Anti-war protesters demonstrate against Nixon policy at Washington Square Park

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Anti-war demonstration

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Anti-war demonstration, New York City

General note: Title provided by Freda Leinwand.

Disobedient Citizens : Press Depictions of Striking School Teachers in NSW and Anti-Vietnam War Demonstrators in NSW and Victoria in 1968

Across Australia in 1968, students demonstrating against the Vietnam War engaged in confrontational behaviour. The metropolitan daily newspapers,the most important source of news for most people, enthusiastically reported the scenes. The demonstrations were exciting. Sensational headlines and photographs captured the interest of readers and influenced their opinions. But radical opposition to government policies at the time was not limited to university students opposing the Vietnam War. Teachers had become increasingly critical of conditions in schools, with Victorian secondary school teachers having stopped work on a number of occasions since 1965. In October 1968, both primary and secondary school teachers in New South Wales participated in eastern Australia’s first state-wide teachers’ strike. As Sydney’s Sun commented on 1 October 1968, “The teachers’ strike threw the ... education system into chaos ... A huge proportion of the State’s 2764 schools were silent and empty.” Similarities with the anti-war demonstrations were obvious. Although not as confrontational, the New South Wales teachers’ strike was a publicity-seeking action. This examination of the teachers’ more restrained, but more effective, approach to challenging government policies provides a new voice and vision to our understandings of the diverse nature of radicalism in Australia in the 1960s.

Circle of support rally for Jane Alpert (Anti-war activist). Left to right: Kierstan Grimstand, Susan Rennie, Andrea Dworkin, Florence Rush, Rosetta Reitz.

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane. Digital reproduction

‘Is there a right time for gender just peace? Feminist anti-war organising revisited’

This paper addresses the question of totalising gender power relations that have led to and shaped the wars of the 1990s in Yugoslavia and the emerging ethno-national states on the ‘periphery’ of Europe. I argue that the same type of gender power relations continue to dominate the region, notably Serbia, and to perpetuate gender inequalities and gender based violence in its many everyday and structural forms, causing profound levels of human insecurity. My analysis aims to set in motion a debate on how to tackle these continuing gender inequalities and GBV in post-war societies. In so doing, I propose a shift from focusing on the hierarchy of victimisation that has characterised much of the feminist analyses, activism and scholarly work in relation to these (and other) conflicts, to a relational understanding of the gendered processes of victimisation in war and peace, that is - of both women and men. Such an approach holds a potential to undermine the power systems that engender these varied types of victimisation by ultimately reshaping the notions of masculinity and femininity, which are central to the gender power systems that generate gender unjust peace.

Captain Sword and Captain Pen : an anti-war poem /

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Caged prisoner in Anti-Vietnam demonstration

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Women against the war in Vietnam and in support of Vietnamese women

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Anti-draft demonstration

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A woman is arrested at an anti-draft and anti-nuclear demonstration on Wall street

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

"Jobs not War" sign at an El Salvador demonstration

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Women against the draft at anti-draft demonstration in Times Square

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.