Demonstrators protest Monsanto Co. in Paris on May 23. The company says it will appeal a ruling by a French court that its herbicide Lasso poisoned a French farmer. (Mal Langsdon/Reuters)
An appeals court in Lyon, France has upheld a 2012 ruling against Monsanto, in which the agribusiness giant was found guilty of the chemical poisoning a farmer named Paul François. byLorraine Chowat EcoWatch with thanks
An armed Kurdish militant in the Turkish town of Cizre in Sirnak province, near the border with Syria. Photograph: STRINGER/TURKEY/ …
Over 5,000 Turkish police and army have descended on the remote, embattled town of Cizre in recent days, cutting off roads and doing a door-to-door operation against the community’s defiant street youth. Cizre is the first, the State threatens to ”send 5000 troops to each of 20 Kurdish cities”. Over 40 Kurdish deputies are on the March to Save Cizre, which began as a convoy but was blocked by police. As a response to the Turkish crackdown dozens of Kurdish towns have declared autonomy, following the anti authoritarian and anarchist feminist program of the long imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan. Turkey is a NATO country controlled and supplied by the US, which agreed to ignore the anti-Kurd war in exchange for use of the Incirlik airbase.
Kurdistan News In Bakur, it seems like a number of areas have now declared self-governance and are treating AKP-state as illegitimate LIBCOM.ORG
Kurdish politicians attacked by police on their way to Cizre
ŞIRNAK – ANF /ANF 2015-09-10
Riot police forces have blocked the delegation of Kurdish politicians on their way from İdil to Cizre district of Şırnak Thursday morning. The prevention was grounded on an order from the Ministry of the Interior. Continue reading “latest..March To Save Cizre: Turkish Police attack”
As the armed conflict deepens in Turkey, political leaders are burning political bridges needed to end the violence.
08 Sep 2015 .. from Al Jazeera with thanks
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced the government’s intent to ‘wipe out’ the PKK fighters [Reuters]
Nearly two months after renewed fighting between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces dashed hopes for an historic ceasefire, a deadly cycle of violence gripped Turkey’s Kurdish southeast, recalling the darkest days of the three-decade-long conflict.
08/09/2015 HDP HQ in Ankara burned with 100’s of other Kurdish targets across Turkey
MikeGilli. Since the docu was made the activist Ada Colau has been elected mayor of Barcelona, propelled by the PAH movement under the banner ‘Barcelona in Common’, her team have been able to stop many more evictions in the city and order ‘her’ city police not to enforce eviction orders. An estimated 250,000 people evictions have been carried out since the’crisis’ began. Continue reading “See the PAH Docu: Inspiring Mutual Aid Stops Evictions”
1. a brief philosophical introduction to anarchism Jesse Cohn
22. Anarchism in History
23. Anarchism in History MEXICO 1912 UKRAINE 1917 USA 1886 SPAIN 1936 FRANCE 1871
24. Anarchism in Culture
25. Anarchism in U.S. Politics
26. What Isn’t Anarchism? Alexander Berkman (1870-1936 ) “ Before I tell you what Anarchism is, I want to tell you what it is not . . . “ It is not bombs, disorder, or chaos. “ It is not robbery and murder. “ It is not a war of each against all. “ It is not a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. “ Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.”
27. What Is Anarchism? Continue reading “slideshow: Jesse Cohn’s ‘Intro to Anarchism’.. 282 Slides”
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