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  1. Parliamentary 鈥榙ebate鈥 on war a farce

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Pip Hinman War on Afghanistan (2001鈥2021) Sydney ... Stop the War Coalition On October 19, at exactly 3.30pm, the Lib-Lab politicians suddenly went from ... wants 鈥 and to provide parliament, once a year, with a statement on the war鈥檚 鈥減rogress鈥. This is a sick ...

  2. 鈥楶roud to have shone the spotlight on Gaza鈥, says solidarity boat captain

    Among the 13 women on the Zaytouna-Olive were Irish Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mairead Maguire, New ... on October 5. It was towed to the port of Ashdod, and the women jailed and then deported. Israel has ... to tell the stories of the women, men and children who were waiting for Zaytouna to arrive on the ...

  3. The women who made 'herstory' at Pine Gap

    Australia, in the 1970s), was spearheaded by anti-nuclear and anti-war women activists, some of whom attended ... Pip Hinman Remembering Pine Gap: Women's Peace Camp, November 1983 An exhibition from the ... archives of Jesse Street National Women's Library NSW Parliament House, Sydney Until September 24 The ...

  4. Women must still struggle for real equality

    * * * This International Women鈥檚 Day, on March 8, falls at a time when the environmental and economic crises ... Horrendous working conditions faced by women entering the workforce before and during World War I gave rise ... in Australia. Whether they are among the 70% of women working part-time or on short-term contracts, ...

  5. War in Afghanistan: what solutions?

    invasion. He told a meeting hosted by Stop the War Coalition Sydney on May 25 that the Taliban was ... invasion and occupation of his country amounts to a "good" war, and is troubled by the prospect ... marriage. "It treats women like sex objects. Women have to have sex with their husband four times ...

  6. Afghanistan: Not a lone madman 鈥 massacre a symptom of insane war

    Imperialism & war Pip Hinman The massacre of 16 people in the Panjwai District of Kandahar ... province in Afghanistan on March 11 re-ignited widespread calls, inside and outside Afghanistan, for ... Bales, along with 15-20 others, went on a rampage 鈥 sexually assaulting, then massacring and burning ...

  7. Afghanistan: not a just war

    defence, including an extra $1.4 billion for the war on Afghanistan, is further testament to this. The ... NATO-led troop surge in Afghanistan, a May 4 US air strike on two villages in the country's south-west ... killed up to 150 civilians, including many women and children. It appears that the US army used white ...

  8. Why the war criminals must leave Afghanistan

    Pip Hinman While the war in Afghanistan has dropped off the front pages, seven years on, 56% of ... (depending on which part of the country). Adult literacy is 29%. In some regions, less than 1% of the ... population is literate. One in five children dies before the age of five. If anything, the war is preventing ...

  9. Parliamentary debate on Afghanistan 'a farce'

    Imperialism & war Pip Hinman War on Afghanistan (2001鈥2021) Ngunnawal/Canberra On October 19, ... pulled out an IED 鈥 an improvised explosive devise. (The 鈥war on terrorism鈥 has ushered in a ridiculous ... whistling tactics 鈥 this time to those still half convinced of the need to continue the 鈥war on terrorism鈥. ...

  10. Australians protest Iraq war

    march on March 17 that began at Sydney Town Hall. Demanding an end to the US-led war in Iraq, the ... protests". While the numbers were down on some previous anti-war protests in Sydney, all speakers pointed out ... Home" T-shirts, heard Maha and Mamdouh Habib recount their personal experience of the "war on ...

  11. Calls for a ban on the burqa help the racists

    stopping, instead of supporting, the 10-year-long war in Afghanistan where women鈥檚 rights are going from bad ... trivialise the war against the people of Afghanistan, which women bear the brunt of. Feminists have fought ... Feminism Anti-racism Pip Hinman Gadigal Country/Sydney I do not support women being forced to wear ...

  12. New PM Scott Morrison's first lie: 'We're on your side'

    Turnbull as prime minister on August 24. The聽two have a lot in common. While we may be feeling relieved ... Morrison's income tax policy is to make those on a minimum wage (earning around $41,000) pay the same rate as ... those on five times as much. Then there are the company tax cuts, which failed to get through the Senate ...

