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1. Gerry Adams: '1916 Rising was right — and we still need a just republic'

   of poorly equipped Irish men and women took on the might of the largest empire the world had ever ... Easter Week 1916.The people of the north were abandoned. The Free State was harsh on the poor, on women ... after 66 days on hunger strike. We remember Bobby and his comrades and the blanket men and the women in ...

2. Money for education- not war!

   lecturer never attends the class. On a good week, the students get to see a video of the lecturer ... presenting in Melbourne the week before. On a bad week, students only get a sound recording. This example is ... every 20 students. The exception to the rule is the war-training institution, the Australian Defence ...

3. On the box

   On the box Human Cargo — Looks at the world of refugees and the people who sacrifice their lives ... 6pm. Cutting Edge: My Home Your War — Takes you inside the home of an Iraqi family as they deal with ... the disruptions and terrors of war as it affects their daily lives. SBS, Tuesday, April 3, 8.30pm. ...

4. Manning's expose: War crimes, lies and corporate plunder

   Democracy Economy Imperialism & war Chelsea Manning Support Network Chelsea Manning, a private ... in the US Army who worked as an intelligence specialist, was sentenced on August 21 to 35 years in ... Manning announced via her lawyer on August 22 that she would undergo hormone treatment to transition to ...

5. On the box

   On the box Actively Radical TV — This week's program, Bougainville: Australia's ... Genocidal War, features an interview with Moses Havini, representative of the Bougainville Interim ... combated by a band of feral vigilante activists. This three-part mini-series begins screening on ABC TV, ...

6. UNITED STATES: Bush gang threatens war against '40 to 50' countries

   that is not news. Having survived the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein's grip on Iraq has since been ... enough". An American attack on Somalia, wrote the Guardian 's man at the Foreign Office, "would ... Somali peoples will be reported and debated on the strict premise that the US and British governments are ...

7. IRAQ: Washington's war goal isn't democracy

   democracy' US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Al Jazeera television reporter Jamil Azer on February 25, ... all-powerful monarchy. A briefing paper prepared by Amnesty International for the 58th UN Commission on Human ... include abuse of prisoners and incommunicado detention; prohibitions or severe restrictions on the ...

8. The secret war against the defenceless people of West Papua

   littered with graves, their black crosses crowding the eye: crosses on peaks, crosses in tiers on the ... parallels, finally won their freedom, the United Nations set up a truth commission; on January 24, its 2500 ... "communications", Senator Helen Coonan, failed to place it on the map of her own region, as if it did not exist. An ...

9. On the box

   writings on women and religious fundamentalism plunged the country into a wave of general strikes and mass ... On the box Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs ... September 20, 9.30pm. Fearless Stories From Asian Women — In 1994, Bangladeshi poet Doris Nuval's ...

10. Running the world after the Cold War

    Hispanic narcotics trafficker. For the people of Central America, the war on drugs proved to be as brutal ... as the war on communism. There was more to come. Islamic fundamentalism was sweeping across the ... bombers, oppressed Arab women and a demonised Saddam Hussein. Unlike the Vietnam War, Desert Storm proved ...

11. 43rd Mardi Gras returns to its protest roots

    One Nation NSW MP Mark Latham; to decriminalise sex work; and to end the war on drugs. Showing ... attacks on gays, women and blacks.” He said that pink washing corporations had taken over Mardi Gras, ... Oxford Street on March 6, taking the event back to its protest roots. The NSW Police had tried, but ...

12. 'Guernica': a universal symbol against war

    for peace against war." Despite Martin's strategic silence on some sources of terror from ... Phil Shannon Picasso's War: The Extraordinary Story of an Artist, an Atrocity and a Painting ... destroyed by flames, if women and children are victims of suffocating gases, if the population in open ...

