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Activists call on international left to speak up for progressive Kurdish Rojava

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Turkey has launched aerial and ground attacks on northern Syria, targeting the de facto Kurdish autonomous region of Rojava - "a society that is unparalleled right now in the 21st century," says Debbie Bookchin, co-founder of the Emergency Committee for Rojava. "It is a society that is focused on the ideals of grassroots democracy, feminism and ecology." Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's assault on the region was effectively given the green light by President Trump, who cleared the way for the Turkish offensive by ordering U.S. troops to fall back from their position on the Turkey-Syria border, leaving the Kurds - who are U.S. allies - to fend for themselves. Bookchin argues that Rojava ought to be central to the conversation on the American left. "It is truly incumbent on all of us who claim to care for progressive values to stand up to demand no-fly zone for Rojava, to go to our representatives and saying, 'Tweeting your crocodile tears is not enough.' We have to become active in the progressive left to play a huge role in this."
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@GooglyGook12
@GooglyGook12 4 жыл бұрын
Solidarity with our Kurdish brothers and sisters. Urge your representatives to take action against the Fascist Erdogan regime. Rojava must not fall.
@henrirauhala4335
@henrirauhala4335 4 жыл бұрын
Action like a no-fly zone? Opposing Turkish invasion by continuing U.S. occupation? Your imperialist "representatives" couldn't care less about the Kurdish people. The fascist Trump regime has now decided that Turkey is a more important ally than the Kurds, so they let Rojava fall. You can't persuade them to do otherwise. The only hope is that the Kurds can fight effectively on their own or ask help from Damascus. If the U.S. retreats, there would also be a chance for national sovereignity, at least as an autonomous region of Syria.
@samsantucci1044
@samsantucci1044 4 жыл бұрын
There is no left or right when it comes to doing what is right! Justice, humanity must prevail above all!
@meowrkerd4rker_
@meowrkerd4rker_ 4 жыл бұрын
so sad, why do we have representatives that at whim can decide on the genocide of millions of people?!??! :__(
@hughsmith4008
@hughsmith4008 4 жыл бұрын
Yea we don't need to think about our military … they are cheap
@SterileNeutrino
@SterileNeutrino 4 жыл бұрын
Turkey and/or Sultan Erdogan is not beholden to US parliament.
@kathyhuestis7878
@kathyhuestis7878 4 жыл бұрын
This makes me so sad there's no reason for aa this violence. Especially the children who are suffering and the poor mothers trying to do whatever they can to protect their children. So so sad there's people who do bad things to others. I have always wanted peace and love on earth, is that too too much to ask for? .I can't handle this bullying because hurting others, giving them more pain and starving children and mothers. Are own mother earth is not happy right now either. Earthquake's all over the place and some people have their heads STUCK IN THE SAND. Are just don't care about others. Are young people are showing a better example than the ones who are supposed to be helping us. I know that they will make a difference and hopefully the people in charge will pull their heads out of the sand.
@SterileNeutrino
@SterileNeutrino 4 жыл бұрын
@@kathyhuestis7878 Actually there is a reason. It's the Middle East. Much diversity and different ethnicities meeting. Ultrakill and ethnic strife has been on the menu since the last ice age. Turkey is going to snap up a part of Syria and bump out Kurds who will probably move to Berlin or Paris or Brussels...
@elonewalker
@elonewalker 4 жыл бұрын
Rojava needs to offer to take in the refugees used by Erdogan as blackmail card. Ask Rojava to take in the refugees and UN aid for taking in Refugees and seek UN protection
@nomatterwhereyougohereyouare
@nomatterwhereyougohereyouare 4 жыл бұрын
Finally! Thank you for showing a little more context. So much is being done to Hide this AMAZING story. A example of grass roots democracy strategy we all can learn from to take back our world. Also 80% of SDF are NOT Kurds.
@mshakespearek
@mshakespearek 4 жыл бұрын
With USA as a friend you don t need enemies .
