Indigenous activists blocked several streets in Quito on Monday, demonstrating their rejection of the economic package announced by Lenin Moreno’s government.
Footage shows the activists from indigenous communities in the Guangopolo area east of Quito blocking roads with rocks, stones, tree trunks and barricades.
“Our comrades are coming from the south, from the north, from the centre; from the east and, [with them] comes the seizure of Quito. Comrades and [I give you] a suggestion, get water and food supplies,” said indigenous leader Sebastián Correa, adding, “we are willing to give our life.”
Streets surrounding the civic centre of the locality also remain without commercial activity, blocked off by fences and barbed wire. …
Ecuador is experiencing a wave of protests triggered by the announcement of the so-called ‘paquetazo’, a series…
Bombing and shelling let loose along the whole border.
To bomb Rojava Erdogan certainly has Airspace Use permission from the US, making Trump a direct War Criminal.
Turkey has also let loose its paid jihadi mercenaries who are attacking the Kobani area, hoping to murder, loot and rape.
22:00 Turkish aggression on Gire Spi killed a couple in the village of Mikalta.
21:52 Turkish jets strike the vicinity of al-Chirkin prison in Qamishlo where ISIS prisoners are held. Mustefa Bali, head of SDF Press Office, said the place is where the most dangerous jihadists are held.
Rumours say that Turkey will use the same tactic as in the Afrin invasion. That is to prolong a massive bombardment to make the surviving people flee, never to be let return, before setting up military bases. Ethnic cleansing has already begun.
18:27 While the attacks continued around the city of Sêrikaniyê with mortars, Sêrikaniyê Military Assembly forces responded. There are thousands of civilians in the city, children, old people, this is pure fascist terror .. 21:28 .. Al-Nusra gangs and the Turkish army are heavily bombing Serekaniye from three sides. The occupation forces attempt to enter the area amid intense artillery fire.
21:08Clashes with heavy weapons continue at Qamishlo border. The Turkish army continues with mortar attacks against the city center, leaving some civilians wounded.
21:00Agression on Bisheriya neighborhood of Qamishlo left 25-year-old Syriac woman Juliet Nikola and 37-year-old Fadi Hapsono heavily wounded. The ongoing bombardment has caused fire in some houses.20:45SDF: Three of our fighters and five civilians have been martyred.20:44Turkish army and allies are heavily shelling the Qamishlo and Gire Spi city centers.20:38
SDF fighters have destroyed a tank of the Turkish army at Derik border.
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The invading Turkish army is shelling the village of Sülük in Kobanê with howitzers. SDF forces are responding.
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Violent clashes reported between the occupying Turkish state and SDF fighters in Eyn Dîwarê, a district of Derik.
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Upon hearing that the Turkish state launched attacks on Rojava, the Kurds and their friends living in the Swedish capital Stockholm stood up for the defense of Rojava.
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Warplanes belonging to the invading Turkish army are bombing around Girê Spî. Movement of warplanes continues in the region.
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A civilian was killed and 1 injured in the attack of the Turkish army against the Syrian and Assyrian neighborhood of Bêşiriye in Qamishlo.
Aquesta és la "pau" d'Erdogan. Aquesta és la "zona de seguretat" que vol a Rojava, un territori que fins aquest matí era una de les àrees mes pacífiques de tota Síria
— Azadî Plataforma #Riseup4Rojava (@AzadiPlataforma) October 9, 2019
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In Dêrik, the people protested the Turkish state’s invasion of northern and eastern Syria. People marched chanting slogans on the streets of the city.
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While the attacks continued around the city of Sêrikaniyê with mortars, Sêrikaniyê Military Assembly forces responded. There are thousands of civilians in the city.
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A 6-year-old boy in the village of Sê Girka in Qamishlo was wounded during the attack of the occupying Turkish state. In the same area, the Turkish army shot a vehicle belonging to civilians.
Responding to the Turkish state’s occupation attack, HDP co-chair Sezai Temelli said in a statement, “Let us give voice to Rojava. Let’s speak out against this war against the Kurdish people”.
Turkey’s jihadi mercenaries vow to massacre Kurds. “Strike them with an iron fist, make them taste the hell of your fires,” a statement from the so-called National Army, the main Turkey-backed rebel force told its fighters.. Al Jazeera.
Erdogan has gone too far with his dictatorship, purges, economic wrecking and corruption. His own AKP Party is rapidly losing members. But he has gained huge personal dictatorial powers. The biggest demonstrations against the Invasion are taking place now in Turkey itself. We should also support them in every way we can and call for a general uprising in Turkey now.
The invasion is going ahead, despite the unanimous rejection by all communities, Arab, Syriac, Christian, Armenian, etc not just Kurdish people in the local towns, as well as most major countries worldwide, with Russia silent.24hr Human Shields protests have been set up along the border with local people vowing to stand before the hundreds of tanks lined up to roll south.
