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  1. Organising against war and homophobia in Lebanon

    different religious denominations", he said, adding that three decades of war gives rise to great ... activist sell it on the streets", Sankray said. "He was very up-front saying, 'I am gay, ... slept with men, and they were being taught a lesson." Helem is mostly led by men, but women are ...

  2. Carlo's Corner: New failed Iraq War to mark Gallipoli?

    the seemingly endless failed war on Iraq. This government is sometimes accused of insensitivity, but ... war on Iraq has left it dependent on Iranian help to contain the fall out, but that would be churlish. ... and women off to die in a foreign war, you'd think the bare minimum for a leader should be the ...

  3. On the box

    Art of War β€” From World War I to the "war on terror", this program reveals how attitudes to ... war have dramatically changed, and how war has radically changed art. SBS, Saturday, April 23, 7.30pm. ... Get Up Stand Up: Next Stop Vietnam β€” Protesting unjust wars has been a recurring feature of ...

  4. 450 protest war in Wollongong, March 21

    Marg Perrott Tharawal/Wollongong On March 21, 450 people turned out for an anti-war rally in the ... the opinion that the protests had definitely influenced the ALP caucus' stand on the war. Terry ... consequences of the war on Iraq. "Where is this all leading to?" he asked. "The message to the ...

  5. People's budget not a war budget β€” Save Medicare!

    federal budget, released on May 13, will be a war budget, implementing cuts to social services in order to ... bolster defence spending. The Howard government wrote a blank cheque for the war on Iraq, which is ... save money. This means an even greater explosion in health costs. On top of that, routine medications ...

  6. Behind the war in Jaffna

    Behind the war in Jaffna The recent offensive by the Sri Lankan army against the Tamil people ... University and spokesperson for the Tamil Sangam, Queensland about the background to the war. Tamil and ... 1949, Tamils who had been brought by the British from India to work on the tea plantations were ...

  7. UNITED STATES: Vietnam vets oppose Bush's war

    women as they are sent into battle but have seen it turn its back on many when they returned, suffering ... the US Vietnam Veterans Against the War. For the full version visit the VVAW web site at ... <http://www.vvaw.org>.] The terrorist attacks on September 11 horrified and outraged people throughout this country and ...

  8. Webinar: The time has come β€” Freedom for Abdullah Γ–calan

    is waging an all-out war on the Kurdish people, in Turkey itself and across the borders in Syria and ... inspired by his ideas on women’s equality, ethnic and religious pluralism, grassroots democracy and ... impact on the Kurdish freedom struggle. In particular, the liberation struggle in northern Syria has been ...

  9. Massive opposition to war across Europe

    antiwar activities culminated in an international day of actions against the war on January 26, which saw ... involved since 1945. School students have interrupted classes to go on marches, women in black are ... By Tracy Sorensen PRAGUE β€” The news that war had broken out met with an instant response right ...

  10. Chan signals escalation in Bougainville war

    process. He also called on Canberra to end the military assistance to PNG that has enabled the war to ... By Norm Dixon On March 21, the prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Sir Julius Chan, made plain his ... intention to escalate the war against the pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) and the ...

  11. Anti-war protests around the world

    war. On October 15, police in the Punjabi city of Lahore stopped 1000 supporters of the Labour Party ... protests against the US-led war on Afghanistan are proliferating across the world. Some of the biggest have ... expected to do well in local Berlin elections on October 21 because of its stand against the war. Opinion ...

  12. Afghanistan: 'a war of fear, death, corruption, and poverty'

    marked the eighth year of this "war on terror" β€” or as we've come to know it β€” a "war ... we as Australians can help on a greater scale by stopping this war and stopping the bloodshed and ... Australia's involvement in the war in Afghanistan. *** First, I would just like to thank you for coming here ...

