Dear Comrades,
The next issue of our monthly anarchist newspaper Meydan is going to be prepared by Anarchist Women only, as for all March issues. In this issue, we are going to focus on the systematic violence against women, on this violence becoming a state policy and we are going to talk about being a woman in war conditions that we are currently in.
The massacres in the North of Kurdistan has been steadily increasing especially since August, and these war conditions bring about many cases in which the women are used as tool for the war. As seen in many wars throughout history, women are forced to migrate from the lands that are looted by war in our geography. Women are faced with rapes, tortures, they are massacred and their slayed bodies exposed on the streets, "completely naked".
While we, the women, are resisting the systematic violence on one hand, on the other hand, we are resisting against the state politics which are trying to turn our bodies into tools of war.
In this context, as we ask many women around the world, we are waiting to hear your messages against war, to publish them on our paper.
“What is the importance of resisting to the wars of states, while we, as women, are resisting against the violence of men, in other words, the war started by patriarchy? How should women create a struggle against war in practice?
How can women construct peace?”
We are hoping to have your replies with 200-300 words max., on 22 February, Monday, at the latest; in order to share your words with our readers on the March issue.
Long live the women’s solidarity!
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I wonder what women in that
I wonder what women in that Kurdish area of the world feel about this welcome to Donald "grab-em-by-the-pussy" Trump on the part of the Democratic Syria Council:
The state of Rojava congratulates the American people for electing a new president of the USA:
http://en.hawarnews.com/msd-congratulates-americans/
Nymphalis Antiopa wrote: I
Nymphalis Antiopa
I'm no particular supporter of Rojava, however I think those comments could be justified by them hoping that a Trump government will give them arms and military support - which is not an entirely unrealistic hope.
Best of luck to the OP in soliciting responses. We will share this on our social media pages to try to get more people to get in touch with you
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Nymphalis Antiopa
Meydan is the newspaper of Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet. Meydan has published a lot of positive stories of Rojava. Like with many people active in politics in Turkey they have been charged with "making propaganda for the PKK terror group". So I imagine that they may think as I do. That your question is petty, ridiculous and obsessed with the superficial appearance of ideological purity.
But hey, keep looking for the proof you want to to justify whatever it is you are trying to accomplish.
Steven: Quote: I'm no
Steven:
In fact an entirely realistic hope in terms of bourgeois realism which is "justified" only by those who accept politics, changing from "opposition" to collaboration at the drop of a hat and so on. In other words, "justified" to all those who do not wish to oppose dominant social relations. I do not consider that this refusal of politics is
(Flint): it is certainly better than becoming a representative for a budding state and becoming contemptuously impervious to the most obvious criticism.
This is from February, for
This is from February, for the March issue.