Pedestal: A Women's Liberation Newspaper
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is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1970-10
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/pedestal/items/1.0340833/source.json
extent: 16 pages
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note: g#»A a women's SR/ liberation newspaper >W 4A^1 .15 Pedestal typeset by voluntary labor; printed by union labor Published by Vancouver Women's Caucus WHAT'S INSIDE: Leila Khelad the Palestinian Revolution ..p2 •Makaroff ..p3 •Woman Driver P7 •Cunninghams Boycott p8-9 The Wobblies ..p13 Women of the Blues ..p14 ) page two/the pedestal/october 1970 W *s* I Kavxl itoo AAotiboes Ut life.— 'Frbw>oh For WoMekj' * FReeOort K* T^&STlNB I homeland. Li lei la u OWAtAi A spokesman in Jordan revealed that the last of the hijack hostages have been released by the Arab commandos. In doubt now are the fates of six Arab guerrillas held by Western governments, whose freedom was the initial goal of the hijacking. A seventh Arab commando, Leila Khelad, has been assured of her release by the British government, who have announced that they intend to abide by their decision to release her when the hostages were freed. She was arrested after an abortive attempt to hijack an El Al airliner en route to New York; her male comrade was shot and killed by armed guards. Leila Khelad can trace her commitment to the Palestinian cause back to her childhood in Lebanon, where she learned that the Zionists had usurped her lany Palestinians of her generation, she was educated at the American University of Beirut, where her exposure to the ideas of Arab and Palestinian, liberation led her into the Arab nationalist movement. With the outbreak of the 1967 war, Leila became an active revolutionary, joining the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. For some time she instructed Tiger Cubs (teen-age commandos) in everything from weapons training to' political understanding. In a war where women bear arms on both sides, Leila's activism does not seem remarkable. "In our revolution, the woman has just as big a role to play as her male counterpart." She is no stranger to aerial guerrilla warfare. On August 29, 1969, she successfully commandeered a TWA jet to Syria. This is how she describes that experi…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0340833
language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
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source: Original Format: Simon Fraser University. Archives and Records Management
subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text