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Set down at the bottom of the system
expectations placed on women in our society. "Take 'em out" attacks war, the use of murder as ... "Ritual" is a song about the rape ritual that women in US (Western) society are subjected to on quite a few ... the state. "Prostitutionalised" elaborates on consumer blindness in the form of smokescreen ...
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In bed with the media
stars around, moving jumpily from backstage "reality" to on-stage performance. Both films ... his almost religious refusal to give interviews, appear on television or follow any of the gambits ... filming a throat examination. Sarcastically, he comments upon her narcissism, "If it's not on ...
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Action updates
a protest on July 29 against the Kangaroo 95 war games, which are about to take place in the Northern ... information contact CIET on 344 3511 or 371 0480. Chilean activist to tour ADELAIDE — Casa Chile has invited ... women's movement and human rights activist Miriam Ortega for an Australian tour. Ortega was a political ...
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The folklore of the Sydney Push
Women's equality was illusory — men took the lead in intellectual matters and frequently relied on their ... The Push women were left with the trials of illegal abortion. The Vietnam War was the beginning of the ... the university establishment's crush on king and country, God and family. Originally sympathetic ...
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Student unionism in Australia: Part I
In the first of a three part series on the student movement in Australia since the 1970s, AFRODITY ... teacher organiser for Queensland, and AUS women's officer. Question: What was AUS like when it was ... later. But it was a viable, vibrant organisation before that, formed out of the anti-Vietnam war ...
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Protests over Bougainville
giant CRA, in Brisbane on February 10. The protest, organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement as ... protest was held outside Parliament House in Canberra on February 9 for Wingti's arrival. Chanting ... Wingti's war against the people of Bougainville. Sean Kennan, an organiser of the protest, commented, ...
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Action updates
Action Coalition is organising a seminar on the aftermath of the Gulf War for June 1. Women ... Day of Action on Women's health. The national conference of Australian Aid for Ireland will be ... Environment Day activities on June 1. For information, contact Rebecca on 231 6982 or Katrina on 298 1743. The ...
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Difficult road for Yugoslav peace caravan
the idea that it is possible to oppose the war." Vucic is from Split on Croatia's Dalmatian ... By Peter Annear PRAGUE — When 400 peace campaigners set out at the end of September in buses on ... a small breach in the war mentality that has engulfed Yugoslavia. The political tensions were evident from ...
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India: towards a third alternative
le" — We won't be slaves any more. We've come to like freedom. Drumming vigorously on the ... Leninist) activists set off for an all-night paste-up to advertise the CPI-ML Adhikar (rights) rally on ... injured. Next we hear that a carriage of women travelling to the rally from Gujarat has been attacked by ...
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Scabs out, dockers in!
dispute is that men now have to learn how to use a washing machine and cook as the women take off on ... routine and Jo Brand making fun of herself. Interspersed with the comedy, Clary interviews women from ... Women of the Waterfront, a group organising support for the dockers. One of the by-products of the ...
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Latin American solidarity work planned
its annual national consultation in Adelaide on November 4 and 5. The Latin American continent, ... still on the increase, standards of health and education have not improved, and police and military ... demanding land on which to grow food. The World Bank and IMF's imposition of neo-liberal economic ...
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Radio Highlights
horrors of war, who finds a way with music to ventilate his feelings. ABC Radio National, Sun Oct 11, ... (repeated Wed Oct 14, 9 p.m.). The Incarnations of Isabel — Some images of women in post-Columbus Latin ... America. The program presents the words, voices and lives of significant Latin American and Caribbean women ...
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Keneally gets lost in Ireland
employment, to the claustrophobic hold of the conservative Catholic Church hierarchy on the people and ... of the Irish and Ireland's old world charm. History weighs heavily on the Irish and is evident ... the slide presentation of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Uprising on display in the Dublin General ...
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Action updates
— Women, Rape and Ethnic Cleansing" at Murdoch University on June 8, as well as two functions ... ADELAIDE — A lively forum at the Resistance Centre on June 18 discussed the events of May-June ... as a community resource group and advise the government on more appropriate health strategies. State ...
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Africa Alive
For many Australians, Africa conjures up images of famine, war, poverty and helplessness. But now ... region. On a national level there are many promising developments: peace in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Eritrea ... and determination is most clearly seen. Whether it's a group of women in Zimbabwe pioneering new ...
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Abortion in the US: still under threat
Twenty years ago, on January 22, 1973, supporters of women's reproductive rights in the ... on abortions at military hospitals was also greeted with joy. That ban left women at military ... Even where there are abortion providers, women who are dependent on state or federal funding for ...
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Bringing back the rage
many full-page spreads featuring exploitative photos of women. The magazine did not represent the art ... or the artists involved, but focused on the sponsorship. These following art installations were shown ... white photographs taken by Daniel Palmer of unknown faces on Barrack St in Perth. It is an exhibition ...
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Fidel Castro: 'How long shall we wait?'
wait for this carnage to end? The Cold War is over but the arms race goes on and nuclear and military ... The following speech was given by Cuban president Fidel Castro on October 22, 1995 to the United ... a century ago, the United Nations Organisation was born after the conclusion of a monstrous war where an ...
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The gentleman conservative as socialist
opposition to birth control — not, for the Malthusian Wells, on the grounds of women's right to control ... utopia was on another planet from Lenin and other "tiresome class-war fanatics" who continue to ... "free of war, pestilence and malaise, famine and poverty", and which led him to an audience with ...
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'Scholarly' rationale for censorship
security and the new world order. The conference will also be treated to a paper on the Gulf War and the ... By Harry Van Moorst Those of us who were dismayed at the outrageous media coverage of the Gulf War ... 3 to 5, the first International Conference on "Defence and the Media in Time of Limited ...