  13. Bin Laden’s death: No excuse for more war

    world. But his killers used Bin Laden’s crimes to justify wars on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq that ... β€œwar on terror”. * * * The assassination of Osama bin Laden was celebrated as rough justice by US ... the β€œwar on terror”. The hunt for bin Laden was never about justice, but justification. Revenge for ...

  14. Write on

    Professor Steven Rose (GLW #18) typically do), medical experimentation on animals is bad science. ... Thalidomide was tested on animals and declared safe, whilst penicillin would not have been developed if it had ... been tested on guinea pigs (whom it kills). Species react differently to different drugs. Rob ...

  15. Afghanistan: Killing continues in the 'good war'

    hundreds of US war resisters who are speaking out against the US-led war on Afghanistan, a war where ... children and women. The "good war", Obama? Don't think so. November 8, 2008 774 World ... Abridged from http://asia-pacific-action. "I believe war is the crime of our times", ...

  16. INDIA: World Social Forum targets US war drive

    Third World. The opening and closing sessions featured strong condemnations of the US war on Iraq. As ... the war on Iraq. The American policy is based on fear. They are keeping their people ignorant in the ... Social Forum, held on January 16-21 in the NESCO exhibition grounds, located in the north of Mumbai. ...

  17. Our Common Cause: When is enough enough? Stop Israel's wars!

    has tirelessly campaigned against the invasion and occupation of Iraq, a war based on lies and waged ... Margarita Windisch [Abridged from a speech on behalf of the Melbourne Stop the War Coalition to a July 30 ... Melbourne Stop the War Coalition offers its sympathies to the brave people of Lebanon and ...

  18. Iran 'on verge of explosion', says socialist

    Women's Day rallies on campus and took part in women's liberation protests outside the university. ... Imperialism & war Democracy Chris Slee A former Tehran University student, Behzad Bargheri, ... spoke to 50 people at a public meeting on Iran on July 20. Bargheri told the meeting in Melbourne that ...

  19. The hypocrisy of a 'war of liberation'

    war, we could anticipate the granting of full citizenship rights to the 4000 or so Iraqi refugees on ... situation. The effects of the war on Iraq will be felt in this country, regardless of the brutal measures ... BY SARAH STEPHEN The war against Iraq, the US government and its allies say, is being waged for ...

  20. Bougainville's freedom fighter president: 'We will push hard for independence'

    Bougainville." In the war on Bougainville (1988–98) up to 20,000 people died. Dissent had been growing, when ... Asia & the Pacific Elections Environment Imperialism & war Indigenous National liberation ... fought. "On my side, we will push hard for independence, because that is the key issue on ...

  21. UNITED STATES: Anti-war coalitions demand 'Bring the troops home now!'

    for going to war, has misled the media about what's happening on the ground and has kept troops ... October 25 "March on the Pentagon" being organised by the Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism ... administration's war on Iraq peaked in April and has been eroding ever since. A public opinion poll conducted by ...

  22. John Pilger: US war crimes from Vietnam to Obama

    Imperialism & war John Pilger Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two ... children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. ... sprayed a defoliant herbicide on vegetation and villages to deny "cover to the enemy". This was ...

  23. US stepping up economic war against Cuba

    Republican whip Newt Ginrich signalled that the US would apply maximum pressure on the Soviet Union to ... the US disinformation machine is putting the blame for the island's economic problems on ... dependence on the US by seeking other trading partners and drastically improve living standards. What most ...

  24. Taliban assault exposes failing, unpopular war

    Imperialism & war Ash Pemberton A 20-hour assault on the US embassy in Kabul by Taliban ... a woman, a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey said on June 15. The survey said Afghan women had almost zero ... fighters on September 14 has exposed further weaknesses in the already-crumbling facade of the United ...

  25. Kurds come under attack at film screening

    Boorloo/Perth ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly hosted a screening of the film Kurdistan: Women at War on March 9 to celebrate ... National liberation Chris Jenkins Kurdish community Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Kobane ... International Women’s Day. The film, directed by Mylene Sauloy, follows the historical development of the ...

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