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  1. Russian women confront sexist violence

    frustrations on their wives." The issue of violence against women, almost never covered by the Soviet mass ... during June put the number of women who died in Russia last year as a result of domestic violence at some ... 15,000. In this war within Russia's apartment blocks, waged against half the country's ...

  2. On the box

    On the box Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program ... 10.30pm. Movie Matinee: Stalin's Football (1991) — Based on authentic events during the 1952 Helsinki ... Mouth (1985) — Based on actual events when villagers in Peru were massacred after witnessing ...

  3. Action updates

    a protest on July 29 against the Kangaroo 95 war games, which are about to take place in the Northern ... information contact CIET on 344 3511 or 371 0480. Chilean activist to tour ADELAIDE — Casa Chile has invited ... women's movement and human rights activist Miriam Ortega for an Australian tour. Ortega was a political ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Resistance plans stepped-up activity

    which has published nearly 200 issues since its launch during the 1991 Gulf War. They were treated on ... attracted around 220 people for intensive discussions on the conference theme, "Struggle, solidarity, ... profits. Renato Constantino Junior, president of the Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET) and ...

  6. The politics of masculinity

    are progressive, questioning the current forms of masculinity as both oppressive to women and ... results of the growing research on the issues. The burst of publicity has brought back obsolete ideas ... campaign to roll back the rather limited advances against discrimination made by women and gay men in the ...

  7. Nuclear tests reopen old wound

    Asia & the Pacific David Robie Rainbow Warrior anti-nuclear A decade ago, on July 10, 1985, ... a University of PNG journalism lecturer, was on board for the fateful voyage and wrote a book about the ... sinking. His reporting won NZ's Media Peace Prize. Here he writes on the legacy of the nuclear ...