hunger strike in los Angeles

We will be in hunger strike

We will be in hunger strike from tomorrow in support of 800 Kurdish Political Prisoners who are in hunger strike,

Kurdish National Congress of North America

For Immediate Release

Contact: Luqman Barwari

(805) 402-6440

kncna@kncna.net

Los Angeles, CA – As members of the Kurdish National Congress of North America (KNC-NA) and the Kurdish Americans of California, we will hold a 48-hour hunger strike in front of the CNN building in Los Angeles, starting on Monday, November 12th. This is to express our solidarity with the 10,000 Kurdish political prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Turkey, some of whom since September 12, 2012. With this protest, we want to simultaneously attract

attention to the lack of international media coverage of the hunger strike and raise awareness.

Those who have started on September 12 are reaching the 60th day of an indefinite and

irreversible hunger strike. Death and serious health problems are imminent, as the US-backed Turkish government refuses to meet the strikers' legitimate demands.

The hunger strikers simply want legal reforms that would allow the use their mother tongue in education and in legal defense, and the ending of the now sixteen-month-long solitary confinement of the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan so that negotiations for a peaceful resolution of the conflict can restart.

The Kurdish struggle for equal rights has made historic gains in recent years. Turkey has responded by imprisoning thousands of Kurdish democracy advocates, including elected parliamentarians, mayors, intellectuals, lawyers, journalists, students, and human rights defenders. The Kurdish movement continues to call for a democratic solution to the conflict within Turkey's territorial borders. Despite this, the Turkish government has taken an increasingly hard-line attitude. It unilaterally terminated negotiations with the Kurdish movement, intensified military and police operations to repress the Kurdish movement, and prevented Abdullah Ocalan from meeting his lawyers since July 2011.

The root cause of the hunger strike is the Turkish government’s refusal to accept a negotiated solution to the Kurdish issue and its endeavors to crush any democratic resistance to its unjust policies. Any adverse outcomes resulting from the hunger strikes will be due to the government's intransigence.

Despite the fact that this hunger strike has reached the borders of death, the international media outlets have mostly remained silent on the issue. This parallels with the attitude of mainstream Turkish national media, who have ignored the hunger strike or reported it very lately and only

peripherally.

The individuals who join this two-day hunger strike want to demonstrate their commitment to a cause that is unquestionably just and right. The Kurdish people in Turkey and abroad have been showing their support to the hunger strikers and their demands through various forms of protests and activities. Family members of the strikers and other concerned people have been alternately waiting in front of the prisons to pressure the government to urgently respond to the striker’s demands in a humanist and democratic manner.

As Kurds based in North America, we want to call on the media outlets to practice humane and ethical journalistic standards and not keep their eyes blind and ears deaf on this serious matter.

We also call on all people of conscience to ask their public authorities to put pressure on the Turkish government so that it would comply with international laws on human rights. Please reach your political representatives, Turkish consulates and embassies near you as well as human rights organizations and encourage them to take action before the hunger strikes result in death or irreparable damage.

An awareness and sensitivity in international public can save the lives of hunger strikes and contribute to a peaceful settlement of the conflict by granting the Kurds equal rights.

Please act now. Tomorrow may be too late.

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ئیمه به ده عوه تی کونگره ی نه ته وه یی کورد له به یانیه وه(لای نیوه رو) به مان گرتن له به ر سی ئن ئن له لوس ئه نجلس پشگری خومان له زیندانیه سیاسیه کورده کانی باکوری کوردستان که زیاتر له دو مانگه ده سیان له خواردن هه لگرتوه، ده ر ده برین. بین و به شیک بن له م بزافه

ما به دنبال فراخوان کنگره ملی کرد برای حمایت از 800 زندانی کرد ترکیه که در اعتصاب غذا به سر می برند و ضع فاجعه باری دارند از فردا ظهر جلو سی ان ان در لوس آنجلس اعتصاب غذا می کنیم. لطفآ برای پیوستن به این حرکت به آدرس زیر بیایید

Los Angeles In support of 800 Kurdish prisoners in Hunger strike

Report for VOKRadio

Soraya Fallah 

On Monday Nov 5th members of Kurdish community who live in Southern California protested in support of Kurdish Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Turkish Prisons. Kurdish National Congress of North America along with other non partisan individuals arranged the demonstration. The demonstration was held in front of Turkish consulate in Los Angeles. As LA hosts the Turkish consulate and it is a strategic location to voice our opinion and lend protester’s support. This location for years is a place for all Armenian and Kurds who demonstrate against Turkish policy toward Kurdish citizens and Armenian genocide.

The demonstration was peaceful and participants attended from different cities such as SanDiego and LA County.

