Vietnam and the women's liberation movementInterview with Sandra Hawker and Helen Jarvis
Can you describe your experience in the antiwar movement in Canberra?
HJ: We had to fight for our right to protest. For instance, there was one demonstration outside the Lodge in 1966, where we burned an Australian flag. About half a dozen of us were arrested for that. Unfortunately for the authorities, when they went to charge us, they found there was no law against burning the flag. The only possible charge was the misdemeanour of " burning rubbish in a public place". They couldn't call the flag rubbish, so they decided not to charge us.
Was that your only political activity?
HJ: I joined the ALP at the time, but it was mainly in order to oppose the war. There was a Liberal government prosecuting the war, and there was opposition to the war within the Labor Party, at least from its left wing, though the right was trying to water down or overturn the policy. We were also involved in a group called the Pluralist Society that linked together leftists of various hues, from Fabians to communists to libertarians, who had been strong in the Sydney Push in the 1950s.
More details pls visit :
http://www.angelfire.com/pr/red/vietnam_war/vietnam_and_feminism.htm
Can you describe your experience in the antiwar movement in Canberra?
HJ: We had to fight for our right to protest. For instance, there was one demonstration outside the Lodge in 1966, where we burned an Australian flag. About half a dozen of us were arrested for that. Unfortunately for the authorities, when they went to charge us, they found there was no law against burning the flag. The only possible charge was the misdemeanour of " burning rubbish in a public place". They couldn't call the flag rubbish, so they decided not to charge us.
Was that your only political activity?
HJ: I joined the ALP at the time, but it was mainly in order to oppose the war. There was a Liberal government prosecuting the war, and there was opposition to the war within the Labor Party, at least from its left wing, though the right was trying to water down or overturn the policy. We were also involved in a group called the Pluralist Society that linked together leftists of various hues, from Fabians to communists to libertarians, who had been strong in the Sydney Push in the 1950s.
More details pls visit :
http://www.angelfire.com/pr/red/vietnam_war/vietnam_and_feminism.htm
3 comments:
Ha Ha Ha!
Helen Javis,she is khmer but not khmerrr,please tell the world the truth.
Helen make come your King Ta Sihanouk to tell to the World.We people khmer ,we don't kill each other as before,we don't open our eyes but our minds.Please dance and sing ,we are watching you.
Helen,we love our PROFESSOR NARANKIRI TITH ,he is better than you ,he speak well khmer ,he knew who is Sihanouk,Vietcong,he is a real khmerrr!
Hele Jarvis is well knownin Australia for being a Marxist agitprop. In April 1975, together with Ben Kiernan she organized a reception at New South Wales University in Sydney, to celebrate the takeover of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge! It is not by chance that she has been appointed Chief of Public Affairs of the ECCC, Sok An needed a loyal, devoted Marxist agitprop to mislead the international community about the farce that it is the ECCC, beginning with the imbeciles that work at the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh.
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