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... and ain't i a woman?: Pride
cultural events for lesbians, gays and everyone who supports the struggle for an end to oppression on the ... the movement than for any other purpose. It is a psychological weapon in the war waged against those ... more illustration of the interrelationship between the movements for gay and women's liberation. ...
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is decriminalised and is available to all women on demand." "More than 150,000 Guatemalans ... held in the Resistance Centre on September 17. Some 70 people heard speakers from Australian Aid for ... Ireland, the Latin American solidarity community and the DSP speak on the importance of linking the new ...
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Inside Bougainville
support for independence on Bougainville, says Rosemarie Gillespie, an Australian lawyer just returned ... was fired on from the air while running the blockade, she told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. Trade and social ... Gillespie reports that the rebel areas are safe, and women walk freely at night around communities darkened ...
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The chains of the American myth
War II Taiwan. You won't get a lesson in recent Taiwanese history, but the story is fully ... his formal education. The villagers look to him for leadership on the big things beyond their mundane ... mainlanders try to sell the offer to them, ironically on the basis of "national interest". Brain is ...
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Radio highlights
found traditional rock music devoid of rebellion, so when the Sex Pistols burst on the scene with what ... Japan to assess the range of responses to the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. 74-year-old ... "comfort women". Kenji Ono, a factory worker, spends his spare time researching the history of the ...
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Ethiopia rebuilds 'with worse than nothing'
women's access officer at Kensington Community Centre, who was also recently in Ethiopia on behalf of CAA, ... Armstrong of Community Aid Abroad, who recently returned from Ethiopia. The overthrow on May 28 of dictator ... Mengistu Haile Mariam, ending a 17-year civil war and Eritrea's 30-year struggle for independence, ...
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Sandinistas hold first conference
understandable, she said. "The war prevented us from concentrating on their specific demands." If women ... bodies. The "ineffectiveness" of the party's past record on work with women was ... beginning on July 19. The three-day congress (sessions of which continued well into the early morning) was ...
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Loose cannons
to make women forget crime on their doorstep, unemployment rates, wars and family crises. He offers ... employment." — Employment minister Kim Beazley, preparing a new fiddle on unemployment statistics. Grassroots ... to places on time." — An unnamed "close friend" on US President Bill Clinton, quoted ...
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and ain't i a woman?: Core values
village women during the war against Vietnam, but the discharging of a female pilot for having an affair ... discharged to protect the Air Force's core values. These core values seem to apply only to women ... Force since the start of 1997, five have been women, even though women are only 16% of Air Force ...
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Message from Irish prisoner
Branch) by MARY MCARDLE, an Irish Republican prisoner of war in Maghaberry jail in occupied Ireland. We ... the women POW s of Maghaberry Gaol would like to send solidarity greetings to those people in ... in these British-occupied counties. As you well know in a war where only one side gets to tell its ...
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Israel vows to make south Lebanon 'uninhabitable'
wounded in the attacks. Israel renewed its war against Lebanon on July 25 with jet fighters striking 10 ... that this was a deliberate war against civilians, designed to drive them from their homes. "We ... want to provoke an exodus from southern Lebanon towards the north in order to put pressure on the ...
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Radio highlights
3.30pm. Women Out Loud: Bingo, Bowls and Bedpans — Looking at the lives of women in nursing homes. ABC ... tracks of 20th century nomads: boarding school boys gone tribal and middle-aged men on the run from ... post-hippy squatter community in Europe. More than 1000 people live on the site of this former military ...
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New Zealand politics breaks new ground
the labour movement, women, health, Maori, and so on. And they will organise across constituencies, ... Anderton, who is naturally an organiser on a national basis. Question: You have a majority of women (seven ... NEW ZEALAND — On October 12, New Zealand held its first general election under the new ...
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Radio highlights
recorded on March 8 and features the magical sound of the sho, a 17-pipe mouth organ played by Mayumi ... well-being. ABC Radio National, Saturday, March 12, 1.30pm. The Coming Out Show — International Women ... don't have to be tied by blood. This program concentrates on gay and lesbian families and share ...
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Not brave enough
hand-to-hand battles. They are truly gruesome and put to shame most representations of war on the screen. The ... will have much to ponder. I wish I had timed how long women get on centre stage. In all the three ... content to use safe, trite characterisations. In this telling, Wallace wars against the English in the ...
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Polls: ANC heading for victory
reason behind Inkatha's war on ANC supporters in Natal and the townships east of Johannesburg. That ... of capable and competent women out there whose names can be added to the list." Zulu called on ... belief is now being regularly confirmed in opinion polls. Further confirmation came on October 24, when ...
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Hippie froth subsides into a whimper
Women's Weekly as his publication territory does not reflect at all kindly on the subversive political ... trial which turned the restrictive censorship laws of the western world on their head. He was back in ... leaving quirky and mostly harmless outcroppings on the surface. The early '70s articles in this ...
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The origins of the CPA
on charges of plotting to burn down Sydney during World War I. Although largely defunct as an ... By John Percy On October 30, 1920, the Communist Party of Australia was founded at a meeting in ... Sydney attended by 26 men and women. They represented the most radical of the small socialist groups, ...
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Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan
By Eva Cheng The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US soldiers on September ... have arrest warrants issued against them on September 8, but were able to avoid arrest. They were ... countries since World War II. Under the agreement, Japanese jurisdiction does not apply to members of the US ...
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Ratbags in the ranks: Hanson, the Coalition and the far right
and xenophobic Pauline Hanson has provided Australia's small and divided — sometimes warring ... tolerate an openly racist presence on the political spectrum and the Howard government lending ... (AAFI) and the Australian League of Rights (ALR)— were the first to jump on the Hanson band wagon and ...