and this is an assembly will take place during this week:

Call for Assembly of Resisting Peoples beyond Borders on 22 June,
Sunday at 14:30-16:30

We are organizing an Assembly of Resisting Peoples beyond Borders on
22 June, Sunday at 14:30-16:30 during the Gezi Festival that will take
place in Bergse Bos in Rotterdam. We hope that this will be an
opportunity to bring together the active groups in the Netherlands
that have organized along horizontal networks. Starting with the Arab
Spring and followed by the Spanish, Greek, and Brazilian people,
Netherlands became a meeting point for a number of assemblies that
meet regularly, protest, discuss, and engage in the political debates
in the Netherlands, in which people following the local resistance in
their home countries try to build a bridge of resistance between the
place they come from and their new homes.

In the first days of resistance, we had our Greek and Spanish friends
with us demonstrating in the Beursplein in Amsterdam.We had organized
an open roundtable with people from Egypt, Brazil, and Spain in very
same square. Now, we would like to create the opportunity that we get
to know each other, talk about our experiences, tactics, strength and
weaknesses and the future possibilities of joint action.

This assembly is open for the groups mentioned above and also to other
movements based in the Netherlands that engage in horizontal networks
of action against racism, discrimination, and capitalism.

This is not only a call for sharing experiences in the Assembly of
Resisting Peoples beyond Borders, but also to share the music, the
food, and the joy of the festival altogether.

Come and bring your friends.

Gezi Solidarity Netherlands

#GeziFest fb event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/280973565418204/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

Web: http://eylemnerede.nl/site/events/gezi-festivali/

Invitation: http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/gezifest-invitation-en-open-for-all-the-chapullers-of-the-world-bergse-bos-rotterdam-nl-21-22-june-2014/

