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Too many cars?
protest on the streets of Washington. Since the Vietnam war, there have been over 700,000 traffic ... fatalities in the USA, and Congress has not declared war on the car. Is this constitutional? Has there been ... a demonstration of even a thousand people marching on Washington concerning the continuing USA street war ...
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Equal pay: still a long way to go
are on the way down. According to the head of the Affirmative Action Agency, women and their dependent ... Calculations of this vary widely, depending on what criteria are used: Paul Keating claimed that women earned ... exploited workers, and married women's economic dependence on their husbands was upheld. These wage ...
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Wide-ranging discussion at Feminist Book Fair
women and war. During a session on women's health, Bangladeshi women's health policy ... who inserted the device would have moved on to the next village, leaving women with no trained staff ... latter seems ludicrous. During a panel of women writing on navigation, Anna-Maria Dell'osso ...
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A post-feminist era?
current undeclared war against women. Faludi is North American, but this is a universal problem, neatly ... headlines and hype such as this. Marilyn French's The War Against Women is also a response to the ... on present-day men. Faludi both damns and praises new right women who often lead the fight against ...
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Civil rights: how free are we really?
injured on the job — usually as a result of the bosses' negligence — and women affected by using the ... deregulation, which are today's myths. Environment In this way, the power brokers are able to make war on ... of capitalism. And while each rich nation makes war on its own poor, collectively they make war on ...
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Action updates
the AFTA and editor of the Tamil Monitor, outlined the events which led up to the war, and called on ... Industrial Relations Commission in Sydney on December 5. Women's Party launch BRISBANE — Launching the ... Australian Women's Party on November 26, AWP secretary Jenny Hughey told 200 people that, "Many ...
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Rally for peace in Bosnia
marched here on July 17 to protest against the continuing acts of violence and aggression towards women ... speakers and activists. The Australian Women's Committee (AWC), a coalition of women from a variety of ... Paula Aboud, a spokesperson for Migrant Women Speakout, told of the impact of rape and sexual abuse used ...
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A history lost in the fanfare
boomers depended on the active and intense procreation generated among the men and women of a demobbed ... identity. For the sake of the war effort, even Women's Weekly could be relied upon to forgo the Packer ... War" (as though there have been no others since), the enthusiastic nostalgia tinged with jingoism that ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Another reason to ditch the G-G
reference to a Melbourne Age feature entitled "The War Against Women", for what he called an ... simplistic terms as a 'war against women' is to distort the reality. Men, too, are victims", ... in Australia, especially violence against women. Last year the institute's conference on ...
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Action updates
BRISBANE — Fifty women attended the International Women's Day Collective meeting on January ... state government's Women's Policy Unit that the Goss government has failed to deliver on ... Aboriginal and women's rights. For further information please call Tracey on 844 6682. Opponents of the ...
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Behind the crisis in Sudan
background to crisis. Sudan has been at war internally since it gained independence from Britain on January ... were thrown back into the flames on the order of army officers. Children, old women and youth were ... or troops on leave. Nimeiri had said in 1970 that the war against the south was to defend Arab ...
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A life in the struggle
articulate women who had campaigned against conscription during World War I. "All my life I have been ... By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — Phyllis Johnson attended her first International Women's Day march ... on February 27. For her generation of activists, IWD was "always a tremendous day. It was a day ...
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Action updates
13, the Women's Abortion Campaign decided to support Children by Choice in a walk on Parliament ... of Women Students — Australia (NOWSA) conference in Melbourne on July 16-20. Organisers have planned ... 660 2438. SYDNEY — The Middle East Action Campaign on May 16 discussed the projected International War ...
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Environmental youthquake planned
member Sian Prior, and Tom the Poet. On March 30, the panel discussion will take in themes such as war ... Gulf War. The March 31 panel will focus on the natural environment. Speakers will be Caroline Pickburn ... Workshops will cover women and the environment, technology, the Gulf War, exploitation of the Third World ...
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and ain't i a woman?: The public nature of the 'private' sphere
and the many limitations foisted on women by the role of principal care-giver in the home. However, ... cheaper labour, and women's lower pay (most have no choice) exerts a permanent downward pressure on ... women's roles within it used to be mostly confined to the "women's magazines". Article ...
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Libertarias give-away
them. It is the inspiring story of women who would "prefer to die standing like men than to live on ... Libertarias give-away Libertarias, tells a story of a group of women republicans and anarchists ... during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. The film explores the experiences of these Milcianas, fighting ...
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Anti-Nile rally to defend abortion rights
Nile's War on Women's Rights", a broad coalition of women's organisations here has set ... Miscarriage Limitation Bill, in the New South Wales Legislative Council on September 12. If it is passed, ... Supporters of the anti-Nile fight include the Women's Abortion Action Campaign, the Abortion Rights ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Fact and fantasy
be trying to explain why women found it so hard to get men. Billed the "Sydney's missing ... not men's fault", the series was used as an unrefined piece of backlash against women who ... "expect too much" from their partners. For the first four days we heard tales of lonely career women ...
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By whatever means necessary
— whether to go on the e on defending the gains of the past. Building an independent women's movement ... by Anne Casey "The struggle for women's liberation poses the problem of the total ... liberation of women demands a thoroughgoing restructuring of society's productive and reproductive ...
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Rally for Bosnia
speaking on behalf of Bosnian women. She went on to tell of the new wave of atrocities carried out by ... rallied here on August 5, calling for an end to the arms embargo and the ethnic genocide being carried out ... Serbian forces following the fall of Srebrenica and Zepa. "No-one has been left untouched by war in ...