La persecuzione infinita
Come sempre, anche quest’anno non ne ha parlato quasi nessuno. Dire che si tratta di un silenzio fragoroso sarebbe un ossimoro segnato da pura retorica: non c’è alcun fragore. Il 16 maggio scorso, tuttavia, la gente romaní non ha certo dimenticato di ricordare quella notte del 1944, quando 6mila donne, uomini, bambini e anziani del campo di Auschwitz II Bikernau, lo “Zigeunelager”, seppero che si sarebbe posto fine alle loro inaudite sofferenze nelle camere a gas. Raccolsero quel che capitava, insorsero contro le SS ed evitarono il genocidio. Una rivolta epocale.
https://comune-info.net/la-persecuzione-infinita-del-popolo-romani/
È finalmente arrivato in quasi tutte le librerie che ne hanno fatto richiesta.
Ma “non è un libro per vecchi” (semicit.), nel senso che non è dedicato a loro. Chi si avvicina alla mia età già sa parecchio dei fatti che ho vissuto e non è la mia vita quella che ho voluto raccontare, ma mostrare ai giovani di oggi che si possono vivere eventi che incidono sul mondo e sulla vita degli altri.
Esistono mari che si possono navigare, che i giovani debbono scoprire.
Spero che la lettura vi soddisferà.
https://www.valeriominnella.it/2023/05/11/se-vi-va-bene-bene-se-no-seghe/
La prima presentazione del #19maggio alle 18:00 al Centro Sociale della Pace, in via del Pratello 53, a Bologna, di
𝐒𝐞 𝐯𝐢 𝐯𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐠𝐡𝐞
Ricordo alle 21:00 dello stesso giorno, la seconda presentazione al Nassau, via de' Griffoni 5/2, di cui non ho ancora la locandina.
I due eventi, pur trattando dello stesso libro (cioè la mia biografia), vorrebbero avere un focus differente (poi dipende dalle domande dei presenti):
#RadioAlice e la comunicazione al Pratello e l'antimilitarismo al Nassau.
Maggiori info sul libro qui:
https://www.wumingfoundation.com/giap/2023/05/se-vi-va-bene-bene-se-no-seghe/
As probably everyone reasonable now agree that there will be a second round of presidential Turkey-elections on May 28th, Sinan Oğan the "former" Fascist party member which placed third in the first round at about 5% of the votes, has now given several interviews and statements wherein the Fascist gives two conditions for throwing official support at either of the remaining 2 candidates,
• must throw out the anti-racist Peoples' Party (HDP)
• must deport all Syrian refugees
Dictator Erdoğan (AKP) was already working on both of those for many years, by e.g.
the war crime of forcibly mass-deporting Syrian refugees originating in southern Syria to the now Turkey-occupied parts of northern Syria in order to enact demographic change in the areas being illegally annexed and
mass-imprisonment of members of the exclusively parliamentary HDP essentially for the act of attempting a peaceful path to resolving the "Kurdish question" (to genocide or not to genocide?) through peaceful co-existence in diversity.
The other runoff round candidate, CHP's Kılıçdaroğlu called to congratulate the Fascist on getting many votes many hours before Erdoğan started pandering for those ~5%,
because the CHP can't forget its genocidal past even when its future depends on campaigning against anything like it.
ANF
HDP and Green Left Party: We will address the election results with criticism and self-criticism
@aral I briefly went onto Twitter to read commentary on the Turkish elections, 90% of tweets were pro Erdogan which I don't believe for a second especially based on the urban rural split. Really brought home to me how biased Twitter timelines now are.
Turchia: primi commenti alle Presidenziali https://www.ondarossa.info/redazionali/2023/05/turchia-primi-commenti-alle
meanwhile, in Western Kurdistan:
YPJ fighter Cûdî Egîd martyred in Turkish drone attack
https://anfenglish.com/elections-2023/ypj-fighter-cudi-egid-martyred-in-turkish-drone-attack-67186
"Live blog on the elections in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan"
https://anfenglish.com/elections-2023/live-blog-on-the-elections-in-turkey-and-northern-kurdistan-67183
"Turkey votes in historic elections | Live blog"
https://medyanews.net/turkey-votes-in-historic-elections-latest-updates/
Both just started.
