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1. Cuba's fighting women

   the rebels and everyone else". As the revolutionary war wore on, the women's platoon became ... "More disciplined." On September 4, 1958, at the height of the revolutionary war against the brutal ... 13 women, was the first women's combat unit to serve in the revolutionary war and helped lay the ...

2. A woman's place is in the struggle: New women's movement in Iraq

   reported on March 8 that hundreds of women protested in Baghdad against the adoption by the IGC of a new ... Houzan Mahmoud wrote in the London Guardian on March 8: "It is now almost a year after the war ... leave the house." The devastated health system is also increasing pressure on women, who are forced ...

3. Zagreb women establish centre

   escalated by the war, have fallen most heavily on women: women have fewer job retraining opportunities than ... War Victims, have and continue to create herstory in this part of the world. On the other hand, since ... neither war nor peace, some of the rights achieved by women are jeopardised. The lack of democratic ...

4. Muslim-bashing won't advance women's rights

   "We'll start listening to Howard and Costello on discrimination and violence against women when, for ... emphasised that while the sheikh's comments on violence against women are plain wrong and criminalise ... imperialist wars on the Middle East, and we were proud to receive greetings at our recent national conference ...

5. Brisbane launches Women of Steel

   people attended the Brisbane launch of Women of Steel: Gender, Jobs and Justice at BHP on September 17 ... mainly migrant women took on The Big Australian and won. Queensland Council of Unions Secretary Ros ... interviewed as part of her research. Older women remembered that during World War II women had been employed ...

6. Empty promises: pursuing women's votes

   occasionally. On International Women's Day 1992, aware that his lack of popularity with women could cost ... feminism in the US in the early 1970's. In The Undeclared War Against Women, Susan Faludi writes of ... Feminists", raved the Australian, "PM to Wage War on Sexism", trumpeted the Sydney Morning Herald. ...

7. Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O’Shane: ‘I’m fired up about education, injustice and sovereignty’

   women of like mind. She started attending conferences down south and became very active in the anti-war ... day a week, to grow gardens. On one side they grew flowers and on the other they grew veggies. They ... always supported mum. Mum got into the CPA through the union-women’s supporter group where she met other ...

8. ... and ain't i a woman?: Women and revolution: myth and history

   liberation of women. War and civil war increased demands on the working class, and the economic burdens fell ... Women and revolution: myth and history On the eve of the 82nd anniversary of Russia's 1917 ... new social order. The Women's Department's funding was diminished on the false notion that ...

9. End the system that fosters misogyny

   stereotypes are trotted out by journalists, as they focus on psychologising women in public life or ... a war on feminism that became the war on “political correctness” as described by former Prime Minister ... lists, impacts mostly on women. But women (and some men) have fought back against discrimination and ...

10. Women's march the largest protest in US history

    probably not in the way he had in mind," US Uncut noted on January 22. "The Women’s March, an ... marched against Trump and his ultra-eractionary agenda around the world: "The Women’s March on ... highlighting President Trump’s demeaning remarks about women." US Uncut said that based on numbers tallied ...

11. Chile: Boric victory hailed across the globe

    never, for any reason, have a president who declares war on his own people. To the victims of human ... on December 19 and became the country’s youngest president ever. Thirty-five-year-old Boric won the ... Chilean women, who strongly supported him because they feared that Kast’s victory would result in major ...

12. INDONESIA: 'International Women's Day is not just a celebration'

    BY DITA SARI [The following statement was issued on March 8 by Dita Sari, chairperson of the ... Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI).] International Women's Day is not just an annual ... even until this last second, prosperity, justice and equality for women, especially workers, ...

13. Women's Embassy opens in Darwin

    during the Gulf War. When the Women's Embassy took over from DRAW, it decided to function on the ... Women's Embassy ran a "bus day" on November 25, which focussed on the need to improve public ... it would axe Darwin's Women's Information Centre, feminists here began two courses of ...

14. In war 'the weak suffer what they must'

    is a protest against war in Iraq. Please find more information on how to actively oppose the war from ... February 16 "walk against the war" in Sydney. First performed in 415 BC, Women of Troy has always ... slavery. Euripides set his play in an encampment of women from a defeated city. The war happens to be the ...

15. The backlash against women's rights

    By Tracy Sorensen A solitary foot soldier in the war against women's rights reached the front ... government. It includes the attacks on women's studies and "political correctness", the outrage ... further into their newspapers.) Hostile reactions to the women's movement are hardly new. From its ...

16. The trade in Asian women

    By Karen Fredericks The planned launch of War of the Sexes, a book on how to find and marry ... countries also. The same forces which leave many women little choice but to place their names on the books ... on their own development, their citizens will remain super-exploited, and women and children will ...

17. Women in prison

    "women behind bars". Directed by Kay Pavlou (also responsible for Not a Bedroom War and The Killing ... worth seeing. It's much more an indictment of our society than of the women on the inside, whose ... Women in prison Convicted SBS documentary in the Cutting Edge series Tuesday, March 23, 8.30 p.m. ...

18. Taking on the 'new Jim Crow': US prison strike targets slave labour

    business. From 1970 to 2005, the prison population rose 700%, and remains high today. ‘War on Drugs’ A major ... tool used is the phony “War on Drugs”. Begun by Republican, with the Nixon administration seeking to ... Prisoners in many states in the US began a coordinated national strike on August 21, the anniversary of the ...

19. SOUTH AFRICA: TAC says 'invest in health not war!'

    On June 24, Durban, East London, Cape Town and Johannesburg each hosted hundreds-strong protests ... demanding that US President George Bush spend money on health care over warfare. The protests were organised ... HIV/AIDS. The effect of the US government's unlawful war in Iraq has been to divert international ...

20. Gary Foley: Aboriginal Tent Embassy a 'stroke of genius'

    Power On its 50th anniversary  �鶹��ý ’s Markela Panegyres and Chloe de Silva spoke to Gumbainggir ... extraordinary group of people involved in that battle. Throughout 1971, we kept intense pressure on the Liberal ... he would make a Prime Ministerial statement. He chose to do this on the most sensitive day in the ...

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