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PHILIPPINES: Globalisation worse for women
"benefits" to women, participants from 13 countries at the Asian Workshop on Women and Globalisation arrived ... and in the midst of the US "war on terrorism", it was a very timely gathering. Gigi ... informal sector on women's employment and displacement and the ways in which the neo-liberal ...
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Action updates
on whether the theme for IWD 2002 should be "women against war and racism". Further ... IVF for lesbians and single women. Phone Kerry on 3255 3912 or Susan on 3831 2644 for details of the ... Union backs 'no war' resolution BRISBANE — The Queensland branch conference of the ...
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Angela Davis: Bush's war boosts prison industry
BY KAREN FLETCHER BRISBANE — In a keynote address to the Women in Prison Conference on November ... were being exploited in the US to justify a racist "war on terrorism" in which people can be ... arrested and detained on the basis of their ethnicity. President George W. Bush has seized this opportunity ...
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Human Rights Day protests: No war! No racism!
Forestry, Mining and Energy Union called the US-led "war on terror" a "carnival of ... 's City Square to protest the war in Afghanistan, and to call on the Australian government to welcome ... against the "war on terrorism" and the Australian government's inhumane treatment of ...
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PHILIPPINES: Thousands protest war, globalisation
by radical forces against the government of President Gloria Makapagal Arroyo and the US "war on ... struggle in the southern Mindanao province and a cessation of the US "war on terrorism". Mass ... affiliated garment unions with 90% women members. Political organisations such as the SPP (Socialist Party of ...
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Government 'censoring the truth about the war'
ever on it. But on the subject of conflict, as a last resort, I am not against going to war, although ... much more complex than that and Australians have a right to know that this war is based on strategies ... stand to reason. "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there", Bush ...
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UNITED STATES: Now, on to Iraq!
eight-year war that left over 800,000 (and perhaps over a million) men, women and children slain. The US, ... of such a nation threatening another nation on the basis of its possession of "weapons of mass ... their hands with mercantile glee as they armed and egged on the neighbouring Iraqis. Yesterday's ...
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...and ain't I a woman: Back to the future?
women and men so that men are the cause of wars and destruction and women are caring and nurturing? Many ... divide between men and women promoted the idea of separate and different natures. This rested on two ... of the sexes. The "separate spheres" notion was based on the view that women in their ...
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PHILIPPINES: 'End imperialist globalisation'
children and elderly now rests entirely within the household and... on women. This situation has more than ... sexual slavery and prostitution. Women and children fleeing from the ravages of war, compelled by ... 'war on terrorism' employed by the US and its allies as a cover-up for its military ...
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Elfriede Burghardt, 1918-2001
Movement, an organisation of women opposed to sending conscripts to the Vietnam War. In those days, Barrack ... Elfriede Burghardt was held here on November 27. Burghardt was born in Germany in 1918 and grew up as part ... of an anti-fascist family living under the Nazis. She migrated after the second world war and settled ...
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Small nation, big message
Women, the true custodians of the land on Bougainville, were at the forefront of early protests against ... free market economy, of promises of globalisation with a human face. The US-led "war against ... terrorism" has rained yet more death and destruction on the people of Afghanistan. The globalisers are on ...
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Tolkien's 'feudal socialism'
cash in, with The Fellowship of the Ring to be released on December 26. F or those who have not read ... and destroy the ring. On the way they are opposed by various evil creatures such as orcs, giant ... corrupted and they attempt to gain the ring for their master. Sauron brings war upon the kingdoms of the ...
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Revolution and counter-revolution in Afghanistan
1980, the PDPA government proposed that discussions on ending the war be held with Pakistan and Iran, ... led in 1975, as well as his involvement in acid attacks on unveiled women in Kabul at the same time. ... intra-mujaheddin civil war and its devastating consequences — including the rise of the Taliban and possibly the ...
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ISRAEL: A terrorist success story
disruption and fear brought to peoples' daily lives? Israel scores very highly on both these counts. ... off bombs in markets and attacking buses. In one attack on the Haifa fruit market 74 Arabs were killed ... observer in September 1948. As central leaders of these groups Begin and Shamir both went on to play ...