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  1. IWD actions to oppose war and racism

    a rally for Saturday March 9 with the tentative theme of "Stop the war on women". The collective ... demonstration, also on March 9, will raise the demand, "Stop the war on women at home and abroad". ... BY SUSAN PRICE The United States and other First World governments are using the "war on ...

  2. Linking war and globalisation

    military war on Afghanistan and the neo-liberal global order. Turkish refugee from Women Against War and ... anti-war activist Tara Povey told 60 people at Trades Hall on January 31. She described Bush's speech ... as another attempt by the right wing to justify their war on the Third World. The meeting, called by ...

  3. Howard's war with refugees, by John Pilger

    On the Beach in Melbourne, about the nuclear apocalypse. Asked what she thought of Australia, she ... great and good, Sydney's traffic lights were fixed on green for the motorcade of the International ... currently against desperate refugees. There is a terrible irony at work here. Last October, as the "war ...

  4. Write On: Letters to the editor

    bomb as ending World War II. That statement is perhaps the worst lie inflicted on humanity (because ... Lie SBS TV has just shown a documentary on General Douglas MacArthur which referred to the atom ... it's so widely believed): that we had to burn 64,602 civilian men, women and children at Hiroshima and ...

  5. A deeply flawed revolution

    and sons left for the war front, women picked up their work on the home front. If women travelled with ... army oppression. Taking the war for democracy to heart, soldiers held meetings to decide on military ... ones looted, raped, widowed and made homeless by the war. Some women contributed to the revolutionary ...

  6. Melbourne's biggest refugee rights rally yet

    a rousing speech by the Socialist Alliance's Graham Matthews. “Stop it! Stop the war on refugees!”, ... Matthews declared. He explained that the war being waged by the Australian government on the poor people of ... stop the war on refugees”. From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, February 6, 2002. Visit the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly home ...

  7. PHILIPPINES: Opposition to US troops grows

    will take place in the midst of the long-running war on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, ... President Joseph Estrada in 2001. Furthermore, Labour against the War will be demonstrating on February 6, ... mobilisation on International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8. “The Peace Camp is also calling for IWD to be ...

  8. Global solidarity with refugees

    Australian governmentÂ’s refugee policy. In Auckland, New Zealand on January 26, activists picketed the ... for February 15. Anti-globalisation protesters mobilising against the World Economic Forum on January ... Solidarity Conference, to be held March 29-April 1 in Sydney. On March 31, conference participants from more ...

  9. ZIMBABWE: Democracy movement debates sanctions

    secret police arrest government opponents visiting a Southern African Development Community meeting on ... Zimbabwe's crisis) and the next ominous: the warning on January 9 that the military will commit ... threat of violence from war veterans responsible for occupying more than 1000 farms owned by wealthy ...