Landelijke demonstratie: Stop de aanvallen op Afrin
Nieuws, gepost door: nn op 25/01/2018 01:04:11
Wanneer: 25/01/2018 - 16:22
Aanstaande zaterdag is er een wereldwijde actiedag tegen de aanvallen van de Turkse staat en door hen getrainde islamistische facties van de FSA. Ook in Amsterdam zal een demonstratie plaatsvinden, er wordt vanaf 14:00 verzameld voor het stadhuis.
Ook in Duitsland zullen in verschillende steden demonstraties plaats vinden, o.a. in Frankfurt en Marburg. Lees hierover ook in het Duits: https://de.indymedia.org/node/17239
Meer info volgt.
Noot: wees voorbereid op stevige repressie vanuit de politie maar ook nationalistische Turken. Reis in groepen en bereid jezelf voor.
Update 26-01-2018
An update from welinformed comrades. The situation in Afrin is not the 'pretty' picture dictator Erdogan is spreading. The operation is not going as 'fast' as he is saying. A comrade: "In general the morale of the comrades in Afrin is very high. The invasion [by the Turkish army and its militias] has been stopped on all sides and several villages have been retaken. Several tanks have been destoyed and a high number of enemies have been killed or captured, including 4 dead Turkish military officers."
"On the side of the comrades of the SDF the number of victim fighters is low, but there is a high amount of civilian casualties due to the heavy artillery bombardment and airstrikes."
Sources for news from the front and inside Rojava (in contrast to the international media which is mostly quoting Ankara):
ANF news: https://anfenglish.com & http://firatnews.com
The Region: http://theregion.org/ (successor of Kurdish Question)
For cards with live information on events:
Syria.liveuamap.com
syriancivilwarmap.com
Koerden vrezen geweld tijdens betoging
Zaterdag komen Koerden in Amsterdam de straat op om te protesteren tegen de Turkse militaire invasie in het noorden van Syrië. Erdogan-aanhangers drongen bij de gemeente aan op een verbod.
https://www.ravage-webzine.nl/2018/01/26/koerden-bevreesd-voor-geweld-ti...
Mocht het onverhoopt tot confrontaties komen en mochten mensen daarna behoefte hebben aan contact met het Support & Recovery team, dan kan dat door een mailtje te sturen naar sr-team (at) xs4all.nl.
Nederlandstalige S&R flyer hier: https://supportrecoveryteam.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/flyer-herstel-en...
Engelstalige S&R flyer hier: https://supportrecoveryteam.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/flyer-recovery-a...
Meer info over Support & Recovery is hier te vinden: https://supportrecoveryteam.wordpress.com/
A list of texts from a variety of English language sources about developing struggles and revolts in Rojava, Tunisia, and Iran
https://autonomies.org/2018/01/sleep-now-in-the-fire-rojava-iran-and-tun...
Ⓐ Internationalists defend Afrin against fascism ☭
http://kurdistan-autogestion-revolution.com/post/170163796500/les-intern...
Statement from the Internationalist Commune of Rojava – Defending the Revolution Means Defending Afrin
Posted January 28, 2018 by Internationalist Commune
Defending the Revolution Means Defending Afrin
As internationals in Rojava, we came to learn about, support, and help organize the revolution. Some of us have been here for years, some of us just for a few months, but we all realise the importance of what is happening here. Many who travelled here simply to help in the fight against the Islamic State also came to learn about and appreciate the values of the Rojava Revolution.
We have learned a lot in Rojava and have acquired a deeper understanding of what it means for the people to make a revolution. But our aim is not only to have a better understanding of what is happening here – we also want to learn how to spread this revolution to our movements and countries. With the foundation of the Internationalist Commune, we became a space where other internationals found ways to be part of the revolution and to discuss what this revolution can mean for our different societies.
The women’s movement in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria is an essential reference point for women’s struggles towards freedom around the world. A society based on communal organization, where people solve their problems in a collective way, shows us how people can become a society outside the centralized systems of the nation-state. The principles of social ecology inspiring this movement are powerful values which allow society to emancipate itself from the ecological destruction of the capitalist system.
While the extraordinary strength of the Kurdish women’s movement is known all over the world and the local communes in all of the neighborhoods and villages of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria have made great strides in deepening the democratic structures, the urgency of ecological work has been heightened by both the global and local crises. In the construction of the Internationalist Academy of Rojava, we took into account these fundamental values of the revolution. And thats why, along with the international women autonomous group, and the commune based organization, we also began to organize ecological projects, that will be part of the Academy we are now building.
The ideas of an ecological Academy and tree nursery cooperative, reforesting existing natural reserves, and organizing education about ecological issues, grew stronger with every meeting and discussion we had, both internally and with the different municipality committees of the Democratic Self-administration. We conducted research, studied similar projects, and reviewed the various ongoing projects that the Committees of Ecology and Economy are developing in their fields. With these discussions and experiences, in the last few months we developed what will soon be the first official project of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava: ‘Make Rojava Green Again’.
But since the Turkish Army’s invasion of Afrin Canton on January 20th, we have been forced to rethink our work as the Internationalist Commune. This ruthless attack has reminded us of what the reality is in Rojava and the Middle East: various capitalist powers with imperialist aspirations imposing their interests against the people. Death and destruction are part of the strategy. Erdogan’s dangerous plans don’t stop at his intended ethnic cleansing of Syrian Kurds, but threaten all the population of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.
This last week has shown the depth of the preparation and popular resistance of the people of Afrin in the face of the enemy’s attacks. The shelling and air strikes targeting civilians, the occupation of land and villages, and the invasion by military forces needs to be answered, because fascism advances if it is not fought. The Turkish Army is the second-largest in NATO, an organization guided by the imperialist aspirations of the USA. But Russia is also an accomplice in this invasion, and colluded with the Turkish state elites in allowing it to take place.
The people of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria want to live in peace and freedom, and we share this wish. But we cannot sit idly by while this brutal attack against a civilian population is ongoing. The military defense forces are fighting to protect the people, but the civilian population is also preparing itself.
With this situation, we believe that it is more important than ever to keep working to defend the revolution. In this sense, we decided to give direct support and join the mobilization of society for the defense of Afrin. We will help the people in the preparation of their defense wherever we can, and we will do our best to spread the news from Afrin and Rojava around the world.
But defending a revolution also means building something new. Therefore we will stick to our plan to launch the ‘Make Rojava Green Again’ campaign on February 3rd. In the face of the fascist terror of the Turkish state, we will not be able to implement every aspect of the campaign now, but we will start with our work to become part of the emerging ecological society.
We call on everybody to show solidarity with the resistance in Afrin and to support it in every possible way! Go out on the streets, rise up against the fascist attacks of the Turkish state and its accomplices! Get in touch with the existing solidarity networks and help to defend Afrin!
Make Rojava green again!
Long live the Rojava revolution!
Long live the resistance of the oppressed peoples!
https://internationalistcommune.com/statement-defend-afrin/