  13. Farewell to Australians on Gaza Freedom Flotilla

    Flotilla 2 were given a heartfelt sendoff by 91自拍论坛 Weekly at the Resistance Centre on June 15. The ... pressure Israel to lift the illegal blockade on Gaza. They have partnered with a Canadian organisation and ... supporters鈥 鈥淚 am sailing on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza to help pose a real challenge to the cruel, illegal ...

  14. The case for ecosocialism

    World Wars鈥. These are some key steps society ought to be strongly united on to urgently address the ... unprecedented bushfire emergency has proved to us in Australia 鈥 and to millions in countries who watched on in ... reduction targets, the world is on a course to a 2.8鈥3.2潞Celsius rise from pre-industrial average ...

  15. Will the apocalyptic bushfires be a turning point in Australia鈥檚 climate emergency?

    discussion on February 3 was palpable. Molan, a former Iraq War major-general, is credited with being the ... the country has moved on to the 鈥渁daptation phase鈥, as some like to claim. The truth is, while ... preparation by state and federal governments. The enormity of the bushfire emergency resembled a war zone. ...

  16. Peace group steps up 'troops out' campaign

    troops out of the country. The war on Afghanistan was not a "good war", the peace group said on ... condemned the Karzai government and the warlords for war crimes and abuse of women. The newly-passed law ... Pip Hinman Gadigal Country/Sydney The Sydney Stop the War Coalition (StWC) used the day of the ...

  17. Malalai Joya interview: Occupation making Afghan lives worse

    the Sydney Morning Herald said on November 11. With no end in sight to the war further devastating one ... Afghanistan. The war on Afghanistan is not only a military war but also a propaganda war. The media buries the ... women as war propaganda. The headline should have been: 鈥淲hat happens while we are in Afghanistan?鈥. As ...

  18. 鈥楥entury old anti-abortion laws must be repealed鈥

    Democracy Feminism Healthcare Imperialism & war Pip Hinman Abortion NSW state elections Pip ... century criminal law governing a women's health issue in the 21st century is wrong. It was ... women in NSW can access an abortion today is due to liberal interpretations of the NSW Crimes Act. But ...

  19. 'Shit happens': soldiers as cannon fodder

    West. The 鈥war on terror鈥, which the US started (with Australian support) 10 years ago, has led to the ... the streets literally freezing.鈥 If Abbott and Gillard are so keen on this war and occupation why ... Imperialism & war Pip Hinman Less than a week after Australians learned about the death of the ...

  20. Malalai Joya: 鈥楳y country needs you to get the troops out鈥

    Imperialism & war Pip Hinman Gadigal Country/Sydney 鈥淵ou have to put more pressure on your ... people鈥. The pro-war media stays silent on the atrocities in Afghanistan, but Joya showed graphic pictures ... told a 150-strong public forum on April 11. 鈥淣o nation can liberate another nation,鈥 Joya said. 鈥淭en ...

  21. New poll: Majority want troops out of Afghanistan

    justifications are the lies rolled out by the disgraced former US President George W Bush. The misnamed 鈥war on ... Imperialism & war Pip Hinman Gadigal Country/Sydney Socialist Alliance statement 聽(archived by ... Alliance today renewed its call on the Rudd government to withdraw all Australian troops from Afghanistan ...

  22. Afghanistan: Elections are a fraud

    women鈥檚 rights and human rights.鈥 She told AlterNet on May 3: 鈥淎fghans are on the verge of uprising but ... Imperialism & war Elections Democracy Pip Hinman Corruption US-NATO command and their puppets ... in Kabul are pushing ahead with lower house elections in Afghanistan on September 18. This is despite ...

  23. All Australian troops out of Afghanistan

    out to Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay in the name of the "war on terror", ... Pip Hinman On February 13, Australian troops killed five children and injured at least two other ... This is not the first time Australian occupation troops have killed civilians. In January, women and ...

  24. Iranians discuss democracy movement

    Pip Hinman Thirty people at a July 6 meeting hosted by the Sydney Stop the War Coalition heard ... from Sara Poya, an Iranian-Australian anti-war activist and researcher, and Mansour Razaghi, from the ... media described. "Women in full chador, others in half veils, and unions, were all there 鈥 Just ...

  25. Police attempt to silence Cheney protesters

    part of an action on Salamanca lawns to express opposition to Cheney's visit and the war in Iraq. ... who walked out of school against the Iraq war in 2003, hundreds of NSW police and officers from the ... NSW Public Order and Riot Squad (PORS) tried to stop peaceful rallies on February 22 and 23 when US ...

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