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US abortion campaign: Victories for women
the women's movement will have to keep the pro-choice campaign on the boil. The anti-abortionist ... clinics are on a downward trend. The significant mobilisations of the women's movement since 1989 ... Few clinics perform second trimester abortions. For poor women on Medicaid and Medicare, only in cases ...
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Population and social justice Diana Evans (Write On, GLW #66) and others who believe that cutting ... population growth in Australia (almost all due to immigration) is ecologically unsustainable rely on a crude, ... anti-immigration lobby, the sooner we will get there. Peter Boyle Melbourne [Edited for length.] War tax resistance ...
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Population control and women's rights
been imposed on the Third World and minority groups women since World War II as part of the US ... discourage women from using contraception or taking on roles outside the home. Often the technologies on ... without addressing the strains on women's health brought about through the burden of domestic duties ...
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world. Women present widely differing views on social issues which affect their lives. The first program ... everyday life in Vietnam. Made to mark the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, this documentary ... the relationships between men and women in the Islamic republic of Mauritania. SBS, Monday, August 12, ...
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Beauty in Whose Eyes? Images of Women
out how women felt about advertising on television. Ninety-two per cent of the women surveyed thought ... insulting to women, and are especially concerned at the effect it has on their children. There are no recent ... these expectations, on both women working in those industries and the women who watch us, can be ...
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once. Alex Rhodes Brunswick Vic 'War on drugs' An open letter to the gay and lesbian ... Lesbians and gays are finding ourselves now on the frontlines of the farcical war against drugs, and we are ... The anti-drug campaigns and the so-called "war on drugs" must stop. It is a farce and ...
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Greens (WA) As the Â鶹´«Ã½ reported (# 17), I posted a letter on Pegasus about the involvement ... to the effect that actions were taken in virtual secrecy. This was based on initial investigations ... that proved to be in error. I corrected that statement with a further posting on Pegasus the following ...
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Serbia's war According to Justin Starchevic (Write on, October 7), "Milosevic should ... help Bosnian Serbs in their civil war for the same reason that Australia always helped Britain and ... America in their wars". Good comparison. As socialists, we opposed British and US imperialist wars in ...
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awareness in the rural communities. SBS, Saturday, August 17, 9.30pm. Algeria: Women at War — The ... experiences of Algerian women veterans of the struggle for independence from France. SBS, Sunday, August 18, ... August 19, 8.30pm. Father, Son and Holy War — The second part of this Indian documentary about the links ...
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Putting public ownership back on the agenda
ownership are stronger than ever. That logic is based on the two factors which dominate current political ... economy: globalisation and the end of the Cold War. Globalisation Globalisation is a buzz word which has ... invested only if the return on that capital is at least equal to the possible return if the capital was ...
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Professor Steven Rose (GLW #18) typically do), medical experimentation on animals is bad science. ... Thalidomide was tested on animals and declared safe, whilst penicillin would not have been developed if it had ... been tested on guinea pigs (whom it kills). Species react differently to different drugs. Rob ...
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strikes of 1934, World War II, the McCarthy era and the period of industrial automation. It even ... September 21. Frontline — The all too realistic farce on the world of "current affairs journalism" ... 24. The Cutting Edge: why women kill — In 1933, 51% of Canadian women were found to have suffered ...
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Actively Radical TV — This week's program, Bougainville: Australia's Genocidal War ... feral vigilante activists. This three-part mini-series begins screening on ABC TV, Saturday, March 4, ... series featuring the "world's greatest cities". Tonight's episode focuses on ...
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the views of influential Muslim thinkers. Subjects covered include holy war, democracy, women ... Women — British comedian Dawn French sets out to prove that big women aren't just beautiful, but ...
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environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts focus on community news every ... RENAMO, during that country's bitter civil war of the '70s and '80s. SBS, Friday, May 10, ... establishment of national parks in the 1940s and 1950s and their impact on local African economies. SBS, Sunday ...
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Indonesia: a system built on corruption
The leak last week of an Australian government document on corruption involving the family of ... Indonesian President Suharto tells only a small part of the story. A 300-page report on the human rights ... well as Setia Kawan, the first attempt at a free trade union in Indonesia, and women's, consumers ...
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Actively Radical TV — Knowing precisely what is screening when on Sydney's community ... program, Bougainville: Australia's Genocidal War, features interviews with Moses Havini, ... 31), Friday, February 3, 10.30pm. Dance on your land — Aboriginal people from Mornington Island and ...
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Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, ... number of poor, lower-class blacks in British jails by focusing on the life of Rosalee Cunningham, now ... Absence of War — Art imitates life with this fictional account of the battle for the soul of the British ...
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George Bush: guilty on all counts
proposed visit to Australia during the New Year period. Charges against Bush included: l Waging war against ... the people of the Middle East during the Gulf War and perpetuating the oppression of the Palestinian ... Vietnam and the Philippines. l Attacking women's rights, especially the right to abortion. ...
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— At 17, Freda Brown joined the Communist Party. After the war, she joined the New Housewives ... Association, ultimately becoming president of what became the Union of Australian Women. Instrumental in ... proposing to the UN that it hold International Women's Year in 1975, she has visited many countries ...