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DESCRIPTION:Smash ISIS, their ally the Turkish state, and the borders choking the 
 Rojava Revolution!\n\nCall for International Solidarity Actions, this 
 weekend, October 11th-12th.\n\nOver 2 years ago, the Kurds of Northern 
 Syria launched the Rojava revolution along autonomous, socialist, feminist 
 and ecological principles. They have now been under constant attack from 
 the Islamic State (ISIS) for more than a year. Thousands of volunteer 
 fighters with Rojava’s Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and its 
 all-women counterpart the YPJ have been struggling to defend their cities 
 and villages. Since July, the North Syrian city of Kobanê, in the central 
 canton of Rojava, has been under siege by ISIS. ISIS fighters, armed with 
 modern U.S. manufactured tanks, artillery, and small arms have been held at 
 bay by the YPG and YPJ armed only with outdated small arms and improvised 
 weapons. Actions by Kurdish and Turkish activists at the Turkish border 
 with Kobanê have fought to remove the border since July in order to join 
 the YPG and YPJ as well as to receive injured Kurds and the elderly and 
 children who are fleeing the fighting.\n\nThe ruling party in Turkey, the 
 AKP, has both implicitly and explicitly supported ISIS with armaments and 
 logistical support. The vast majority of jihadists who have travelled to 
 Syria and Iraq have used Turkey as a crossing point under the facilitation 
 of the Turkish government who is using ISIS as a proxy to eliminate the 
 revolution in Rojava.\n\nThe US-led coalition formed in September against 
 ISIS is comprised of the same imperialist powers who have artificially 
 designed the current map of the Middle East following WWI, facilitated 
 coups in the region and more recently bombed and occupied Iraq. They have 
 also supplied the weapons currently being used by ISIS. Their air strikes 
 have done little to stop the spread of ISIS. The radical Kurdish movement 
 in the region has repeatedly emphasized that what they need to defeat ISIS 
 is the opening of corridors between Turkish Kurdistan and Syrian Kurdistan 
 as well as armaments that will be effective against the heavy artillery of 
 ISIS.\n\nA vicious and intense fight for the streets of Kobanê is now in 
 full swing as the fate of the Rojava Revolution hangs in the balance. Thus 
 far, the YPG and YPJ have successfully held off the ISIS invasion but the 
 situation is growing increasingly desperate. In the face of ISIS advances, 
 the Kurdish movement in Turkey has launched their own insurrection 
 recognizing that ISIS is fundamentally enabled by Erdogan and the AKP. The 
 PYD of Rojava shares aspirations and affinity with the Kurdish Workers 
 Party (PKK) in Turkey. Radical Islamist gangs, supported by the AKP, have 
 been attacking the demonstrators in Turkey and at least 24 people have died 
 since Tuesday.\n\nSolidarity demonstrations with Kobanê have now taken 
 place in Athens, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Ireland, New York City and 
 multiple cities in Germany. This upcoming weekend it is time to organize a 
 solidarity demonstration where you live. Rojava is the only alternative for 
 a different kind of Middle East, and it is crucial to demonstrate our 
 solidarity with those fighting to defend it.\n\nAnarchists in Turkey have 
 taken up the fight to stand in solidarity with the autonomous area against 
 ISIS and the Turkish State. Stand in solidarity with our comrades and the 
 ongoing resistance.\n\nFor more information on the Rojava Revolution and 
 the fight for Kobanê :\n\n“Rojava: a struggle against borders and for 
 autonomy”: 
 http://roarmag.org/2014/07/kurdistan-rojova-syria-autonomy/\n\n“Why is 
 the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria?”: 
 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/08/why-world-ignoring-revolutionary-kurds-syria-isis\n\n“Turkish-Kurdish 
 relations threatened by ISIL”: 
 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/10/turkish-kurdish-relations-threatened-isil-201410892311126563.html\n\n“Anarchists 
 join fight against ISIS to defend Kurdish Autonomous Areas”: 
 https://libcom.org/news/anarchists-join-fight-against-isis-defend-kurdish-autonomous-areas-03102014\n\nTurkish 
 anarchist group, DAF: http://www.facebook.com/anarsistfaaliyetorg\n\nCall 
 for support of DAF by Denver Anarchist Black Cross: 
 http://denverabc.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/call-for-support-for-devrimci-anarsist-faaliyet-daf-and-the-people-of-kobane/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/09/18762632.php
SUMMARY:Defend the Kobanê Resistance!
LOCATION:Powell and Market Street in San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/09/18762632.php
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