The number of young people who lead the event was high and they shows  their outrages against Turkey’s  brutal policy against Kurdish citizen in Turkey and asking for amnesty and human rights of 800 prisoners who are in hunger strike for 55 days..

Most of the slogans were prisoner’s demand  as follow:

President of KNC-NA,Mr. Luqman Barwari read KNC’s Press Release . The PR was distributed between interested individuals passing by. To read the PR, please visit www.kncna.net. 

  Kurdish American Advocacy group has release a PR, and a petition is also on line for everyone to sign. PR stated that :The hunger strikers are calling for provisions to use their mother language in education and the public sphere; the removal of obstacles preventing imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan from negotiating in peace talks with the Turkish state; and respect for the fundamental rights of the Kurdish people.

Please use this link to access the petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/u-n-general-secretary-turkish-authorities-human-rights-organizations-send-the-letter-to-responsible-authorities-4?utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=457748

Vocie of Kurdish American Radio  presented  to not only support the demo, but document and broadcast attendees voice.

روژی دوشممه ۵ی نوامبری ۲۰۱۲ له کاتژومیری ۱۲ تا ۲:۳۰ پاش نیوه رو خو پیشاندانی کورده کانی دانیشتووی باشوری کالیفورنیا بو پشتگیری له خواسته به رحه قه کانی پتر له ۸۰۰ زیندانی سیاسی کورد که 55 روژه له بندیخانه کانی دوله تی تورکیه ده ستیان به مانگرتن کردووه.ئه م خوپیشان دانه  له به ر بینای کونسول گه ری ده وله تی  تورکیا له شا ری لوس ئآنجلس  به ریوه چو. ئه م بینایه سالانه جیگه ی خوپیشان دانی ئه رمه نیه کان و کورده کانه که له ده سی پی شه ل کردنی مافی مروفیان به ده س ده وله تی تورکیه توره ن و کو ده بنه وه.  به شداران له شاری سه ندیگو و لوس ئه نجلسی گه وره وه هاتبون. کونگره ی نه ته وه یی کورد له باکوری ئه مریکا ئه م به رنامه ی به یارمه تی ژوماره یی له کورده کان هه ر جوار پارچه ری خستبو. خواسته کان نوسرابوون و ژوماره ی گه نجه کان که به شداریان کردبو زور له به رچاودا بوو.  سه روکی کونگره ی نه ته وه یی کورد له باکوری ئه مریکا کاک لوقمان برواری بانگه وازی ریکخراوه که ی به رانبه ر به کونسول گه ریه که خوینده وه. به شداران به خویندنی سرودی نه ته وه یی ئه ی ره قیب به به رنامه که خاتمه یان دا.  رادوی ده نگی کورده کان له ئه مرکا به شداری به رنامه که بوو و له گه ل چه ن که س له خو پیشان ده ران وت و ویژی کرد.

 

Violence Against Women&Institutions of Power

This program is in observation of International Day for the Elimination
of Violence against (Women 25 November).This year Kurdish Association of Women Uppsala invited Soraya Fallah to speak on Violence against women.

Seminar :

institutions of power and Violence Against Women

Date: Saturday 17/11/2012
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: NBV Uppsala, Bangardgatan 13 Sweden
Program organizer: Association of Kurdish women in Uppsala
Speaker : Soraya Fallah
Human Rights activist, researcher and writer
Recipient of global human rights and women’s right Award

Information Table for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
Information desk for The International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict

For more information:
0709245858
0736224468

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سمیناری ده سه لات و توندو تیژی به رانبه ر به ژنان له شارى ئوپسالاى ولاتى سوئيد

