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Rally for peace in Bosnia
marched here on July 17 to protest against the continuing acts of violence and aggression towards women ... speakers and activists. The Australian Women's Committee (AWC), a coalition of women from a variety of ... Paula Aboud, a spokesperson for Migrant Women Speakout, told of the impact of rape and sexual abuse used ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Another reason to ditch the G-G
reference to a Melbourne Age feature entitled "The War Against Women", for what he called an ... simplistic terms as a 'war against women' is to distort the reality. Men, too, are victims", ... in Australia, especially violence against women. Last year the institute's conference on ...
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Radio highlights
Monday, December 20. Women on the Line presents Working Women — Melbourne's 3CR (885-AM) continues ... its series on the work of Australian women in the '90s. Every Wednesday, 5.30 p.m. until December ... 22 (repeated every Monday at 10 a.m.). Women on the Line is also broadcast on public radio stations ...
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Action updates
BRISBANE — Fifty women attended the International Women's Day Collective meeting on January ... state government's Women's Policy Unit that the Goss government has failed to deliver on ... Aboriginal and women's rights. For further information please call Tracey on 844 6682. Opponents of the ...
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A life in the struggle
articulate women who had campaigned against conscription during World War I. "All my life I have been ... By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — Phyllis Johnson attended her first International Women's Day march ... on February 27. For her generation of activists, IWD was "always a tremendous day. It was a day ...
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Behind the crisis in Sudan
background to crisis. Sudan has been at war internally since it gained independence from Britain on January ... were thrown back into the flames on the order of army officers. Children, old women and youth were ... or troops on leave. Nimeiri had said in 1970 that the war against the south was to defend Arab ...
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Environmental youthquake planned
member Sian Prior, and Tom the Poet. On March 30, the panel discussion will take in themes such as war ... Gulf War. The March 31 panel will focus on the natural environment. Speakers will be Caroline Pickburn ... Workshops will cover women and the environment, technology, the Gulf War, exploitation of the Third World ...
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In Jordan, 'The issue is no longer Kuwait'
understanding in Jordan about what was going on. They knew that the threat of war was not really over Kuwait or ... Many thought the war wouldn't start. When the war started at 2 o'clock on January 17, many ... the war all the time. The day after the war started, there was a women's union demonstration; ...
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Anti-Nile rally to defend abortion rights
Nile's War on Women's Rights", a broad coalition of women's organisations here has set ... Miscarriage Limitation Bill, in the New South Wales Legislative Council on September 12. If it is passed, ... Supporters of the anti-Nile fight include the Women's Abortion Action Campaign, the Abortion Rights ...
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By whatever means necessary
— whether to go on the e on defending the gains of the past. Building an independent women's movement ... by Anne Casey "The struggle for women's liberation poses the problem of the total ... liberation of women demands a thoroughgoing restructuring of society's productive and reproductive ...
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Gun-running mothers and nuns in shorts
1990 and on interviews with women on both sides of the lines in the contra war. In an outstanding ... Walking On Sticks Written by Sara Cathcart and Andrea Lemon Performed by Sara Cathcart Anthill ... of a US nun who has worked in the war zone, helping victims of the contra war. This is the first nun ...
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Widespread antiwar action in Germany
done enough to oppose the war. Consequently, a group of women have occupied the DGB offices. Up till ... leading politicians actively opposing the war, and others supporting it. Women's groups have advanced ... two different actions. One group called for a women's strike on January 30, and other groups have ...
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Radio highlights
taking part. The Coming Out Show: Walking on Egg Shells — Siobhan McHugh talks to three women who were ... married to Vietnam veterans about the aftermath of the war on their relationships and families. ABC Radio ... to inform and educate women from all ethnic backgrounds about a cancer that kills six women a day in ...
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King Hussein's call for peace
and large-scale war which was imposed on brotherly Iraq, and which is aimed at Iraq's existence, ... I greet every one of you with all affection. I address you on the eve of the fourth week of this savage ... Iraq, and shouldn't the blood of Iraqi men, women and children be dear to us?! How shamed will be ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Lyne lashes back
visible — Backlash: The undeclared war against women by Susan Faludi. My household saw this film at ... blockbuster which will be released in Australia on April 29, contains a brief and tantalisingly puzzling shot. ... a preview because there was nothing on the telly on Friday night. We felt the need for some big budget ...
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'Our experiences are mirror images'
how to fight against the new perspective of losing substantial rights. On one hand, Eastern women were ... bourgeois women who have nothing to do with socialist reality, which is beautiful". On the other hand, ... commonly expressed by women from Eastern Europe at the June conference of the European Forum of Socialist ...
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Dissidents say stop the bombing
Hussein's dictatorship even when it started the war against Iran... "We call on the American and other ... children, women and men are being killed", Abu Salam, a representative of the Union of Iraqi Democrats ... foreign forces, including Australia's, to withdraw from the region, and we call on the Iraqi army to ...
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Birthrate falls with the economy
women. "The need to purchase basic items for the newborn child is having an irremediable effect on ... reports detailing the sombre news: women in this country are no longer willing to bear children. The ... reports have noted social causes — uncertainty about the future, women's fear of being sacked from ...
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Jean Bailey
Australian Women and served on its executive for many years. As a teacher, Jean was active in the NSW ... Kooris. With the advent of the Vietnam War, Jean was out raising funds, collecting signatures, going on ... that this must never be allowed to recur, and her lifelong belief in the equality of women, led her in ...
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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. ...