Save the date!
Saturday June 17 for Women’s March to Ban the Bomb here in NYC!
Find out more in this presentation by Ray Acheson of the Reaching Critical Will program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She spoke on Feb 2, 2017, at Manhattan Peace Action on the upcoming negotiations at the UN to outlaw nuclear weapons.
A group of South Korean LGBTI and human rights activists on Wednesday protested against the Gender Ministry’s recent order directing the Daejeon Metropolitan City to scrap articles that guarantee LGBTI rights in the city’s newly revised charter of gender equality, demanding an official apology and recognition of LGBTI rights as part of women’s rights.
On the occasion of First R. Anuradha Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, Professor Gail Omvedt, a great scholar especially on the issues of Dalit and caste issues, delivered her lecture on revolutionary traditions of Indian feminism.
Six Japanese women offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean-up, the cover-ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima, and how it has affected their lives, homes and families.
Mention communists, guerillas, freedom fighters, militants and ideologues and the images that leap to mind are invariably male. In Asia, it is no different, except there is an added bias of patriarchy and of a history that has, until recently, been constructed and then recounted by former colonial powers and their historians. After independence, new ‘autonomous’ national histories had to be created and national curricula constructed, with those not fitting into these narratives either omitted or marginalised. Adrianna Tan examines the case of the women warriors of the Malayan Communist Party.
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