The local councils of various towns and areas have held huge protests and promised to resist Turkish fascism to their last breath.
What was the Erdogan/Trump deal? We don’t know if anonymous money will change hands. It was a Sunday night phone call. It’s possible Trump was drunk or drugged because he later made much of a promise by ‘Erdy’ to save the US the expensive of ISIS detainees, not realizing that the detainees aren’t in US custody anyway. Seems like Trump the dirty dealer didn’t even sell a patriot missile in exchange for gifting his allies country to an insane fascist dictator.
Bombing/Shelling Begins:
#Breaking:Two civilians lost their lives, two others were injured in the Turkish aerial bombardment targeted the village of Misharrafa, west of Ras al-Ain. pic.twitter.com/fZOM8T76I9
— Coordination & Military Ops Center – SDF (@cmoc_sdf) October 9, 2019
Donald Trump has betrayed the heroic fighters who fought and died to save us from ISIS.
To do this he will have personally signed a paper allowing Turkish jets and helicopters to invade the airspace and murder countless innocent people. Donald Tump is now a war criminal and mass murderer.
Protesters, predominantly from the Kurdish town of Ras al-Ayn, marched several miles to reach a base placed on the border with Turkey. Protesters presented a petition calling on coalition forces to halt the rumoured Turkish operation.
[BREAKING] US allows Turkey to attack Rojava! The White House just announced that US “will no longer be in the immediate area” of Northern Syria, allow Turkey to launch an invasion in the region#riseup4rojava
@RISEUP4R0JAVA
A new illegal and genocidal Turkish invasion also helps ISIS fighters to escape. It serves terror and is a real opportunity for Daesh to reorganize itself and thus take control of large areas of Syria. The declaration of war on #Rojava is a threat to the whole world. #riseup4rojava
The US has given Erdogan free rein to flood Rojava with his fast growing mercenary army of jihadi Syrian militias, including many ISIS and Al Qaeda and militias now holed up in Idlib. Erdogan is paying the terrorists 500 Turkish dollars a month and offering loot, land and power destroying Rojava. Especially evil is the promise to destroy the unique womens’ liberation movement, returning women to semi slavery under medieval jihadi rule and implicitly offering the terrorist mercenaries the right to kidnap, rape and torture the heroic YPJ womens defense militia, as is already happening in Afrin.
All they asked for was peace and democracy: This is what Erdogan did to Kurdish cities just over the border in Turkey in 2015.
Erdogan has already taken over Afrin, Al Bab, Azaz, Jarablus and much of Idlib and has openly boasted he will conquer all lands once held by the Ottoman Empire …At home he has gained total dictatorial control, /destroyed Kurdish areas killing thousands and ordered the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of people on suspicion.
What can we do, reading this in some safer and stabler part of the world?
by It’s Going Down .. If the Turkish government and its henchmen expect their extermination fantasies to become reality, they have not taken into account the resistance of the women’s and people’s defense units (YPJ/YPG) and especially the resistance of the people in Northern and Eastern Syria.
Those who have defeated the Islamic state through the sacrifice of thousands of martyrs and the courageous resistance of the population will defend the self-governing areas against a Turkish invasion.
We must all do our part and fulfill our responsibility of defending this revolution!
The military, economic and diplomatic cooperation between Turkey, the USA, NATO and European countries must be exposed and politically attacked. No support for Erdogan, his regime and his war!
No arms supply and no financial or political aid to the Turkish extermination policy!
If democratic movements decide to put the issue on the agenda: in the media, on the streets, in the factories, businesses and classrooms of their countries, then we can develop a common force against Turkey’s war plans.
We must build a permanent political resistance capable of preventing cooperation with Turkish fascism in our countries.
Should it come to Day X, the beginning of a Turkish invasion: take to the streets, take actions, occupy, disrupt and block! Show those responsible in the government offices and company headquarters what you think of their war!
Together we can stop the war of aggression of Turkey! No war against Northern Syria!
The revolution in Northeast Syria will win, fascism will be smashed! ”
”In the event of a Turkish invasion, you can use every means in your power to discredit and impede the Turkish state, Erdogan, Trump, Putin and the others who paved the way for that outcome.
Even if you are not able to stop them—even if you can’t save our lives—you will be part of building the kind of social movements and collective capacity that will be necessary to save others’ lives in the future.
In addition, you can look for ways to get resources to people in this part of the world, who have suffered so much and will continue to suffer as the next act of this tragedy plays out.
7 Oct 2019. Yesterdays massive protests against imminent illegal Turkish Invasion in Sere Kaniye/Ras al-Ayn border.
Erdogan is still being courted by both the US and Russia who see Turkey as strategic, he has defied with impunity the now embattled Trump on the S400 deal and on buying Iranian oil, and now demands permission to use Syrian air space to again bomb the Syrian people before invading.