VOKRadio.com, Los Angeles, California, USA

سمیناری ده سه لات و توندو تیژی به رانبه ر به ژنان ٩ نوامبرى سالى ٢٠١٢ له لايه ن "ريكخراوه ى ژنانى كورد له ئوپسالا" سميناريك له روژى شه ممه ١٧ ى مانگى نوامبر له سه عاتى ٥ ى دواى نيوه رو له ژير نيوى " ده سه لات و توند و تيژى به رانبه ر به ژنان"  به بونه ى "روژى جيهانى به ره نگار بو نه وه له گه ل توند و تيژى دژ به ژنان به ريوه ده چيت". وه تارى تايبه تى ئه و سال له لايه ن خاتو سوره يا فه لاحچالاكوانى مافى مروڤ ، نوسه ر و ليكولينه رى بوارى مافى ژنان پيشكه ش به ميوانانى سميناره كه ده كريت. خاتو سوره يا فه لاح دانيشتوى شارى لوس ئانجلس له ولاته يكگرتوه كانى ئمريكايه كه له چه ند سالى رابوردودا به هوى چالاكيه كانى له مه رماڤى مروفى كورد و ماڤى ژنان چه ند خه لاتى گه وره ى پي بخشراوه. خاتو سوره يا له مانگى سيپتمبرى ئه و سال له لايه ن ريكخراوى سه ر به نه ته وه يه كگرتوه كان له ئمريكا خه لاتى شاروه ندى جيهانى به بو نه ى هه ولى به ردوامى بو په ره پي دان به مافى مروڤ پي پيشكش كرا. ريكخراوه ى ژنانى كورد له ئوپسالا وه ك ريكخراوه يكى ناحوكمى له سالى ٢٠٠٩ ى زايينى به مه بستى په ره پي دانى زانيارى  و كولتورى له سه ر مافى ژنانى كورد و پشتگيرى له مافى ژه نان له كومه لگاى كورده وارى له نيو كوردوستان و له هه ندران له لايه ن گروپيك له چالاكوانى كوردوه پيك هات كه خوبه خشانه بو به ريه وه چونى ئامانجه كانى ئه م ريكخراوه هه ولي به رچاويان داوه. له دو سالى رابوردودا ئه م ريكخراوه هه ستاوه به ري خه ستنى سمينار و ئيواره وه تار بو ژنانى چالاكي كورد له شارى ئوپسالا وه هه ر وه ها به هاوكارى ريكخراوه كانى كه ى ژنان چه ند كور و كومه لى زانيارىان پيك هيناوه. جياواز له ريكخراوه كورديه كانى شارى ئوپسالا، چالاك وانانى دو ريكخراوى نيو نه ته وى چالاك له بوارى مافى ژنان له م سميناره پشتگيريان كردوه و به دانانىميزى زانيارى له م كوبونه وه دا به شدارى ده كه ن. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence The International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict به شدارى بو هه موانه؛ شوين: NBV Uppsala, Bangardgatan 13 Sweden كات: پينج ى ئيواره روژى شه ممه ١٧ ى مانگى نوامبرى٢٠١٢ زايينى بو زانيارى زيادتر ده توانن به م ژوماره تليفونانه پيوندى بگرن: 0709245858 0736224468   More information in English: Seminar : Institutions of power and Violence Against Women Date: Saturday 17/11/2012 Time: 5:00 PM Place: NBV Uppsala, Bangardgatan 13 Sweden Program organizer: Association of Kurdish women in Uppsala Speaker : Soraya Fallah Human Rights activist, researcher and writer Recipient of global human rights and women’s right Award Information Table for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Information desk for The International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict For more information: 0709245858 0736224468 + ده توانن ئه م رادوي ه گوي به ده ن تكايه له سه ر وينه ي رادوي كه كليك كه ن   + براي شنيدن برنامه هاي راديو  روي تصوير راديو كليك كنيد         Listen 2 vokradio at http://vokradio.listen2myradio.com مطلب را به بالاترین بفرستید:  Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services

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 سمینار صاحبان قدرت خشونت علیه زنان

تاریخ: سه شنبه 17/11/2012

زمان: 5:00 قبل ازظهر

مکان: NBV اوپسالا، Bangardgatan 13

برگزارکنندگان : انجمن زنان کرد در اوپسالا

سخنران: ثریا فلاح

فعال حقوق بشرو زنان، محقق و نویسنده،

دریافت کننده جایزه شهروند جهانی سازمان ملل و چندین جایزه دیگر

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Seminar ; Kurds and Syria Saturday Oct 6th, 2012, California State University, Long Beach

Democratization in Syria, Syria and Kurd
Seminar ; Kurds and Syria
Saturday Oct 6th, 2012
California State University, Long Beach
Seminar ; Kurds and Syria Saturday Oct 6th, 2012, California State University, Long Beach
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Democratization in Syria, Perspectives and prospects, Syria and Kurds at the Crossroads of Change

This seminar will provide a forum for those who have an interest in exploring the unfolding developments in Syria as the contending forces in the multi-ethnic and religiously diverse Syria are attempting to reshape the country in its challenging path to democratization. These developments have been both the source of inspiration and uncertainty for Syrians as a whole, ethnic and religious minorities including Kurds, in particular.

The program is based on the critical need for understanding the gravity and complexity of the humanitarian and political crisis both regionally and internationally. Our distinguished panelists consisting of academics, human rights activists, researchers, lawyers, journalists, and representatives of the Syrian and Kurdish opposition, will discuss the key issues that Syrians are confronting. The seminar will consist of two consecutive panels on separate but related themes. Each panel will consist of short talks on specific topics, debates and panel discussions that will feature distinguished speakers from investigative media, history, political science, law, religion, human and language rights, and political opposition.

conference organizers : KAES

 

Soraya Fallah,Reese Erlich

Soraya Fallah,Sara Leah Whison from Human Rights Watch