@adamsubahani3853
@adamsubahani3853 4 жыл бұрын
Loing live kurdistan ✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿
@meimei5590
@meimei5590 4 жыл бұрын
Long live Turkish army 💪💕🇫🇷
@estatesales9818
@estatesales9818 4 жыл бұрын
@@meimei5590 go home turkeys
@hitoshiyokoo2157
@hitoshiyokoo2157 4 жыл бұрын
Defend the thoughts and practices of the Kurdish Autonomous Movements ! Defeat the Turkish fascists ! From Japan.
@domo3552
@domo3552 4 жыл бұрын
This is a general THANK YOU to Democracy Now! You help keep me informed. Journalism with a conscience.
@phaedrussocrates7636
@phaedrussocrates7636 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you DN, this is really important!
@toyotaprius79
@toyotaprius79 4 жыл бұрын
People of Northern Ireland can empathise with the Kurdish people. The defence, the PKK are Turkey's ISIS. That's what Turkey's troubled executive says to our faces, and that we in the EU should deserve the 3million refugees to be flung in (justifying brexit's antisemitic antics). Refugees that Turkey & EU have agreed in ~2015 (almost barely) to help accomodate inside Turkey. For Erdgowan, invading the "PKK" - in its eyes a hated regional presence inside the other side of Turkey's border - destroying it is politically lucrative to any hard-man's man; who no doubt tacticly relies to present themselves as such. Never trust the hard man who looks to be acting in "Our [Nation] First". It's fascism 101 doofussses
@diegoconde2728
@diegoconde2728 4 жыл бұрын
Heavenly Father bless and protect the Kurds and all the good people in that area. Blind the Turks so that they can’t see the Kurds and won’t be able to hurt them. In Jesus name I pray Amen 🙏❤️🙏
@jimbob3030
@jimbob3030 4 жыл бұрын
Grow up. Santa is not real.
@kingofthecatnap5422
@kingofthecatnap5422 4 жыл бұрын
It's too late. People are being killed...
@jimbob3030
@jimbob3030 4 жыл бұрын
@purple Sky 99 Deleted my reply I see... I dont even have to repeat it, you know what you are and we know what you are.
@roybatty5325
@roybatty5325 4 жыл бұрын
Did it work? Does praying for the thousands of victims of gun violence, or child concentration camps, or any victim of injustice make a difference? Evolve....
@babycakes2077
@babycakes2077 4 жыл бұрын
Ecology of freedom, baby! Book changed my trajectory 💪🏽🙏🏽❤️
@DinamoDeet101
@DinamoDeet101 4 жыл бұрын
America cares only about Moneyyyyy..nothing More...even when Jews run away from Nazis..they Had to pay!!until Today..Jewish and izrael paying billions of dollars Bribe to US for security
@Yekemcar
@Yekemcar 4 жыл бұрын
So we can to say that we are in front of duplicate scenario of Afrin (a Kurdish area occupied by turkish and the islamist groups). But this time in east baord of Euphrat river, which is American infuence area, But some questions from zoom out: 1- Isn't this new invasion in northern Syria by turkish army and islamist militias, gonna create withdrawal movement of Kurdish forces whose guard Abo Hol camp where (72000) ISIS fighter are arrested ? So an opportunity to escape! 2- Did Assad regim (and behind him Iran specially and Russia less), will accept return of millions of Sunnit, inside the country, where they mostly are enemy ? 3- Did Kurds will accept to abondance them homes, fields, villages and cities for the sunnit arabian led-backed by turkey, and they turn as refugees inside the country ? Or they will fight ? 4- Isn't this new colonisation of sunnits arab in northern Syria, meaning they are accepting the deplacement and demographic changes in them lands (Damasce, Daraa, Homs, Hama and Aleppo) ? by Assad (and Iran behind him) as a compensation, for an enternal NO return. 5- Isn't it true, that turkey, moving throw the army while its eyes on Misaki Millî ? Looks to "New Ottomanian" as Erdogan his ministers are saying. 