For the elections dictator Erdoğan's interview propaganda was broadcast on 2̲4̲ TV channels at the same time.
https://www.turkishminute.com/2023/05/13/kilicdaroglu-criticizes-erdogan-interview-pledges-media-diversity-ahead-of-turkish-elections/
Main State-propaganda channel TRT gave Erdoğan 32 hours of coverage, while opposition electoral alliance candidate Kılıçdaroğlu just 32 minutes in one month.
https://www.duvarenglish.com/state-run-network-trt-gives-erdogan-32-hours-of-coverage-kilicdaroglu-mere-32-minutes-in-one-month-news-62327
Google recommended pro-government media outlets in Turkey 81% of the time.
"Every day, around two million people search for the Turkish words "haberler (news)" and "son dakika (breaking news)" on Google and see the content suggested by the algorithm. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the only politician who was suggested more than 5,000 times."
https://www.duvarenglish.com/google-excessively-recommends-pro-government-media-outlets-in-turkey-report-news-62399
The birdsite too decided to gag opposition ahead of the elections.
https://medyanews.net/twitters-censorship-in-turkey-raises-concerns-ahead-of-critical-election/
Meanwhile, "Erdogan accuses Turkish opposition of working with Biden".
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/final-day-campaign-erdogan-accuses-turkish-opposition-working-with-biden-2023-05-13/
As everyone watches to see what will happen in the Turkish elections today, we remember the Gezi Park Uprising, ten years ago this month.
https://crimethinc.com/Gezi2013
#Turkey deserves better than the autocrat Erdoğan! Elections alone will not suffice to win freedom. Solidarity to all those in struggle.🏴
I'll just point out for anyone anxious about the results of the presidential election today whereby Turkey might finally get free from the incredibly incompetent authoritarian reactionary rule of Erdoğan,
that it is probable that there will be another round of voting on May 28, as there are 3 current candidates (were 4 but one withdrew blaming attacks, but probably due to poor pre-votes polling) and unless one candidate gets at least 50%+1 vote there will be another round.
The last pre-voting opinion poll by "tag" during May 11-13 showed this situation:
52.1% Main opposition alliance candidate
45.1% Dictator Erdoğan
2.6% Former member of Fascist-party MHP
0.2% The candidate that quit
But today there are armored State-violence vehicles parked outside the election voting stations so that will affect actual voting and the regime is expected to cheat this time again as was done extremely obvious (e.g. mass-scale discarding of opposition votes and factory-style stamping of replacement pro-regime ballots recorded in videos recorded inside several polling stations then opposition-vote ballots found in smoldering piles of ash outside) during previous elections.
From @AntifaEnt (elsewhere):
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From a friend of us that is present in Bakur Kurdistan right now:
"One day before the last YSP meeting this Saturday in Van, Turkish Kurdistan. The streets are in 🔥 in support of the people's party and the liberation!!"
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TURCHIA: SI RITIRA UNO DEI CANDIDATI CENTRISTI ANTI-ERDOGAN. OPPOSIZIONE A UN PASSO DALLA VITTORIA AL PRIMO TURNO? https://www.radiondadurto.org/2023/05/11/turchia-si-ritira-uno-dei-candidati-centristi-anti-erdogan-opposizione-a-un-passo-dalla-vittoria-al-primo-turno/ #INTERNAZIONALI #elezioni #Erdogan #Turchia
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Van ready for final Green Left Party election rally tomorrow
Turchia:
300 intellettuali, artisti, scrittori, accademici per la pace, donne chiedono un voto al Partito della Sinistra Verde
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Saleh Muslim PYD:
Potenziale conflitto civile in Turchia dopo le elezioni -
Retekurdistan.it
For the election in Turkey,
"Thousands of people, most of them being truck drivers, are kept waiting at the border crossing with southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
[...]
According to reports, around 6 thousand trucks and 30 buses are kept waiting at the border crossing."
https://anfenglish.com/elections-2023/thousands-kept-waiting-at-the-border-crossing-before-elections-67155
For a regime that has been habitually almost openly cheating and coercing for >decade,
this is... "very probably" yet another act intended to sabotage the ongoing elections,
probably at least intended to rob Kurds, Arabs, etc that may have been visiting officially "Iraq" areas, Iran, or beyond through Iraq, of their votes, because the sitting regime is nothing if not scared of diversity.
Passo di qui ogni tanto,
curo solo menzioni o indicazioni dirette,
occasionalmente il resto.