13. United States: Attacks on abortion rights accelerate

    version imposes a mandatory 48-hour waiting period on such women before they can have an abortion. The ... a special hardship on working-class women, who have to take time off work and find transport. Mandatory ... These new laws bear down on working women the hardest. Especially harmful is the effect on the poorest. ...

14. FUNDRAISER GIG FOR ROJAVA

    Gadigal Country/Sydney Glebe (venue TBA on day) In the midst of the catastrophic Syrian Civil War ... and position of women and youth in Northern Syria. You can see more on their website. Middle East ... protection of women and children in this very volatile region. That is why we have decided to put this ...

15. Anti-war, anti-globalisation movements can win power

    about US war policies and is a leader of the Military Families Speak Out. There can be no doubt that the ... 150,000 troops in a war that is costing tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and stealing two countries' ... direct colonial occupation are being put back on the international political agenda. Gunboat diplomacy ...

16. Australian feminism: from 'protection' to liberation

    allowance. The first world war brought many women's organisations into anti-conscription and pacifist ... second world war, women's mass entry into the job market demonstrated the benefits of economic ... alongside the youth radicalisation in opposition to the Vietnam War. Women within the anti-war and student ...

17. IRAQ: Clean lies, dirty wars

    claimed, was a model war. A hundred thousand tonnes of explosive power had been dropped on a nation ... State of California Reserve Officers' Association Committee on Persian Gulf War Illness and ... IRAQ Clean lies, dirty wars BY PATRICIA AXELROD Twenty-two months after Desert Storm, I was ...

18. On the box

    On the box The Big Picture: The Plague: The Zero Factor — A four-part series charting the history ... providing insight into the views of influential Muslim thinkers. Subjects covered include holy war ... , democracy, women's rights and state authority. The first episode, Islam and Pluralism, has an interview ...

19. Right threatens civil war in South Africa

    Sexwale added on February 17. But the primary aim of Mandela's initiative was prevent a civil war ... Africa's first non-racial democratic elections on April 26-28 is preparing to plunge this country into ... civil war, Tokyo Sexwale, has warned. The African National Congress candidate for premier of the PWV ...

20. On the box

    September 2, 10.10pm. Chahinaz: What Rights for Women? — On her journey from Algeria to neighbouring ... women. SBS, Monday, September 3, 1.30pm. Cutting Edge: Last Ghost Of War — Thirty years after the end of ... On the box Message Stick: Aboriginal Rules — Showcases the work of Indigenous writers, directors ...

21. On the Box

    On the box Six Days In June — The shooting lasted only six tense days in June 1967, but the Six ... Day War in the Middle East has never really ended. SBS, Friday, June 22, 8.30pm. Australian Rules ... tackle global warming. ABC, Tuesday, June 26, 8pm. Chahinaz: What Rights for Women? — Chahinaz asks how ...

22. The ‘ghost-kart’ track

    a stay on the development in early March, using section 10 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... Heritage Protection Act 1984. The site’s importance to the local Wiradyuri women was recognised, ... doesn’t have to be like that at all. We can win. In retrospect, we relied too much on the power of ...

23. 1916 conscription referendum remembered

    Prime Minister during World War II, he introduced conscription. On October 4, 1916, there was a one-day ... History Chris Slee 1916 conscription referendum World War I Australian Labor Party (ALP) John ... Curtin Adela Pankhurst Julia Guerin socialists pacifists the union movement women’s groups ...

24. On the box

    On the box Ladies First: Women Rebuild Rwanda — In 1994, women and girls made up 70% of the ... The American Musical — Looks at the impact of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War on musical ... population in Rwanda — a result of the civil war and genocide that had devastated the country. They are now ...

25. United States: Trump’s Bonaparte moment

    Anti-racism Democracy Elections Far right Imperialism & war Barry Sheppard Black Lives Matter ... United States elections San Francisco August’s Republican National Convention centred on two interrelated ... hold onto power, come what may The other was the mobilisation of a blatant, racist assault on the Black ...

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