Monday 27 October 2014

November 6th: Kurdish struggles


                      "Free Kurds do not recognize borders"                  

For this meeting we will discuss the on-going developments with the Kurdish autonomous movement, based on this selection of reading material:

 * Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan: The Council Movement, Gender Liberation, and Ecology (http://www.akpress.org/democratic-autonomy-in-north-kurdistan.html)
(I couldn´t find a pdf of this online anywhere, but will try summarize at the meeting what I will have read from the book)

 * The experiment of West Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) has proved that people can make changes (http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27301)

* A ‘Revolution’ under Attack – the Alternative in midst the War in Syria (http://www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/the-alternative-in-syria/)

 * Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/08/why-world-ignoring-revolutionary-kurds-syria-isis)

 * Rojava revolution: building autonomy in the Middle East (http://roarmag.org/2014/07/rojava-autonomy-syrian-kurds/)

 * VIDEO: Dilar Dirik on Kobane and Kurdish Women’s Movement (http://kurdishquestion.com/kurdistan/video-dilar-dirik-on-kobane-and-kurdish-women-s-movement.html)

 * Anarchists join fight against ISIS to defend Kurdish Autonomous Areas (https://libcom.org/news/anarchists-join-fight-against-isis-defend-kurdish-autonomous-areas-03102014)

 * Defend the Kobanê Resistance (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/09/18762632.php)

***Correction: Meeting will now take place at Leinestraße 48 (Neukölln), Klingel wg.1.og,
and not at the Tempest Library ***