By Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — US-Cuba relations came tumbling down along with the two Miami-based planes shot down over Cuban airspace on February 24. Although the US State Department had repeatedly warned the anti-Castro Cuban-American group
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Women in a Restructuring AustraliaAnne Edwards & Susan Magarey (eds)Allen & Unwin, 1995. 319 pp., $29.95Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg We are constantly confronted by imagery and articles in the establishment media which attempt to enforce the view that
By Merima Trbojevich This story is dedicated to all the women who have lived an experience like mine or at least share my feelings. Dedicated to the women who have been pushed by war into a struggle just to survive. There are too many stories like
John Howard, the Liberals and the big business media are of course claiming that the Coalition's big election victory is a "mandate" for the policies they plan to implement. That's a lie. There is no mandate. There's no mandate for Howard's policies
Healing Women: A History of Leichhardt Women's Community Health CentreBy Joyce StevensFast Books, Wild & Woolley, 1995. 135 pp., $17.95Reviewed by Jane Beckmann Healing Women presents an interesting and informative account of the development of the
By Rohan Gaiswinkler HOBART — The feud between the Australian Democrats and the Greens turned into an all-in brawl just days before the federal election, with Democrat Senator Robert Bell suing the Greens' Senate team for defamation. The action was
By Peter Boyle With the Liberal-Nationals now in government federally and in all states but NSW, we can expect an acceleration in the attack on the rights and living standards of the great majority. Now that the election has been won, the Coalition
By Natasha Simons Several hundred university students joined Resistance campus clubs around the country at first year orientation weeks, held over the past two weeks. In addition, around 1200 copies of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly were sold and hundreds of
By Geoff Spencer MELBOURNE — Public radio station PBS FM presents Babes on the Waves — a 24-hour extravaganza of women's music on International Women's Day. Eighteen of PBS's finest women announcers, who excel in the hitherto male-dominated world
By Reihana Mohideen MANILA — The 10th anniversary of the EDSA rebellion, which brought down the US-backed dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in February 1986, was marked by protests in Metro Manila on February 23. The protests were spearheaded by the
By Peter Boyle SYDNEY — An attempt by Marrickville Labor Mayor Barry Cotter to trick inner-city residents into supporting the ALP's plan to build a second airport at Badgerys Creek in outer-western Sydney backfired when demonstrators turned against
US pilots have been violating international law by entering Cuban airspace for many years. Since 1994, there have been at least nine incursions, according to Cuban authorities; after each, protest notes were lodged with the United States Interests
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