URGENT
CALL FOR ACTION
Global
Rally against ISIS – for Kobanê
- for Humanity!
Date
for the Global Rally: 1 November 2014, 2pm
ISIS
launched a major multi-front military campaign against the Kurdish region of Kobanê
in northern Syria. This is the third ISIS
onslaught on Kobanê since March 2014. As the ISIS was unsuccessful on the two previous occasions, they are
attacking with larger forces and want to take Kobanê.
In
January this year, the Kurds in western Kurdistan (Rojava) established local
administrations in the form of three cantons. One of the three cantons formed
is Kobanê. The Turkish border is to the north of Kobanê and all
the other sides are surrounded by ISIS-controlled territories. The ISIS has
approached the Kobanê borders, using US made heavy weapons. Hundreds of
thousands of civilians are threatened by the most brutal genocide in modern
history. The people of Kobanê are trying to resist using basic weapons
against the most brutal attacks of ISIS terrorists, with only the assistance of
People’s Protection Unit in Western-Kurdistan, the YPG and YPJ, but without any
international help.
Therefore a Global Rally against ISIS – for Kobanê - for Humanity is vital.
The so-called international coalition to fight the ISIS, have not helped Kurdish resistance effectively
despite witnessing the ongoing genocide committed against Kobanê. They
have not fulfilled their real international legal obligations. Some of the
countries in the coalition, especially Turkey, are among financial and military
supporters of the ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
Therefore a Global Rally against ISIS – for Kobanê - for Humanity is vital.
If the world wants democracy in the Middle East,
it should support the Kurdish resistance in Kobanê. Democratic autonomy in Rojava promises a free future for all peoples in
Syria. In this regard, the “Rojava Model” - the secular,
non-sectarian, democratic position in Rojava is the model which practices unity
in diversity.
Act Now
It is high time to give the global players the reason to believe
otherwise.
We encourage people all over the world to show their solidarity with Kobanê.
Go to the streets and demonstrate.
We urge you to join the Global Rally for Kobanê
Support the Resistance against ISIS – for Kobanê – for Humanity!
Signatories:
Prof Noam CHOMSKY-US; Adolfo Perez ESQUIVEL, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1980-Argentina; Archbishop
Emeritus Desmond TUTU, Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate, South Africa; Hugo BLANCO, leader of the CCP (Campesino Confederation of Peru)-Peru; Prof Bill BOWRING, University
of London, Birkbeck College -UK; MICHAEL MANSFIELD QC, President of
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers-UK; Dr Felix PADEL, Sussex University-UK; Lord HYLTON, House of Lords, UK; Margaret OWEN O.B.E, human rights lawyer-UK; Nick HILDYARD, policy adviser-UK;
Prof Kariane WESTRHEIM, EU Turkey
Civic Commission (EUTCC)-Norway; Prof Michael GUNTER, EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC)-US; Dr.ir. JP Joost JONGERDEN, Wageningen University, The
Netherlands; Estella SCHMID, Peace in
Kurdistan Campaign-UK; Dr. David GRAEBER-anthropologist,
author, UK; Mark THOMAS, writer/comedian-UK; Peter TATCHELL, Director, Peter Tatchell
Foundation-UK; Dr Derek WALL,
International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales-UK; Stephen SMELLIE, UNISON Lanarkshire,
Scotland-UK; FABIO AMATO, Foreign Representative of the PRC Party and
Secretariat of the European Left-Italy; Moni
OVADIA, perfomer/musicians/theatrical
author–Italy; Michel ROLAND, President of Médecins du Monde,
Belgium; LUDO DE BRABANDER,
spokesperson Vrede vzw (Belgian Peace Organisation)- Belgium; WARD KENNES, Mayor of Kasterlee/ MP,
Member of the Flemish Parliament-Belgium; Stephen BOUQUIN, Prof of Sociology, Universite d’Evry-Val-d’Essone and
Chairman of ROOD-Belgium; Em. Prof. Herman DE
LEY, Ghent University-Belgium Dr. Suresh KHAIRNAR, National Convenor, All India
Secular Forum-India; Kishore JAGTAP,
President, Phule-Ambedkar Intellectual Forum-India; Amaresh MISRA, Editor-in-Chief, Medhaj
News-India; Feroze MITHIBORWALA, National
President of Bharat
Bachao Andolan (Movement to Save India from Imperialism & Zionism)-India; Dr
Radha D’SOUZA, Indian Association of
People’s Lawyers – India; Manuel MARTORELL,
historian and journalist-Spain; Osvaldo BAYER,
historian, writer and anarchist-Argentina; Stella CALLONI, journalist, international analyst and writer-Argentina;
Fernando SIGNORINI, Coach of the Argentinian
Soccer Team-Argentina; Nora CORTINAS,
Human rights activist, co-founder of the Mayo's Square Mothers-Argentina; Rosana
ALVARADO, First Vice-President of
the National Assembly-Ecuador; Maria Augusta CALLE, President of the Commission on Sovereignty and International
