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DESCRIPTION:Autonomous Organizing and State Repression\nFrom Kurdistan to 
 Philadelphia\n\nMonday, March 2nd 2020\n7pm\nOMNI Commons 4799 Shattuck 
 Ave., Oakland\n\npresented by the Bay Area Mesopotamia Solidarity 
 Committee, the Freedom Archives and the Anthropology and Social Change 
 Department at CIIS\n\nThe Kurdish freedom movement, currently active across 
 many borders in the Middle East, has put forth the revolutionary project of 
 democratic confederalism under the principles of localized governance, 
 women’s liberation and ecological practices.\n\nOn a smaller scale, but 
 within the context of the massive Black liberation movement, the MOVE 
 Organization of Philadelphia put its revolutionary ideas into practice in 
 the 70s and 80s.\n\nBoth initiatives have faced the iron fist of the state 
 for daring to organize autonomously. \n\nDuring the summer of 2015, the 
 Turkish army and mercenaries bombed Kurdish cities, killing hundreds of 
 people. These brutal attacks were a terrifying re-escalation of Turkey's 
 40-year civil war, between the State and the a left-wing Kurdish movement. 
 The Turkish state justified the carnage by calling the political organizing 
 of Kurdish communities into question. \n\nMany of us on occupied land here 
 in the US cannot help but consider similarities and differences between 
 these attacks and the City of Philadelphia's attack on a mostly 
 African-American neighborhood that killed 11 members of MOVE and destroyed 
 61 homes in 1985. Philadelphia politicians similarly attempted to reframe 
 the narrative by questioning the legitimacy of MOVE, and their integrity as 
 a political organization.\n\nWhat do the attacks on the Kurdish movement 
 and the MOVE Organization, their aftermath, the ongoing struggles of the 
 survivors, and the ongoing lack of justice for the dead teach us about the 
 nature of the state, autonomous organization and racial and ethnic 
 stratification?\n\nPlease join us for a double feature with presentations 
 from Özlem Y., a Kurdish activist, and Mike Africa Jr., from MOVE, as we 
 attempt to answer these questions, and consider new ones.\n\nÖzlem Y., 
 currently in exile in the US, was a firsthand witness to the Turkish 
 atrocities in autonomous Kurdistan where she was part of the Kurdish 
 municipal governance structure.\n\nMike Africa Jr., a member of MOVE, is a 
 speaker, writer and artist. He was born in prison to Debbie and Mike Africa 
 who were each serving a 30 year sentence as part of the MOVE 9.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/28/18831130.php
SUMMARY:Autonomy and State Repression: From Kurdistan to Philadelphia
LOCATION:OMNI Commons 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/28/18831130.php
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