Soraya Fallah Participation in UCLA for digital Ephemera project

Soraya Fallah to participate in UCLA  digital Ephemera project - for Kurdish and Green Movement collection and 

Mothers of Laleh Park and the green movement in Iran.

International Digital Ephemera Project (IDEP) | UCLA Library

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Here is a new project by UCLA

, If you have any video or footage for Kurds and Green Movement and Mourning Mothers of Iran please contact us:

http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/universitylibrarian/2013/03/05/new-collection-to-the-international-digital-ephemera-project/ 

The UCLA Library has launched an innovative and forward-looking initiative to capture ephemeral content with global partners. Through this project, UCLA Library endeavors to build international and global collections of knowledge and to preserve the historical and cultural record so that present and future generations can access and use ephemera that document the larger arena of discourse that takes place alongside mainstream media and scholarly publications. Read more: 

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New Collection to the International Digital Ephemera Project

A new collection being added to the Arcadia funded International Digital Ephemera Project.  The project is getting closer to the launch of its initial public interface focused on a collection of Tahrir Square documents, materials collected from demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square beginning in March 2011 during the Egyptian uprising.  Our next collection is another related to Middle Eastern Politics focused on the Iranian Green Movement.  The Iranian Green Movement became synonymous with protests that lasted for nearly a year beginning after the contested 2009 Iranian elections.  This collection brings together ephemera instrumental to the planning, promotion and reporting of Green Movement protests.
The collection of social media, underground newspapers and thousands of videos from most protests during the first year after the 2009 elections in Iran directly from activist groups inside Iran. These two collections of digital ephemera offer scholars a new and unique tool for studying the ephemera regarding modern Iranian and Arab political movements.
Along with the Green Movement content the Library welcomes a curator to the UCLA Library, Ali Jamshidi, the founder and administrator of what became one of the most important social media platforms for the distribution of information about the Green Movement and its post-election protests.  Ali founded Tahavole Sabz, one of the most prominent reformist Iranian journalistic outlets and he has collaborated intensively with journalists from other more internationally famous reformist outlets.
The International Digital Ephemera Project is supported by the Arcadia Fund.

https://www.library.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/UCLA-LibraryDevelopmentNews_Fall_2014.pdf

Soraya Fallah and Michael Moradian received UCLA honorary book 100 years 

my upcoming program :1st Middle East Women's Conference in Diyarbakir

Call For Participation: DÖKH's 1st Middle East Women's Conference, Amed (Diyarbakır), Turkey, 31 May-2 June 2013

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Source: DÖKH (Demokratik Özgür Kadın Hareketi)

13/03/2013

Dear Women,
The Middle Eastern geography that we live in goes through an immense and rapid process of political, social and economic change. While the systems predicated on denial and massacre of peoples, cultures, and historical and social values rapidly disintegrate, the stance and role of women in this disintegration process pose historical importance.

Both the existing systems of status quo and structures emerging anew fail to go beyond the approaches that disregard women, entrench her absolute state of slavery, and prison her to death by perpetuating denial, violence, torture, rape and massacre.
In this process of change and transformation, the struggle that we, the Middle Eastern women wage, bears such value and importance that will seal the fate of not only our geography, but also of us as women. The more the struggle organized and waged in the leadership of women for a free and democratic Middle East and then life is extended, the more it may gain strength and accomplish its aimed results. The structures and systems where women cannot participate in decision-making and representative processes and/or express themselves directly and freely, bring tremendous threats and losses with regards to the entirety of rights and gains the women obtain/strive to obtain through their proud resistance.
In the face of these facts, specifying how the women's color, language, rights, will, identity and gender justice shall find a place in the newly emerging systems and how to wage a struggle for this purpose, along with weaving the lines of common resistance, come up as undeferrable, urgent necessity in the existing state of affairs, for us, the women in the Middle East as a whole. 
To this end, Democratic Freewomen Movement organizes the "1st Middle East Women's Conference" on 31 May-2 June, 2013, in Amed (Diyarbakır), with the motto "Woman, Life, Freedom" (in Kurdish: "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi"). The conference aims to:

• Elicit a perspective of common stance and struggle based on the comprehensive evaluation of the lived political and social developments in the region from the viewpoint of women,
• Arrive at a perspective of effective struggle against racist nation-state structures, the hegemonic capitalist system, and problematic approaches to women by religions and political Islam which are instrumentalized by tyrannical powers,
• Weave the lines of a common democratic women's struggle and enhance the existing organizational capabilities by extending women's will and struggle for freedom from local to the regional level,
• Create a common ground for discussion, acquaintance and sharing of mutual experiences in the current process of regional reshaping, with a view to take part in this newly emerging system as Middle Eastern women, with the rights, color, will and identity, as well as justice, of our own.

On behalf of DÖKH (Democratic Freewomen Movement) 
                          Aysel Tuğluk                           Gültan Kışanak
                        DTK Co-Chair                             BDP Co-Chair
        (Democratic Society Congress)       (Peace and Democracy Party)
bdpwomandiplomacy@yahoo.com.tr

Draft Conference Agenda:

In memory of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan, Leyla Şaylemez...

1st MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Li Rojhelata  Navîn de Jin, Jiyan, Azadi!

Dates: 31 May - 2 June, 2013
Place: Amed (Diyarbakır) / Turkey
Venue: To be determined
Languages: Kurmanji/Arabic/Turkish/Sorani/English
Hours: 9.00 am - 6.00 pm
Presentation Duration:10-12 minutes (for speakers),  5 minutes (for delegates)
The conference includes 3 topical sessions, one session held per day. Following the presentations, each session will also comprise a discussion section for expression of participant views.
The sessional topics proposed for the conference are as follows:
1st Day: May 31, 2013, Friday
The Social History of Women and the Construction of Gender Discrimination in the Middle East
In this session, with an aim to unravel the social history of women and to convict the construction of gender discrimination in the Middle East;

• Women’s history in the Middle East,
• Construction of gender discrimination in the Middle East,
• The process of colonization and nationalism in the Middle East,
• Firm laicist systems instrumentalized by tyrannical powers and issues around political Islam's problematic approach to women,

2nd Day: June 1, 2013, Saturday
The Women's Movements Experience in the Middle East and its Role in Recent Political Changes
In this session, to provide a ground for achieving mutual recognition and understanding through sharing of the women's movements experience;

• Women’s resistance role and their search of freedom in the revolutionary processes in the Middle East,
• Political constructs developing to the detriment of women’s rights in the process of change, and struggles against them,
• Women’s rights in the Middle East; issues around expression, participation, decision, and representaion in civil, political, and public life,
• Stoning to death, familialism, feodal appropriation, polygamy, female circumcision, seclusion, child marriage and other related issues in the Middle East,
• Neo-liberal politics of capitalist modernity on women,

3rd Day: June 2, 2013, Sunday
Common Problems Faced by Women's Movement Struggles in the Middle East and Possible Solutions
In addition to the geographical and social commonalities experienced by women,

• Common organizational models,
• Structural problems (alieantion, miscommunication, etc.),
• Weaving and enhancement of common lines of struggle,
• How to imagine a democratic society model based on women,

are the topics proposed for discussion. Sessions are designed to promote a ground so as to develop forms of solidarity and struggle for proliferation of models that are sensitive to the gender-based requirements of justice, equality, democracy and freedom struggles.
Contact the organizing committee at: bdpwomandiplomacy@yahoo.com.tr

http://www.awid.org/Library/Call-for-Participation-DOeKH-s-1st-Middle-East-Women-s-Conference-Amed-Diyarbakir-Turkey-31-May-2-June-2013