Month: Mar 2018

Icelandic anarchist Haukur Hilmarsson killed fighting Erdogan’s fascist invasion

 Icelandic anarchist Haukur Hilmarsson dies fighting with the YPG  against the fascistsIcelander Reportedly Killed In Action In Afrin

Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Haukur Hilmarsson was 32 years old. He was assassinated by the Turkish forces invading Syria in Efrín .
He was part of the Revolutionary Union for Internationalist Solidarity. This group was founded by Greek anarchists in 2015 and is one of the militias of the International Liberation Brigade that helps Yekîneyên Parastinê Gel (Unidades de Defensa Popular, YPG) in its struggle against Arab imperialism, Turkish and Islamic fundamentalism.
The Volunteer has died in the population of Hamshalak and is the third internationalist to have fallen in  Efrîn’s defense after a Breton and a Galician

                                   NO PASARÁN

Icelander Reportedly Killed In Action In Afrin

Words by    @pauldfontaine   
/https://grapevine.is/news/2018/03……. March 7, 2018

Women’s Day Marches attacked by Turkish Fascist Police: 17 Arrested

Turkish police teams on Sunday detained 17 people involved in International Women’s Day celebrations in Ankara and Tekirdağ provinces. International Women’s Day is marked every March 8.

Ten people were detained in front of the Çankaya municipal building in Ankara, while seven were taken into custody in Tekirdağ’s Çorlu Heykel Square after they were subjected to disproportionate force by the police.
Turkish media reports said police took heavy security measures and used pepper spray to disperse the crowds where the celebrations were taking place and that the number of detainees could increase further.

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Why growing up Anarchist made me a better Permaculture Designer

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…..This post intends to share my love for both anarchism and permaculture and why the relationship between them keeps me up at night.

Anarchism and Permaculture

I joined the Anarchist Federation and the Anarchist Youth Network as a young teenager (circa 13-14 years old). While a lot of people have a jaunt at socialism or the Green Party and other escapades and find themselves radicalised by increasing dissolution with liberal ideas, I found I dove into the deep end.

And so began a lifelong love affair with ideas and action that questioned the legitimacy and role of a state, the capitalist economic system and all other forms of intersecting oppression, like racism, sexism and human supremacy.

I hungered for an understanding of all the fucked up things I’d seen or gone through.

”The site Empty Cages Design provides a portfolio of my work as an organiser, designer, agroecologist, educator and writer. It gives a platform to the courses, workshops, events and projects that I organise”.

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Defend LGBT Victims: Stop Crimes against Humanity in Eurasia


by  Tamara Grigoreva and Ismail Djalilov

A wave of brutal crackdowns on LGBT communities in the post-Soviet space has exposed civil society’s shortcomings — and is destroying lives.

B+W illustrations: Anastasia Vikulova.

Every day, before leaving the house, Milan zips his jacket all the way up to his chin. He puts on his sunglasses, hat and earphones with the volume cranked up to the max and walks to a language class.

“People can barely see my face that way, and I can barely hear what is happening around me. I go to class, and then sometimes I meet with the social worker or go to the doctor. Then I have something to eat and set off to walk around the city until I’m so exhausted I can barely walk. Only then do I go home,” Milan says, adding that the thing he is most afraid of is closing his eyes and not being able to fall asleep.

 see also .. Gay concentration camps in Chechnya – Wikipedia

Gays Being Attacked and Killed Across Russia, Not Just in Chechnya

Azerbaijan authorities arrest dozens of LGBTQ people

“This is why I prefer to come home so tired that I literally pass out. Otherwise, every time I close my eyes, I feel the cold concrete floor against my stomach, I can taste the blood on my tongue, hear the shouting of the guards and see those smeared walls.”

Almost a year after Russia’s Novaya Gazeta broke horrific accounts of the roundups and severe torture that gay men were subjected to in Chechnya (the exact number of deaths remains unknown), the crisis is far from over.

Though many gay men in Chechnya, like Milan, fled abroad with the help of Russian LGBT rights defenders, they still have to hide their real identities and locations to prevent possible harassment from the Chechen intelligence — just like in Chechnya.

Over the summer of 2017, reports of similar crimes across the North Caucasus increased, and in September, reports of similar roundups, humiliation and torture against LGBT people (who allegedly had STDs and were involved in sex work) emerged from Azerbaijan — and in October, Tajikistan created a registry of LGBT citizens after police conducted operations to identity them.

While each crisis had its specifics, they all were used by the authorities to demonstrate their ability to crush any vulnerable community in an atmosphere of impunity, as well as to divert attention from other issues and extort money from the victims.

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8th March..First Ever Feminist General Strike called in Spain

Its a Feminist women’s strike. In order to give it legal coverage it had to be officially registered by a Trade Union, in this case the anarchist CGT. But it’s not legal to call a Women’s Strike in Spain, so they went one further and registered it as the first feminist General Strike. Legal and official.

CGT women officially registered the Feminist General Strike 

Why is the feminist strike on March 8 different from all the others?

The mobilizations and the strike for International Women’s Day are called in more than 150 countries for a more just and egalitarian society. This is just one of the data that makes this call unique. la página web de la Comisión 8M.

On March 8, International Women’s Day, a new, unprecedented strike was called for, a women’s strike, which shouts to want them “free, alive, feminist, combative and rebellious”. Thus, a call is made to support the stoppages, for all women who can and for all women who do not. But do you know what this feminist strike means and why it is not like the others?