Relations of the National Assembly-Ecuador; Virgilio HERNANDEZ, Member of the Board of Directors of the National
Legislative Assembly- Ecuador; Pedro DE
LA CRUZ, President of the Andean Parliament–Ecuador; Francisco VELASCO, Former Minister of Culture, Member
of the Administrative Board of “Alliance Country”-Ecuador; Guillaume LONG,
responsible
for External Relations of Ecuador Alianza Pais Party-Ecuador; Fernando BOSSI, People's Bolivarian Congress-Argentina; Prof Kamal
A.Mitra CHENOY, Centre for Comparative Politic & Political Theory, School of International
Studies-India; Achin VANIK , Professor of
International Relations and Global Politics from the University of Delhi
(retired)-India; Amir M. MAASOUMI,
Peace Ambassador-India; Sushovan DHAR,
Radical Socialist-India; Jatin DESAI, veteran
journalist & General secretary of the "PIFPD" (Pakistan India
Forum for Peace & Democracy) – India; Wilfred DACOSTA, Indian Social Action Forum
(INSAF), New Delhi- India; Sandhya JAIN,
Journalist, New Delhi – India; Asha KACHRU,
Writer-India; Dr. Suresh KHAIRNAR, National Convenor, All India
Secular Forum-India; Kishore JAGTAP,
President, Phule-Ambedkar Intellectual Forum-India; Amaresh MISRA, Editor-in-Chief, Medhaj
News-India; Anwar KOMBAI, Documentary Filmmaker, writer
& journalist, Chennai, India; Javed ANAND, Muslims for Secular Democracy,
Mumbai-India; Rohini HENSMAN, Writer and Independent Scholar, Bombay-India; Jawad MOHAMMED,Lawyer from Chennai-South India;
Sukla SEN, EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai-India; Sushovan DHAR, Radical Socialist-India; Jatin DESAI, veteran journalist & General
secretary of the "PIFPD" - Pakistan India Forum for Peace &
Democracy-India; Raghu
JAYANTIYA, Engineering Design
Manager-UK; Mukta SRIVASTAV, National Alliance of
People's Movements, Mumbai-India; Com. VASUDEVAN, Bluestar Trade Union,
Mumbai–India; Com Deepti GOPINATH, Airport Workers Trade Union,
Mumbai-India; Akshay KUMAR, Orissa
Farmers Struggle, Bhuvaneshwar-India; Prof. Rakesh RAFIQUE, Yuva Kranti, Founder,
Moradabad-India; Ravi
KOHAR, Convenor, Yuva Kranti
(Revolutionary Youth), New Delhi-India; Shelley KASLI, Journalist, Bangalore-India; Salim ALWARE, Indian Muslim Intellectual Forum,
Convenor-India; Jyoti
BADEKAR, Bharat Bachao Andolan,
Mumbai-India; Farouk MAPKAR, Bharat
Bachao Andolan, Convenor, Mumbai-India; Yusuf PARMAR, President, Indian Muslim Development Council, Rajkot-India;
Arif KAPADIA, Bharat Bachao
Andolan, Mumbai-India; Afaque AZAD, Bharat
Bachao Andolan, Mumbai –India; Bhupen SINGH, Journalist, New Delhi-India; Shujaat Ali QADRIQ, Convenor, Muslim Students Organization, Lucknow-INDIA; Ashraf
Ali ZAIDI, Bharat Bachao Andolan,
New Delhi-India; Sanjay SINGHVI, General Secretary, Trade Union Centre of India
(TUCI), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) CPI-ML-India; Luisa MORGANTINI - Former Vice President of
EP-Italy; Prof.Maria Immacolata MACIOTI, Association of Sociology in Italy (AIS)-Italy; Prof. Annamaria
RIVERA, Anthropologist-Italy; Prof.
Giorgio FORTI, Emeritus at the
Faculty, University of Milan, and Member of the Lincei National
Academy-Italy; Claudio TREVES,
General Secretary of the Labor Union Nidil-Cgil-Italy; YA BASTA!
Bologna-Italy; Social Center of TPO-Italy; SOCIAL
CENTER OF S. LABAS, Bologna-Italy; MADIBA
NETWORK HOUSE- Rimini-Italy; ASSOCIATIONS OF THE 'RUMORI SINISTRI' –Rimini-Italy; POLISPORTIV OF THE ANTI-RACISTS,
Rimini-Italy; SOCIAL CENTER OF THE AQ16
-Reggio Emilia-Italy; SOCIAL CENTRES
GROUPS of the Marche regions-Italy; AMBASCIATORS
OF THE RIGHTS OF MARCHE REGIONS-Italy; YA
BASTA! OF THE MARCHE -Italy; Antiracist POLISPORTIV OF THE 'ASSATA SHAKUR' Ancona-Italy; POLISPORTIV OF THE ACKAPAWA JESI-Italy;
YA BASTA! BOLOGNA-Italy; SICILIA ANARCHIST FEDERATION-Italy; NO MUOS Ragusa-Italy; MAGAZINE OF THE SICILIA LIBERTARIA-Italy;
PIPPO GURRIERI, director of the
Sicilia libertarian-Italy;
FABRIZIO GATTI, alias Bilal Ibrahim
el Habib, journalist and author-Italy; Gianni RINALDINI, former General
Secretary of the Labour Union Fiom-Cgil and Member of the Cgil National Board;
Giorgio CREMASCHI, Former President of the Central Committee of the Labour
Union Fiom-Cgil; Luca CASARINI, co-worker; YA BASTA! OF TRENTO-Italy;
YA BASTA OF TREVISO-Italy; YA
BASTA OF PADOVA-Italy; THE SOCIAL
CENTER OF THE NORTH EAST-Italy; Laxman SINGH, Research Scholar (Jamia Millia Islamia)-India; Michel ROLAND, President of
Médecins du Monde, Belgium; Georges-Henri BEAUTHIER Lawyer-Belgium;
Hind RIAD, Lawyer-Belgium; Selma BENKHELIFA,
Lawyer-Belgium; Olivier STEIN, Lawyer-Belgium; Joke CALLEWAERT,
Lawyer-Belgium; DOMINIQUE WILLAERT,
Artist- Belgium; Soraya Fallah;LosAngeles,US
Kariane Westrheim, Chair
Prof Dr Michael Gunter, Secretary General
Prof Dr Michael Gunter, Secretary General
EU Turkey Civic
Commission (EUTCC)
UK contact:
Estella Schmid
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