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  1. Feminism, lifestyle and politics

    come to be seen as representative of IWD. The traditional marches, rallies and feminist demands for ... marching, rallying and campaigning for equality for all women in the proudly radical tradition of IWD. ...

  2. Write on: letters to the editor

    the International Women's Day march was recently debated in the Melbourne IWD collective. We were ... disappointed with the majority of collective members' decision to ban men's participation in the IWD ... their own demands and political outlook. Because IWD collectives, for example, are leading bodies in the ...

  3. ... and ain't i a woman?: The heart of the beast

    IWD march, and she found the experience powerful and uplifting. For many years she had provided ... said at the Brisbane IWD rally, it was the example of secular feminists which gave women active in the ...

  4. Action updates

    Fax (06) 290 2431. Hobart IWD HOBART — The International Women's Day collective here has decided ...

  5. Ways to get active this week

    Speakers: Seval Ulus, Kurdish Association; Sara Brocklesby, IWD Collective, Reclaim the Night Collective; ...

  6. Women highlight pro-war bias in mainstream media

    circulated an official call to action for an anti-war protest on IWD, which was endorsed by the protest ...

  7. Women to march for world justice

    been meeting since International Women's Day in March. Activists from the IWD collective and the ...

  8. Howard's IVF discrimination opposed

    Lisa Young from the International Women's Day collective encouraged women to sign up for the IWD ...

  9. Non-profit abortion clinic closes

    a member of the Hobart IWD Collective and the Democratic Socialist Party, endorsed the call made by Iris ...

  10. 'The myths about us are untrue'

    Messimeris of the IWD collective encouraged women to become involved in the anti-war movement. From Green ...

  11. Women against war

    for the 2002 Sydney IWD march and rally for women's rights. The first collective meeting will be ...

  12. Action updates

    schools. The day will end with a dance and cabaret at Diva's nightclub. The IWD collective meets ...

  13. Action updates

    Collective, meeting on May 22, planned a series of forums and other activities to raise IWD 's profile in ...

  14. Should men participate in women's rights marches?

    enthusiasm than for many years. There was also an unusually large number of supportive men, as the IWD ... that they should leave. Men's participation in IWD was welcomed by most rally participants, and it ... a position paper of its own, the IWD collective argued "It's important men not be let off the hook. ...

  15. A life in the struggle

    pay and equal rights, and we gave out leaflets which gave the history of IWD", she told Green ... Left in an interview on February 27. For her generation of activists, IWD was "always a tremendous ... making history. The older women had kept the torch of IWD alight, and now this was it." As a young ...

  16. Feminist marches oppose war

    organised the first ever IWD breakfast. Sixty women came to hear the keynote speaker, Textile, Clothing and ... led by women drummers, protesting war on Iraq. The turnout — much larger than at previous IWD protests ... white flowers in the march in memory of poet Connie Frazer, a founding member of the IWD collective who ...

  17. Anti-war activist notebook 3

    Wollongong’s peace train and IWD plans BY MARG PERROTT WOLLONGONG — After the 5000-strong February ... mobilisations as February 8. For the first time in years, Wollongong will hold it's IWD march on the same ... day as Sydney. IWD will be a march of women and men, the organisation, marshalling, and speakers are ...

  18. Resistance and repression continue in Kurdistan

    (HADEP) who had organised the IWD events. In the city of Izmit, east of Istanbul, 90 people were detained ... unions in connection with IWD. Turkish authorities claim that IWD protests in the past have become ...

  19. Putting women in the big picture

    have yet to go to achieve equality. Since the first IWD, the anti-colonial, civil rights and ... the protest marches and rallies on IWD this year are so important and necessary. Without an organised, ... eventually be broken. The visions and goals of the women who initiated IWD so many decades ago — of gender ...

  20. Action updates

    against the government's attacks. IWD fundraiser CANBERRA — Around 100 people attended a performance ... dancers and comedy acts donated their talent and time to the event, which raised $400 for the IWD march ...

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