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Free Kuwait?
that the US went to war to save, killing 250,000 Iraqis along the way. Prime victims of Kuwait's ... wages. Before the war, Kuwait had a community of more than 400,000 Palestinians. Mass expulsion has ... reduced the size of the community to less than 30,000. The program also focuses on the unequal position of ...
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Minefields and Miniskirts: Australian Women's Experiences of the Vietnam War — The first of a six-part ... series examining the experiences of the 1000 or so Australian women who participated in the Vietnam War ... Diamonds Aren't Forever — Sandy McCutcheon reports on the threatened forced removal of 700 ...
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Writers against nuclear tests
protected throughout the world. Dowse, who became active in the anti-Vietnam war and women's movements ... tests using their favourite medium — writing. On October 3, 15 poets, journalists and authors read from ... their work at Tilley's Divine Cafe. The war poems of Geoff Page, anti-nuclear poetry by Anne ...
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the UN conference on women in Beijing. ABC Radio National, each Saturday, 5.05pm (repeated and updated ... FBI on Air? — FBI (Free Broadcast Inc) is a new non-profit organisation which hopes to be granted ... a radio licence in Sydney. It will focus on being an outlet for local talent in music, performance and ...
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Letter from the US: NY police torture immigrant
war against the majority, and especially those on the bottom. September 17, 1997 290 World ... Brooklyn after a party. As the club emptied out, a fight broke out between two women. "I didn't ... know the women", Louima later recalled from his hospital bed. Soon the cops arrived. "The ...
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NGOs continue anti land mine campaign
a legitimate weapon of war. There were very few riders on their use. And the convention only covered ... on Conventional Weapons met in Vienna from September 25 to October 13. The major focus of its ... not combatants; they are farmers, women and children. The international community clears approximately ...
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Algeria 35 years after independence
Historian BENJAMIN STORA is well known for his writings on Algeria and colonialism, including ... History of the Algerian War (1954-1962), History of Algeria After Independence (1962-1994), and The ... Sources of Algerian Nationalism. He has just published I maginaires de Guerre, comparing the wars in ...
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Japanese oppose US bases
a Okinawan schoolgirl on September 4. Teachers' unions, women's and peace bodies, as well as over ... an demonstration in Okinawa, Japan, on October 22 to demand the end of US military bases. This ... 170 local electoral assemblies, joined the protests. The suspects were surrendered on September 29, ...
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New solidarity initiative in South Africa
to declare war on poverty and unemployment", Marc said. WASAS is set to organise a work and ... but would be spent on the services of Australian consultants and advisers. "They are looking at ... That's where the need to build WASAS projects comes in", Angie added. The emphasis of WASAS is on ...
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Washington and the Taliban
Central Asia. Fearing the prospect of the Afghan civil war spilling over into the former Soviet south, ... capital of Almaty on October 21 to discuss the crisis and ways to bolster security along the Afghan ... arresting hundreds in house-to-house searches and subjecting women and children to public humiliation. ...
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The Zapatistas speak out
Chiapas uprising on January 1, 1994, has provoked a national crisis. It has challenged the direction of ... Mexico's future and won the defiant solidarity of many in Mexico and throughout the world for its attack on ... "War Diary" portray the uprising. A number of these also indicate the leading role being played by ...
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GNP: not a good measure
The 1995 report estimated that GNP excludes, on average, two thirds of womens work and a quarter of ... diet industry and rehabilitation. Wars count in terms of weapons construction, and rebuilding ... accounting puts no value on freedom, human rights or participation. Using measurements of life expectancy, ...
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Harsh US jail conditions for peace activists
build-up to the Gulf War. In August, O'Reilly and Cole were sentenced with two US Catholic Workers ... Group peace activists to a year's jail for their raid on a New York military base. O'Reilly ... has been stripped of his shoes and sent off shackled to work on a Texas chain gang, after being forced ...
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Controversial film to be screened
wide-screen action thriller tells the story of two women's survival in the tragedy of civil war. The ... production, will screen at the AFI Cinema, Paddington Town Hall, on April 30. This technically superb, ... a rich tapestry of characters. Resistance, which will have its world premiere release on October 14 in ...
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Janet Sheila Wakefield &&
died in Sydney on September 18. Her family moved to New Zealand in 1925. In 1936, Janet came to ... to Australia on her way to Spain, hoping to fight for the republic against Franco. Without enough ... money, she stayed here and worked for the Communist Party of Australia. During the second world war ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Pride
cultural events for lesbians, gays and everyone who supports the struggle for an end to oppression on the ... the movement than for any other purpose. It is a psychological weapon in the war waged against those ... more illustration of the interrelationship between the movements for gay and women's liberation. ...
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Inside Bougainville
support for independence on Bougainville, says Rosemarie Gillespie, an Australian lawyer just returned ... was fired on from the air while running the blockade, she told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. Trade and social ... Gillespie reports that the rebel areas are safe, and women walk freely at night around communities darkened ...
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Action updates
is decriminalised and is available to all women on demand." "More than 150,000 Guatemalans ... held in the Resistance Centre on September 17. Some 70 people heard speakers from Australian Aid for ... Ireland, the Latin American solidarity community and the DSP speak on the importance of linking the new ...
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Radio highlights
found traditional rock music devoid of rebellion, so when the Sex Pistols burst on the scene with what ... Japan to assess the range of responses to the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. 74-year-old ... "comfort women". Kenji Ono, a factory worker, spends his spare time researching the history of the ...
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Ethiopia rebuilds 'with worse than nothing'
women's access officer at Kensington Community Centre, who was also recently in Ethiopia on behalf of CAA, ... Armstrong of Community Aid Abroad, who recently returned from Ethiopia. The overthrow on May 28 of dictator ... Mengistu Haile Mariam, ending a 17-year civil war and Eritrea's 30-year struggle for independence, ...