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... and ain't i a woman?: Fact and fantasy
be trying to explain why women found it so hard to get men. Billed the "Sydney's missing ... not men's fault", the series was used as an unrefined piece of backlash against women who ... "expect too much" from their partners. For the first four days we heard tales of lonely career women ...
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By whatever means necessary
— whether to go on the e on defending the gains of the past. Building an independent women's movement ... by Anne Casey "The struggle for women's liberation poses the problem of the total ... liberation of women demands a thoroughgoing restructuring of society's productive and reproductive ...
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Rally for Bosnia
speaking on behalf of Bosnian women. She went on to tell of the new wave of atrocities carried out by ... rallied here on August 5, calling for an end to the arms embargo and the ethnic genocide being carried out ... Serbian forces following the fall of Srebrenica and Zepa. "No-one has been left untouched by war in ...
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Widespread antiwar action in Germany
done enough to oppose the war. Consequently, a group of women have occupied the DGB offices. Up till ... leading politicians actively opposing the war, and others supporting it. Women's groups have advanced ... two different actions. One group called for a women's strike on January 30, and other groups have ...
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From Fabian to fascist
on a broad range of social and industrial women's issues as well as women's suffrage, but, ... Women's Political Association, which, though not Marxist, opposed capitalism. Adela also opposed World War ... I on pacifist grounds and was active in Goldstein's Women's Peace Army, which opposed the ...
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Radio highlights
taking part. The Coming Out Show: Walking on Egg Shells — Siobhan McHugh talks to three women who were ... married to Vietnam veterans about the aftermath of the war on their relationships and families. ABC Radio ... to inform and educate women from all ethnic backgrounds about a cancer that kills six women a day in ...
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Radio highlights
Monday, December 20. 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 stations ...
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Population control: the Indian experience
amounts to a war against women. Over decades, indeed centuries, reports consistently indicate that women ... children and 60% in those with three children. On average, women gave birth to 3.1 children, but after ... the exceptional countries (along with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan) that has fewer women ...
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Dissidents say stop the bombing
Hussein's dictatorship even when it started the war against Iran... "We call on the American and other ... children, women and men are being killed", Abu Salam, a representative of the Union of Iraqi Democrats ... foreign forces, including Australia's, to withdraw from the region, and we call on the Iraqi army to ...
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'Our experiences are mirror images'
how to fight against the new perspective of losing substantial rights. On one hand, Eastern women were ... bourgeois women who have nothing to do with socialist reality, which is beautiful". On the other hand, ... commonly expressed by women from Eastern Europe at the June conference of the European Forum of Socialist ...
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Gun-running mothers and nuns in shorts
1990 and on interviews with women on both sides of the lines in the contra war. In an outstanding ... Walking On Sticks Written by Sara Cathcart and Andrea Lemon Performed by Sara Cathcart Anthill ... of a US nun who has worked in the war zone, helping victims of the contra war. This is the first nun ...
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In Jordan, 'The issue is no longer Kuwait'
understanding in Jordan about what was going on. They knew that the threat of war was not really over Kuwait or ... Many thought the war wouldn't start. When the war started at 2 o'clock on January 17, many ... the war all the time. The day after the war started, there was a women's union demonstration; ...
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Jean Bailey
Australian Women and served on its executive for many years. As a teacher, Jean was active in the NSW ... Kooris. With the advent of the Vietnam War, Jean was out raising funds, collecting signatures, going on ... that this must never be allowed to recur, and her lifelong belief in the equality of women, led her in ...
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Mardi Gras Film Festival
censorship laws and the state. In a similar vein, Who's Counting: Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global ... the role of women in economics and wrote a book called If Women Counted, which provided the ... latest guest declares his support for Hitler's ideas, they are horrified. When he pulls a knife on ...
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Birthrate falls with the economy
women. "The need to purchase basic items for the newborn child is having an irremediable effect on ... reports detailing the sombre news: women in this country are no longer willing to bear children. The ... reports have noted social causes — uncertainty about the future, women's fear of being sacked from ...
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Â鶹´«Ã½'s picks of Sydney Film Festival
killing for nine months after World War I ended. The Six O'clock News (USA): Film maker Ross McElwee ... criss-crosses the US to meet people whose personal traumas and tragedies have featured on the TV news. A comment ... on the mainstream media's fixation on disasters. East Side Story (Germany): An eastern bloc ...
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The real costs of India's economic liberalisation
have provided women with any genuine reforms. On the brink of an economic crisis in the late 1980s the ... and growth. However such policies not only impact negatively on women, they set in place longer-term ... in unemployment, a direct result of privatisation and closures, impact badly on women as they are ...
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Arab feminist group banned
Arab feminist group banned By Susan Mackie The international Arab Women's Solidarity ... worked for the rights of Arab women in many countries since 1983. Organisation president Nawal El Saadawi ... and its office locked — is a reaction to the association's support for women's rights and ...
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A life of struggle (6K)
women took on an increasing number of leadership roles in the party, but stepped back after the war as ... World War 11 at first and was declared illegal by the Menzies government. The military and the police ... war, the CPA came out in full support of the war effort. CPA members subsequently played an important ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Lyne lashes back
visible — Backlash: The undeclared war against women by Susan Faludi. My household saw this film at ... blockbuster which will be released in Australia on April 29, contains a brief and tantalisingly puzzling shot. ... a preview because there was nothing on the telly on Friday night. We felt the need for some big budget ...