On 16 June 2014 22:44, Orsan Senalp <orsan1234@...> wrote:
> Hey Miki yes here
> http://eylemnerede.nl/site/events/gezi-festivali/
> Great news btw that the agora website is working again, it wasn't during the
> last mumble meeting!
>
> We are busy now with preparing a 2 hours workshop about agora99 and int.
> Networks for the gezi fest to inform people from forums, hoping that it
> would generate more links. Any ideas welcome!
>
>
>
> On 16 Jun 2014, at 21:08, Mikifus <mikifus@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Orsan,
>
> Is this info published somewhere? Is there any site of the Gezi_NL
> collective?
>
>
> 2014-06-16 21:58 GMT+03:00 Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234@...>:
>>
>> Below call is addressed anyone who can make it, festival organised by
>> solidarity network formed by active Gezi forums in the Netherlands. It
>> came out a bit late but please share and spread the word if you can.
>>
>> in solidarity
>>
>> ----
>> Gezi Festival
>>
>> “To live like a tree, single and at liberty
>> and in solidarity like the trees of a forest...”
>>
>> June 21 – 22 / Bergse Bos
>>
>> Towards the end of May of 2013, a resistance began in Istanbul Gezi
>> Park and spread across entire Turkey during the month of June. This
>> resistance was that of the people rising up against governmental
>> oppression.
>>
>> Those of us, living in the Netherlands, have shown our solidarity with
>> the millions living in Turkey and have also organised protests in the
>> Netherlands from the first day of the resistance.
>>
>> Following the resistance, we have regularly come together in forums,
>> under the umbrella of Gezi Solidarity Netherlands, where we have
>> debated issues related to, not only Turkey, but also to the
>> Netherlands as well as global issues and have our reactions to these
>> issues through various activities and protests.
>>
>> We have decided to organise a festival in honour of the first
>> anniversary of the June 2013 resistance. This festival is being
>> organised entirely on the foundation of a spirit of solidarity and
>> with the collaboration of volunteers. With this festival, even if
>> simply symbolic, we wish to bring the Gezi spirit and solidarity to
>> the Netherlands and experience the accompanying joy. At the same time,
>> we shall commemorate
>> those who have lost their lives during the resistance, which spread
>> throughout the country.
>>
>> As an awareness and a reminder nailed to our mind, to our
>> consciousness, to our passion, to our muscles and joints, and to our
>> ways of perception; saying "Taksim everywhere, resistance everywhere",
>> we are going to meet again with all of our colors and voices.
>>
>> How can you support this festival?
>>  Bringing food and drinks to Gezi kitchen and becoming part of our
>> shared ‘world buffet’.
>>  The festival is free of charge. Selling items or services is not
>> allowed within the festival area.
>>  You may support us financially as a sponsor.
>>  Loaning all manner of technical material that can be of use to us.
>>  Organising any of the voluntary activities and adding your contribution.
>> Any support from and collaboration with you is of great value to us.
>> We look forward to your participation and contribution to our
>> festival.
>>
>> For contact:
>> Twitter: @gezi_NL
>> Facebook: Gezi Fest NL
>> Facebook: DutchSupportForTaksimOccupy
>>
>> What happened in Gezi Park?
>> It all began for the sake of a few trees. The motivation was to
>> protest the building of a shopping centre that would demolish a park
>> that served as the only green spot left in the middle of a city. This
>> democratic protest,
>> similar to other protests, was subject to violent police intervention.
>> The tents that were pitched in the park were looted, and the park was
>> ruthlessly cleared of protestors. From that moment on, the real
>> resistance began. Because the underlying issue was not just about a
>> couple of trees, but about the growing government oppression that was
>> already in effect for years; it was about the government`s
>> intervention in individual’s life styles, and it was about the
>> increasing limitation of freedoms. The resistance started in Gezi
>> Park, and waves of protests spread first to Istanbul and finally
>> across all of Turkey. Millions filling the streets protested against
>> the government. Protests of solidarity have been organised all around
>> the world.
>>
>> The Gezi resistance has brought together holding different views and
>> those who never participated in any type of political protest before
>> in their lives. Solidarity flourished under tear gas and police
>> attacks, and a new culture which we now name as the ‘Gezi Spirit’
>> bloomed.
>>
>> Taksim Community
>> The police cleared out the park following attacks on those who
>> protested in the tents set up in the Gezi Park. Following this
>> incident, the public owned this resistance, and thousands came to
>> support. People built
>> barricades surrounding the area around Taksim Square and did not stop
>> resisting until they reoccupied Gezi Park and the police finally had
>> to retreat. During those days of the police retreat, people managed to
>> create a historical alternative mode of living by building a communal
>> life in the park. The Taksim Community took a in which no hierarchy
>> existed, where people of different backgrounds and classes came
>> together for a common goal, and where a common understanding of direct
>> democracy presided, with a spontaneous sense of harmony and
>> functionality.
>>
>> One of the Gezi resistance fighters described the park in those days
>> as “the most joyful place on earth at the moment where no one is
>> poverty stricken, where even the poor enjoy art, books and the touch
>> of humanity to the maximum”. At all hours of the day, food was
>> provided to everyone free of charge by public kitchens. Those wounded
>> were treated at the infirmary by voluntary doctors, and health
>> officers. Security, cleaning and other tasks were carried out through
>> job-sharing in the park, where people created their own self-governing
>> mechanism. An alternative living space was created with its own cafe,
>> educational area and market garden.
>>
>> Alongside this, cultural and art activities were organised all day
>> long. Activities such as a chess club, a Gezi library, concerts and
>> performances on an open stage, painting exhibitions, were arranged
>> with free of charge access for everyone. The park took on a colourful
>> atmosphere where some practiced yoga in the mornings, some picked up
>> trash and cleaned up, where those who prayed and others who drank
>> alcohol could stand side by side and where an understanding based upon
>> respect for all humanity and nature prevailed. With the
>> Taksim resistance, people learned to co-exist in a collective life. A
>> political transformation occurred. People managed to listen to,
>> understand and feel empathy for those who thought differently to
>> themselves and to resist together, hand in hand with others, even
>> though they did not necessarily share the same views."
>>
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