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Can we listen to Cinderella?
words in Barbara Einhorn's Cinderella Goes to Market, a detailed study of the impact on women of ... because it provides an opportunity to reflect on the experiences and strategies of women's movements ... Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Still defending the '50s
was to redraft its discriminatory constitution. But on January 31, four women, including Power and ... to allow women into the bar, Power was to be allowed to apply for associate membership and the club ... Rights Commission. To those who would support the right of clubs to select their participants on the ...
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Military excluded from conscientious objection
Mack and WA Greens Senator Christabel Chamarette point out that the bill, introduced on March 30, ... Military personnel could thus be required to serve in a war to which they have moral objections. This ... situation arose during the Gulf War, when several sailors — the best known being Terry Jones — sought to ...
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A smorgasbord of intellectual and spiritual nouishment
experiences of a range of women living and working in Vietnam during the war, said that she was accused by one ... a vital social perspective on life and politics that only women, because of their distinctive position, ... is being dealt with in women's writings today. Discussions took place on the reasons for: ...
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New Indonesia solidarity bulletin
issue, published this month, there are articles on the anti-Gulf War protests in Indonesia and ... a statement from the progressive wing of the student movement on the anniversary of Human Rights Day, entitled ... "Development No, Liberation Yes". The bulletin contains a full translation of an on-the-spot report of ...
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... and ain't i a woman? Not the church, not the state
According to an article titled "The Gender Wars" in the January-February issue of NACLA: Report on ... paper in preparation for the Fourth UN Conference on Women in Beijing. They defined the family as the ... common for women to bring up children on their own. In Chile, 40% of all families are not headed by ...
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The politics of recovery
see the connection between the oppression of women and their resulting emotional problems such as ... women's movement, she was able to speak out against the denial of women's real experiences by others ... in her profession. She argues that the systematic study of psychological trauma "depends on the ...
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Brisbane action updates
Brisbane action updates By Maurice Sibelle While the war against Iraq is over, people in the Gulf ... meeting on April 22, GAC decided to hold a seminar on June 1 to look at this issue. GAC will meet again on ... meeting will be on May 15. Latin American groups are planning a conference for some time in August. ...
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The false science of racism
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of America Steven Fraser (ed) BasicBooks, ... programs targeted towards the disadvantaged. The Bell Curve Wars presents an antidote to the elitist and ... be described by a single number (an IQ score), is genetically based or unchangeable. On the contrary, ...
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A voice that won't be silenced
fit the required pro-war propaganda. "On the day the Americans started the war, 3CR suspended its ... radio stations. The award-winning program Women On The Line is produced by 3CR and broadcast through 30 ... and outspoken stance on political and social issues. This month it celebrates its 13th anniversary. ...
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Valuable imperfections
She wasn't afraid to put herself out on a limb when campaigning for the rights of women. She was ... pay for women was one example. Her high profile kept her out of work for some time. Zelda reflects on ... "Working-class women very rarely write books because of our inability to write at the level required by male ...
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Radio highlights
Welling. In this delightful piece of fantasy, Justice Feral finds himself sitting on the case of "The ... the Word Was Coke — Part II. At the end of World War II, one US GI in Fremantle was seen paying ... a week's wages to another for a bottle of Coke. Coca-Cola had so successfully become part of the war effort ...
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The dream that turned into a nightmare
war between the states: the Civil War of 1861-1865. On the eve of what was perhaps the defining moment ... Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 13, 1861, marking the outbreak of the Civil War. Two days later, ... hide-bound conservatism. The declaration of war was made on a beautiful spring day in 1861 and Gone with the ...
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Death threat issued to Iraqi communist
Bupishawa — "Forward" — which criticised Islamic practices which oppress women, particularly in ... marriage. Ahmad said that women are treated as a tradeable commodity. Islamic fundamentalists attacked the ... offices of Bupishawa on October 6 in an attempt to silence the WPCI. This terror campaign is reportedly ...
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The children demand peace
UNICEF, includes the following: "Wars used to be fought between soldiers and on the battlefield. But ... a quotation from a sad and wonderful book published last year by UNICEF called I Dream of Peace: Images of war ... daughter in London it was obvious it should not be gathering dust on a book shelf and so with spare time ...
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Behind a wall of silence
her husband is alive, another just cries. The women prefer to talk about the war, how much land they ... Tuzla or Zenica, where women and doctors are a bit more open, perhaps because they are in the war zone. ... war criminals in not these women's main concern. They barely survived the terrors of the war ...
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An elusive peace for Palestine
occupation the Israeli people have changed. They have become violent and look on women as sex objects only. ... NABIHA MORKUS is a Palestinian member of Women in Black and secretary in Tel Aviv of Democratic ... Women, which, like Women in Black, includes both Jewish and Arab women. VIVIENNE PORZSOLT interviewed her ...
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Redressing the whitewash
Fate of a Free People: A Radical Re-examination of the Tasmanian Wars By Henry Reynolds Penguin, ... Henry Reynolds makes a solid addition to his valuable studies on the Aboriginal experience of white ... and personal histories. Reynolds provides a passionate account of the injustices visited on the ...
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Secondary Students in Dissent (10K)
a 400-strong secondary student teach-in on the Vietnam War, organised in conjunction with Resistance. Student ... another attitude to the [Vietnam] war besides that of the government and their great and powerful friends ... being killed pointlessly, in a senseless and totally unjustifiable war." So begins the first issue ...
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Indonesia in struggle
policy on the Gulf War earlier in the year. In all these demonstrations, women have also played a leading ... Communication Forum, Yogyakarta Women's Communication Forum, Partisan and others. Peasant farmers have been ... role. New militant women's groups have also been campaigning for an end to the oppression of women ...