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GLW wanted Third World women to go barefoot and pregnant. Well, those on the left have a long track ... record of putting shoes on the feet of Third World women, but no record at all on the pregnancy aspect. ... on a per capita basis can only be made on the assumption that there is plenty of room in Australia ...
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Hang on — the DSP must be part of the plot! When they were the SWP, they had members inside the ALP ... — and so must have been in on the plan to have pretend debates and pretend factions. Lane makes ... there is no political group on the Left or any campaign committee that is strong enough to win its ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
#27) seems to be predicated on a misreading of my comment on the gun law debate (GL #25), i.e., they ... seem to assume that I argued against a ban on the possession of guns in urban homes. In fact, I argued ... resulting from the alienation and demoralisation that capitalism creates."0>-1>For example, on ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
to proposed women-only sessions at the Brunswick Baths. The left needs to be built on these events, ... before and during the Aidex '91 arms bazaar recorded a number of successes" and went on to list ... is accompanied by an item on the police torture of Sean Kenan. Towards the end of his article Painter ...
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The consensus of world opinion on the war against Iraq is collapsing. Russia is disturbed by the ... Population and equity In their replies to Peter Boyle's article on population and the ... impact on the environment. Masanobu Fukuoka, in his book The One Straw Revolution, details how he was ...
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Feminism: myth of the generation gap (12K)
"generation gap" in feminism — differences of opinion between older and younger women on directions for ... Women and Labour Conference in Sydney on September 28, exposes the myth that such political differences ... on the basis of age. Women's movement today It is important that generation gap theories be ...
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Identifying the enemy
Undeclared War Against Women. Enter also long-time feminist activist and editor of the influential magazine ... feminist movement by turning the blame back on women, sees self-esteem as the prerequisite for true ... hubby's ironing second. But exactly how women are supposed to raise their self-esteem on a mass ...
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Radio highlights
donate or for more details. Women on the Line presents Working Women — Melbourne's 3CR (885-AM) ... continues its series on the work of Australian women in the '90s. Every Wednesday, 5.30 p.m., until ... December 22 (repeated every Monday at 10 a.m.). Women on the Line is also broadcast on public radio ...
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Bosnians demand an end to the arms embargo
6000 Bosnians and their supporters in Melbourne on July 23 to protest against the war in Bosnia. ... once again using rape as a weapon of war." On the other hand, in well-heated and comfortable UN ... are — dust in the wind. The UN will soon have its World Conference on Women, the so-called ...
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A pioneer of feminism
's equality. Her two WPAs (the Women's Peace Army was set up to oppose the war) were militant, feminist ... younger and equally radical sister). She saw women as "peace-makers in the class war", and the ... rejoice to see women organising on any lines, even Conservative lines", she wrote. Yet she had the ...
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Viva la revolución! Viva la mujeras!
alongside the men than "live on their knees like servants". In the early stages of the war, women ... a fantastic and inspiring look at the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of a group of women who fight to play ... upheaval of revolution. The story focuses on six women thrown together by chance. Maria (Ariadna Gill), ...
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Strippers and 'immorality'
money being charged, rather than the women? If governments were prepared to spend money on education and ... yet here are its officials on TV denouncing "immoral" women. June 12, 1991 16 Culture ... them with prostitution if they accept even a cash tip from the audience. Some of the women have ...
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Refugees at risk in Serbian camps
the Serbian Republic of Bosnia. Women in Black Against War report that "there is a massive forced ... perhaps the danger will soon be extended to women. The governments of Serbia and of the Serbian Republic ... mobilisation of male refugees from Bosnia and Hercegovina and Croatia going on in Serbia and Montenegro". ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Sex discrimination laws fall short
that the paid Australian workforce is in reality dependent on the unpaid labour of women in the home, ... Currently, women who served in World War II don't share their male counterparts' entitlements to ... women and in some cases even reinforce traditional sexist stereotypes, according to a federal ...
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Rally against rape in Bosnia and Croatia
the issue of rape in war, to generate action and to bring about justice for all women who have been ... is organising a rally on Mother's Day, May 9. The group is made up of members from the Croatian ... violated. A European Community commission has estimated that about 20,000 women have been victims of ...
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King Hussein's call for peace
and large-scale war which was imposed on brotherly Iraq, and which is aimed at Iraq's existence, ... I greet every one of you with all affection. I address you on the eve of the fourth week of this savage ... Iraq, and shouldn't the blood of Iraqi men, women and children be dear to us?! How shamed will be ...
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Radio highlights
Radio National Christmas Appeal for Africa — On the weekend of December 12-13, the Radio National ... music? ABC FM Stereo, Wed December 16, 9.02 a.m. Out On Wednesday: Blues in the Night — Blues in the ... Night uses the great blues and jazz songs of the 1920s and 30s to reveal the lives of three women and ...
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Action updates
war. International Women's Day will feature a broad range of speakers, including feminists from ... Women's Liberation House, 63 Palace St, Petersham. Phone Mara on 790 3093 for more details or to get ... ADELAIDE — Planning for International Women's Day is well under way. A guest speaker from ...
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Beyond the dismal decade
The Falklands War was an orgy of chauvinism. These women, growing up in such an inhospitable ... a pity to ignore it. It consists of essays by 16 women growing up and living through Thatcher's ... reign in the 1980s. The women came from backgrounds seen as undesirable in the conservative era — they ...
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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 ...