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Organizing and State Repression</b></font></p>
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Kurdistan to Philadelphia</b></font></p>
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<b><font size="+1">Presentations from Özlem Y., a Kurdish
activist, and Mike Africa Jr., from MOVE</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
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the Bay Area Mesopotamia Solidarity Committee, the Freedom
Archives and the Anthropology and Social Change Department
at CIIS</i></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The 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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">On 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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Both initiatives
have faced the iron fist of the state for daring to organize
autonomously. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">During 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. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Many 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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">What 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?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Please 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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Özlem Y.</i>,
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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px;
line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Mike Africa
Jr.,</i> 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.</p>
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