Fighting sexism
"As a Hispanic woman living in the United States, I am faced with a mixture of two worlds: one where men tell women what to do and another where women are independent and make their own decisions." — Pilar Verdes, Atlanta
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MELBOURNE — One hundred high-school students chased federal treasurer Peter Costello through the streets of Melbourne on November 9, then stormed the steps of Parliament House in a protest demanding an end to war and racism.
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PERTH — Following a successful anti-war forum last month on Curtin University, 18 staff members and students met on November 7 to organise the anti-war campaign on campus. The majority of those at the meeting were concerned
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DARWIN — On November 6, 50 people attended a forum organised by the No to War and Racism collective (NOWAR). Under the slogan "War is not the answer", the speakers addressed how peace can be achieved. Prath Prathapan, president of
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RAWALPINDI — Thousands of peace activists protested in the northern city of Rawalpindi on November 6, demanding an end to the US bombing of Afghanistan and denouncing the terror of religious fundamentalism. The rally was
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SYDNEY — In the biggest show of Australian opposition to the war in Afghanistan yet, more than 10,000 protesters mobilised in 11 cities on the weekend of November 3-4, declaring: "No to racism, no to war — this is what we're
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CANBERRA — Despite bad weather, 175 people joined a protest in Garema Place on November 7 against the bipartisan Coalition-Labor backing of the US war on Afghanistan. Speakers from the Socialist Alliance, ACT Greens, Women
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Museworthy: The Subjectivity of Corpses (after Susan Bordo) like legal meat and bonethe corpse said I could not have its corneaI could not have its heartI could not have its kidneynor one lung of its pair at an impassethe corpse and Iwere
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December 9 protests against the war in Afghanistan Adelaide: Phone (08) 8231 6982 for details. Brisbane: Stop the bombing! Troops home now! Roma Street Forum, 3pm. Phone NOWAR on (07) 3371 3640, 0412 563 921 or (07) 3831 2644 for more
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As the imperialist powers escalate their war on Afghanistan, refugees continue to flee in their tens of thousands, joining millions in Pakistan and Iran. The scale of the humanitarian crisis is immense, with several million Afghan
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Political interference by members of the ruling class in a federal election is hardly a rare occurance, especially by those with unmatched levels of "free speech", so when one of the world's most powerful media barons stepped up to
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Bullies Since the end of World War II, the USA has been the biggest and toughest kid on the block, bullying mercilessly Iraq (genocide), Cuba (40 years' blockade), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, little Grenada, Vietnam, Chile (Pinochet's ghastly
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And ain't I a woman: Women peace campaigners intimidated On September 24, Kate Raphael, a left-wing Jewish activist who lives in Berkeley, California, was approached by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who attempted to question her
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WOLLONGONG — The year-long Illawarra TAFE library industrial dispute came to an end on November 1 with the signing of a dispute resolution agreement that restricts temporary staffing arrangements across the Illawarra
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Public sector workers call 24-hour strike PERTH — One thousand public sector workers protested outside Parliament House on November 8 as part of a "fair and equal pay" campaign. The Community and Public Sector Union/Civil Service Association has
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CANBERRA — More than 500 people turned out on November 4 to demand an end to the war on refugees in a protest organised by the Refugee Action Collective. First to address the crowd was Wadjularbinna from the Aboriginal Tent
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Obviously not with the PR department "The people there are dead because we wanted them dead." — comment to CNN by an unidentified Pentagon official on the obliteration by US helicopter-gunships on October 22 of the Afghan village of
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Watching Kim Beazley fall on his sword on November 10, I was struck by how incongruous this was. Just six months ago, it appeared inconceivable that John Howard could lead the Coalition parties into a third term of government with
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"We stood up for our principles against the power of the major parties and we have stood tall", indigenous activist Sam Watson, the lead Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance in Queensland, told the alliance's Brisbane
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In the days before the November 10 federal election, the Australian government's punitive policy toward asylum seekers began to backfire on the Coalition government. A wave of former prime ministers, former Labor and Liberal
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WOLLONGONG — It was standing room only in Wollongong Town Hall at a public forum organised by the Refugee Action Collective on November 8, as more than 300 people were addressed by Labor MHR for Cunningham Stephen Martin, Iraqi
Analysis
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In a letter to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, printed in issue #469, Yula Geredov continues to claim that I misrepresent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by presenting a "one-sided, biased account" of the current situation.
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BY PETER ROBSON& TROY SAXBY "I really feel that it's not our problem. They call it an act of terrorism, but if you understand the religion and our life, it's not about terrorism — it's about fighting for God's laws, and America's brought it upon
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Since September 11, many Muslims and migrants from South Asia and the Middle East have copped racist abuse, and even violence, on the street. But that's not the end of it: many have even suffered harassment from workmates or
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The re-election of Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government in the November 10 federal poll was the result of resurgence of anti-Arab racism and xenophobia, whipped up by the government and the corporate media. This has been used to justify
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[The following statement is being circulated throughout the union movement.] We share the horror of people around the world and condemn the terror attacks in the US on September 11. The killing of almost 7000 people, including many trade unionists,
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The US-led war against the people of Afghanistan places a big responsibility on student activists. This new imperialist offensive is likely to be a long one, resulting in massive human and ecological costs. Our task is to build
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Noam Chomsky, a longtime political activist, writer, and professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, international affairs, and human rights. He was
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The regroupment of the revolutionary left in the Philippines has taken a great leap forward, with the August announcement by the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (SPP, Socialist Party of Labour) and the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipina (PMP,
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While many trade unionists are embracing the need for greater global solidarity and interconnection, there are still some who want a return to the old protectionism, albeit under a new guise. The International Confederation of Free
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[The following is an abridged version of the first part of a nationally televised address given on November 2 by Cuban President Fidel Castro.] To characterise the current situation, one could say, by way of a very brief summary,
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Following the September 11 World Trade Center atrocity, the US produced a list of countries which allegedly "harbour terrorists" or where "terrorists" have bases. In the Balkans the list consisted of Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia
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Leaders of a militant union, including former political prisoner Dita Sari, have been arrested by Indonesian police during a crackdown on striking workers. One thousand workers from fifteen branches of the Matahari Putra Prima
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Ever watched a mouse run around and around on a treadmill? Well, that's the position of workers under the terms of "free trade" agreements — except rather than one mouse per treadmill, it's billions of us, all competing against each
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LONDON — The war against terrorism is a fraud. After three weeks' bombing, not a single terrorist implicated in the attacks on America has been caught or killed in Afghanistan. Instead, one of the poorest, most stricken nations has
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United States pro-war "hawks" are fast lining their pockets from the war on Afghanistan — including a company linked to President Bush. With high stakes in extensive war-related investments, the Carlyle Group is one company that
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As Washington's war against Afghanistan neared the end of its first month, US President George Bush raised the stakes by introducing the highly lethal 6800-kilogram "Daisy Cutter" bomb. "Like a nuclear weapon without the fallout" is
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In violation of the terms of the Geneva Convention, the United States government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply during and after the 1991 Gulf War, Defense Intelligence Agency documents have revealed.
Culture
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Iranian Filmmaker Tahmineh Milani faces execution if convicted in her trial in Tehran. Milani was arrested on the orders of Iran's Revolutionary Council as she was promoting the film The Hidden Half, which she wrote and directed. The Hidden Half
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Freelance photographer John Immig has an eye for the unusual and the militant in his series of recent photographs documenting the rise of new anti-war movement. While some of his shots will be featured in coming issues of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, they are