embassy ran a "bus day" on November 25, which focussed on the need to improve public ... it would axe Darwin's Women's Information Centre, feminists here began two courses of ...

  2. 10 new albums that stand up for the oppressed

    punks Speed. It was released on June 24 as Australia continued to beat the drums of war against China. ... NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL PRIDEΒ  On June 1, the world's richest person, Elon Musk, tweeted ... father". On June 4, victims of gay and transphobic hate crime were honoured in Sydney's Bondi. On June ...

  3. Women's march the largest protest in US history

    probably not in the way he had in mind," US Uncut noted on January 22. "The Women’s March, an ... marched against Trump and his ultra-eractionary agenda around the world: "The Women’s March on ... highlighting President Trump’s demeaning remarks about women." US Uncut said that based on numbers tallied ...

  4. Women in prison

    "women behind bars". Directed by Kay Pavlou (also responsible for Not a Bedroom War and The Killing ... worth seeing. It's much more an indictment of our society than of the women on the inside, whose ... Women in prison Convicted SBS documentary in the Cutting Edge series Tuesday, March 23, 8.30 p.m. ...

  5. In war 'the weak suffer what they must'

    is a protest against war in Iraq. Please find more information on how to actively oppose the war from ... February 16 "walk against the war" in Sydney. First performed in 415 BC, Women of Troy has always ... slavery. Euripides set his play in an encampment of women from a defeated city. The war happens to be the ...

  6. Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly

    Union on March 15 narrowly voted to only support peace actions opposing the looming war of Iraq if these ... against the war, as opposed to those nominated by certain groups and coalitions. I call on the NTEU to ... Environmental and Life Sciences University of Newcastle [Abridged.] Sick of war On February 14-16, more than ...

  7. SOUTH AFRICA: TAC says 'invest in health not war!'

    On June 24, Durban, East London, Cape Town and Johannesburg each hosted hundreds-strong protests ... demanding that US President George Bush spend money on health care over warfare. The protests were organised ... HIV/AIDS. The effect of the US government's unlawful war in Iraq has been to divert international ...

  8. End the system that fosters misogyny

    stereotypes are trotted out by journalists, as they focus on psychologising women in public life or ... a war on feminism that became the war on β€œpolitical correctness” as described by former Prime Minister ... lists, impacts mostly on women. But women (and some men) have fought back against discrimination and ...

  9. Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly

    Iraq war and the unions The real question Brian Sketchley (Write On, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly #566) needs ... war on Iraq? Yes, protests are not going to stop wars in and of themselves. But they are critical in ... Burgess for writing a "No War" slogan on the upper sail of the Opera House, we should be holding ...

  10. Prospects for change under Labor discussed by unionists, activists

    steps for climate action, workers’ rights and social justice after the federal election on May 31 at ... take on the results. NSW Senate candidate Rachel Evans said the results were β€œcause for hope” after ... in government. He alsoΒ criticised NSW Labor’s backsliding on its former support for NSWNMA’s demand ...

  11. Pat Power: 'We need a war against poverty, not a war against terrorism'

    on Iraq's women and children. It points out that already one in four children under the age of ... a climate of war. On the other hand, a war against poverty would entail genuine gestures of goodwill. It ... attack on Iraq will lead to inevitable loss of life β€” hundreds, thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens will ...

  12. 10 new political albums that will make you think twice

    women's brutal oppression. On "Haruspex", they sing: "We talk and talk while women get ... AdigΓ©ry and Bolis Pupul points out the insanity of such wars. On the track "Esperanto", ... flu in the beginning of 1918 and, currently, we are on the brink of what could become World War III.” ...

  13. The drug wars: World War II and Vietnam

    A cleaned-up waterfront could be relied on to support the war against fascism through democratic politics in ... Imperialism & war History John Rainford World War II World War II was fought to resist fascist ... aggression; the Vietnam War was an imperial war of aggression fought chiefly by France and the US, alongside ...

  14. John Pilger: Why wars are not reported honestly

    Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger Wikileaks War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) In the US ... Following Vietnam, β€œembedding” journalists became central to war policy on both sides of the Atlantic. With ... Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan ...

  15. Clara Zetkin, socialism and women's liberation

    the lead up to World War I, political differences developed in the SPD. Zetkin lost her position on ... returned to the Soviet Union, where she died on June 22 that year. The British journal Labour Women had ... to exert a powerful influence in the formation of socialist policy on women's rights, and on the ...

  16. Putting the international into International Women's Day

    people's struggles in many other countries. From calls for war reparations for East Timor to demanding that ... which aims for much more than making lives of relatively privileged women in the First World more ... comfortable, and which doesn't simply celebrate the achievements of the women who've made it. This is ...

  17. Women march to reclaim the night

    climate crises, and the impact of war on women. University of Wollongong environment officer Vanessa ... Night on October 29, Jay Fletcher reported. "Real information about violence against women is not ... Anthea Stutter Naarm/Melbourne A vibrant and noisy crowd of about 300 women rallied at the State ...

  18. 'Women unite!'

    Australia's women". Under the theme "Women unite! Money for jobs, health and education, not war and ... Kerryn Williams More than 1000 people joined rallies and marches on March 13 to mark International ... Women's Day. These followed rallies in a range of cities a week earlier. Kathleen Scott reports that in ...

  19. Yemen: US steps up covert war

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis war military military alliance War on terror The US has stepped ... farce' Wikileaks proves: Afghan war unjust and unwinnable War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) World ... organisations in Chicago that were discovered on cargo planes in Dubai and Britain on October 29, after tip-offs ...

  20. Public forum to discuss Afghan and Iraqi women's struggles

    institutionalised atrocities imposed on Afghan women during the reign of the Taliban. A war for the rights and ... speak at a public forum at Trades Hall on July 17. They will address the struggle for women ... BY LYNETTE DUMBLE MELBOURNE Β— Tahmeena Faryal from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of ...

  21. Vietnam and the women's liberation movement

    Continuing our historical features on Vietnam and the movement against the war in the '60s ... and late '60s. As was true for many people at that time, radicalisation on the war issue led them ... when Harold Holt ran on the slogan "All the way with LBJ". Those opposing the war held ...

  22. Taking on the 'new Jim Crow': US prison strike targets slave labour

    business. From 1970 to 2005, the prison population rose 700%, and remains high today. β€˜War on Drugs’ A major ... tool used is the phony β€œWar on Drugs”. Begun by Republican, with the Nixon administration seeking to ... Prisoners in many states in the US began a coordinated national strike on August 21, the anniversary of the ...

  23. Women reclaim the night

    Alison Dellit Women across Australia marched to end violence against women on October 29. While ... war, which was also a focus in Lismore. In Newcastle, 150 women listened to speakers condemn violence ... number of marches is increasing, with more women in regional centres organising to fight violence. This ...

  24. Sri Lanka: Tamil women and the struggle for freedom

    Sri Lankan government's war on the Tamil people is fought on many fronts. I think most of you ... their families. In any war, women suffer the most. They are the target for sexual violence by the ... Women's Organisation (TEWO) at an October 30 Melbourne film screening of My Daughter the Terrorist, ...

  25. The Female Eunuch 30 years on

    for black rights, civil rights and women's rights, and against the Vietnam War, had begun to ... the Vietnam War movement had begun, and the women's liberation movement was taking off. The ... impact on many women and men, and generated a lot of debate and media attention. It was criticised from ...

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