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As I was posting articles that explained what is happening in Istanbul on my Facebook page last night, someone asked me the following question: ‘What are you hoping to gain by complaining about our country to foreigners?’ This blog is my answer to her.

By so called ‘complaining’ about my country I am hoping to gain:

* Freedom of expression and speech,

* Respect for human rights,

* Control over the decisions I make concerning my on my body,

* The right to legally congregate in any part of the city without being considered a terrorist.

But most of all by spreading the word to you, my friends who live in other parts of the world, I am hoping to get your awareness, support and help!

Please spread the word and share this blog. Thank you!

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54229

http://humanrightsturkey.org

PLEASE EVERYONE HELP TURKEY. We need to start seeing people as human beings not just countries and not judging them on their government. Government are corrupt all over. We need to love and help people that need it, and support positive changes.

(via 1984foryou)

Your post about what you hope to gain from those not in Turkey as you share the struggle should also include inspiration: http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/san-francisco-activists-liberate-park-in-solidarity-with-turkish-resistance/ and other groups in the US are organizing similarly, as many of us realize that Turkey is #3 recipient in US military aid. The tear gas, cannons and other weapons are made by US companies, they fuel US capitalism and imperialism. NO MORE. people are organizing with you! All power to the people!

potentiality and other musings: Wednesday @ City Hall Solidarity with South Central Farmers

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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.”— from Bhagat Singh’s prison diary
Turkey’s Taksim Square drenched in blood Today. The Tear gas canister shown is from the US of course, some biotech company in WY. The police here do this every day - it just happens to people that they claim ‘looked suspicious’ or ‘evaded arrest’ or ‘reached for a gun’. This is not new, the blood on the streets of Turkey is a centralized look at what our police also commit. The ghetto storm in this country and anti-immigrant campaign are more scattered and kept secret except for those few cases of extrajudicial murder that get leaked. Just know that every 28 hours a Black person is murdered by officials and hundreds are killed actively or passively by the militarization of the US-Mexican border each year with hundreds of thousands more deported. The same story is happening by the imperial demands of this empire across the world through remote controlled killing machines. Just so we don’t become transfixed on the blood on the hands of others rather than on our own.
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Turkey’s Taksim Square drenched in blood Today. The Tear gas canister shown is from the US of course, some biotech company in WY. The police here do this every day - it just happens to people that they claim ‘looked suspicious’ or ‘evaded arrest’ or ‘reached for a gun’. This is not new, the blood on the streets of Turkey is a centralized look at what our police also commit. The ghetto storm in this country and anti-immigrant campaign are more scattered and kept secret except for those few cases of extrajudicial murder that get leaked. Just know that every 28 hours a Black person is murdered by officials and hundreds are killed actively or passively by the militarization of the US-Mexican border each year with hundreds of thousands more deported. The same story is happening by the imperial demands of this empire across the world through remote controlled killing machines. Just so we don’t become transfixed on the blood on the hands of others rather than on our own.
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Turkey’s Taksim Square drenched in blood Today. The Tear gas canister shown is from the US of course, some biotech company in WY. The police here do this every day - it just happens to people that they claim ‘looked suspicious’ or ‘evaded arrest’ or ‘reached for a gun’. This is not new, the blood on the streets of Turkey is a centralized look at what our police also commit. The ghetto storm in this country and anti-immigrant campaign are more scattered and kept secret except for those few cases of extrajudicial murder that get leaked. Just know that every 28 hours a Black person is murdered by officials and hundreds are killed actively or passively by the militarization of the US-Mexican border each year with hundreds of thousands more deported. The same story is happening by the imperial demands of this empire across the world through remote controlled killing machines. Just so we don’t become transfixed on the blood on the hands of others rather than on our own.

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