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Sandinistas hold first conference
understandable, she said. "The war prevented us from concentrating on their specific demands." If women ... bodies. The "ineffectiveness" of the party's past record on work with women was ... beginning on July 19. The three-day congress (sessions of which continued well into the early morning) was ...
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Loose cannons
to make women forget crime on their doorstep, unemployment rates, wars and family crises. He offers ... employment." — Employment minister Kim Beazley, preparing a new fiddle on unemployment statistics. Grassroots ... to places on time." — An unnamed "close friend" on US President Bill Clinton, quoted ...
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Message from Irish prisoner
Branch) by MARY MCARDLE, an Irish Republican prisoner of war in Maghaberry jail in occupied Ireland. We ... the women POW s of Maghaberry Gaol would like to send solidarity greetings to those people in ... in these British-occupied counties. As you well know in a war where only one side gets to tell its ...
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Ratbags in the ranks: Hanson, the Coalition and the far right
and xenophobic Pauline Hanson has provided Australia's small and divided — sometimes warring ... tolerate an openly racist presence on the political spectrum and the Howard government lending ... (AAFI) and the Australian League of Rights (ALR)— were the first to jump on the Hanson band wagon and ...
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New Zealand politics breaks new ground
the labour movement, women, health, Maori, and so on. And they will organise across constituencies, ... Anderton, who is naturally an organiser on a national basis. Question: You have a majority of women (seven ... NEW ZEALAND — On October 12, New Zealand held its first general election under the new ...
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Israel vows to make south Lebanon 'uninhabitable'
wounded in the attacks. Israel renewed its war against Lebanon on July 25 with jet fighters striking 10 ... that this was a deliberate war against civilians, designed to drive them from their homes. "We ... want to provoke an exodus from southern Lebanon towards the north in order to put pressure on the ...
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Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan
By Eva Cheng The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US soldiers on September ... have arrest warrants issued against them on September 8, but were able to avoid arrest. They were ... countries since World War II. Under the agreement, Japanese jurisdiction does not apply to members of the US ...
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Not brave enough
hand-to-hand battles. They are truly gruesome and put to shame most representations of war on the screen. The ... will have much to ponder. I wish I had timed how long women get on centre stage. In all the three ... content to use safe, trite characterisations. In this telling, Wallace wars against the English in the ...
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Radio highlights
3.30pm. Women Out Loud: Bingo, Bowls and Bedpans — Looking at the lives of women in nursing homes. ABC ... tracks of 20th century nomads: boarding school boys gone tribal and middle-aged men on the run from ... post-hippy squatter community in Europe. More than 1000 people live on the site of this former military ...
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The origins of the CPA
on charges of plotting to burn down Sydney during World War I. Although largely defunct as an ... By John Percy On October 30, 1920, the Communist Party of Australia was founded at a meeting in ... Sydney attended by 26 men and women. They represented the most radical of the small socialist groups, ...
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Polls: ANC heading for victory
reason behind Inkatha's war on ANC supporters in Natal and the townships east of Johannesburg. That ... of capable and competent women out there whose names can be added to the list." Zulu called on ... belief is now being regularly confirmed in opinion polls. Further confirmation came on October 24, when ...
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Radio highlights
recorded on March 8 and features the magical sound of the sho, a 17-pipe mouth organ played by Mayumi ... well-being. ABC Radio National, Saturday, March 12, 1.30pm. The Coming Out Show — International Women ... don't have to be tied by blood. This program concentrates on gay and lesbian families and share ...
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Hippie froth subsides into a whimper
Women's Weekly as his publication territory does not reflect at all kindly on the subversive political ... trial which turned the restrictive censorship laws of the western world on their head. He was back in ... leaving quirky and mostly harmless outcroppings on the surface. The early '70s articles in this ...
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Set down at the bottom of the system
expectations placed on women in our society. "Take 'em out" attacks war, the use of murder as ... "Ritual" is a song about the rape ritual that women in US (Western) society are subjected to on quite a few ... the state. "Prostitutionalised" elaborates on consumer blindness in the form of smokescreen ...
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In bed with the media
stars around, moving jumpily from backstage "reality" to on-stage performance. Both films ... his almost religious refusal to give interviews, appear on television or follow any of the gambits ... filming a throat examination. Sarcastically, he comments upon her narcissism, "If it's not on ...
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Action updates
a protest on July 29 against the Kangaroo 95 war games, which are about to take place in the Northern ... information contact CIET on 344 3511 or 371 0480. Chilean activist to tour ADELAIDE — Casa Chile has invited ... women's movement and human rights activist Miriam Ortega for an Australian tour. Ortega was a political ...
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The folklore of the Sydney Push
Women's equality was illusory — men took the lead in intellectual matters and frequently relied on their ... The Push women were left with the trials of illegal abortion. The Vietnam War was the beginning of the ... the university establishment's crush on king and country, God and family. Originally sympathetic ...
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Student unionism in Australia: Part I
In the first of a three part series on the student movement in Australia since the 1970s, AFRODITY ... teacher organiser for Queensland, and AUS women's officer. Question: What was AUS like when it was ... later. But it was a viable, vibrant organisation before that, formed out of the anti-Vietnam war ...
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Protests over Bougainville
giant CRA, in Brisbane on February 10. The protest, organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement as ... protest was held outside Parliament House in Canberra on February 9 for Wingti's arrival. Chanting ... Wingti's war against the people of Bougainville. Sean Kennan, an organiser of the protest, commented, ...
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Keneally gets lost in Ireland
employment, to the claustrophobic hold of the conservative Catholic Church hierarchy on the people and ... of the Irish and Ireland's old world charm. History weighs heavily on the Irish and is evident ... the slide presentation of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Uprising on display in the Dublin General ...