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1. International Women's Strike on March 8 marks 'start of a new international feminist movement’

   abridged from International Women Strike USA. *** The International Women’s Strike on March 8 is an ... International Women's Strike Below is the platform of the International Women’s Strike US. It is slightly ... international day of action, planned and organised by women in more than 30 different countries.   In the spirit ...

2. Sri Lanka: Tamil women demand return of land

   Anti-racism Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Chris Slee Tamil Tamil Eelam ... Protesters have been camping outside a Sri Lankan Air Force base since January 31 at Keappaapulavu on the ... north-eastern coast of the island of Sri Lanka. Women are playing a leading role in the protest. They are ...

3. Women’s cooperatives: A glimpse into Rojava’s economic model

   regime’s control, the Rojava Revolution aims to build a new system on the principles of women’s liberation, ... workers to gain skills and access to the market. Also, the ongoing war is badly impacting on the economy, ... encouraging women’s participating, promoting an alternative radical economic and social model based on ...

4. Protests erupt across Britain as MPs debate Trump's state visit

   American agenda, and that led us into a really disastrous war. Two million people marched on the street. ... Trumpism and anti-Trumpist protests Nearly 2 million Britons have signed a petition calling on President ... Trump’s official state visit to be canceled. On February 20, thousands of protesters gathered outside ...

5. Palestinians thank Natalie Imbruglia for cancelling Israel show

   her for deciding to be “on the right side of history, on the side of the oppressed”. A spokesperson ... apartheid.” Imbruglia has supported various justice efforts, from women’s rights through the Northern Rivers ... call on all artists and academics not to become an accessory to Israel’s attempts at rebranding.” When ...

6. ‘Out of the closets and into the streets’: Mardi Gras' radical history

   a packed night at the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-controlled gay bar in downtown New York City on June 28, 1969. ... crowd freed those in the police vans and turned on the Stonewall Inn with the police trapped inside. ... struggle that was challenging the system from all angles. The anti-war movement had caused mass unrest; ...

7. ‘Our House, Your House’: behind Barcelona’s huge march for refugees

   Hundreds of thousands of people overflowed the streets of central Barcelona on February 20 in the largest ... Mediterranean trying to reach Europe last year alone.  But they were also a call on the Spanish government. The ... be able to move off. It was a demonstration, broadcast live on public TV, in which nearly all parts ...

8. Memoir helps map Palestine’s struggle

   Jordan. Even so, they fought on the Ottoman side in World War I, against British forces invading Palestine ... and memoir have emerged. First are accounts by diarists who witnessed World War I and British Mandate ... These common themes are also found in Mapping My Return, including the trauma of war and refugee life, ...