Rojava Kurdistan, Murray Bookchin and regional Kurdish politics
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DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
LDC
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From what I can work out the one this week at SOAS is open to the public, and the UCL one next week is ticketed and for UCL students only.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
I sees
gawkrodger
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Yep - the SOAS one was arranged whilst there was still a ban @ UCL.
The UCLU reckons (due to the attention from their ban!) the event will be oversubscribed and have thus said it's for UCL members only - not that I would ever say this, but I've never encountered a problem with non-UCL people getting into similar UCL only events!
The UCLU reckons (due to the attention from their ban!) the event will be oversubscribed and have thus said it's for UCL members only - not that I would ever say this, but I've never encountered a problem with non-UCL people getting into similar UCL only events!
gawkrodger
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oh, and sensible people in the UCLU have won out. This from the president of the Kurdish soc.
gawkrodger
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oh completely! Former city boy and Tory councillor!
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
Very much like Jordan Matson who comes out with some weird stuff, he posted a rant about people who are against the Confederate flag which you wouldn't think would be the first thing on his mind at the moment. I'm not going to slag them off though, they are actually willing to go there and fight, defending the Kurds against ISIS, they deserve a lot of leeway to come out with silly stuff
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
WTF?
Soldier who went to fight Isis in Syria arrested in Manchester
Why is he being charged with terrorism offences when others haven't? Is it just because he went to fight while on the run so they are doing the usual 'charge him with everything we can and we'll see what sticks'?
Soldier who went to fight Isis in Syria arrested in Manchester
Why is he being charged with terrorism offences when others haven't? Is it just because he went to fight while on the run so they are doing the usual 'charge him with everything we can and we'll see what sticks'?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It'll be preparation of terrorist offences - that means joining/seeking to join the PKK. That's what they'll have him on.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Calm down everyone. Has he been charged? The article just says arrested under, which is nowt really. I suspect the issues is as much he breached a suspended sentence tbh.
I hope he has a good lawyer for the questioning.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
wasn't that young girl who tried to go join the ypj chucked into young offendors?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Her offence was what I suggested might apply in this case and relates to the pkk, not the ypg. But yeah, that's where she now is. For a bit.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
No. She went to join the PKK. And reading this article makes it seem a bit more complicated than that... Teenage girl who ran away to fight Isis jailed for 21 months
Note to all Urban75 posters: when running off to join a banned armed organization, don't leave letters to all and sundry announcing your intention, it doesn't look good in the court case.
Note to all Urban75 posters: when running off to join a banned armed organization, don't leave letters to all and sundry announcing your intention, it doesn't look good in the court case.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS’ Backyard
In May, I saw an announcement on Facebook for the Mesopotamian Social Sciences Academy, a new, coed university in Rojava’s de facto capital, Qamishli. This in itself was revolutionary. For years, Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, forbade many Syrian Kurds to study. In ISIS territory just 15 miles away, Kurdish girls were routinely tortured for being Westernized heretics — sometimes tied by their ponytails to car bumpers and dragged to their deaths. In Rojava, they were being educated.
When I sent a message to the academy’s Facebook page, requesting more information, I received a reply from Yasin Duman, a Kurdish graduate student living in Turkey. He had taught several courses there, he said, and when he found out I was a writer and professor in New York, we discussed a journalism class. Duman explained that Rojava’s youth had little experience with the idea of free speech. Perhaps I could teach them: ‘‘A free people has to have freedom of speech,’’ he said. It would be a cultural exchange. I would teach writing, and my students would show me what life was like in Rojava. We decided that I would spend a week in July giving a crash course in journalism basics: how to report, how to interview and how to document the war raging around them.
Now, after three months and at least as many logistical hiccups, I was about to see this strange political experiment for myself. The official led us out of the office and onto a ramshackle skiff. We were technically entering a failed state. Yet when we came ashore on the other side of the river and passed a brick guard tower staffed with armed men, I saw a red, green and yellow tricolor banner — the flag of Rojava.
In May, I saw an announcement on Facebook for the Mesopotamian Social Sciences Academy, a new, coed university in Rojava’s de facto capital, Qamishli. This in itself was revolutionary. For years, Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, forbade many Syrian Kurds to study. In ISIS territory just 15 miles away, Kurdish girls were routinely tortured for being Westernized heretics — sometimes tied by their ponytails to car bumpers and dragged to their deaths. In Rojava, they were being educated.
When I sent a message to the academy’s Facebook page, requesting more information, I received a reply from Yasin Duman, a Kurdish graduate student living in Turkey. He had taught several courses there, he said, and when he found out I was a writer and professor in New York, we discussed a journalism class. Duman explained that Rojava’s youth had little experience with the idea of free speech. Perhaps I could teach them: ‘‘A free people has to have freedom of speech,’’ he said. It would be a cultural exchange. I would teach writing, and my students would show me what life was like in Rojava. We decided that I would spend a week in July giving a crash course in journalism basics: how to report, how to interview and how to document the war raging around them.
Now, after three months and at least as many logistical hiccups, I was about to see this strange political experiment for myself. The official led us out of the office and onto a ramshackle skiff. We were technically entering a failed state. Yet when we came ashore on the other side of the river and passed a brick guard tower staffed with armed men, I saw a red, green and yellow tricolor banner — the flag of Rojava.
miss direct
misfungled
I could lose my job and paperwork to be here in Turkey for sharing things like that 
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
coley
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Couldn't get past the advert for Tomb raider!
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
For those that might have some cash there's 'Solidarity with Rojava: 3K in 31 days' fundraising effort by Plan C
Solidarity with Rojava: 3K in 31 Days
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solidarity-with-rojava-3k-in-31-days#/
Solidarity with Rojava: 3K in 31 Days
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solidarity-with-rojava-3k-in-31-days#/
sunnysidedown
caput mortuum
i've not read this yet, need to pour a drink first.
A new wave of international volunteers is flocking to Kurdish territory in Rojava, Syria to play their part in building a new society. Here, one young British activist tells of his reasons for travelling to join the revolution, and what he saw when he got there.
Revolution in the mountains | Little Atoms
A new wave of international volunteers is flocking to Kurdish territory in Rojava, Syria to play their part in building a new society. Here, one young British activist tells of his reasons for travelling to join the revolution, and what he saw when he got there.
Revolution in the mountains | Little Atoms
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Half way to the goal in 48 hours, pretty good going!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solidarity-with-rojava-3k-in-31-days#/
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solidarity-with-rojava-3k-in-31-days#/
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Good article here about ways of showing solidarity with the struggle in Syria
7 Ways in 7 Days We Can Show Solidarity with the People of Syria
7 Ways in 7 Days We Can Show Solidarity with the People of Syria
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
interested.
its not on the calendar at Hydra, but definitely monday 14th? time - ish..?
cheers.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Def . Will be start 7-30 latest, so in doors for booze coffee at 7 etc Will pm you #
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