6- Isn't it true, that turkey, exporting its internal problems, specially Erdogan and his party AKP (between correption files and resignation) ? So this war for Erdogan is a way of publication in the next election. 7- Everyone the evidance which is showing the relationship between turkey and ISIS, as a tool used by turkey during Syrian conflict to dominate and then realize Wasik-i Millî. Isn't very possible that turkey gonna recycling ISIS again ?So we can to say that we are in front of duplicate scenario of Afrin (a Kurdish area occupied by turkish and the islamist groups). But this time in east baord of Euphrat river, which is American infuence area, But some questions from zoom out: 1- Isn't this new invasion in northern Syria by turkish army and islamist militias, gonna create withdrawal movement of Kurdish forces whose guard Abo Hol camp where (72000) ISIS fighter are arrested ? So an opportunity to escape! 2- Did Assad regim (and behind him Iran specially and Russia less), will accept return of millions of Sunnit, inside the country, where they mostly are enemy ? 3- Did Kurds will accept to abondance them homes, fields, villages and cities for the sunnit arabian led-backed by turkey, and they turn as refugees inside the country ? Or they will fight ? 4- Isn't this new colonisation of sunnits arab in northern Syria, meaning they are accepting the deplacement and demographic changes in them lands (Damasce, Daraa, Homs, Hama and Aleppo) ? by Assad (and Iran behind him) as a compensation, for an enternal NO return. 5- Isn't it true, that turkey, moving throw the army while its eyes on Misaki Millî ? Looks to "New Ottomanian" as Erdogan his ministers are saying. 6- Isn't it true, that turkey, exporting its internal problems, specially Erdogan and his party AKP (between correption files and resignation) ? So this war for Erdogan is a way of popularization in the next election. 7- Everyone knews the evidance which is showing the relationship between turkey and ISIS, as a tool used by turkey during Syrian conflict to dominate and then realize Wasik-i Millî. Isn't very possible that turkey gonna recycling ISIS again ?
@Sarkaft_Bakirmani
@Sarkaft_Bakirmani 4 жыл бұрын
Silav bo Rojava❤
@meimei5590
@meimei5590 4 жыл бұрын
💩💩💩💩💩
@hussenali870
@hussenali870 4 жыл бұрын
❤🇹🇯✌🏻
@theuniversedoesntcare
@theuniversedoesntcare 4 жыл бұрын
I am so sorry Kurds, we can't save you.. -An American Progressive.
@jimbob3030
@jimbob3030 4 жыл бұрын
Perhaps they are not aware that progressives are not in power anywhere in the world. Our desires and representatives are oppressed here. Nazi are being cultivated here to get rid of us.
@dejuanrobert
@dejuanrobert 4 жыл бұрын
I second that as a progressive.
@cembozaza8884
@cembozaza8884 Жыл бұрын
Usa cidin big layer usa help Islam cihat turkey drake kokoyin opyon kontrol Islam cihat turkey kontrol drake kokoyin opyon hizbula sedat mafia ergenekon akp mhp vatan part no democracy
@hughsmith4008
@hughsmith4008 4 жыл бұрын
GOD DAMN IT...…….. BRING THE TROOPS HOME...
@ItsOgre
@ItsOgre 4 жыл бұрын
In this day and age because of the actions mostly of the US, and Israel. It’s been almost completely normalized that a nation can launch of a war of aggression and just annex territory under the justifications of Mussolini or Hitler in “self defense”
@1LSWilliam
@1LSWilliam 4 жыл бұрын
Nothing puts our Constitution to shame but ignorance.
@kingofthecatnap5422
@kingofthecatnap5422 4 жыл бұрын
And an alarming amount of complacency.
@1LSWilliam
@1LSWilliam 4 жыл бұрын
@@kingofthecatnap5422 Thank you!
@smokindauberdoo4208
@smokindauberdoo4208 4 жыл бұрын
Trump
@198319761
@198319761 4 жыл бұрын
Please help us Kurds!
@zanyarslemani9908
@zanyarslemani9908 4 жыл бұрын
This was the Kurds' response to ISIS?..
