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  1. Jewish films build on humanist tradition

    nationality, must rank high. Uncle Moses, made in 1932, is set in New York just prior to World War I. It ... focusses on the Jewish immigrants who have fled poverty and persecution, seeking a better life, and have ... that he presides over his fellow country men and women like a benevolent uncle. The family ideology is ...

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    only came out of depression when the second world war started, when women did take a major step ... The lost generation In looking at the struggle for women's rights, we shouldn't forget ... the fight for women's rights, although some of us were aware of endemic injustices in our daily ...

  3. Indonesian democratic movement on the rise

    recent Socialist Scholars Conference, described INFIGHT as "a united front of women ... in Sumatra, also centred on the issues of "low compensation and the military forcing the people ... worse, for women workers, who are mainly concentrated in mass production such as textile factories. There ...

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    dominate women, they over-service them, perform unnecessary surgery on their bodies and prescribe ... every imaginable need catered for, they would rather see the destruction of the earth by nuclear war or ... life-forms we know little about, when I heard a bloke on radio say "the platypus lays his eggs and ...

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    questions. How to best expend my energy and resources, on which issues. I ask — how many women die of ... on, August 19). I do wish, though, to take up two points. Firstly, I consider that his selective ... Michael Schembri's article on gay and lesbian politics (GLW #62), Robert Stainsby (GLW #67) attacks ...

  6. Cancer down on the farm

    By Peter Montague The United States is losing its war on cancer, according to a long article in ... since 1971, when Richard Nixon declared a national "war on cancer". The cancer establishment ... cancer research dollars — try to put a good face on it. They point to reductions in deaths from childhood ...

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    risen by 68% since 1984, according to a report in the Courier Mail on October 14. "Financial ... time", he told the Courier Mail. These statistics once again reinforce the need for women to be able to ... but a socioeconomic and political reality for many women. Susan Price Brisbane Art and politics Tony ...

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    green party. Although I don't know the details of how the meeting on May 18/19 was called and who ... for full discussion and comment. From that point on, the process must be driven from the bottom up to ... Scott Farquhar Crows Nest NSW Nurturing children Debra Wirth in her column on paid housework (April 24) ...

  9. Playing on white Australia's great phobia

    broadcast for the ABC.) The extraordinary scenario is based on what must be white Australia's greatest ... to a prison camp where, in the company of several PNG women, she is maltreated and finally raped by ... made entirely clear, Angela, but not her companions, is released and placed on a ship bound for, of all ...

  10. German Greens set sights on parliament

    is not based on war to solve conflicts. "I think our governments are using the horror of ... The founding conference of the Alliance 90 Greens Party was held in Leipzig on May 14-16. It ... are open to considering a governmental alliance. Wolfe disagrees strongly on both counts. "I ...

  11. Doctor blows whistle on health authorities

    the obstetrics training that he began late last year. Nitschke's bad year began on March 24, ... 1993. On that day, hospital administrators organised a briefing session for medical and nursing staff on ... on a two-week training course on the procedures for a patient admitted with exposure to radiation. ...

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    since the end of the war on the grounds of pursuing "MIAs". Melanie Sjoberg Christie Downs SA ... odd frog protesting by going extinct, or at least making themselves scarce.) One could go on. Is the ... created? Learned journals seriously discuss the possibility of wars occurring over scarce resources (as if ...

  13. A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor

    Keating's speech was made on the same day on which George Aditjondro, an Indonesian academic, risked his ... attacked by stone-throwing thugs, and his university has come under pressure to sack him. On March 16, ... succeeding years. During the first three years of the war, the population in the territory fell from 688,771 ...

  14. Militant Labour launched on independent path

    cut loose. With revised positions on women and the national question, the new party is keen to discuss ... is Militant Labour's war cry. The opening panel included Tommy Sheridan, a powerful speaker who ... larger than Militant), its impact on British politics is negligible. Militant, with its base in ...

  15. Attack on youth services, media

    abstinence working in relation to any sexually transmitted disease, for example. The war on drugs didn't ... liking of health minister Brian Howe. This is the latest in a wave of attacks on young people's ... media and services. On February 25, the orientation handbook of the University of Technology, Sydney ...

  16. The ALP: a roadblock on the path to socialism

    the bloodbath of World War I — we need to examine the material basis for the pro-capitalist nature of ... Â鶹´«Ã½ of Australian working people — migrants, Aborigines, women, youth — nor even the majority of ... essential precondition to a shattering of the present right-wing stranglehold on the ALP and the ACTU is ...

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    successful. The U.S. war fighting presence on Australian soil is once again an issue and given the ... Vietnam, on March 16, 1968. In this instance of the long-drawn out massacre of the Vietnam War, over ... are not so assured of a job. The crime rate rising due to unemployment, and the list goes on. The ...

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    that riches and honours will fall out of the sky on us — when the only assured reality so far is a 2 or ... renew the trade embargo on Vietnam because of human rights concerns, despite Hanoi having co-operated ... In World War 2, 78,000 US troops were missing in action, in Korea 8000, in Vietnam 2,273 less 1,101 ...

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    Timor On Saturday, March 21, I and a companion flew to Kupang. We intended to go to East Timor for ... on the Saturday night. We left early Sunday morning and arrived in Atambua around lunchtime. The bus ... driver dropped us off at the Kodim military post where our passports were checked. We got on the Dili ...

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    campus. Your sympathetic attitudes on Afro-Asian causes are building up an increasing readership for GL ... war-torn Lebanon get through their initial settling-in period. The NOW Centre has special, well-qualified ... native Arabic. The NOW's welfare programs, which target youth, elderly and women have prepared ...

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