tomorrow is a very interesting meeting in London.
check these articles:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/08/why-world-ignoring-revolutionary-kurds-syria-isis
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/24/isis-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-jason-burke
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*Date: *Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:13:15
*To: *KNK <knklondon@??? <
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*Subject: *The Rojava Revolution: Kobane, resistance and radical democracy
*_The Rojava Revolution: Kobane, resistance and radical democracy
A Day of Discussions with Activists
_*/Sunday 2nd November, 2pm
Halkevi Community Centre, 31-33 Dalston Lane, E8 3DF
/Session 1 – 2pm – 3:30pm
*/Moderator
/Glyn Harries, */is a political activist and trade unionist in Hackney
since the 1980s.
/
*/Speakers
/*
*Alan Semo*, /PYD representative in the UK and member of foreign affairs
and relations office will talk about the popular resistance of the
Rojava revolution.
/
*Ayse Tekagac*, /is a postgraduate in conflict studies, and a member of
the London based Kurdish women’s organisation Roj Women. Ayse's talk
will focus on the findings and experience during gender based research
fieldwork in Rojava.
/
Session 2 – 4pm – 6pm
*/Moderator
/Memed Aksoy, */is a filmmaker, writer at kurdishquestion.com
<
http://kurdishquestion.com> <
http://kurdishquestion.com> and activist.
/
*Isabel Millar, */is an MA student at Birkbeck University and is
developing a thesis on the crisis of gendered identity, nation state-ism
and global warfare. Her talk is entitled ‘Disillusioned Rudeboys: Jihadi
Recruits And The Machine Of Capitalism.’
/
*Dilar Dirik,* /is a Kurdish activist and PhD student at the University
of Cambridge. Her talk is titled ‘beyond armed struggle: Two opposing
systems - the Kurdish women's fight against ISIS.’
*
*/
*/David Graeber, /*/is an anthropologist/
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropologist> /, author/
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author> /, anarchist/
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism> /and activist/
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist> /who is currently Professor of
Anthropology at the LSE/
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics> /. His talk is
titled ‘The Occupy Movement, Horizontalism and the Rojava Experiment.’
Note: Discussions will be in English and there will not be translation.
/
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