@aldemir6127
@aldemir6127 4 жыл бұрын
More of the same, US government recognized terrorist group called PKK, YPG, PYD and DEAS on throw again. Where where they last 4-5-6 years? And now they been put and crying over it. Its wrong to call them Kurdish. There are more Kurdish people in Turkey than anywhere else. They even had Kurdish president called Turgut Ozal and many Kurdish ministers as well.
@ConsciousnessisRough
@ConsciousnessisRough 4 жыл бұрын
The only government the considers those groups "terrorists* is Turkey, and like most things stated by the Turkish government it's all lies.
@aldemir6127
@aldemir6127 4 жыл бұрын
@@ConsciousnessisRough Who loves you babe?
@shot2284
@shot2284 4 жыл бұрын
Al Demir I’ll bet it’s more people than you : P
@Mentox95
@Mentox95 4 жыл бұрын
@@shot2284 Neh, or we would take over turkey right now. 25m kurds there. remember the Oded Yinon plan. We are against it. YPG and PKK is traitor for the kurdish people. Get in line and get demolished together with israel
@hanomar4076
@hanomar4076 4 жыл бұрын
Kurdistan rojava West in English Kurdistan West North east south im kurdish from Kurdistan
@isgc1384
@isgc1384 4 жыл бұрын
what piles of propaganda shit did I just watched?
@GRepp-iy1nj
@GRepp-iy1nj 4 жыл бұрын
Every channel has a different take. This is a complex issue
@moussaouiahmed
@moussaouiahmed 4 жыл бұрын
.............................. ..AM
@roybatty5325
@roybatty5325 4 жыл бұрын
*Any relation to Murray Bookchin?* His principles of democratic confederation are decreed by Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK/PYD* Creating a free agrarian society opposed to the big owners, for gender equality and a secular society? Bookchin theorised that hierarchical relations are the cause of all oppression (men/women, young/old, rich/poor) and of the ecological disaster to come. He thought therefore that the state (all states) is the cause of corruption and the loss of liberty. Relations of production themselves are therefore reduced by this ideologue, who professed himself to be a libertarian and an ecologist, to simple relations of command by man over man. According to an official of the PYD, “Rojava is beyond the nation state”. “The Stalinist matrix of this party is at bottom its capacity to flip-flop between alliances and programmes: from Kurdish nationalism to Greater-Turkish nationalism, from atheism to Islamism, from warmongering to pacifism, from glorifying the most ferocious dictators to rallying to Western liberal democracy, and today to nonsense about participatory democracy.
@uppermaker7606
@uppermaker7606 4 жыл бұрын
We are bored Syrians and their problems. They have to settle cleaned areas. My people don't have to pay for other people's troubles. And my military try to clean areas for living of Syrians. This is a favour and it is not first but I hope it is last. Now we want to focus on ourselves. Greetings to everyone as a Turkish citizen.
@timothybladon9958
@timothybladon9958 4 жыл бұрын
Time to call out Prince Vlad.
@roybatty5325
@roybatty5325 4 жыл бұрын
Who is that, the 10th century Rus prince? Yankee fuckwit, Turkey invades but you want to speak to a historical figure.
@rahrjiyanin8072
@rahrjiyanin8072 4 жыл бұрын
Rojava means west! It is western part of Kurdistan.
@roybatty5325
@roybatty5325 4 жыл бұрын
Its called SYRIA - Rojava is like Narnia, it doesn't exist
@rahrjiyanin8072
@rahrjiyanin8072 4 жыл бұрын
@@roybatty5325 Only to a turk. If you love your turks so much, why are you pretending and wishing to be an American? Is your name Receb?
@stalkingtigerscom
@stalkingtigerscom 4 жыл бұрын
seemed to be more about Feminism than a cry for help against Turkey.
@SterileNeutrino
@SterileNeutrino 4 жыл бұрын
"It is a society that is focused on the ideals of grassroots democracy, feminism and ecology." ... woah I thought that were the Amazon Pygmies? Are we reaching the concentrated stuff in the dreamdrink barrel? "stand up to demand no-fly zone for Rojava". Protip: Look at a map. Where are those "no-fly" CAPs going to come from? Then stop looking at the map and think about the other progressive "no-fly zone" in Lybia.
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