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  1. Activists to discuss war, racism

    and ANSWER, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. The conference will focus on the war in Afghanistan ... and women rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the myths around refugees, politics in the Middle ... BY FRED FUENTES MELBOURNE — Activists from around the country will converge on Melbourne on ...

  2. Revolution and counter-revolution in Afghanistan

    1970, women took to the streets to protest Islamic restrictions on their rights. Kabul University became ... for their latest war on Afghanistan. Saira Noorani, a woman surgeon who finally escaped the Taliban in ... Norm Dixon On July 3, 1979, US President Jimmy Carter signed a secret document that began ...

  3. A Devine comedy

    discovered the link: that the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were on the same date, September ... 11, as the giant anti-globalisation protest, S11, which took on the World Economic Forum in Melbourne ... structure, similar methods and a shared vocabulary of extreme violence and holy war". But wait, it gets ...

  4. AFGHANISTAN: Washington reins in its 'liberators'

    Washington, London, Pakistan and other supporters of the "war on terrorism" were insisting that ... were also on sale. Some of the braver women lifted their burqas to reveal their faces to Western ... reporters (but quickly replaced them once the journalists had moved on). The NA has declared that women will ...

  5. CHINA: Oppression fuels independence aspirations

    seizing on US "war on terrorism" and turning it into a new weapon to undermine the Uigur ... carried on with its predecessors' methods. This has led to periodic outbursts of violent resistance ... intention to stamp them out as part of the global anti-terrorism campaign. Then, on November 12, Chinese ...