WOMEN AND ACTIVISM

Then - what
- peace, free speech, political or womens rights, price control for gas/cost of living, proper kindergartens and teachers.
- solidarity between the women for the Fairley case.
- 1969 equal pay issue
- education - smaller classes, there were hardly any kindergartens at all, more buildings & teachers.
- child care
- reproductive rights
Then - how
- marches,
- housewives association, talking against the state.
- during cold war stood in the street, they were spat on and abused.
- lobby David Jones and Myers to get rid of war toys,
- songs - folk, aprons with slogans, they would door knock

Today - what
- child care
- paid maternity leave
- refugees, housing, environment
- voilence against women and children is still a problem
- reclaim the night
- work - AWA
- cancer awareness, health and body image.
- aged drivers.

Today - how
- civil disobedience
- boycotting (items/Nestle)
- lobbying (lobby your mp)
- non voilent confrontation
- terrorism, media activisim (eg speech bubble)
- protest music
- voluntary simplicity - seachange, hillchange
- strike action
- craftivism - networking

1. Australian Women Work
When the UAW was formed in 1950, the dominant view was that women's place was in the home, with children. At the same time women were welcome in the factories as a source of cheap labour. There was no day-long child care. Whole suburbs were without kindergartens and libraries. Equal Pay was opposed. Contraceptive advice was difficult to obtain. Abortion was a crime. Indigenous Australians were not citizens and White Autralia ruled supreme. The Cold War was at its height.
The women who founded the UAW had grown up in an Australia of hard times, of deprivation and loss, arising out of two world wars and a devastating economic depression.
The UAW founders wanted a world which minimised the risk of war through disarmament and a society where wealth and opportunity were more equally distributed. They were prepared to work publicly for their goals, not just by attending meetings, writing letters and lobbying politicians, but by making themselves visible on the streets.

2. Current Campaigns
Elimination of violence against women
Abortion law reform and reproductive rights
Affordable public housing and health
Rights for asylum seekers

3. Ecofeminism
Ecofeminism is a social and political movement which unites environmentalism and feminism[1], with some currents linking deep ecology and feminism.[2] Ecofeminists argue that a relationship exists between the oppression of women and the degradation of nature, and explore the intersectionality between sexism, the domination of nature, racism, speciesism, and other characteristics of social inequality. Some current work emphasizes that the capitalist and patriarchal system is based on triple domination of the "Southern people" (those people who live in the Third World, the majority of which are south of the First World), women, and nature.

4.
They campaign for issues involving third world countries, for racism, feminism and to save the environment.