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International Women's Day's hidden radical history
the trials of war broke the patience of the women workers and peasants. In Leningrad on March 8, women ... On average, women receive only two-thirds of the wages of men. Accessible child-care is still not ... and on the streets. Women of colour still experience racism. Women still do not have control of their ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: The world cop and Afghan women
Rights Day, including having two Afghan women there who talked to the press about what was going on... it ... State Department outlines the living conditions imposed on women since the Taliban gained control of ... in a fact sheet released by the senior coordinator, international women's issues, on March 10, ...
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A life-long fighter for women's equality
food prices, women's health and world peace. It was tough, isolated going in the Cold War freeze ... Factory women into the union in Melbourne in the 1930s, most were fatalistic about their below-dole wage ... war and social injustice and who was a member of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). Boyanton ...
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10 new albums that tackle racism, sexism and ignorance
Empire Island". "Forty-five more men, women and children died fleeing a war zone last ... lawyers put Black Lives Matter protesters on trial by playing clips of prominent Black Democratic ... supremacists who'd invaded the Capitol building. On February 19, actor and singer Andra Day released her ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
Malloch raises some of the very myths which we need to challenge head-on if women are to be freed from the ... "correct" weight for a particular height. Even if every women took on a more healthy lifestyle — ate healthy ... disease and stroke which were based on male subjects. Studies of women released some time later showed ...
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Sydney continues to show solidarity with Palestine
government began its murderous assault on Palestine on May 10. In the 11-day war, at least 257 Palestinians, ... including 66 children and 40 women were killed by Israeli forces. A ceasefire was forced from Israel on May ... Country/Sydney Around two hundred people braved wet weather on June 20 to protest Israel’s continued bombing of ...
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Haiti: President assassinated amid killings, protests
women's rights activist Antoinette Duclaire were killed on June 29. Haiti: A new revolutionary period ... Democracy Imperialism & war Latin America & the Caribbean National liberation Kim Ives ... tumult in Haiti, a nation which already has been shaken by all three. It began on the afternoon of ...
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United States: The battle against Trumpism can’t be left to the Democrats
then capitalists after the Civil War — and their political parties have been founded on and enforce ... personally loyal to him, believe whatever he says, and ready to do what he wants. Trump is now taking on ... a more public role, including projecting mass rallies, his preferred venue. The first one happened on ...
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Women organising separately
attempts to wind back women's rights. Women's officers and women's rooms on campuses were ... "safe" places for women on campus. Rather, the real value of these facilities is that they are avenues ... facilities cannot be assured and real equality for women on campus can never be won. The argument put forward ...
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A story of East Timor's resilient women
turn to whenever you think activism is too hard. Twelve women from the remote areas of Timor-Leste ... (East Timor) tell how they fought for their nation's independence. In the 24-year war from 1975 to ... operation of the clandestine movement. But without the work of countless and mostly unknown women, it would ...
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The Berlin Wall 30 years on
Anti-racism Refugees & migrants Chris Slee Berlin Wall Cold War On November 9, 1989, the ... free meals there. There was progress on women's rights and gay rights. Abortion was legalised in ... East Germany in March 1990, and unity was formalised on October 3 of that year. The German government ...
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Feminist marches oppose war
suffering that war on Iraq would cause to women, and the Coalition government’s allocation of money to war ... led by women drummers, protesting war on Iraq. The turnout — much larger than at previous IWD protests ... BY ALISON DELLIT Across Australia on March 8, women, men and children took to the streets, using ...
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Women’s struggles can make sexism history
stopped rejoicing, remembering the war Gillard has waged on women in government, not least the vicious ... children aged over eight years, parents who are mostly women, on the tiny Newstart allowance is ... caused thousands of women in Australia to call bullshit on being told they cannot walk alone at night, or ...
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Women workers are sick of waiting: equal pay now!
reforms for women workers. Pay Justice Action is a collective focused on campaigning for equal pay for ... and a set of gender equality indicators which “focuses on outcomes for women and men in the ... women. In a speech at the National Press Club in Canberra on International Women’s Day, the minister ...
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Women's liberation
force them to take on the struggle for the rights of working women. Women's health centres and ... women. A Sydney University study, published on February 23, found that 57% of workplaces don't offer ... paid maternity leave, and that women on low incomes are less likely to have access to paid maternity ...
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and ain't i a woman?: Amina's crime: to be a poor women
"adultery". In many cases, harsh punishments for adultery are imposed on women who have been raped or have ... women are more affected by sharia. The death sentence for adultery is rarely imposed on the man who ... states, which are based on a strict interpretation of Islam, the judges found Lawal guilty of ...
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Women reclaim the night around Australia
of rape in war. Susan Price reports from Melbourne that around 2000 women marched on October 25. ... women and male supporters gathered in Civic on October 25 in a confident and friendly atmosphere not ... organising meeting for the next major event for the movement, International Women's Day, will be held on ...
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Jewish women for an independent Palestine
Palestinian people." On the links between the Palestine-Israel dispute and the war in the Gulf, Marta ... is a censorship of other viewpoints." Marta Romer, a member of Jewish Women in Support of an ... and its attitude towards the war in the Gulf. She explained that it grew out of a smaller group that ...
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Asia-Pacific socialist conference to confront the crises of capitalism
an international endeavour. Conference sessions will take up issues including: women ... found on the conference website. Australia November 1, 2021 1324 Socialism 2021 Socialism 2021 website ... anti-war activists World ...
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Women reclaiming the night
On October 29, thousands of women and their men supporters took to Australia's streets in ... the police to stay inside after a string of violent attacks on women. Instead, they took to the ... marchers have staged a "die in" on Victoria Bridge and lit flares to remember all the women who ...