Cecilia Hofmann and Melvi Gelacio are two Filipino feminists who toured Australia last September for the Women Cannot Be Bought National Tour. Alison Thorne spoke with them on the Melbourne leg of the tour.
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Stealing Moments for Poetry
Nellie Wong is a citizen of the world. An off-hand comment by her boss, a skin irritation, a homeless person on the street, the smell of food cooking or tanks in Tiananmen Square . . . all these scenes from working class life are her inspirations. Her work is complex, evocative and rich with imagery.
No Trees, No Treaty! For Djab Wurrung sovereignty, not genocidal destruction!
On 26 October, the Victorian government sent workers and police into Djab Wurrung country to bulldoze a 350-year-old tree that was culturally significant to the Djab Wurrung people and their birth practices.
Cops out of schools: Break the pipeline to prison
Behavior that would have gotten detention now gets handcuffs. It’s time to get armed police out of schools.
Shut down Fort Hood!
This Texas base has the highest incidence of sexual harassment, rape and murder in the Army. It deserves to close.
Census 2020: erasing immigrants and people of color
Why the census is important and how Trump is manipulating it to inflame racism and xenophobia and normalize his rule by decree.
Hagamos que importen las Vidas Negras
Durante décadas, los manifestantes contra la brutalidad policial garabateaban los nombres de las personas asesinadas en cartulinas y marchaban por las calles. Cuando se publicó otro video y se descubrió otro asesinato, la lista de los caídos se hizo más larga. Los políticos se quedaron callados, y los policías mantuvieron sus empleos, y siguieron siendo… Read more »
Make Black lives matter
Militant Black youth sounded a battle cry against police abuse that has ignited the largest multiracial, multi-generation protest in recent US history.
Bound together: Black & queer liberations
Now more than ever, it is true that none of us is free until all of us are free.
Low-wage workers rebel against abuse
Essential and angry! Overwhelmed workers, most of them underpaid women, immigrants and people of color, are bringing unions and communities together in protest.
