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Snapshots of youth activism in '96
Sarah Stephen (Resistance organiser, Hobart): We see wars and conflicts, oppression, hunger and ... cruelty on TV all the time. We aren't given the tools to understand it, but it disturbs our true ... Suharto dictatorship. Students held a 24-hour hunger strike on October 28 in support of political ...
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Sex, violence and surrealism
multiple breasts clustered on a block. Other Surrealist works show Jack the Ripper's victims or women ... mad. The horror of the First World War had devastated Europe. Surrealists recoiled from the ... irrationality of war and human destruction into the more private realm of dreams and the subconscious. They ...
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Mashed brains
female rats produce fewer male hormones under stress. He concludes that pregnant women, in times of war ... "experiments". In the days when "scientists" performed lobotomies on still-conscious women, they knew ... men's and women's brains are the ostensible subject of the three-part documentary Brain Sex, ...
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Racism and sexism: how to fight them
Is there a connection between sexism and racism? What role, if any, should the women ... National Organisation of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference, being held at Macquarie University in ... function: it justifies the exploitation of a part of society on the basis of physical difference. This was ...
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Scaring hell out of the ruling class
The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia By Frank Cain Spectrum ... taken the parliamentary turning, pinning their hopes on the ALP and arbitration. However, the ... Wobblies were the foremost proponents of heating up the class war by organising workers into One Big Union ...
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'Patching up' the alliance
By Reihana Mohideen OSAKA — At midnight on March 31, the lease on a piece of land inside a US base ... in Okinawa expired, making the Japanese government an illegal occupant of the plot on the Sobe ... Vietnam War, have refused to agree to the use of their land by the US military. They are referred to as ...
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The New World Order Almanac
Republic and declares a new era of prosperity, based upon consensus, marked by public war on perverts, ... president, but dies on his second day in office. Assassination is suspected by a consortium of ... of only 75 words and phrases limited to praising the Gulf War and the end of the Cold War, nobody ...
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Action updates
entertained by cabaret, theatre and music, all performed by young women. Should a brief report on your ... and Labor Council, South Terrace, from 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 10. About 100 people attended ... a protest on May 27, at the court cases of people arrested during the Nurrungar demonstrations at Easter. ...
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Musical drama for New Theatre's 60th birthday
men and women like him, on the land, down the pits, in Edwardian Britain. Built around the long and ... world war and conflicts on a more personal level. British playwright Melvyn Bragg, author of the ... Sydney Reviewed by Deborah McCulloch Based on Melvyn Bragg's novel of the same name, The Hired Man ...
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Looking out: Bougainville
Australia uses, as its henchmen, the PNG Defence Force to make war on the women, men and children of ... those women who, by birthright, owned the land. When Germany was defeated in war, Bougainville, along ... birth, Before — it's begun." I wonder how many of the women who have been massacred on ...
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Right-wing regime multiplies Croatia's misery
but active. The Zagreb Anti-War Campaign and affiliated groups conduct a wide range of campaigns on ... By Will Firth ZAGREB — A lot of problems in Croatia today are caused directly by war. But they are ... Franjo Tudjman. The war in Croatia has taken a heavy toll of Croatia's resources, and the war raging ...
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Should pornography be censored?
many women are subjected to that, but also in their daily lives on a whole range of levels, from ... Women Students Australia. NOWSA is having its annual conference at Macquarie University from July 11 to ... 15. KIMBERLY O'SULLIVAN is the co-editor of Wicked Women, a lesbian sex magazine. GEORGINA ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Non-stories
struggle for women's liberation is not a war of the sexes, and we will not be sidetracked onto ... human body has been erected in inner-city Melbourne and there has been no protest! Oh yeah, big news. On ... spotted boxer shorts — around his ankles — smiles down on passers-by from an underwear advertisement. His ...
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Those who pay the price
Begg and Vannessa Hearman It was a hot, still day on August 6, 1945, when the A-bomb descended from the ... a suitor because women who have been exposed to radiation are rumoured to be barren. Numerous eligible men ... turn down the beautiful Yasuko. In the same year, tumours start to appear on her body. Her aunt and ...
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Not a single drop
workers like ourselves, disillusioned men and women, returned from the war bewildered at the ingratitude ... Comment by Willy Bach BRISBANE — On August 17 former Australian soldiers who served their country ... fine men and women. Having served their ruling class in the destruction and rape of Vietnam, ordinary ...
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Resources
The first issue of At Ease, a new alternative journal for men and women in the Australian military ... information and news. $1 to civilians, free to service personnel. The Spanish Civil War in Euzkadi and ... civil war. He argues that the defeat of revolutionaries in the republican camp prepared the way for ...
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Forty years of the box
been reading War and Peace or catching up on the third volume of Capital. Furthermore, consider what ... Melbourne Olympics were on and our biggest treat was to be invited to their lounge room to watch the magic. ... Young Peter O'Toole, was forever going on about the programs he could watch, and then would try to ...
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60 speakers for Brisbane gathering
outrage over the execution of Flor Contemplacion. Carpio will also lead a workshop on women in struggle in ... will include workshops on women and the law, strategies for women's liberation, the origins of ... Left editor Allen Myers speaking on the relevance of Marxism. International guests include Teresita ...
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The Fringe is back
exhibition called Tratuoballa, Sandra Saunders looks at Hindmarsh Island. A play called Lotus War centres on ... By Philippa Stanford ADELAIDE — The 1996 Fringe Festival opens on February 23. Launched with ... Nunga perspectives are portrayed in Black on Track, a mixed art form event. There are also several dance ...
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'You are despised by patriotic Serbs'
with the Serbian reservists and Chetniks, not simply to wage war on our homeland Croatia but rather to ... How will you, Veljko, you and many others who are leading this dirty war on this toil-worn Croatian ... Croatian and other neighbours who share this Balkan region and who, until today, have never waged war on ...