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  1. IRAQ: 'We need your support'

    year incorporate opposition to the war in Iraq as one of the central issues. She asked that women ... protest outside the US embassy or consulate in their city to declare: "Women say no to war ... a women's group, our ideas are not Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish or Arab. All artificial ideas have been imposed on ...

  2. Write On: Letters to the Editor

    Spoiling the party I hate to spoil Howard's party but in 1996 we were not at war. The ... compensated for mental torture. Women worked for equal rights not just as mothers and others. We did not spend ... hardly describes a secular nation like ours in any adequate way. Shame on Howard for not absolutely ...

  3. Politicians, shock jocks and Islamophobia

    Pip Hinman, Sydney Keysar Trad from the Muslim Friendship Society told an 80-strong Stop the War ... Coalition meeting here on February 27 that the "backlash" against the Muslim community is a direct ... for some time that Muslim women are oppressed by having to wear the scarf." But Trad did say that ...

  4. John Pilger: 'Put out more flags'

    held in 1938 on the 150th anniversary of the white invasion. Over a thousand Aboriginal men and women ... John Pilger The other day, one of my favourite cinemas closed down. The boards went up on the ... modern Australia's pride in the arts. On the contrary, the closure reflected a more general shutting ...

  5. Carolus Wimmer tour: a Bolivarian pick-me-up

    burden of domestic labour falls overwhelmingly on women. Many wanted to know what the Venezuelans mean by ... decided that although we do not support wars, we will not be naive and will be prepared to fight for our ... member asked. Wimmer stressed that the government of President Hugo Chavez was intent on reducing the ...

  6. Danish cartoons: racist provocation or 'free speech'?

    imperialist "war on terror" — that the "civilised" West must impose its allegedly ... with the Norwegian Christian paper Magazinet on January 10, that led to the upsurge of anger among ... "democratic" principles on the "barbaric" Middle East. Anjali Kamat, writing in the February 9-15 ...