Kurdish newspapers bombed
The offices in Turkey of Kurdish daily Ozgur Ulke were bombed on the morning of December 3. The first bomb went off in Istanbul at about 3:30am. About five minutes later, the Ankara office was also bombed. The last bomb
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By Karen Fletcher
US writer Naomi Wolf and former Victorian premier Joan Kirner have recently completed a national tour of their self-styled "Feminist Roadshow" or "Sister Act".
With ticket prices ranging from $45 to $120, the Sydney forum,
Time Is On Our Side — The Rolling Stones Story — This series is crammed with interviews, unique session performances and their music from the past three decades. Parts 2-3-4. ABC Radio National, Wednesday, December 14/21/28, 2.05pm.
Women and the pope
In January, Australians are to be treated to a visit from the pope. He's coming over for the beatification of the person expected to become Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop.
It's an interesting turn of events,
One of the more controversial events of 1994 was the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in September. GISELA DUeTTING, who attended from the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, based in the
Consumers
Tony Hastings (Write on #170) says that "the proletariat don't need their living standards raised any higher". Tell that to the majority of working people in Australia, whose standard of living has decreased in the last decade. Tell
Poem: I Becomes We
By Denis O'Neill
When I awake
Who is there? I
When I drink my tea
Who is there? I
When I take my walk
Who walks? I
I go home again
Who is there?
I again.
Again I.
Best I go
To the Resistance
By Jackie Coleman
HAVANA — Miami-based TV Marti has succeeded in broadcasting less than an hour of programs into Cuba since it started transmissions in March 1990. While Cuban technicians have been able to scramble its signal and thus block US
About Us: My life as I live it — Aboriginal activist Essie Coffey's first film, My survival as an Aboriginal, was an immediate success at its release in 1978. This new documentary looks at what progress against racism has been made in Essie's home
A short story by Craig Cormick
Any of the townspeople of Dangawullah could tell you exactly when the Devil arrived. It was that hot afternoon of October 29, 1929. It was the last day that it rained that year until Christmas Day, and it was the
By Christopher Phelps
"Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons", said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
Comment by Zanny Begg
and Sujatha Fernandes
The Network Of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference in Sydney in July attracted 400 women from around the country. The conference was organised by a cross-campus collective of women from NSW.
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