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  1. People's resistance in the US Civil War

    A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom By David Williams ... the war and has made the most money by it, and sacrificed the least to maintain it?", asked ... a letter writer in the southern state of Georgia during the US Civil War. His answer, "the ...

  2. TURKEY: Peace activists sentenced for 'separatist propaganda'

    not, the court will be punishing a call for peace." The women were arrested on February 22 and ... Ruth Riordan, Istanbul Twenty-four women have been sentenced to 12 months' jail each after ... being found guilty of voicing "separatist propaganda". The women, aged between 40 and 75 ...

  3. Lebanese criticise government indifference

    children", Rami Abdallah said on July 20 as he was about to leave Sydney for Beruit. "I am involved in ... stranded, at the mercy of the Israeli war machine." Abdallah had contacted the department of foreign ... by them. "As one civilian convoy has already been bombed, killing women and children fleeing to ...

  4. Tens of thousands demand 'Israel out!'

    protest actions against Israel's wars on Palestine and Lebanon, visit ... Palestinian communities — as 20,000 people marched on July 22 to protest the bitter injustice of Israel's ... the War Coalition; and Julia Irwin and Linda Burney from the ALP. The march to the US consulate, which ...

  5. Queers fighting back

    abuses. The AIDS virus has killed around 26 million people, half of them women, in the last 23 years. Half ... conservative delegates insisted on expunging the words "sex workers" and "homosexuals" from ... leader worldwide to introduce a ban on same-sex marriage. He has described queers as physiologically ...

  6. LEBANON: Behind the rise of Hezbollah: Two decades of Israeli occupation

    camps and south Lebanon towns and villages from 1968 on. In the March 7, 1975 New Times, US journalist ... River. Israel's 1982-2000 occupation On June 3, 1982, the Israeli ambassador in London was killed by ... the US rejected this. On September 3, Israeli forces advanced towards the Palestinian refugee camps of ...