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  1. When radium killed women for profits

    instrumentation during World War I. Because of their nimble fingers, teenage and young women (and girls, some as ... industrial poison, unregulated by business-friendly governments, destroyed countless US women鈥檚 lives. ... their new jobs. Paid on a piece-work basis, the more dials (and thus more radioactive radium) they ...

  2. and ain't i a woman?: Winning allies in the fight for women's liberation

    only does the persecution of refugees and war impact disproportionately on women, these struggles also ... and ain't i a woman?: Winning allies in the fight for women's liberation On ... women's liberation on the march (including male supporters), some separatist feminists boycotted the ...

  3. Women reclaim the night

    march. The theme of the rally was "Stop the war on women at home and abroad", with the specific ... demands of "No war on Iraq"; "Stop domestic violence against women"; "End ... of the march was on ending sexual violence against women, although no specific demands were raised. ...

  4. The fight for justice for Aboriginal women

    efforts to keep track of women who have died as a result of family or domestic violence. On the basis of ... these, I started my own list counting the number of dead Aboriginal women and I ran that on my blog for ... able to identify certain victims as Aboriginal women on the basis of my own community knowledge. It ...

  5. Colombia: The most dangerous country for environmental defenders

    support the Duque government, praising its efforts in fighting the 鈥war on drugs鈥. This 鈥war鈥 鈥 like so ... has received nearly US$10 billion in US aid to fight its war on drugs under Plan Colombia. Most of ... Agriculture Environment Far right Imperialism & war Indigenous Ian Ellis-Jones Human rights ...

  6. International Women's Day

    On March 8, demonstrations to mark International Women's Day took place across the globe, ... many focusing on opposition to war and occupation. Palestinians and Israelis joined together at the Ar ...

  7. Greens MP Adam Bandt in parliament debate on Afghanistan: Bring troops home now!

    Imperialism & war Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) War on ... Afghanistan (2001鈥2021) Ngunnawal/Canberra On October 19, Sydney Stop The War Coalition activist Marlene Obeid ... the bi-partisan pro-war line of the major parties was shamefully re-affirmed, on October 20 the sole ...

  8. UNITED STATES: Bush backs religious right against women

    team have escalated the war on women's rights, most notably in the sphere of reproductive choice. ... allow states to expand family planning services for poor women (announced on July 20), have reimposed ... While Bill Clinton did nothing to reverse the right-wing backlash against women, and introduce some ...

  9. A woman's place is in the struggle: Militarism and violence against women

    "war on terror" began. According to the January 24 Denver Post, women soldiers who have been ... 1991 Gulf War by the US Department of Veteran Affairs found that 7% of women reported sexual assaults, ... Sydney, over 500 women gathered to mourn women raped in war. After being denied permission to join the ...

  10. Kabul Diaries Part 11: Afghans say no to trade in Pakistani currency

    Economy Imperialism & war Middle East Yasmeen Afghan Kabul Diaries Taliban currency Kabul ... Posted on September 13, 2021: One of the achievements of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was the ... Hayatullah Safi聽stated on Facebook: 鈥淎 Proud Afghan will never accept Pakistani rupees. We should stand ...

  11. Norway turns left

    Toni Usman 2021 Norwegian election R酶dt (Norway's Red Party) It was evident by about midnight on ... Commenting on the election outcome, left-wing newspaper Klassekampen (Class Struggle) stated: 鈥淭he ... Solberg said that no party since World War II has ever won three consecutive elections. Is it incumbency ...

  12. Adi贸s Diego Maradona: The football god who played on the side of the poor

    footballer will rage on, but Diego Armando Maradona, who passed away on November 25 aged 60, will almost ... around the world, as the football god who played on the side of the poor. As a child growing up in ... reality. But to Maradona it was much more than this. Given a football on his third birthday, Maradona ...

  13. Feminists to march against war and racism

    have called a rally and march to oppose war and racism on International Women's Day 2002. ... protest, which will be held either on or around March 8. The collective encourages all women opposed to war ... BY ANGELA LUVERA SYDNEY 鈥 Citing racist attacks on women perpetrated since September 11, feminists ...

  14. Looking out: (Un)declared wars

    (Un)declared wars As if it was not enough that women are being discriminated against in almost ... every aspect of society already, now most of the world's media are waging an undeclared war on ... not disseminating that kind of sexist misinformation, they are focusing on women infected with AIDS ...

  15. IWD: 'no sexism, no war!'

    IWD: 'no sexism, no war!' Erin Cameron, Melbourne On March 6, 250 people attended an ... International Women's Day march under the banner "Women against war, racism and sexism". ... the Philippines, told the rally that women would be marching in the Philippines on IWD to demand ...

  16. Campaign for justice for 'comfort women'

    women" of World War Two. "Comfort women" were used by Japan's military forces for sexual ... in China with other young women. At the end of the war, the women were abandoned by the Japanese ... a resolution calling on the Japanese government to apologise and provide compensation to the "comfort ...

  17. The marginalisation of women in the post-9/11 US

    against US President George Bush's "war on terror" but hers is a limited view. Best known ... for her 1991 book Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women, Faludi presents a feminist ... experience of race and class as it impacts on women's (and men's) experiences. Faludi points out ...

  18. Women protest against IR attacks

    Linda Waldron, Melbourne "Stop the war on our unions, civil liberties and working ... people's rights!" was the theme of the March 8 International Women's Day (IWD) demonstration at ... to child maintenance payments, would negatively affect working women. Yorta Yorta activist Monica ...

  19. How suffragette Muriel Matters fought for women鈥檚 鈥 and working class 鈥 rights

    of 鈥淰otes for Women鈥 leaflets on his head from a chartered air balloon trailing streamers in the ... suffragists as 鈥渢hose dreadful women鈥. Police had banned leafleting on the streets, so the WFL had taken to ... an Adelaide music celebrity when his views on women turned out to be unenlightened. In London, ...

  20. 'Comfort Women' in long fight for justice

    war. "The cases are on behalf of individual women. And because the cases are hard, we have to be ... files on the "comfort women" at the end of the war. Several top Japanese state officials and ... of these women in the war zones was controlled and administered by the military, the Department of ...

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