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COMING UP -

Women in Black Vigil
 sat 4th July  2009 12pm to 1pm
 
GPO corner of Bourke st and Elizabeth st
Melbourne Australia
 
http://www.womeninblack.org.au/
please pass on

And,

Afghan parliamentarian, Malalai Joya, fundraising dinner. Please feel free to send this on to anyone who may be interested.

Malalai Joya, (http://www.malalaijoya.com) the courageous Afghan parliamentarian will be in Melbourne in July to launch her book ‘Raising My Voice’. She is the voice of democratic Afghans, heroic in her representation of ordinary Afghans. Malalai was suspended from parliament in 2007 for
speaking out against the many parliamentarians with extensive human rights abuse records and has been under threat of death since that time, surviving three assassination attempts. Her heroism has been recognised worldwide and all have a chance to hear and support this inspirational, extraordinary, young woman at a fundraising dinner for her:
This is an event not to be missed!

WHEN?          TUESDAY JULY 14TH
                     6.30 for 7.00pm

WHERE?        LENTIL AS ANYTHING
                    Abbotsford Convent
                    15 St Heliers St
                    Abbotsford

WHAT?          A delicious meal in the best company. Malalai Joya will speak of her work in striving for a democratic secular Afghanistan and will introduce her new book, ‘Raising My Voice’.

COST?          $50 (including donation to Malalai Joya)

BOOKINGS?      Booking essential as numbers are limited
Ph. Onnie : 9822 8858 or email: mok@connexus.net.au

NEW REVIEW see Reviews:

Women Working Together – Suffrage and Onwards
Compiled by Geraldine Robertson to complement http://home.vicnet.au/-women
Published by www.womensweb.com.au 2009

NEW WEBSITES see http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wmnseco
http://www.womeninblack.org.au/:

Women's Eco Movement, the new group initiated by Zelda D'Aprano at the launch of Women Working Together, has an interactive website where you can communicate with other women concerned with ecological matters:

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wmnseco

OUR NEW WEBSITE http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wmnseco:

WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER
suffrage and onwards Using the words of feminists and their enemies, this work tells stories of the Women's Movement in Victoria

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New International Bookshop, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton Vic 3053
Readings Bookstore, Lygon Street Carlton, Vic 3053
Clifton Hill Books, 386 Queens Parade Clifton Hill

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Response to Dr Ford - ‘This is such an amazing resource about the Women's Movement in Victoria. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have the same kind of detailed history of the Movement in each State? What a great project for feminist Uni students to undertake. To write such a history would be a big job, but the finished product would last forever!’

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Molly Hadfield and Edith Morgan, with other women stopping the train at the MUA dispute, Melbourne
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Women's Time, Taking Time - A Women's Historical Data Kit
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