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Afrin defenders ambush and defeat Turkish ‘Special Force’ Butchers

  Special Police  of Turkey  Credit: Anadolu

see also.. Massive demonstrations for Afrin on March 3rd

Turkey suffered heavy losses on Thursday during its invasion of Afrin with the military announcing that eight soldiers were killed and admitting 13 more wounded. The defenders reported 33 more deaths among the hired FSA mercenaries used by the Turkish state.

The day’s toll brings the number of Turkish soldiers killed since the launch of operation “Olive Branch” to at least 40.

The private Dogan news agency reported that intense fighting had broken out in the afternoon between  invadingTurkish special forces units recently deployed in Afrin and YPG members, who mounted an ambush with the help of tunnels.

According to the report a Turkish helicopter sent to rescue the wounded had to turn back after being hit, while the area was shelled to allow the Turkish forces to flee.. the Kurdish forces  damaged aCobra helicopter and destroyed at least two Turkish military vehicles in the Reco district on Thursday.A member of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) takes part in a demonstration alongside Syrian-Kurds in the town of Amuda Credit: AFP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was informed of the incident during a visit to Senegal.

The defenders admitted that twenty-three YPG / YPJ fighters have died in the battles over the last 24 hours in  Reco. Two columns of a hundred militiamen stormed in surprise the Turkish pro positions in response to the helicopter attack against Kurdish positions.

HoweverTurkish aviation, with Russian and Syrian flight permission and using NATO equipment, detected the tunnel where they fell back and performed a massacre.

An injured girl receives treatment at the Avrin hospital in the Kurdish-majority town of Afrin Credit: AFP Continue reading “Afrin defenders ambush and defeat Turkish ‘Special Force’ Butchers”

The 1001 Crimes of Adolf Erdogan : #1002.. Abuses Little Girl on Stage

Execrable Erdogan Imitates Hitler: Kisses, fondles Girl  and proclaims her ‘Ready for Martyrdom’

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan exploited a little girl in military uniform and said that she is ready for martyrdom

.shared from ANF

In a speech in Maras province, Erdogan also said that the girl will be honored with the Turkish flag if she were to be martyred.

The little girl in military uniform was ‘invited’ to the podium during Erdogan’s speech. As she cried Erdogan said: “You see we have maroon berets, too. But a maroon beret does not cry. A special command, a colonel, a maroon beret… Wonderful! Her Turkish flag is in her pocket. If she becomes a martyr, [her coffin] will be covered with a flag, God willing. She is ready for everything, is she not ?”

Since the speech, thousands of social media users shared Erdogan’s photo with the little girl compared to the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler standing next to a child soldier.

shared from ANF news

Atrocious Erdo gets off on kissing his victim.

see also…   Turkey’s president says all he wants is same powers as Hitler
Erdoğan caught Smuggling Arms to Libyan Jihadis.. again

By  TM     In a bid to plant a closely aligned Islamist zealot as the ruler of Libya, the Erdoğan government has not only been facilitating the shipment of arms and the smuggling of oil but has also been helping in the transfer of jihadists back and forth between Libya and Turkey. The trace of evidence revealing his government’s involvement has now found its way to the UN documents as well. I hope one day he and his associates will be held accountable for fuelling the war in this North African country ……

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Erdoğan threatens the world with exporting jihadist terrorists ..

2 days ago – by Abdullah Bozkurt. Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ratcheted up his usual anti-Western diatribe, taking it a step further to threatening Europe in particular with a flood of returning jihadists, warning that countries had better cooperate with Turkey or risk seeing a wave of terrorism in their…

… continues   HERE

Feb 21, 2018   Erdogan actually declared war on all countries that were part of the Ottoman Empire from Morocco to Mecca and from Vienna to Persia. He declared war on well over 30 countries. Erdogan is a mad man, even a mad dog. Someone will have to put him on a strong …

………………continues   HERE

1001 More Crimes

  • 154th journalist imprisoned in Turkey by ErdoganAsli Ceren Aslan, editor of the newspaper Özgür Gelecek (Free Future) was arrested on 9 February in the province of Urfa province, Kurdish southeast of Turkey. She was “officially” arrested in Urfa, near the border with Syria while following the events in Syria and Rojava Kurdistan.
  • Damning UN report slams Turkey, revealing the extent of its anti-Kurdish war
    Damning UN report slams Turkey, revealing the extent of its anti-Kurdish war
     

Feminists Seve, Fatma and Pakiza killed.

  • Ambulance blocked by police. DBP Silopi District Co-Chair, Gülşen Özden speaking to Hatice Kamer with BBC Turkish in Silopi as to killings of politician women said she received a phone call around 7:35 p.m. and the voice on the other end said they were shot and called for an ambulance. “They phoned me again in a few minutes. They hung up the phone saying ‘We are losing blood, hurry up. We all will die if you don’t come in 10 minutes’.Feminists Seve, Fatma and Pakiza killed. Ambulance blocked by police. DBP Silopi District Co-Chair, Gülşen Özden speaking to BBC Turkish in Silopi on killings of politician women said she received a phone call around 7:35 p.m. and the voice on the other end said they were shot and called for an ambulance.  “They phoned me again in a few minutes saying ‘We are losing blood, hurry up. We all will die if you don’t come in 10 minutes’. By the time the bodies were rescued they held 19 bullets.  Daily massacres took place in Eastern Turkey (North Kurdistan) as the Turkish police and half million strong army indulged in pogroms against the Kurdish population, who demand autonomous self-rule (but not a new state).
  • Turkish invasion in Afrin leaves ‘grim tally’ of children killed, ‘fleeing families’  – UNICEF