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1. Never forget the SIEV-X

   followed the United States into the “war on terror”. One of its first barbaric actions was to instigate ... know that the war of terror is now being turned on us. The blockade has moved from those seeking to ... seekers. Image: Kate Durham John Howard Tony Kevin The 'Inside story' of Howard's war on ...

2. Vietnam launches action plan for women

   the war of national liberation, first against French, then US imperialism, women worked at every level ... international journal, and has a women's publishing house and its own programs on radio and television. The ... the organisation's education program: "At first we focused our education on women only. But ...

3. Humanitarian crisis in Maxmur refugee camp

   Imperialism & war Susan Price Turkey's war on Kurdistan The Maxmur (Makhmour) refugee ... targeted Maxmur as a step to advancing on Erbil. ISIS invaded and occupied the camp, but the people of ... Maxmur joined other fighters in resisting their advance. Popular militia, self-defence forces, women and ...

4. Women of conscience

   Gulf War. Anyone interested in joining the Women's Network can ring Amnesty on (02) 281 4188 or ... International public meeting on March 20 to hear accounts of women's social and political struggles around ... Women of conscience By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — About 80 people turned out to an Amnesty ...

5. Vale Joyce Stevens: fighter for women’s liberation

   Eureka Youth League. At that time, the League's major focus was on supporting the war effort to, as ... Feminism Judy Mundey obituary Joyce Stevens was born on January 6, 1928 and was 87 when she died ... on May 6. She was the third child in a family of four children, with two older brothers and a younger ...

6. The fight to win the vote for women

   politics of working-class women — on the barricades, in riots and in revolutions. As the British historian ... imprescriptible and inalienable rights”. On August 26, 1789, the French National Assembly voted for a “Declaration ... resistance to oppression”. In 1791, the Duc de la Rochelle’s Committee on Mendicancy declared the “right to ...

7. Feminists rally for Kurds

   Sydney on June 28 to condemn Turkey’s murder of women activists in Kobane, in north-east Syria/Rojava. ... village of Helence, on the outskirts of Kobane, Ergodan ordered a drone attack on the Women’s House called ... feminists must understand and learn from women organising in Rojava. We have been campaigning here on our ...

8. The radical history of Los Angeles' working class

   earliest women’s activists in the city being Black single mothers on welfare. Queer activists held the ... on Fire: LA in the Sixties By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener London, Verso Books, 2020, 800pp The popular ... to define the radical history of the city. Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties focuses on the ...

9. Women march to reclaim the night

   violence, women and children again took to the streets on October 31 to Reclaim the Night, which is an ... speaking on behalf of the Kungka Tjuta women campaigning against the proposed nuclear dump in the north of ... women who rallied in Newcastle on the issue of sexual assault and rape being used as weapons against ...

10. IRAQ: Women suffer colonial violence

    down" — US Secretary of State Colin Powell, told Iraqi women on March 8, International Women's Day. ... women and girls has sharply increased in Iraq compared to the time before last year's war ... heinous crimes against Iraqi women and Iraqi prisoners of war are not the acts of a " few bad ...

11. PHILIPPINES: Globalisation worse for women

    "benefits" to women, participants from 13 countries at the Asian Workshop on Women and Globalisation arrived ... and in the midst of the US "war on terrorism", it was a very timely gathering. Gigi ... informal sector on women's employment and displacement and the ways in which the neo-liberal ...

12. Marilyn French returns to the wars

    to dare to do the same. At 229 pages, The war against women (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 1992) is a much ... on women fighting back. If it's done well, or if you are among the first to do it, taking the ... book. Most of what she says in The War Against Women has already been said more engagingly elsewhere. ...

13. Women of the world unite!

    action. On February 28, 1907, women socialists in the United States organised huge demonstrations and ... liberation of women". In Petrograd, on March 8, 1917, women defied the law and came boldly onto the ... Women of the world unite! Since its beginnings, IWD has been a day of unity, solidarity and ...

14. US intervention no help to Afghan women

    she travels around the world speaking out on behalf of Afghan women and their rights. While in Sydney, ... Faryal addressed a July 31 vigil on the steps of Sydney Town Hall organised by Women in Black, an ... international network of women opposed to war and militarism. That evening Faryal spoke about the situation ...

15. United States: Amazon loss a setback for unions, but what next?

    The majority African American workforce made its decision on a practical basis. They were not hostile ... what impact the defeat at Bessemer will have on future organising at Amazon, it is a big setback. In ... focused on building a new type of labour movement, where we don’t rely on the election process to raise ...

16. A woman's place is in the struggle: Afghan women win recognition of legal equality

    organisations have indicated concern that the constitution will have little impact on the real lives of women ... . Afghanistan is still gripped by war, and kidnapping and sexual violence against women and girls is rampant. An ... compliance. Only 3% of total foreign aid sent to Afghanistan since the US launched its war on the country in ...

17. The hidden struggle for women’s footy

    Books & music Media Sports Feminism Phil Shannon Play On! The Hidden History of Women ... (sport historian) in Play On! The Hidden History of Women’s Australian Rules Football. More than 100 ... against sport being played on Sundays, one of the few timeslots available for women to fit regular ...

18. and ain't I a women: A new generation of consumers

    children's vulnerability, further clawing down the age at which women are judged purely on their appearance. ... knowing what they're protesting about if they join marches against the war on Iraq or mandatory ... A furore has broken out in mainstream papers and on radio talk-back programs about the a line of ...

19. Women's rights violated in Middle East

    Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, women in the Middle East are paying a heavy price for ... "In wars and conflicts, women are killed, taken hostage, raped and driven from their homes. In peace, ... Women's rights violated in Middle East By Kim Linden Only weeks before the United Nations ...

20. Four women versus British Aerospace &&

    of four women who go on trial in Liverpool next week. They are Joanna Wilson, Lotta Kronlid, Andrea ... In a Liverpool court on July 30, four members of the British Ploughshares organisation were ... malfeasant effect on the fabric of a single society, the Indonesian genocide in East Timor is arguably the ...

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