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Greek and Turkish Cypriots in joint declaration
Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political, cultural, trade union, peace and women's organisations on the ... occasion of the International Day for Peace on September 1: "We believe unshakably in the need for ... friction, conflict and war. The supporters of peace are many. Peace, however, requires struggle." The ...
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Action updates
Square on October 10, demanding an end to Belgrade's war against Croatia and calling on the ... on September 29 for a day of speakers and workshops at the second annual Intercampus Women ... Queensland on October 8 and 9 to protest against irregularities in last month's union elections. There ...
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Puerto Rican nationalist radiated, says family
experiments on humans. The US government recently admitted that these experiments had occurred since World War ... the 1950s after heading an attack with a group of Nationalist Puerto Ricans on Blair House in ... presented a resolution on January 18 demanding the US make public the names of those affected. Both ...
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Action updates
's Abortion Campaign will picket the state Labor Women's Conference on May 11-12, on the theme, ... university was adorned with posters advertising Â鶹´«Ã½, and student radio broadcast information on the ... towards the Â鶹´«Ã½ fund drive. BRISBANE — The Environmental Youth Alliance is getting on with the ...
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The end of the search
a lurid pink hard cover so it won't crumple or curl in your bag, it's printed on 100% recycled ... paper, it's got enough space to write important things to remember on each day — but not too much so ... that on that date in 1986 BHP 's Australian Iron and Steel lost a discrimination case brought by ...
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Radio highlights
these three women "perform" feminism. What effect have they had on public perceptions of the ... women's movement? Who's listening and why? ABC Radio National, Sat June 26, 5.10 p.m. (repeated Thurs ... Dannan is one of the notable Irish folk groups formed in the '70s whose sound is based on reels and ...
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'Out now; end conscription': an antiwar activist remembers
inflicted on it during the Gulf War of 1991, is still alive and kicking. The Vietnam syndrome is why the US ... high school students began to organise against the war and for student rights; and the new women ... pro-war position on the Gulf War, East Timor, etc, today! Jim Cairns was the central figure in the ...
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FSLN prepares for Nicaraguan elections
autonomous. To prepare policies for the election the Sandinista Congress set up commissions on women, youth, ... [From June 28 to July 21, 13 people from Australia visited Nicaragua on a work-study brigade, meeting ... community movement and Sandinista leaders, visiting many different communities and working on a community ...
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Music as chronicle
Overflow", attacks the stupidity of war and embarks on a whimsical reminiscing of his school days at ... the Americanisation of culture and the rights of women, workers and indigenous Australians were at the ... second being a children's album), and follows on the impressive Etched in Blue. The years have ...
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Port Jackson independent launches campaign
for Port Jackson, Denis Doherty, launched his campaign for the state elections here on March 3. Around ... environment and justice in areas such as health, education, employment, Aboriginal affairs and women ... community, not splitting it into warring factions. Our approach is community-based. It is for genuine ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: An Irish hero
She joined Daughters of Ireland with Maud Gonne, launched Irish Woman and established a women ... Sinn Fein and by 1909 was on its executive. She founded Fianna Na h-Eirann, the Irish Boy Scouts, who ... had sworn never to serve England. She taught the Fianna boys shooting. On discovering Larkin, the ...
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One woman and her car
up in your face later on. Donna Jackson is the founder and director of the Women's Circus, which ... performed at the Beijing Women's Conference last year and lead singer of the Sharons, Melbourne's ... set in a garage. As Jackson works on rebuilding her car, she describes her fascination with big, fast ...
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The deafening silence
Comment by Linda Paric On Mother's Day 1992, my village died. It was killed by Serbian ... of Turkish occupation, the poverty created by its Serbian landlords since 1914, two world wars and ... postwar illness and famine. Like most Croats and Muslims in Bosnia-Hercegovina, I grew up on a diet of ...
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Religious fundamentalism and male violence
the Brahmanic higher castes. In Father, Son and Holy War, I am also showing women who are oppressed by ... manhood has meant that your honour depends on being aggressive. Women are property and become part of the ... Film maker ANAND PATWARDHAN participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement as a student in the US ...
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Community movements in Nicaragua
By Tyrion Perkins [From June 28 to July 21, 13 people from Australia visited Nicaragua on ... a work-study brigade. This is the second article based on the brigade's experiences.] While the FSLN ... parliament. FSLN members around the country are also working with people on a community level to improve their ...
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Looking out: Up in smoke
display. I wonder what the men, women and children who subsist hungry and homeless on those cities' ... right before his eyes must have been compelling sights indeed. War has an ineffable character that ... war, the celebration of it is a revered custom, demonstrated in yearly memorials by most Americans. War ...
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Refugees describe Serbian terror
south-eastern Croatia. They were among the people who told their story at a press conference here on June 22 to ... launch Refugee Week. According to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, there are 17 million ... a day in a year of fighting. More than 650,000 refugees are being looked after in war-torn Croatia. They ...
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People are not the problem
arguments obviously concern more than that one article, and I would like to comment on a few of her points ... Left Weekly "would prefer that Third World women remain barefoot and pregnant all their ... status of women (in all countries) is a priority. Goldie's distortion here is comparable to an ...
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A rousing witness to injustice
Gulf War in 1991 (still on-going through sanctions against Iraq) demonstrate Pilger's humanity and ... repayment". American war and blockade on Vietnam, for example, has opened the door to the economic plunderers ... Distant Voices, John Pilger is once again on a mission to "rescue from media oblivion uncomfortable ...
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History lessons
defeat. On this new terrain, the working people now have new opportunities to struggle for their social ... administration on part of the territory of Palestine. The struggle for full Palestinian national rights continues ... in the face of Israel's attempts to renege on important elements of the September 1973 peace ...