But over and over he previously claimed he wants to expel the local Kurdish population. ”cleanse Rojava” and restore the Ottoman Empire and is proving his wish in ‘turkifying’ Afrin, so this new senseless invasion would be more ethnic cleansing and attempted genocide.
Erdogan has gained much needed support (his AKP party lost Istanbul city council) by complaining often about the 3.5m Syrian refugees in Turkey, although they are less than 5% of the Turkish population in a huge area. Turkey has already received 6,000,000,000 euros by blackmailing EU taxpayers to support them.
Refugees used again as Human Blackmail by Erdogan to extract money and impunity for Rojava invasion
Meanwhile they are forced to work black for starvation wages, boosting the economy and forcing salaries down for everyone. (The over 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey (actually a tiny minority in a population of 81 million compared with the IDP’s hosted in Rojava and formerly Afrin) are being cruelly exploited as virtual black slave labour while being subsidised with billions of euros by the EU taxpayer with continuous blatant blackmail threats to ” flood Europe” with them.)
And now he is using them as a ridiculous excuse for a new illegal invasion, this time in NE Syria. (The idea of ‘settling’ 2,000,000 refugees in an already occupied rural semi desert region with no resources might appeal to Erdogan’s favourite historical figure: Adolf Hitler).
Lebanon for example has nearly half its population Syrian refugees and gets little aid or attention. Afrin, before the ongoing invasion by Turkey, had nearly doubled its population hosting a huge number of Arab, Christian, Assyrian and Turkmen refugees and was hailed as a model of direct democracy, gender equality and religious and ethnic tolerance.
Despite a siege blockade the Afrin population nearly doubled (172k to 323k ) while Turkey’s has only increased by 4.4% (3.5 million out of 80 million). (The total population of Afrin as of 2005 was recorded at only 172,095 people Wikipedia.) The Turkish takeover has forced a mass exodus of refugees from Afrin amidst documented reports of mass murder, widespread looting , kidnapping, rape, a continuing guerilla war and pillage by the Turkish contracted Jihadi mercenaries and Turkish military.
Once invaded Turkey will NEVER LEAVE, and a guerilla war will continue indefinitely. For example, Turkey refuses to leave Nth Cyprus, or its illegal bases in Iraq,or Afrin, Al Bab, Jarablus, Azaz.. or of course the Syrian province of Hatay, now 80 years invaded and ethnically cleansed.
Erdogan forced more than half Afrin’s population to flee and they still survive in tent camps, seizing their property and importing thousands of jihadi mercenaries, Al Qaeda ex ISIS guerillas, and sponsored the Al Qaesa mini state in Idlib….
…and now has the utter hypocrisy to complain about refugees and announce a new invasion ‘to settle them in a safe area’.
Not only have land grabbers , illegal loggers and big ranchers been given immunity ‘on the nod’ and urged to attack and murder locals and indigenous and burn the forest.. but also, in this case, the police and army are acting illegally on behalf of the local corrupt oligarchy.. Bolsonaro should be tried for crimes against humanity and the planet.
(edited translation) Last week, the National Army, and the Military Police Tactical Force evicted 400 families from the Boa Esperança Camp in Porto Velho, Rondônia.
The residents report that the military acted violently and set fire to the area, arresting Delson Pinto de Souza, a farmer who has been harassed and persecuted for years and has legal ownership of the Boi D’Água area where the Boa Esperança camp is located.
The families were not squatters, De Souza allowed the homeless to build the camp on his land but says that land grabbers in the region have persecuted him as a result. In the past, agents of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio, administrative arm of the Ministry of Environment) have threatened the camp in attempts to force the people off their land. Continue reading “BRAZIL: Army and Military Police evict 400 families in Porto Velho”
A critical look at a landmark book that Extinction Rebellion have placed in central importance in their theory on non-violence.
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I think there are a few issues that arise from the book. Firstly the question of violence itself. Often campaigns and movements adopt non-violent strategies for moral reasons. But the violence that Chenoweth and Stephan talk about is usually terrorist or guerrilla warfare. They aren’t really considering situations where a few windows get broken as part of a much bigger demonstration, or where during a mass, non-violent protest strike or stay-away, a group of protesters might injure or kill a policeman. In fact, in many cases, the authors note that these sort of incidents did occur but class the movements as non-violent.
The problem is that most contemporary movements that argue for these strategies are not arguing against terrorism as a strategy, but arguing that no sort of violence…
20:45SDF: Three of our fighters and five civilians have been martyred.20:44Turkish army and allies are heavily shelling the Qamishlo and Gire Spi city centers.20:38
Ready for Resistance-Call to Day X: No war on Northern Syria
Barcelona demo 17.00 7th Oct
Defeated but defiant. Massacres by Turkish troops and the mercenaries of FSA 
Extinction Rebellion protest outside Cuadrilla’s fracking site at Preston New Road near Blackpool, 10 September 2019. Photo: Extinction Rebellion 
